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‘Litigations in #JudgeLoya case an attempt to malign judiciary’: Supreme Court

A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the public interest litigations (PILs) seeking an independent probe into the death of special CBI judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya. Terming the petitions “frivolous and motivated”, Justice DY Chandrachud said that these litigations were an attempt by the petitioners to “malign” the judiciary.

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DCW chief’s hunger strike yet to evoke Central govt’s response

Delhi Commission of Women chief Swati Maliwal should have, ideally, been sitting inside the AC cabin of her office in Delhi’s ITO. However, since April 13, Maliwal has been on an indefinite hunger strike demanding the death penalty for those convicted of raping minor girls. Her list of demands, sent to…

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Dystopian Times: The Reach of Aadhaar

Newslaundry brings you an all-new comic column, Dystopian Times, by Appupen that reports on Rashtria, a great country that darkly mirrors our own.

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‘Modi sacked Marlena, who made govt schools better’

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government has received another gift from the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. Through an order issued by the Union Home Ministry, the Centre on Tuesday sacked nine advisors to the Delhi government. One of them was Atishi Marlena, the advisor to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. At…

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Dystopian Times: The Anti-Social Networker

Newslaundry brings you an all-new comic column, Dystopian Times, by Appupen that reports on Rashtria, a great country that darkly mirrors our own.

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BJP Media Incharge in Kashmir speaks on the #KathuaCase

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Srinagar is guarded by four heavily-armed security personnel who open the big, metal gates of the building just enough to peep at visitors at the gate.

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CEC Joti acted on orders of his boss: AAP’s Sanjay Singh

Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AK Joti acted on the instructions of his “maalik” (boss) Narendra Modiji, AAP veteran Sanjay Singh has alleged.

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A review of NL Hafta by Ashwin, Kishore, Harikrishnan and Chandramauli

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Reporting in Kashmir: No woman’s land

Author-journalist Elizabeth Becker had once remarked on the few women who had covered the Vietnam War: “Female reporters covered that war, rewriting the rules so that the phrase ‘woman war correspondent’ would never again be an oxymoron.”

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Who is shielding saffron leaders accused of inciting #BhimaKoregaonViolence?

Maharashtra saw sporadic incidents of violence, road and rail blockages, torching of vehicles, rallies and shutdown of markets during a bandh called by Dalit groups on Wednesday. They are protesting over the death of a 28-year-old man, who was killed in riots between Dalit and Maratha groups that erupted at the bicentenary celebration…

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Ground report: What sparked #BhimaKoregaonViolence

Huge protests by Dalit groups erupted in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra on Tuesday, a day after members of the community were attacked on their way to Bhima-Koregaon in Pune district. One person died and five were injured in Monday’s violence during an event to celebrate the historic “Battle of Bhima…

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Top 12 fake news stories circulated by mainstream media in 2017

2017 will go down as another year that saw a steady decline of trust and confidence in the media. It was a year when mainstream media gave tough competition to social media in originating and circulating fake news.

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Hyderabad University suspends 10 students for breaking hostel rules

The University of Hyderabad (UoH) has suspended 10 students for durations ranging from six months to two years for not complying with rules, preventing officials from delivering their duties and verbal assault, the notice read. The decision was taken by an inquiry committee constituted by Vice-Chancellor Appa Rao.

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Sri Sri versus NGT: And the Yamuna loses

On April 20, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar shared pictures of a project launched to clean seven Maharashtrian rivers on Twitter. Irony died a thousand deaths 30 minutes later as Shankar went on a rampage on the micro-blogging site against the National Green Tribunal (NGT). He was possibly less-than-pleased by the…

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Why Did PM Modi Pull Out Of ET’s Global Business Summit?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was supposed to be the star attraction at this year’s edition of The Economic Times Global Business Summit. As it turns out, the PM has backed out from gracing the occasion with his presence citing “security concerns”, according to sources in Economic Times (ET). Now, this…

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Passing The Buck: AoL’s affidavit to the NGT has more holes than the flood plain

Ironically, the man to whom these profound words of wisdom are attributed heads an organisation that appears to have blatantly lied to the court. Newslaundry has evidence that “educational and humanitarian movement” of Art of Living (AoL), which makes more than Rs 80 crore in revenue and is headed by…

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AoL vs NGT: The Art of Living and Gassing

Most of us know how messy a house gets after a party, or a banquet hall after hosting a wedding. Now imagine the same for a river floodplain, which – unlike a banquet hall – isn’t meant to host grand parties, let alone a World Cultural Festival (WCF) with a…

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66A Abused Again: This Time By Azam Khan

Now I know, every time you read the word “Facebook” and “jail” in the same sentence in an article on our website, you think: “Oh great, it’s one of those posts Newslaundry puts up…” And it’s true, we’re always hitting out at Section 66 A of the Information Technology Act…

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Candidates 2014: Let The Gossip Stop

So here it is as promised, the piece that will transparently and clearly narrate what went wrong (or right, depending on your point of view) with Candidates 2014. We will also share what we did and what we learnt.

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Why Pappu Can’t Sing

“Congress Party ko desh se nikalo” (Make the Congress Party leave India) – are the words Rahul Gandhi is heard saying in a video spoofing his All India Congress Committee speech on January 17, 2014. Rohit Iyengar, a young film student in the United States of Americacreated the spoof video…

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Off With Those Tweeting Heads

Firstpost, ever since its inception in 2011, has steadily built up a reputation of being one of the most popular online sources in India of news and analysis across genres. On January 8, 2013 it carried an article headlined “Watch your tweets: Jail for Twitter abuse is now real” written…

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Party At The President’s House

The good news is that Newslaundry will turn two in February 2014. The bad news is, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that we will get to celebrate the event in the hallowed precincts of the Rashtrapati Bhavan as we had dreamt we would. A dream which was inspired by NDTV.

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Don’t Tease the Politicians

Question: You receive the following image in a chain mail.

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The Arrogance Of Our Rulers

Long ago, there was a great King we are told. He was such a great king that he thought he could order the tide to flow back. So he stood on the shore and he said to the tide, “Go back”. The tide didn’t laugh at him. It took no…

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‘Aye dil hai mushkil…’: A look at Bombay through film songs

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