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Inside India’s shadow wealth: Just 3 lakh crorepatis in a nation of 1.4 billion

India’s wealthy elite love their cash – not just for convenience, but for what it hides. Despite a surge in digital payments, stacks of unaccounted currency still fuel real estate deals and many economic activities in the informal part of the economy, leading to tax dodging and funding of election…

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Another Delhi pond at risk as govt body builds road, dumps debris

While Delhi grapples with the rampant depletion and misuse of its water bodies, a fresh case of encroachment on a pond has emerged in the capital. And this time, the violator is a government agency.

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Rajdeep Sardesai moves HC over Shazia Ilmi defamation case order

Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai on Friday filed an appeal before the Delhi High Court challenging a single judge’s order, which directed him to take down an allegedly defamatory video clip showing an altercation between BJP leader Shazia Ilmi and an India Today journalist.

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SC initiates suo motu contempt case against Chandigarh journalist

The Supreme Court has initiated a suo motu criminal contempt case against Chandigarh-based journalist and YouTuber Ajay Shukla, reportedly over comments made against a judge, Bar and Bench reported.

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UP journalist, wife attempt suicide on camera after ‘harassment over report’

Trigger warning: This report contains graphic description of an attempt to die by suicide.

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India’s FDI story is a mirage and the numbers prove it

Late last week multiple news outlets reported that in 2024-25, gross foreign direct investment (FDI) into India hit $81 billion, up nearly 14 percent from the previous year – a stat that made headlines.

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Remove words like ‘hafta wasooli’ from video: HC to YouTuber Mohak Mangal

Hearing ANI’s defamation suit against YouTuber Mohak Mangal, the Delhi High Court on Thursday orally suggested that certain words used by the YouTuber in his video were “offending”, LiveLaw reported.

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In action taken report, Delhi cops say Rana Ayyub’s ‘hate speech’ tweets not available on X

The Delhi Police has informed a Delhi court that journalist Rana Ayyub’s tweets on Hindu deities and Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, for which she was booked in January, are no longer available on X, Bar and Bench reported.

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Digital rights group challenges notification empowering Delhi cops to take down online content

Digital rights advocacy group SFLC.in has filed a writ petition before the Delhi High Court, challenging a December 2024 notification by the Delhi Lieutenant Governor that empowers Delhi Police officials to issue takedown notices for online content.

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‘Real motive to demolish free thought’: Editorials on Trump’s witchhunt against global students

The Donald Trump administration’s escalating conflict with American universities has entered a new and troubling phase. This week, the US State Department instructed embassies to pause new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media surveillance of applicants – a move widely interpreted as political retribution cloaked in security…

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1876 to 2025: Why civil services age reforms always hit a wall

In an opinion piece published in The Times of India, D Subbarao, former IAS officer and former RBI governor, on Wednesday called for lowering the upper age limit for the civil services examination to 27 years and reducing the number of attempts to three. Last month, following the declaration of…

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PTI offers content creators ‘highly affordable’ access to its videos

Amid the copyright infringement tussle between news agency Asian News International (ANI) and Youtuber creators like Mohak Mangal, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has offered content creators “highly affordable” access to its videos.

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Adani Group appoints Sanjay Pugalia as Head - Corporate Brand Custodian

The Adani Group announced the appointment of Sanjay Pugalia as the head of corporate brand custodian effective May 26, 2025, Exchange4media reported.

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How Gujarat Samachar fell out of Modi’s favour

Facing backlash amid the 2002 Gujarat riots, then Chief Minister Narendra Modi wrote a letter to a prominent Gujarati newspaper, reportedly appreciating its coverage of the incident. The same coverage had been termed as a “clear violation of all accepted norms of media ethics” by an Editors Guild of India…

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How Brij Bhushan Singh’s Lutyens’ bungalow stayed in the family

Despite being a first-time MP, Karan Bhushan Singh has landed one of Lutyens’ Delhi’s most coveted government bungalows – Type VIII, typically given to senior officials, lawmakers or ministers.

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Four held for assaulting journalist in Odisha

The Odisha police on Monday arrested four individuals, including a minor, in connection with the brutal assault of a journalist in the state’s Bolangir district, which happened on May 25.

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May 26, 2025: Waterlogging exposes govt’s Minto Bridge promise. What about AQI?

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry reached Minto Bridge, where top ministers of the Rekha Gupta government and Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had promised to fix waterlogging in April. But the spot was waterlogged again as rain lashed the city on the weekend.

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South Central 28: Will Shashi Tharoor leave the Congress? And how India’s police get away with violence

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Sudipto Mondal discuss if Shashi Tharoor is at a breaking point with the Congress party, and TNM-Newslaundry series on police excesses and impunity across India. Joining the discussion are lawyer and activist Vinay Srinivasa and TNM’s Chennai Bureau…

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Memory, movement, and marginality: Memoir of a tribal modernist

For a life that could possibly be best described as eventful, a slim memoir can often run out of breath in reliving its sweep. This sense of life outpacing memory isn't surprising for the Oxford-educated tribal leader from the Chotanagpur plateau in Jharkhand (then in undivided Bihar), who went on…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 370: How Poonch bled even after the ceasefire

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Anmol Pritam and The News Minute’s Nidhi Suresh.

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Hafta 538: India vs Maoists: Is this a turning point?

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, Raman Kirpal and Shardool Katyayan are joined by senior journalist and CGNet Swara’s co-founder Shubhranshu Choudhary.We start with a discussion on the killing of 27 suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh this week and analyse if the Maoist movement in…

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36 India Ahead ex-employees move Delhi court over ‘unpaid dues’

Citing unpaid dues, 36 former employees of India Ahead news channel have approached a Delhi court against the company, Andhra Prabha Publications, former editor-in-chief Bhupendra Choubey and senior management staff of the firm, Bar and Bench reported.

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US panel probes American media watchdog over Musk’s boycott claims: Report

The US Federal Trade Commission has sought documents from media watchdog Media Matters in America about possible coordination with other media watchdogs accused by Elon Musk of helping orchestrate advertiser boycotts of X, according to a Reuters report.

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Futile to continue with lookout circulars against Roys: Delhi HC to CBI

The Delhi High Court has told the CBI that it would be “futile” to continue with the Lookout Circulars issued against former NDTV promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy, LiveLaw reported.

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Allahabad HC refuses to quash FIR against Zubair over Narsinghanand tweet

The Allahabad High Court has refused to quash the FIR filed by the Uttar Pradesh Police against Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair for his tweets on Yati Narsinghanand, Bar and Bench reported.

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