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This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivanarayan Rajpurohit, independent journalists Ashfaque EJ and Saurabh Kumar. 

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Semafor’s business reporter Rohan Goswami and political consultant and federalism expert Tara Krishnaswamy. 

While fires at Delhi’s trash towers have often grabbed headlines, in national and international outlets, open burning of waste in dumpsters, parks, or on the roadside doesn’t draw the same kind of attention. Experts have, however, warned that such fires contribute significantly to the rise in particulate concentration, making air…

Over a month after journalist Raghvendra Bajpai’s murder in Sitapur, police have told the media that he was killed by contract killers hired by the aide of a temple priest. Bajpai had threatened to expose the aide for sexually assaulting a minor on the temple’s premises, police said.

The Singapore Court of Appeal has set aside an international arbitral award involving a government railway contract after finding that the award had significant portions that were “copied and pasted” from two similar Indian arbitration awards.

A recent report revealed that levels of particulate concentration in 33 cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme had shot up in the last financial year.

An RSS-linked journalism institute in Kerala, which identifies itself as “India’s first JNU-affiliated journalism college,” has announced that JNU vice-chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit will attend its inaugural convocation on April 17, according to a report by The Indian Express.

As the country reels from the bloodbath Donald Trump’s tariff unleashed on the market and consumers come to terms with increasing cooking gas prices, mainstream Hindi TV news channels turned their attention to a more pressing issue: establishing the paternity of an unborn child. 

In a major win for the DMK government in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court ruled that Governor R N Ravi’s decision to withhold assent to 10 bills – despite their re-passage by the state assembly – was “illegal, erroneous in law and liable to be set aside”.