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TV Newsance 200: #RTVToadies makes a comeback

RTV Toadies makes a comeback. The three judges are back with a new set of tasks. What does it take to be a primetime toady? Watch to find out. We also look at why we started TV Newsance and our journey so far. TV news is one of the most…

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Cartoon: The bubble bursts

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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SC notice to Modi govt over BBC documentary ban

The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Narendra Modi government over petitions challenging the move to block the controversial BBC documentary titled India: The Modi Question. The court has sought original records pertaining to the government decision and will now hear the matter in April, Live Law…

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Nidhi Razdan quits NDTV, 3 days after Sreenivasan Jain’s exit

Nidhi Razdan has resigned as the executive editor of NDTV, three days after her colleague Sreenivasan Jain announced that his three-decade journey with the channel had come to an end.

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SC to hear plea against Modi documentary ban next week; BBC says film ‘rigorously researched’

As the controversy over a ban on a controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi grows, the Supreme Court is set to hear petitions challenging the government move on February 6.

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How officials turned blind eye to SC panel directives before Anjali murder case

“There is absolutely no security arrangement. You know how much the Delhi Police are active after this case made headlines,” said a friend of Anjali Singh.

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After ABVP poster, 3 channels falsely accuse a Newslaundry reporter of JNU stone-pelting

A day after an attempted screening of the BBC documentary on the JNU campus was followed by a power cut, stone-pelting, and a war of words between Left-affiliated student outfits and the ABVP, certain media channels amplified a poster released by a member of the latter, blaming 16 people for…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 256: Wrestlers’ protest against WFI chief, Delhi Mayor election

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Tanishka Sodhi and Basant Kumar.

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Days after Hindenburg report, leading newspapers carry front page ads for Adani

Two days after the story broke about a New York-based Hindenburg Research’s report placing Adani group in the dock for “brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud”, leading newspapers carried front page ads from the group.

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Hafta letters: Past NL content, questions on NL Sena, Abhinandan’s critics

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Adani vs Hindenburg is front-page news, but what about Adani-owned media houses?

If you’ve invested in a company associated with the Adani group, you’re probably watching the stock market like a hawk. For the second day running, share prices of nine listed companies of the group have tanked, with the group losing nearly Rs 4 lakh crore in market capitalisation.

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Cartoon: Skeletons in the closet

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Day after JNU chaos, BBC’s Modi documentary screening cancelled at Jamia, students detained

A screening of the BBC documentary on the Gujarat riots was cancelled on the Jamia Millia Islamia campus after the university administration allegedly refused permission to student groups, led by the SFI and NSUI, on Wednesday. At least eight students were detained in view of the screening, students told Newslaundry.…

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Slogans, aggression, protests: How the ruckus during Delhi’s mayor election unfolded

Scheduled to take place on January 24, Delhi’s mayor election is postponed – again. Soon after the newly-elected councillors took oath at MCD House, unruly scenes unfolded both inside and outside.

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67 journalists killed in 2022, 50 percent more than 2021: CPJ report

2022 was a “deadly” year for the media with at least 67 journalists and media workers killed, according to a report published yesterday by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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‘No jobs these days…seemed like a good deal’: How over 300 were duped in ‘Prasar Bharati job scam’

“We have heard so much about frauds, but never thought it would happen to us. There is no employment these days and this seemed like a good package. But we were made fools,” said Dilshad Ahmed, a 30-year-old, who is among 300 people allegedly duped through a job recruitment scam.

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PIB on ‘fake news’: Govt to hold ‘separate consultation’ next month, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar

A week after proposing that the Press Information Bureau will be the arbiter of “fake news” in India, the government has said it will first hold a “separate consultation” before the proposal is implemented.

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‘Can the CM live in this house for two days?’: How Uttarakhand’s villages were sacrificed for dams

“Son, we have become homeless. This house is falling apart,” said Asharfi Devi, 70. “My grandchildren have moved into a rented house. The government should do something now. What will they do when we’re buried up here?”

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‘Baahubali’, braggart, all-round bigwig: Why WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh thinks he’s above the law

In the ongoing protest by women wrestlers, one name has consistently popped up as being responsible – Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, 66, the president of the Wrestling Federation of India.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 255: Reality of boycott posters, Hindu migration reports

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit and Main Media founder Tanzil Asif.

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TV Newsance 199: How Modi won 2024 General Elections in 2023

This week, we look at how channels gave PM Modi’s 1-km-long roadshow in Delhi breathless coverage. We were told about the PM’s “personal connect” with BJP karyakartas, his “vishwaguru” status, and how Rahul Gandhi’s T-shirt simply fails in comparison with Modi magic. We look at how opposition leaders such as…

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‘How dare you chat with a Hindu girl?’: In MP, vigilantes work overtime to get Muslim men arrested

On January 18, hours after a video went viral, showing a college student being thrashed by a group of people in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, the police arrested six people and filed a case in the matter.

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Cartoon: Calling in favours

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Do Indians trust Doordarshan more than private channels? A chat with Lokniti-CSDS on news and more

“There might be a fatigue with news in the future,” says Vibha Attri of the Lokniti-Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. “One does notice a gradual decline in the consumption of traditional media over the years. We do see a decline if we compare 2014 and 2022 in the…

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WFI’s ‘sexual harassment panel’ flouts POSH Act, headed by a man instead of a woman

With India’s top wrestlers mounting pressure on BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to resign as the Wrestling Federation of India president over sexual harassment allegations, a closer look at the federation’s committee to deal with such complaints suggests a violation of several norms.

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