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‘Tall claim’: Tribune reporter calls out India Today for taking credit for LAC clash report

It could have been just another day in the unexamined life of the breaking news ticker.

Newslaundry · Dec 13, 2022

NL Playoffs Ep 32: The best and worst of the FIFA World Cup

Newslaundry subscribers Aniketh Kalur and Gowtham Kode discuss the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Newslaundry · Dec 10, 2022

Reporters Without Orders Ep 249: The 2022 mandate and road to 2024

This week, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel as Ayush Tiwari is joined by Basant Kumar and Akanksha Kumar.

Newslaundry · Dec 10, 2022

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Cartoon: V for Victory

Cartoon is one of the oldest and boldest artistic genres for speaking truth to power. In India, however, cartoonists, in the news media and outside, are under pressure to curtail their free speech and not annoy the powerful as the finest of them are wont to do. They are being…

Newslaundry · Dec 9, 2022

Why Axis My India exit poll underestimated the BJP in Delhi, Gujarat

There’s something for everyone in Indian politics this week. The Aam Aadmi Party has won the Delhi municipal elections; the Bharatiya Janata Party has bagged Gujarat; and the Congress will be back in power in Himachal Pradesh.

Newslaundry · Dec 8, 2022

BJP 120, Congress 6, AAP 0: BJP’s clean sweep in Gujarat’s advertising stakes

BJP: 120, Congress: 6, AAP: 0.

Newslaundry · Dec 7, 2022

In Lucknow, 2 FIRs against SP media cell’s Twitter account over a week

The Samajwadi Party media cell’s Twitter account has been named in two FIRs, filed in Lucknow within less than 10 days of each other, for allegedly posting offensive tweets. While the first complaint was filed by a journalist who is seen as being close to the BJP on November 23,…

Newslaundry · Dec 7, 2022

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Vivek Agnihotri offers unconditional apology for contempt of court

The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri has tendered an “unconditional apology” to the Delhi High Court for making contemptuous remarks against Justice S Muralidhar after the judge had quashed the house arrest and transit remand of activist Gautam Navlakha in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case.

Newslaundry · Dec 6, 2022

Govt approves new self-regulatory body for print, digital news outlets

The government has cleared a print and digital media association to look at grievances related to digital news content. The self-regulatory body called the PADMA has 47 news publishers.

Newslaundry · Dec 6, 2022

‘Going public and targeting a particular film is unethical’: IFFI jury member Sudipto Sen

On December 3, the International Film Festival of India’s foreign jury members issued a statement saying they stood by jury chief Nadav Lapid’s criticism of the film The Kashmir Files.

Newslaundry · Dec 5, 2022

Morning Show: Modi’s unfailing electoral appeal, and AAP vs Congress

As Gujarat votes in the second phase of the assembly election, the Newslaundry election team discusses whether the BJP is poised to return to power. They explore why voters want to put their faith back in a party that’s been in power in Gujarat for over 25 years, PM Modi’s…

Newslaundry · Dec 5, 2022

During ‘silence period’ in Gujarat, RSS outfit installs saffron hoardings urging people to vote

Hours after the first phase of the Gujarat assembly election concluded on December 1, hundreds of hoardings sprang up in Ahmedabad and other parts of the state. This was after the state saw a voter turnout of 63.14 percent in phase one.

Newslaundry · Dec 5, 2022

Jignesh Mevani: ‘Bilkis Bano is close to my heart’

Former independent MLA and now Congress candidate from Vadagam Jignesh Mevani speaks with Manisha Pande of Newslaundry while campaigning for the second phase of Gujarat election, which is scheduled for December 5. Jignesh talks about the conflict he sees between electoral politics and activism, the reason he speaks at election…

Newslaundry · Dec 4, 2022

Reporters Without Orders Ep 248: Jail despite bail, high-stakes MCD polls

This week, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel as Akanksha Kumar is joined by Prateek Goyal and Anmol Pritam.

Newslaundry · Dec 3, 2022

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Newslaundry · Dec 2, 2022

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Newslaundry · Dec 2, 2022

Mukhtar Baba: Meet the former Kashmiri journalist Indian security agencies – and media – call a terrorist

Mukhtar Baba has lived life dangerously. As a young man in the early 1990s, he became a militant who fought for Kashmiri separatism. But he gave up the gun, and as the Kashmiris say, was “mainstreamed”. In the two decades that followed, he had a second life as a journalist…

Newslaundry · Dec 2, 2022

Chat with Team NL on December 10

NL Chatbox is our subscribers-only interaction where you can review and critique us and our work, while we respond to your questions in real time.

Newslaundry · Dec 2, 2022

Ravish Kumar: Who killed the news?

The media space in India has changed, said senior journalist Ravish Kumar in a heartfelt video on his YouTube channel – explaining his decision to end his 26-year journey with NDTV this week. On the sidelines of The Media Rumble this year, Newslaundry spoke to the Magsaysay awardee on the…

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Newslaundry · Dec 2, 2022

‘I will get you a job in America’: How a Pune ‘doctor’ conned dozens of job aspirants across India

Imagine you’re boarding a flight to the United States. Your spouse is with you – you’ve packed up your entire life in India to emigrate for a better future.

Newslaundry · Dec 1, 2022

Journalism can be so much more than stenography. Ravish Kumar taught us that

This column cannot begin without mentioning the importance to Indian journalism of Ravish Kumar, who resigned from NDTV yesterday after almost 27 years there. His video statement after resigning is not just moving but also an exemplary lesson for us on what journalism is meant to be – but increasingly…

Newslaundry · Nov 30, 2022

Day after Roys quit NDTV promoter board, Ravish leaves channel

A day after Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy quit as the directors of the board of NDTV promoter RRPRH, noted journalist Ravish Kumar resigned from the channel on Wednesday. The company has “agreed to his request” for the resignation “to be effective immediately”, according to an email sent to the…

Newslaundry · Nov 30, 2022

News vs views: India Today’s age-old formula of using actor’s swimsuit pics, this time for Galwan debate

Prurient interest is all well and good, but served within the backdrop of India’s boundary dispute with China, it may acquire an olfactory resemblance to the much disputed pineapple pizza termed Hawaiian by its Canadian inventors.

Newslaundry · Nov 30, 2022

Modi government violated rules to allow sale of electoral bonds, RTI reply shows

The Narendra Modi government opened three windows for the sale of electoral bonds in 2018 ostensibly in violation of the Electoral Bond Scheme 2018, suggest documents accessed through the Right to Information Act. The three windows were opened before and after assembly elections in nine states that year.

Newslaundry · Nov 30, 2022

Gujarat election: Darshita Shah explains why BJP fielded her on former CM Vijay Rupani’s seat

Gujarat’s Rajkot West is a BJP stronghold, and that is underselling it. The constituency has never had a legislator from another party. It’s where Narendra Modi won his first assembly election in 2002.

Newslaundry · Nov 30, 2022

Another Election Show: Searching for ‘vikas’ in the villages around Statue of Unity

The Statue of Unity – a 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – is the centrepiece of the Modi government’s campaign in Gujarat. With almost 20 tourist attractions around it, the monument carries the promise of development and tourism. In a speech, PM Modi said the statue will usher in…

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