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How a shady portal with bogus reporters triggered false news on the BJP

Fake news items about a BJP leader’s violent encounter with sex workers have sent the party into a tizzy in Madhya Pradesh. The party has filed an FIR against the Congress for promoting ill will against the BJP by amplifying the articles. And as more details emerge, the focus has…

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Northeast India’s largest coal mine went to a company that violated bidding rules

On March 2, Coal Pulz Private Ltd, a private company registered in October 2020, won the bid for the Namchik Namphuk coal mine in Arunachal Pradesh. With nearly 15 million tonnes of geological coal reserves, Namchik Namphuk is the largest commercial coal mine in northeast India, producing one of the…

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Citing ‘law and order’ concerns, Delhi police denies permission for event on ‘media blackout’ in Kashmir

The Delhi police today denied permission for an event on “media blackout and state repression in Kashmir”. The event had been scheduled to take place at the Gandhi Peace Foundation this afternoon.

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The BBC-Lineker row: Can journalists be ‘impartial’ about human rights?

The BBC is back as an “anti-national” force, but Arnab Goswami may not get a chance to pull off a 56-inch Godi Award-worthy performance this time. The nationalist trolls, after all, are not desi but British in the public broadcaster’s latest controversy.

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‘Targeted’: UP journalist arrested after questioning BJP minister’s unfulfilled poll promises

A journalist has alleged that he was arrested and harassed by the police because he raised questions about secondary education minister Gulabo Devi’s unfulfilled poll promises at an event in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal on March 11.

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IIT Bombay suicide: Did Darshan Solanki face discrimination over JEE rank?

On February 18, two students from IIT Bombay discussed how Darshan Solanki’s roommate “reduced his interaction” with him after asking Solanki his rank in JEE.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 262: Caste bias in Delhi, communal prejudice in Haryana

This week, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel as Basant Kumar is joined by Avdhesh Kumar and Anmol Pritam.

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Cartoon: Lack of agency

Cartoon is one of the oldest and boldest artistic genres for speaking truth to power. In India, however, cartoonists, in the news media and outside, are under pressure to curtail their free speech and not annoy the powerful as the finest of them are wont to do. They are being…

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Reality of Tamil Nadu ‘attacks on migrants’ and how media mainstreamed fake news

The bogey of north Indian migrants “under attack” in Tamil Nadu refuses to die down. The police in Tamil Nadu have filed six cases so far over such rumours and come up with a series of guidelines to quell fake news propagating similar claims.

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NL Baithak: Interact live with Team NL

An independent media platform is important to us. We think this is so for most people who value democracy and freedom of speech. It is with this belief that we launched the Newslaundry experiment of Pay To Keep News Free in 2014.

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‘If reality, she would have told reporters’: Why Hathras verdict set aside victim’s dying declaration

“If in reality, the incident was caused by those four persons and the victim had been raped, then she would have told the reporters about the accused as well as the rape.”

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IPL betting scam: Zee Media moves Madras HC against answering ‘17 questions’ raised by Dhoni

Zee Media yesterday filed an appeal in the Madras High Court asking it to set aside an order directing it to answer interrogatories raised by cricketer MS Dhoni in connection with a defamation suit he filed against Zee nine years ago.

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‘Would’ve never rented house if I knew it was a crime’: UP journalist’s property razed in Atiq crackdown

Bulldozers were back in the news cycle last week with the Yogi Adityanath government’s crackdown on gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his aides, who have been accused of killing a witness in a 2005 murder case.

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‘You can’t woo voters using only polarisation’: Why BJP lost its strongest constituency in old Pune

Once upon a time, Kasba Peth was a BJP bastion in the heart of Pune, a traditional stronghold held by the saffron party for nearly 30 years.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 261: India’s foreign correspondents, Sisodia’s arrest

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit and Ashwine Kumar Singh.

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‘This is an open secret’: In Haryana, ‘sewermen’ are forced to enter manholes and clean sewage

In September last year, Ravi, 32, climbed into a manhole on Jhind road in Haryana’s Rohtak district. Employed by a contractor at the state’s public health engineering department, he was tasked with unblocking a sewer line.

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Cartoon: Court conundrums

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Is Haryana undercounting deaths while cleaning septic tanks?

On December 13 last year, the union government told the Lok Sabha that 48 people died in 2022 due to “accidents while undertaking hazardous cleaning of sewer and septic tanks”.

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Restricting govt role in EC appointments, SC points to ‘partisan media’

A large section of the media has "abdicated its role and become partisan", observed the Supreme Court on Thursday while passing a landmark verdict restricting the government’s powers to appoint the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners.

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Men chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ vandalise Christian stall at Delhi Book Fair

Chaos unfolded at the New Delhi World Book Fair in Pragati Maidan today when a group of over 30 people attacked a stall belonging to Gideons International, a Christian non-profit.

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NBDSA tells Zee to run tickers on selective data, Times Now to take down ‘Pak slogan’ telecast

Noting that a Zee News broadcast on population growth had “disproportionately focused only on one community, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has asked the channel to air the authority’s observations through 24 hourly tickers between March 6 and March 7.

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‘Even murderers get lawyers’: Law intern jailed in MP ‘can’t get lawyer’ for bail

“Whenever I go to meet her in jail, she asks if I have arranged a lawyer for her bail…she keeps crying and is concerned whether she will even be able to appear for her upcoming exams…even murderers get lawyers to fight their case but my little sister is languishing in…

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‘Milestone to ensure internet is safe’: Government launches Grievance Appellate Committee

The Grievance Appellate Committee portal was officially launched today by the union ministry of electronics and information technology under the IT Rules. This mechanism can be approached by users dissatisfied with decisions made by grievance officers of social media companies and other intermediaries.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 260: India’s ‘living dead’, slash in minority affairs budget

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Sumedha Mittal of Newslaundry and Pallavi Pundir, South Asia correspondent for Vice.

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Hafta letters: Modi’s Rajya Sabha speech, Tipu’s rockets, Manisha’s sound effects

One of the biggest misdeeds of this government is encouraging or not acting on the lynchings that are happening more frequently. Everything else seems bearable, but this one is just hitting it hard, the number of families losing their loved ones for no reason. It's becoming impossible to follow the…

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