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Private buses in Corbett’s core: Controversial ex-director didn’t have ‘any powers’ to permit it

A committee has filed a report in the Supreme Court that says a former director of Uttarakhand’s Corbett Tiger Reserve permitted private buses to operate within the park’s core reserve area even without “having any powers to do so”.

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‘It’s time for a homecoming’: Why Kamaal Farooqui is returning to the Congress

The Maharashtra polls are a month away and defections are already in full swing.

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Let Me Explain: UAPA’s weaponisation of literature and witnesses

From 2014 to 2022, 8,719 people were charged under the draconian UAPA. A majority are languishing in jail, with trials delayed and bail denied, as in the case of GN Saibaba.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 342: Bahraich violence, influence of money in Pune car crash case

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Prateek Goyal.

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Indian Express relaunches film magazine SCREEN after 11 years

The Indian Express relaunched its film magazine SCREEN in an event in Mumbai on Friday, after a hiatus of 11 years. It’s first digital cover was also launched at the event.

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TV Newsance 270: Anchors celebrate rise of gangster Bishnoi, India-Canada all-out tussle

Kalyug has arrived on our TV screens with news anchors and right-wing commentators celebrating the rise of a new national hero — gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Move over Dawood Ibrahim; the new sheriff in town has got a Sanatani twist. And our anchors glorified the criminal, tossing journalistic integrity out the…

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Working mothers struggle, quit jobs as govt shuts down 22 crèches across Delhi

The Delhi government has closed 22 of the 44 standalone crèches operated by NGOs under the PALNA scheme, affecting families and working women across the national capital. The decision was first detailed in an order by Delhi’s Women and Child Department on March 5, followed by a June 20 order…

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Absence of survey, local resistance: Assam limestone mining auction in limbo

In December last year, the Assam government issued a tender for the auction of seven limestone mines in Dima Hasao district, which operates under the sixth schedule of the Constitution, and is governed by an autonomous council that represents its tribal communities.

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No guarantee of protection or change: What the stories of 3 journalists tell us this month

Journalism and journalists have made news this last fortnight.

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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.

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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.

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‘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.

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Foreign Correspondents’ Club crisis gets messier with two expulsions

Two journalists, who were appointed as the interim president and interim general secretary of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia around 10 days ago, have now been expelled from the club.

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‘They would’ve set my kids on fire’: Mapping the trail of destruction in Bahraich

Shops shut, vehicles and homes charred, and streets wearing a deserted look. That’s how areas affected by communal violence in UP’s Bahraich looked when Newslaundry visited ground zero to take stock of the situation.

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Another Rahul Kanwal episode lands in soup over ‘pre-recorded interview’ aired as debate

Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has alleged that India Today news director Rahul Kanwal and the channel misleadingly presented an interview with her in the debate format.

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‘Buy this if you want to ruin your life’: The hapless Ola e-scooter buyers from Delhi

Last week, Ola shares plunged after an online spat between its CEO Bhavish Aggarwal and comedian Kunal Kamra over customer service issues with the company’s electric scooters.

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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.”

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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…

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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…

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‘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.

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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…

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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.

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‘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…

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Newsance 269: Haryana poll results excitement, Arnab’s conspiracy theories

This week was a very exciting one for news anchors as the BJP charted a surprise victory in Haryana. We run you through the rollercoaster of emotions and U-turns witnessed by our usual suspects and the overconfident exit pollsters, who learned nothing from the Lok Sabha polls.

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Hafta letters: Israel, Gaza series, journalists

Hello to all,I have a few suggestions for the new title for Jayashree:EXPERT – Executive Extraordinaire for Promos, Editorials, Recordings, and Tales.EDITOR – Executive Director of Integrated Tales, Output, and Recordings.CREATOR – Chief of Recordings, Editorials, and Tales across the online realm.LEADER – Longform, Editorial, and Audio Director of Exceptional…

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