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‘Baseless’: RSS official slams Jagran report on Bhagwat’s ‘clarification’ on Nadda’s comment

An RSS top official has denied Hindi news daily Dainik Jagran’s front-page report on the right-wing body’s chief Mohan Bhagwat’s purported clarification over the comment made by BJP president JP Nadda about the party “running itself”, independent of the RSS.

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‘Not students, it’s about 25 lakh families’: Aspirants on NEET hopes, hype and harm

Results of the NEET-UG 2024 examinations – conducted by the National Testing Agency – have triggered an uproar due to allegations of paper leaks, the distortion of rankings with the grant of grace marks to some, and unusually high cutoffs.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 325: NEET, 3 decades of secrecy, and SP’s poll strategy

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and independent journalists Alishan Jafri and Nidhi Suresh.

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3 days after Cong leader’s police complaint, Rajat Sharma files defamation case

India TV editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma has filed a defamation suit in the Delhi High Court against Congress leaders Ragini Nayak, Jairam Ramesh and Pawan Khera over their tweets alleging that he used abusive language on air during a show on the day election results were announced, LiveLaw reported.

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Bastar activist ‘helped tribals navigate the system with Hindi’. Now she is held in 5 FIRs

It was a cold November day in 2015. Sukku Kunjam was working at his paddy field in Itavar village, nestled in the hills around Gangloor in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur. But hours later, he ran to the jungle, allegedly apprehending police torture, as security forces stormed the village for a search operation.…

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Hafta letters: Hafta on YouTube, accountability, election coverage

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Awful and Awesome Ep 354: Panchayat Season 3, Hit Man, Eric

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Days after poll win, Yusuf Pathan sent ‘encroachment’ notice by Gujarat civic body

Two days after he was elected as the Baharampur MP on a Trinamool Congress ticket, cricketer-turned-politician Yusuf Pathan received a notice from the Vadodara Municipal Corporation asking him to vacate encroachments on land owned by the civic body. And five days later, a local BJP leader wrote to the civic…

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‘No breaks, AC problems, blisters’: Heatwave puts focus on ‘labour law violations’ at Amazon

Smita*, 25, scurries around the Amazon India warehouse in Haryana’s Manesar for most of her 10-hour work shift – storing products in different parts of the warehouse. She walks around 15-20 kilometres continuously, with two half-hour breaks and no place to rest.

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Battling bias: India’s medical councils often fail patients in medical negligence cases

For the last 10 years, Pramod Kumar Choudhary has been chasing down justice. A resident of Delhi’s RK Ashram and an employee of the New Delhi Municipal Corporation, his quest is driven by tragedy – the loss of his daughter Ritu Kumari.

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Modi 3.0 hall of fame: The special guests and what they did to get there

The dress code was floral or summer ceremonial. The invites were in cursive. The guest list was over 9,000, including heads of states, filmstars, sports celebrities, and corporate honchos. And there was an afterparty, with an elaborate vegetarian menu.

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Reporter’s diary: Inside a rape survivor’s 30-year battle from secrecy to justice

Savita* was at her office when she got the call. A local journalist informed her that she had won the case. He wanted her to comment on it.

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Ownership, money, Modi 3.0 uncertainty: A sobering reality check for election cheer

The Lok Sabha elections will continue to be analysed threadbare for some time to come. They were unexpected, revelatory about the Indian electorate and uplifting, even if momentarily, because they suggested that democracy is still alive in India.

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Days after Karnataka ban, SC suspends screening of Hamare Baarah

The Supreme Court has stayed the release of the movie Hamare Baarah and asked the Bombay High Court to take an expeditious decision on a petition alleging that the film was derogatory to Islam and married Muslim women, Bar and Bench reported.

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‘Akash Anand should join Bhim Army’: Chandrashekhar Azad on victory, BSP, alliances

Once barred from the national capital for four weeks over his protest against the CAA-NRC, Chandrashekhar Azad has returned to Delhi as the MP elect from Nagina in Uttar Pradesh. The Bhim Army chief and leader of Azad Samaj Party - Kanshi Ram secured the Lok Sabha seat with a…

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BJP tally didn’t dip only due to minorities. But blaming them is both easy and strategic

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was the first. A “certain community”, he said, was responsible for the defeat of the BJP in three northeastern states: Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland. Sarma, it seemed, was referring to Christians.

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Bhagwat says ‘decorum not followed’, Organiser piece points to ‘reality check for overconfident BJP’

There are signs of disquiet within the RSS over the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll performance.

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Was Rahul’s strike rate better than Priyanka’s?

The Congress has increased its Lok Sabha tally to 99 seats while the BJP hasn’t been able to secure a simple majority. And some have credited party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for the Congress’s performance.

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Modi begins third term today, editorials point to ‘fiscal burden, slower reform, Rajdharma’

Narendra Modi has begun his record-equalling third term as prime minister after many BJP stalwarts as well as NDA allies were accommodated in the list of 72 ministers who were sworn in at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 324: Exit polls and stock market upheaval

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit and Prateek Goyal to dissect the fallout of exit polls on the stock market.

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Delhi police ignores Caravan journos’ complaint, probes them instead in a 2020 case

Nearly four years after a case of molestation and assault was registered against three journalists from The Caravan magazine, Prabhjit Singh, one of the three journalists, was questioned by the Delhi police on Friday.

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Hafta letters: Lok Sabha mandate, Prashant Kishor, casteist terms

I was quite surprised (and enraged) by such an extreme level of support for Israel from the radical Hindu segment of India (yes, almost everyone belonged to 'Modi Ka Parivar', other than Subramaniam Swami). Has this deep-rooted Islamophobia become so entrenched in our country’s population? (Just look at the backlash…

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Market crash: 2 days after Zee targeted 4 media owners, Rahul seeks JPC probe into ‘biggest scam’

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has sought a parliamentary probe against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and top leaders of the BJP over what he claimed was a stock market “scam” – referring to the ostensible link between market trading and exit poll projections.

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Alliance troubles, Maratha factor: What made Maharashtra the BJP’s Achilles heel

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Maharashtra 18 times over the past two months to campaign for the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance, but the state turned out to be the Achilles' heel for his own party.

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‘Narrow victory’, ‘Indian democracy’s resilience’: How media across the globe covered Modi’s win

Narendra Modi is set to assume office for a consecutive third term as Prime Minister – this time at the mercy of his coalition partners. And media outlets across the world have taken note of his waning popularity.

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