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The Cockroaches are restless: Anatomy of a 22-million-strong meme movement

Let’s be clear. The Cockroach Janta Party is not a political party. It started as satire – its founder has said so many times, and he said so again when I spent an hour chatting with him for a Newslaundry interview.

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‘I started a joke…now I get death threats’: Abhijeet Dipke on India’s Cockroach Party

What began as a tweet has snowballed into one of India’s most unexpected political phenomena. Abhijeet Dipke, who spoke to Newslaundry from Boston, is the unlikely founder of the Cockroach Janata Party. Within a week, this satirical movement amassed over a million registered members and about 500,000 signatures on a…

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Hafta 590: The Norway question that shook Modi’s tour and Press Freedom

This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Affairs Editor at The Hindu.

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Hafta letters: Opposition failures, no ‘manels’, and missing Jayashree

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Meet Helle Lyng, the Norwegian journalist who asked Modi why he avoids the press

Helle Lyng Svendsen, a Norwegian journalist at Dagsavisen, had no idea that a single question directed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi would ignite a storm in India. But she asked anyway: “Prime Minister Modi, why don’t you take some questions from the freest press in the world?”

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Rubika Liyaquat quits News18 India, Sushant Sinha leaves Times Now Navbharat

Rubika Liyaquat has stepped down as consulting editor at News18 India, ending a two-year stint during which she fronted the channel’s flagship debate show Goonj and other programmes.

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Over 1 lakh pending cases: Noida burned after years of silence in labour courts

Ram Kishan left for work before his family woke up. It was November 3, 2017, and the Moser Baer plant in Greater Noida had been dark for two days – management had called it maintenance, told workers to come back on the third day. So Kishan showed up at the…

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‘Someone who is TMC in the morning can become BJP by night’: Bengal’s week of violence

On Monday morning, fresh reports of arson emerged from Khejuri, the second such incident in as many nights. The BJP called it an electrical fault. The TMC called it arson. The competing versions have continued to sound the same – in the days after Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in as…

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‘Killed by a cop after being called a Bihari’: A family loses its sole breadwinner

At their tiny home in Uttar Nagar, the family of Pandav Kumar is trying to pick up the pieces days after his murder, amid a stream of visitors, and a wait for their demands to be fulfilled.

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Operation Sindoor: One year on, Poonch has a plaque for its dead, few bunkers for its living

A year after Operation Sindoor, the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir is still tending its wounds and still waiting for the bunkers that were promised years ago.

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4 states and a UT: Decoding the verdict from West Bengal to Tamil Nadu

To capture the trends and decode the big picture, Newslaundry and The News Minute came together to bring you the sharpest insights on the 2026 assembly election results from Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

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Hafta letters: Bengal poll issues, Raghu Rai tribute, football

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‘The only dangerous thing about him is his ideas’: Inside the Manesar workers’ arrests

Industrial unrest over minimum wages swept across parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) in April, beginning in Manesar before spreading days later to Noida. In both industrial belts, protests over stagnant pay and increased cooking gas costs escalated into violence, followed swiftly by government-announced wage hikes.

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Why the Charles speech in America had the western media buzzing

When King Charles III rose to address the United States Congress, expectations were modest. State visits by British monarchs are, by design, ceremonial, shaped by protocol, symbolism and restraint. Yet the speech delivered on that occasion travelled beyond ceremony.

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Chinki Sinha quits as Outlook editor

Chinki Sinha, the first woman to head Outlook’s editorial team in 26 years, has quit as the outlet’s editor, Newslaundry has learnt.

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Only 1,468 voters restored for Bengal’s final phase rolls. Poll duty staff among the excluded

Majibar Rahman is helping others vote. “But as a first polling officer myself, I am unable to cast my vote,” says Rahman, a history teacher from Krishnanagar who is on poll duty in the Ranaghat assembly for West Bengal’s second phase of assembly elections on Wednesday.

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‘Bend it like Modi!’ Forget Messi and Ronaldo. We have a ‘Made in India’ GOAT

The equator is not the only thing dividing the world into two halves.

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Cops arrest Lucknow journalist for Noida violence ‘conspiracy’, activists point to ‘witch-hunt’

A group of lawyers has filed a formal complaint with Uttar Pradesh police authorities alleging torture, fabricated recoveries and procedural violations against five accused in the Noida violence conspiracy case, including Lucknow-based journalist Satyam Verma, according to The Hindustan Gazette.

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LaLiT Hotel ducked crores in dues. Justice Varma granted it relief but HC tore up his order

A Delhi High Court bench has done what a Delhi civic agency thought was long overdue: turned down an order that could have drained crores in public money while letting a luxury hotel chain sit on prime Lutyens’ Delhi land for a fraction of what it’s worth.

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Raghu Rai: The eye that held India’s ordinary and extraordinary

There are moments that can wither away with fleeting attention, or even when captured, get frozen in clichéd frames. Only in a few hands do they retain the dignity of detail in their ordinariness.

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Agreeing to disagree: India is using calibrated ambiguity to keep BRICS together

A recent meeting of foreign ministers from the BRICS nations concluded without a joint position on the intensifying West Asian conflict. The lack of consensus meant that the collective's statement had to be worded differently. India, the current chair, summarised proceedings in a voice that sought to balance the concerns.

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Hafta letters: Guwahati flood, trans law discussion, delimitation coverage

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‘Joined politics for justice’ | RG Kar victim’s mother on the campaign trail

The words woven into the border of Ratna Debnath’s saree read, “Our spine is not for sale.”

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Manipur crisis: 3 dead, 4 injured in Ukhrul as conflict between Kuki-Zos and Nagas escalate

In further escalation of hostilities between the Tangkhul Naga and Kuki-Zo tribes, one Naga ‘volunteer’ and two Kuki-Zo ‘volunteers’ were killed in a gunfight on Friday in Ukhrul district, Manipur. In addition, four Naga ‘volunteers’ were also injured.

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From lanterns to the grid: How India is finding ways to see and work after dusk

In the 1950s, Hindi writer Phanishwar Nath Renu wrote a short story called Panchlight – named for the petromax lamp, a corruption of “Petromax light” that had worked its way into the rural vernacular. The story describes a village’s encounter with this object: a source of light but also a…

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