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Navratris have always been something bigger than devotion. Sure, the rituals are there – offerings, prayers, songs honouring the goddess Durga. But it’s also the season when people don their glamour avatars, polish their dance skills, burn through half their wardrobe, and hope someone notices.

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Anxiety and survival: Breaking down India’s stampedes

With three months still to go for the new year, 2025 already seems like an unfortunate year for stampede deaths in India.

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Complaints filed, posters up, jobs gone: Cops turn blind eye to Indore Muslim boycott

In Indore, the police’s response to the forced removal of Muslim workers has once again raised questions of consistency and bias.

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India sees 27% jump in fake news cases in 2023; sedition cases drop by 50%: NCRB data

At 1,087 cases, India recorded a 26.7 percent rise in reported incidents of false/fake news and rumours as compared to the 858 cases in 2022, according to the Crime in India 2023 report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

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‘If service valuable, why pay so low?’: 5,000 MCD workers protest for permanent jobs, equal pay, leaves

For the last two days, more than 5,000 Delhi municipal workers have been protesting outside MCD’s Civic Centre for equal pay, medical and earned leaves, and permanent employment.

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‘Witch-hunt against Wangchuk’: Ladakh leaders demand justice at Delhi presser

At a press conference in Delhi on Monday, leaders from Ladakh and several other hill regions demanded accountability for recent police firing in Leh, the release of detained activist Sonam Wangchuk, and constitutional safeguards for the Himalayan region.

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September 29, 2025: Another season of blame game in Delhi soon?

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited a bus stop at Aurobindo Ashram Marg. The nearest air quality monitoring station pegged the AQI at 69 or as satisfactory.

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Govt ‘idiotically misinterpreted’ organisation’s reply: Sonam Wangchuk’s wife on FCRA license cancellation

While cancelling the FCRA licence of an organisation founded by Ladakh-based climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on September 25 said that the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (Secmol) received foreign funds to study the national sovereignty against the “national interest” and in violation…

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Hafta letters: Rahul Gandhi, Chandrachud interview, media’s role

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India vs Pak: Why cricket’s favourite love-hate story echoes history

”India forces Pak to surrender”. That was The Telegraph’s front-page headline after India’s 39-run win over Pakistan in the 1996 World Cup quarter-final.

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Jimmy Kimmel to Kunal Kamra: Trump’s US follows a familiar playbook from Modi’s India

What do the current government of the United States, headed by Donald Trump, and the government in India, led by Narendra Modi, have in common?

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September 25, 2025: Moderate air quality outside Nizamuddin railway station

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the area outside Sarai Kalai metro station and Nizamuddin railway station. The AQI recorded at the nearest air monitoring station in ITO was 93 (moderate), while the highest AQI in Delhi was at 263 in Anand Vihar. (See daily AQI data…

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HC dismisses X plea challenging govt portal over takedown orders

The Karnataka High Court has dismissed X Corp’s (formerly Twitter) petition challenging the legality of the Central government’s ‘Sahyog’ portal – an online platform used to issue content takedown orders to intermediaries, Bar and Bench reported.

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Shops shut, at least 50 lose jobs, but cops silent on Indore BJP leader’s ultimatum on Muslim workers

What if a politician told shopkeepers in your area to sack all their Hindu employees within a month? TV studios would likely erupt in outrage, FIRs would be filed, and even bulldozers might not be far behind. But when a threat of this nature has targeted Muslims in an Indore…

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BJP office torched, Ladakh tense, several injured in clashes

A BJP office was torched while the situation in Leh town turned tense amid stone-pelting, teargas, and baton charges.

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‘Indian Muslims not equal’: ABP show allows hate speech, slurs as Ragi vs Pathan

On her primetime show Mahadangal, ABP News anchor Chitra Tripathi sat by as her guest, Delhi University professor Sangit Ragi, launched into a communal diatribe – calling Muslims “betrayers,” calling for a denial of equal rights, and hurling slurs – without so much as a decisive rebuke.

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‘Bhujiya jihad’ with benefits: Your taxes will fund 100 interns at Sudarshan News

In what appears to be a bizarre misuse of public funds, the Ministry of Education has approved a one-month internship programme for Sudarshan News under its Indian Knowledge System (IKS) initiative for 2025–26.

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Will restrain defamatory posts, not satire: HC in Gaurav Bhatia’s News18 show case

BJP leader and senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia has approached the Delhi High Court seeking the removal of defamatory content on social media over his alleged appearance on a News18 India show without pants, Bar and Bench reported.

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September 22, 2025: Toxic air reducing life expectancy

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited Sarvodaya Enclave in South Delhi. The nearest monitoring station, Aurobindo Marg, recorded a satisfactory AQI.

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The fight for Pune’s green heart: A city’s soul vs 6 minutes of saved commute

For more than 40 years, Punekars have rallied to save Vetal Tekdi – the city’s highest hill, a green lung thick with trees, birdsong, and clean air. It’s where thousands walk and birds find rest. Each time the hill has faced the axe of development, citizens have risen in protest,…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 382: Field experiences, reporting insights, hiatus

In the final episode of the podcast, all the Newslaundry reporters come together to share their thoughts. They share their experiences about how they managed to do some of their stories despite several hurdles. They also shed light on what a reporter should and should not do while reporting. While…

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Kashmir’s apple farmers face Rs 2,000 cr loss as NH-44 closure strands thousands of trucks

“I don’t even have money for poison to kill myself. All my harvested apples have rotted before reaching the markets after the NH-44 was shut,” said Ezaj Ahmed, apple farmer from Anantnag district of Kashmir.

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The real E20 story: How a botched rollout turned India’s big fuel fix into a national burden

The most burning issue in the Indian motoring community of late has been fuel. That intentional PJ aside, the fact remains: vehicle owners have been crying foul ever since the Union government advanced its plans to roll out E20 nationwide – five years before it was originally intended.

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Operation Langda: Three districts, three encounters, same story

In Newslaundry’s ongoing investigation into Uttar Pradesh police’s alleged ‘half encounters’, also known as ‘Operation Langda’, we chart three such incidents – all with similar stories.

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In Jangpura, Saket and Vasant Kunj, many sidewalks aren’t for walking

Delhi has a parking issue. The city has 1.5 crore registered vehicles, but not enough parking space, leading to the obvious casualty: pedestrian zones.

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