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A woman’s 16-year crusade for a national channel for Sindhis

It was the late 2000s when Asha Chand made it her life’s mission to advocate for a Sindhi public broadcasting channel. 

Newslaundry · Oct 17, 2024

PCI issues show-cause notice to Caravan over story on army’s ‘torture of civilians’ in Poonch

Months after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting directed The Caravan magazine to take down its story on the Indian army’s “torture and murder of civilians” in Poonch and Rajaouri of Jammu, the Press Council of India has sent a show-cause notice to the media outlet. 

Newslaundry · Oct 17, 2024

‘Prima facie contemptuous’: HC orders takedown of Wikipedia page on ANI defamation suit

Terming it “prima facie contemptuous”, the Delhi High Court has ordered the takedown of a Wikipedia page on ANI’s defamation suit against Wikimedia Foundation which hosts the platform, LiveLaw reported.

Newslaundry · Oct 16, 2024

ECI chief calls early results trend ‘nonsense’, asks if it is to justify exit polls

“On the counting day, results start coming in from 8.05 am, which is nonsense…counting begins at 8.30 am,” said chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar, hinting at the early trends announced on TV news channels on the election results day. “There is no scientific basis for it.”

Newslaundry · Oct 15, 2024

8 mining firms indicted by CAG in Odisha are political donors

Last month, a Comptroller and Auditor General report had pointed to serious lapses on part of the Odisha government which substantially helped 23 private companies deal a loss of Rs 22,392 crore in mining revenue from 2015 to 2022. Newslaundry has now found that eight of these companies, which caused…

Newslaundry · Oct 15, 2024

Ties tank as Canada accuses Indian diplomats of ‘criminal activity’: What did front pages say?

India has withdrawn its envoys from Canada and expelled their Canadian counterparts in New Delhi after Indian diplomats were named as “persons of interest” in the investigation of the killing of pro-Khalistan activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. The diplomatic ties have tanked, about a year after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…

Newslaundry · Oct 15, 2024

‘Bahraich shares border with Nepal,’ says BJP MLA after accusing Muslim journos of ‘bias’

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria, Shalabh Mani Tripathi, has defended himself after being widely criticised for targeting Muslims journalists on X, formerly Twitter.

Newslaundry · Oct 14, 2024

Climate crisis in the Sundarbans makes women vulnerable to trafficking

Kanti was 14 when cyclone Amphan damaged her house in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, in West Bengal. Hungry, she was roaming outside her home, expecting food from a nonprofit, when a man with a bag on his back approached her and offered her food and clothes. “I went along. Hardly…

Newslaundry · Oct 14, 2024

UP govt did not consult or inform army before denotifying ‘buffer zone’ village in Ayodhya: RTI

The Indian army was reportedly neither informed nor consulted by the Uttar Pradesh government before the latter “denotified” a village, earlier reserved as a buffer zone for the army’s firing and artillery practices near the Ayodhya cantonment, as per a Right to Information response.

Newslaundry · Oct 12, 2024

‘Dream come true’: Fans flood stadium as Kashmir hosts international cricket after four decades

“We watched legendary international cricket players on the internet and television, but now we are getting to see them in real life. We are so excited,” beamed a young fan outside Srinagar’s Bakshi Stadium, which is the venue for six T20 matches of the Legends League Cricket, a global league…

Newslaundry · Oct 12, 2024