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Money, muscle, and trip to Ayodhya: How are DU student leaders asking for votes?

The Delhi University Student Union election is set to be held on September 27 with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, National Students’ Union of India, and the alliance of All India Students’ Association and Students’ Federation of India gearing up for a tough contest.

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X need not know reasons behind blocking orders: Govt to Karnataka HC

The Narendra Modi government has told the Karnataka High Court that the review committee orders detailing its decisions to block accounts on X between 2021 and 2022 need not be accessed by the social media platform, Bar and Bench reported.

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2 months after SC stayed Kanwar Yatra order, UP comes up with similar directive for ‘purity’

Two months after the Supreme Court stayed a controversial order that made it mandatory for eateries to declare the names of their owners and staff, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has issued a similar directive.

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Two journos booked for questioning ‘Thakur raj’ in UP, complainant says ‘Yogi incarnation of god’

Abhishek Upadhyay, a Lucknow-based freelance journalist, recently posted on X about “the biggest political story of the year not being reported” by the media. He referred to the rise in the prominence of the Rajput community, colloquially described as “Thakur or Singh raj (rule),” under the tenure of Chief Minister…

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Work stress caused 26-year-old Anna’s death? Doctor, HR consultant weigh in

A 26-year-old chartered accountant from Kerala, Anna Sebastian Perayil, died in July, within four months of joining Ernst Young’s Pune office. Her mother Anita Augustine blamed the work load and job-related stress for her death, fuelling public outrage over corporate work environments and demand for reassessment of workplace practices.

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‘Would anyway quit BJP-led govt’: JJP’s Dushyant Chautala on polls, alliance with Azad’s party

Dushyant Chautala, JJP leader and former deputy chief minister who emerged as a kingmaker in the last polls, has been facing resentment in his own assembly constituency, Uchana Kalan. Besides holding meetings in his constituency ahead of the state polls, Dushyant’s JJP has struck an alliance with the Azad Samaj…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 338: Haryana politics ahead of polls, Jammu voters

This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Anmol Pritam.

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Delhi in flux: What AAP’s reset means for assembly polls

Days after AAP chief and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the liquor policy case, Atishi took over as the Delhi CM today. The efforts to read between the lines of the AAP chief’s decision to step down from the CM office…

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Hafta letters: First Amendment, India as single entity, NL-TNM alliance

Well this one is a kudos for Mr Anand, the voice of the weak on Hafta:

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Haryana polls: Will Vinesh Phogat end Congress’s losing streak in Julana?

Olympian Vinesh Phogat, who recently entered the political arena, is gearing to contest the Haryana assembly polls on a Congress ticket from Julana. The Congress party has recorded defeat on the Jat-dominated seat in the last three assembly elections and has won here only four times since 1967.

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Salman Khan demands apology from ANI for report ‘linking him to D-Company’

Actor Salman Khan has sought an apology from news agency ANI and the advocates of the two men accused of firing outside his house for linking him to underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s group D-Company, Livelaw reported. A report published by ANI claimed that Khan has “known relations” with the group…

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Bombay High Court strikes down IT Rules amendment by which govt could ‘fact-check’ news on itself

The Bombay High Court today struck down the 2023 amendments to the IT Rules that permit the central government to “fact-check” news about itself on social media platforms.

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‘BJP opened a new front of terrorism in Jammu’: Omar Abdullah on shift in J&K politics, polls

Omar Abdullah, chairperson of the National Conference, has served as the youngest Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and even Union minister. In the recent Lok Sabha polls, Abdullah conceded defeat in the Baramulla constituency in North Kashmir against independent candidate Engineer Rashid. Now his party is in the fray…

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‘Mewat ruined by BJP’: Congress’s Aftab Ahmed on development, politics, cow vigilantism

Aftab Ahmed, Congress’s Nuh MLA, is set to contest the assembly polls again in a tough triangular fight against the BJP’s Sanjay Singh, the incumbent MLA from Sohna, and INLD’s Zakir Hussain. The deputy leader of the state assembly and former state transport minister has accused the BJP of halting…

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Window of hope, yet little changed in media accountability in Modi 3.0

Since June this year, when the general election results significantly reduced the strength of the BJP in the Lok Sabha, the optimists believed that a party dependent on its coalition partners, even if it continues to be led by Narendra Modi, would be different. That the visible authoritarian tendencies of…

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The question of clothing: No, Muslim women still do not need saving

Last week, in an essay published in Newslaundry, writer Noamankhan Pathan drew upon his mother’s experience as being indirectly or directly forced to adopt the burqa upon her marriage, and the resulting disjunction between her desires and the injunctions placed upon her. He also argued that a prevailing culture of…

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Emergency film release stalled to avoid impact on BJP poll prospects: Zee to Bombay HC

Zee Entertainment, the co-producer of Kangana Ranaut’s film Emergency, has told the Bombay High Court that the censor clearance is being delayed because the BJP is sceptical that the film may affect its prospects in the upcoming Haryana elections, Bar and Bench reported.

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Why did Dehradun Press Club permit an event on ‘how to save women from jihadis’?

Protests against journalists being targeted, discussions on press freedom, round-tables on state of the media – this is what you’d probably expect from events that take place at a press club.

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Bihar journalist’s BBC documentary exposes systemic rot of female infanticide over 30 years

By the time journalist Amitabh Parashar is introduced in the BBC documentary, The Midwife’s Confession, the audience is invested in his journey.

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No varsity in Nuh despite locals’ demand, govt proposal, 7 years of Aspirational Districts Programme

In 2018, the Niti Aayog identified Haryana’s Nuh as one of the most backward districts in the country and added it to the Aspirational Districts Programme. But seven years on, little has changed in the district’s economy and educational infrastructure.

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‘Took time to pick up the pieces’: A trio’s struggle after ‘ULFA label’ and ‘staged’ police shooting

On December 23 last year, Dipjyoti Neog, Biswanath Borgohain, and Manuj Buragohain left their homes in Assam’s Tinsukia district for a picnic in Arunachal Pradesh, packing themselves into a Maruti 800. But it turned out to be a trip that haunts them even today.

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X suspends account of RSS mouthpiece Panchjanya

The X account of RSS mouthpiece Panchjanya has been suspended.

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Explained: What’s ANI vs Wikipedia legal battle all about?

ANI has lodged a lawsuit of Rs 2 crore against US-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, for “allowing misleading, negative, and defamatory” edits on their Wikipedia page.

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What’s Your Ism? Nikita Sonavane on caste origins of modern policing

What are the caste origins of words such as “rowdy” and “goonda” in the police vocabulary? Did India’s caste system help colonial anthropology? What was the role of eugenics in the creation of the country’s modern police force? How do Dalit women negotiate in the savarna-dominated judiciary? And what does…

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Ruckus outside police station, changed statements: The curious chronology of Ratlam SP’s transfer

➨ In May 2022, a local BJP leader’s nephew was booked for vandalising statues at a temple a day before Eid-ul-Fitr. Hindutva footsoldiers had tried to blame Muslims for the incident in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur district.

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