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Daily Dose Ep 1134: Ghulam Nabi Azad quits Congress, SC on Yogi’s hate speech case

Tanishka Sodhi brings you the news from New Delhi, the Supreme Court, Goa, the Kerala High Court, and the World Health Organisation.

Newslaundry · Aug 26, 2022

Cartoon: Surprise!

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 · Aug 26, 2022

As power ministry tweets target Business Standard journalist, beat reporters show solidarity

Last Thursday, the union ministry of power’s Twitter account broke its pattern of updates – about meetings chaired by the minister, press releases, and inaugurations – to put out a series of unusual tweets tagging a journalist covering the energy sector.

Newslaundry · Aug 26, 2022

National Green Tribunal is suddenly clearing a lot of cases. It’s, well, odd

In a written reply to the Lok Sabha last month, union minister for law and justice Kiren Rijiju revealed that the National Green Tribunal, a quasi-judicial body to adjudicate environment matters, was disposing of more cases than new applications. However, members of several NGT benches have raised concerns over the…

Newslaundry · Aug 23, 2022

How a son helped nab his mother’s rapists after 30 years

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Newslaundry · Aug 22, 2022

Children without a country: Rohingya kids in Delhi struggle to go to school

“Since this morning, a lot of media persons have been visiting us, asking whether we want to stay in camp or go to flats. What should we say?” said Karim Ahmed. “We had no idea about anything till the media arrived here.”

Newslaundry · Aug 22, 2022

Daily Dose Ep 1129: Kejriwal vs Modi, Mumbai terror warning, new J&K voters

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from New Delhi, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Somalia.

Newslaundry · Aug 20, 2022

Reporters Without Orders Ep 233: Ramdev’s life and times, Yogi's unfulfilled promises to Hathras rape victim’s kin

Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh and Basant Kumar.

Newslaundry · Aug 20, 2022

Hafta 394: Release of Bilkis Bano's rapists, stabbing of Salman Rushdie, Rohingya refugees

This week on NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Mehraj D Lone of Newslaundry are joined by Mahesh Langa, senior assistant editor of the Hindu.

Newslaundry · Aug 20, 2022

TV Newsance 183: Anupam Kher’s Nehru bashing on News18, injustice to Bilkis Bano

This week, we look at Network 18’s Independence Day special programme that tracked the history of India through the speeches of its prime ministers from 1947 to 2022. In a one-hour show, the host, Anupam Kher, spent about seven minutes on Jawaharlal Nehru and 15 minutes or so on Narendra…

Newslaundry · Aug 20, 2022