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From India Today to India TV, Zee goes all guns blazing against top media owners

The exit polls nearly got everything wrong. The markets tanked. The pollsters cried. And the papers underlined the need for stricter disclosure norms. But while the trends solidified on Tuesday, Zee News chose to bring out the knives against at least four media rivals and their owners – purportedly over…

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From Assam’s AIUDF rout to Kerala’s record: The changing face of Muslim representation

Of 78 Muslim candidates, 24 have won Lok Sabha contests in six states and three Union territories – none of them are from the NDA camp. This is a slide from the 27 MPs that were part of the lower house of Parliament the last time.

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Editorials point to need for stricter norms for pollsters, message from India

Exit polls have bit the dust with the performance of the BJP-led NDA being far below the forecast and the INDIA bloc touching a tally of nearly 230. It was also a traumatic Tuesday for markets, which tanked a day after a surge linked to investor confidence about a government…

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Decoding the 2024 Lok Sabha mandate with independent media

From the early trends to the big picture, five independent media outlets have come together to bring you the sharpest insights on the 2024 Lok Sabha poll results.

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NewsClick case: After EU, RSF and Guernica 37 now urge US for sanctions against Delhi police officers

Nearly two months after requesting the European Union to sanction four high-ranking officers of the Delhi police for “exactions” in the NewsClick case, advocacy groups Reporters Without Borders and Guernica 37 Chambers have called on the US government to do the same.

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‘War rukwa di papa’ goes global as John Oliver throws a lead for Modi govt’s fact-check unit

A month after JioCinema reportedly took down a 2020 episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the show’s fresh episode has now criticised PM Narendra Modi and what his tenure has meant for democratic freedoms in India.

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Inflatable tubs, ice-making machine: Inside a Delhi hospital unit to tackle heat stroke cases

On a blistering Saturday afternoon, a homeless man in his sixties was found unconscious near the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Delhi. He was brought in with a body temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit, and immersed in a tub filled with water and ice cubes. About an hour and another…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 323: Lok Sabha polls, hot seats, strategies

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar, Pratyush Deep, and Sumedha Mittal to discuss the coverage of the Lok Sabha elections and provide insights into the pulse of the people.

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Hafta 487: Final phase of polls, mining issues, heatwave in cities

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by The Caravan’s editor-in-chief Hartosh Singh Bal and investigative journalist Aruna Chandrashekhar.

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‘Lost right to write’: Months after ‘forced' exit, French journo details ‘Modi’s autocratic turn’

Over four months after she was “forced to leave India”, French journalist Vanessa Dougnac has written a detailed account of how she was “banned from practicing my profession as a journalist” in a cover story for French magazine La Croix L’Hebdo.

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Punjab 2024: Is Amritpal Singh contesting just to get out of jail?

Four days before polling, only one face dominates political posters through Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib city. That face belongs to Amritpal Singh, whose visage is splashed across the Lok Sabha constituency of the same name. The separatist leader, currently lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam, is contesting as an independent candidate.

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At Delhi event, NewsClick founder on ‘transformation after arrest’, meetings in jail

At about 5 pm today, while the temperature in Delhi touched 37 degrees Celsius, the open space on the ground floor of Delhi’s Press Club of India thronged with people. They’d all turned up to attend “Freedom of Expression in Today’s India” in solidarity with NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha.

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Tracking campaign data on Modi and Rahul: The message in battlegrounds, and hints on low priorities

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed more than twice the number of public meetings than that of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi since the beginning of the NDA and INDIA poll campaigns, shows a Newslaundry analysis.

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‘We do not pay taxes to die’: The negligence that led to Rajkot game zone fire

In 2020, a fire broke out in the Intensive Care Unit of a designated Covid hospital in Gujarat’s Rajkot. Five people died, even though a fire brigade was just 300 metres away. Reports at the time pointed at a flouting of fire safety norms, including a blocked emergency exit.

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Punjab: Election posters on Ram across Amritsar, 20 complaints, little action by ECI

Amid election fervour and campaigning, a poster is drawing locals’ attention in Punjab’s Amritsar. The poster saying “Jo Ram ko laye hain, hum unko layenge (Whoever has brought Ram, we will bring him)” is pasted across the city.

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Farm anger, temple cheer: Can Preneet Kaur hold Patiala fort for the BJP?

“The workers have no problem with whatever candidate is fielded by the BJP,” said Virendra Kumar Gupta. “But if the workers are being ignored, then that’s an issue.”

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AnA 353: Manjummel Boys, Planet of the Apes, Kevin Hart’s Mark Twain Prize

While discussing Manjummel Boys:

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The neighbourhood’s concerns: The China factor and the South Asian eye on India polls

Five countries in South Asia are electing new governments this year. Among them is India, which has been competing with China for a larger share of influence in the region.

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Lok Sabha 2024: Amid extreme heat and hot seats, Delhi voted on which issues?

In Delhi’s high-stake battle, the BJP is up against the INDIA bloc, which has fielded three Congress candidates and four from the AAP across the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in the national capital.

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‘No difference between Nitish, Modi’: BJP’s Samrat Chaudhary on Chhapra violence, NDA, constitution

Bihar, which has 40 Lok Sabha seats, recorded polling across eight constituencies today. The state had witnessed post-poll violence in Saran on May 21, in which a youth died and three others were severely injured after clashes between the RJD and the BJP workers, divided along caste lines of Yadavs…

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Hafta 486: Maharashtra and Delhi polls, Pune’s Porsche car crash

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam and Prateek Goyal are joined by journalist Faye D’Souza.

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Hafta letters: Election commission, legacy media and VVPAT

My question is related to Hafta #469. On the organised nature of Ram mandir decor in public spaces, Shardool brushed it off, claiming that I don’t “understand” India. I thought his answer had more to do with his own mandir-time-tribulations than the uniformity of the decor, and Raman sir did…

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‘Difficult to carry on’: Heatwave in Delhi but party workers spend long hours in the sun

On May 20, five days before polling day in Delhi, the Congress party’s Chandni Chowk president, Rahul Dabla, was rushed to a hospital.

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Porsche case: No, the minor did not release a ‘rap video’. The media got it wrong

After the public outcry over the Pune Porsche accident, a video of a rap song was posted on social media.

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