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After OCCRP scribes, 2 FT India journalists get SC interim protection over Adani report summons

The Supreme Court has granted interim protection against any coercive action to two Financial Times journalists, who had approached the court against summons issued by the Gujarat police.

Newslaundry · Nov 10, 2023

‘Total breakdown of all rules’: Moitra writes to Birla over NDTV’s ‘access’ to LS panel’s draft

In a letter to the Lok Sabha speaker, Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra on Thursday said that NDTV’s coverage of the parliamentary ethics panel’s recommendation to expel her was a “total breakdown of all due process and rules of the Lok Sabha”.

Newslaundry · Nov 9, 2023

In Rajasthan, BJP, Cong bet on incumbents, against all odds

Anti-incumbency hangs heavy on the governing party, and even heavier on sitting members of the legislative assembly in Rajasthan – known for a “roti palatnewali” electorate which has rotated the party in power over five assembly elections in the last 25 years. 

Newslaundry · Nov 9, 2023

‘Rivalry’ between ex-bureaucrat, Delhi vigilance secy resurfaces with letter to media, defamation threat

Tensions between a former bureaucrat and a secretary in Delhi’s vigilance department are back in the media glare with a series of letters and official notes referring to a CBI probe into a bank fraud case filed last year. 

Newslaundry · Nov 7, 2023

Photojournalist booked in Rajasthan over ‘edited’ Modi video, ‘spreading propaganda’

Rajasthan’s cyber cell has booked a photojournalist following the BJP state unit’s IT team’s complaint over an alleged “edited” video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he posted on social media.  

Newslaundry · Nov 6, 2023

‘Risk, low voter turnout’: Choppers ferry poll officials in Maoist-hit Bastar

On November 4, three days ahead of the assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, a dozen polling officials flew to the state’s highly sensitive polling stations in the Moaist-hit Bastar division from its headquarters in Narayanpur. 

Newslaundry · Nov 6, 2023

Reporters Without Orders Ep 295: Reporting on conflict from Israel-Palestine, Manipur

This week, host Gurmehar Kaur is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit and Dainik Bhaskar’s Vaibhav Palnitkar.

Newslaundry · Nov 4, 2023

Diktats, ‘patriarchal’ system: The hurdles facing Mizoram’s few women politicians as voters seek change

In Mizoram’s capital Aizawl, thousands gathered in protest last month to question the eligibility of a Congress candidate from the Lunglei South constituency in Lunglei district. 

Newslaundry · Nov 4, 2023

Just 1 MLA in 30 years: Manipur won’t swing the Mizoram election, but will hurt the BJP

Wearing a white cotton kurta, Kiren Rijiju sat in the sitting-room area of Room 706 at Aizawl’s Regency Hotel, talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s keen interest in Northeast India.

Newslaundry · Nov 3, 2023

‘Fight against BJP symbol’: Dantewada Cong candidate on jobs, nepotism, Maoism

Newslaundry and The News Minute are on the ground in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada, where Chhavindra Karma is contesting the election on a Congress ticket against BJP’s Chetram Arami. His father Mahendra Karma was among several Congress leaders who were killed by Maoists in 2013. Dantewada, which is an ST constituency, has…

Newslaundry · Nov 2, 2023