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India counted all deaths in Covid year 2020, says new government report. Did it?

Three weeks after the health ministry claimed to have achieved 99.99 percent death registration in 2020, the Registrar General of India has indirectly confirmed the figure. This, then, is the first time that India claims to have registered every death – in a pandemic-hit year, no less.

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‘We have to save our club’: Clean sweep for ‘leftist’ panel in Press Club polls

On May 21, voting took place to elect a new crop of office bearers at the Press Club of India in Delhi. A day later, the results were declared – the panel led by outgoing president Umakant Lakhera had won all the seats.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 220: Pawan Jaisawal’s death, Bihar child’s encounter with CM

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Tanishka Sodhi and freelance journalist Vishnu Narayan.

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How an incompetent and apathetic ‘system’ denied justice to a child rape victim

This is the second part of the story on the case. Read the first part.

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Some hits, some misses: How have Press Club of India’s outgoing officials fared?

It’s that time of year again.

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How Delhi police botched the investigation into a disabled child’s rape

On May 18, 2016, the police control room in Delhi received a phone call. A young girl – clothes torn, barely alive – had been found in a pool of blood along the railway tracks near a drain in Southeast Delhi’s Pul Prahladpur.

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High tension, higher stakes: What Varanasi residents think of Gyanvapi mosque 'video survey'

On May 12, a Varanasi court ordered the resumption of the video survey of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque, located next to the Kashi Viswanath temple.

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Protests prove futile as bulldozers demolish 3 buildings in Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar

On the morning of May 12, two bulldozers rolled into Southeast Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar. They had come to demolish three buildings, all under construction.

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FIRs against Aman Chopra: Rajasthan HC tells police not to investigate charges under sedition

On Wednesday, the Rajasthan High Court directed the state police to not investigate sedition charges against Aman Chopra in the FIRs filed against him, Bar and Bench reported. The move comes after the Supreme Court issued a stay on section 124A of the Indian Penal Code – which relates to…

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In two years, Delhi spent Rs 68 lakh on stubble decomposer, Rs 23 crore to advertise it

In 2020, the Delhi government announced with much fanfare a new strategy to tackle the issue of stubble burning – a bio-decomposer developed by the Indian Agriculture Research Institute (Pusa).

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Bulldozers in Shaheen Bagh: Shopkeepers say they received no notice, heard about it from media

At around 2 pm on May 9, Mohammad Abbas* stood in front of his building, inspecting the damage.

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NL Playoffs Ep 20: Messi wins Ligue 1, NBA playoffs, Emilia Romagna Grand Prix

In this episode of NL Playoffs, hosts and Newslaundry subscribers Aniketh and Gowtham analyse performances in the Champions League, Bundesliga and Messi winning Ligue 1. They also talk about the ongoing IPL matches, the NBA playoffs and the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 218: Disha Salian’s media trial, RSS links of IIMC recruits

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Prateek Goyal.

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‘Went to arrest Aman Chopra but didn’t find him’: Rajasthan police visit News18 India office

Another day, another primetime show, and the question on everyone’s lips is – where is Aman Chopra?

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‘Not even given us five rupees’: A year later, Maharashtra’s Covid widows still wait for government aid

It was a sunny morning in March. Rohini Meshram, 42, boarded a bus, heading from her village of Kasaari in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district to Gadchiroli town.

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Thwarted by two press clubs, Vivek Agnihotri will now hold press conference at hotel

In a week marked by conversations about press freedom, communal violence in Jodhpur, Modi’s visit to Europe, and a worrying power crisis across the country, social media was abuzz with something quite different.

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‘How will I find her?’: In the face of police apathy, a helpless mother’s search for her missing daughter

On April 26, Khushboo Rajat, 17, went missing while she was on her way back home from work. She was on call with her mother when she realised that a group of men was following her. Shortly after, Khushboo’s mother Jashoda, lost contact with her.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 217: Sri Lanka crisis, Jahangirpuri violence

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Akanksha Kumar and Dainik Bhaskar special correspondent Poonam Kaushal.

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Is Aryavarth Express the new #HinduVoice? It certainly wants to be

On April 22, Congress leader Karti Chidambaram sent out a tweet whose every word bristled with outrage: "@RailMinIndia how does this paper get to be on list of subscribed publications?"

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‘We are in the dark’: Fearing eviction, artists in Asiad Village are scrambling to find new homes

Jayarama Rao’s home in No. 99, Asiad Village, is all but empty. Earlier this week, he moved most of his belongings to his son’s house in Green Park.

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‘RSS’ links, ‘friends’ in high places: The trouble with IIMC’s recent recruitment of professors

In January last year, the Indian Institute of Mass Communication announced the recruitment of six associate professors and two assistant professors.

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Local criminal, good samaritan or aspiring neta: Who’s Ansar, the main accused in Jahangirpuri violence?

“Go away from here. I already told the media whatever I had to say. Will talking to you help reduce my husband’s remand,” Mohammad Ansar’s wife Sakeena asked this reporter, shutting the door to her residence in Jahangirpuri’s B block. “I have never stepped out of home and today I…

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NL Playoffs Ep 19: Champions League, Wimbledon bans Russian players

In this episode of NL Playoffs, hosts and Newslaundry subscribers Aniketh and Gowtham analyse performances in the IPL and discuss how the fitness regime in cricket is changing. They also discuss the Champions League, the ongoing NBA playoffs, and how the Ukraine-Russia war has affected players after Wimbledon banned Russian…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 216: Jahangirpuri violence, Gurugram namaz row

This week, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Newslaundry’s Tanishka Sodhi and Laasya Shekhar.

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‘To support halal is to contribute to terrorism’: Meet Ravi Ranjan Singh, crusader for ‘jhatka’ meat

“They threaten my identity,” said Ravi Ranjan Singh. “...Halal is not just meat, it is everywhere...These are economic black holes which lead to economic slavery. Non-Muslims are being deprived of employment. We will all be slaved.”

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