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Delhi has spent Rs 250 crore to remove its trash hills. Why are they still standing tall?

Over the last three years, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has spent a whopping Rs 275 crore to flatten the three landfills in Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla, but their height has remained almost unchanged during this period, according to data provided by several government agencies to the National Green Tribunal.

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After grand launch in August, grand exits follow at Bharat24

The dreamers at Bharat24 are waking up. The news channel, which launched in August this year, is now facing high-profile exits.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 247: Gujarat elections, Republic TV land deal

This week, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel as Akanksha Kumar is joined by Basant Kumar and Ayush Tiwari.

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Kochi’s Swiggy strike: Another chapter in the continuing struggle of gig workers

It’s been 11 days since 5,000 Swiggy employees went on strike in Kerala’s Kochi demanding higher remuneration and labour benefits. Even as negotiations orchestrated by the district labour officials broke down, the online delivery platform insisted that it gives its workers “consistent and reliable income opportunities”.

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Cartoon: Time is relative

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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India Today says BJP ‘doesn’t come’ for TV panels in Gujarat if AAP is invited too

Allegations of the BJP boycotting the media for inviting an Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson have surfaced again. This time on India Today TV, on its election show titled State Of War.

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Why Zee Media won’t let Palki Sharma Upadhyay join Network18

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to restrain former WION editor Palki Sharma Upadhyay from joining Network18. The anchor was taken to court by her previous employer, Zee Media Corporation Limited.

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Hidden from Trump in 2020, this Ahmedabad slum is still waiting for development

Nearly two years ago, with much fanfare, Donald Trump was driven through the streets of Ahmedabad. With Narendra Modi by his side, he attended a rally dubbed “Namaste Trump” on February 4, 2020.

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One meeting, two retellings: India and US viewed the Modi-Biden interaction at G20 very differently

It was one interaction during the G20 summit in Bali last week, but it spawned two very different recollections of what happened.

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Swaraj on Doordarshan: Over Rs 50 crore spent, but who’s watching?

It was launched by Amit Shah, widely promoted by Narendra Modi, and produced with an estimated budget of over Rs 50 crore.

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No compensation two months after sewer deaths in Delhi

Two months after two men died while cleaning a sewer line in Delhi’s Bakkarwala, the compensation due to their families is held up as different government entities squabble in court.

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Transgender rights: Arya Pujari’s four-year battle to apply for a police recruitment exam

Arya Pujari’s life so far has been punctuated by trauma. She was bullied at school, escaped sexual assault as a teenager, and humiliated by passersby due to her identity as a transgender woman.

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Delhi riots: Behind many acquittals, absence of diary entry, eyewitnesses and ‘sudden’ identifications

The aftermath of the 2020 Delhi violence left few eyewitnesses and weak police investigations as many victims, who fled for their lives, failed to identify the culprits, while police ostensibly remained too busy to maintain diary entries as they tried to contain the mobs. This was the pattern in most…

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Days after alleged militant threat to journalists, J&K cops search journalists’ homes

Days after lodging an FIR over a suspected militant threat to nearly 20 journalists in Kashmir, police searched the houses of several journalists on Saturday.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 246: Pollution, stubble burning, Bharat Jodo Yatra

This week, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel as Ayush Tiwari is joined by Tanishka Sodhi and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.

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TV Newsance 193: Mehrauli murder case and its sansani reporting

While the Mehrauli murder case gripped the airwaves, ridiculous conspiracy theories and theatrics were in full supply as channels tried to one-up each other. Rubika had a forensics team help her understand the case even as Arnab was busy assisting the investigators himself. Reporters scoured the jungle for masala while…

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Interfaith wedding function cancelled after Suresh Chavhanke’s ‘love jihad’ tweet

Two families in Maharashtra’s Vasai cancelled a wedding function after Suresh Chavhanke, editor and managing director of Sudarshan News TV channel, tweeted out a picture of the invitation alleging “love jihad”.

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NL Playoffs Ep 31: T20 World Cup, FIFA World Cup, Sao Paulo F1

Newslaundry subscribers Aniketh Kalur and Gowtham Kode are joined by sports journalist Sharda Ugra to discuss the recently concluded T20 World Cup, the impending FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar, and Formula One.

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Cartoon: A walk in the park?

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WhatsApp head, public policy director in India quit as Meta churn continues

Days after Ajit Mohan, the vice president and managing director of Meta India, announced his departure from the company, Meta India has confirmed the resignations of two other senior executives. Abhijit “Bobby” Bose, the head of WhatsApp India, and Rajiv Aggarwal, the public policy director of Meta India, have resigned…

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Gujarat election: Out on bail, 2002 convict campaigns for BJP candidate daughter

In Gujarat’s Naroda constituency, a TV journalist from Delhi tutors BJP candidate Payal Kukrani on how to dodge questions about her father by sticking to the development plank and highlighting her medical education.

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TMR 2022: Where is India's relationship with the US at after 75 years?

What are the areas of cooperation between India and the US? What are the areas where cooperation, even negotiation, has been rather difficult? How has the India-US relationship evolved in the last three quarters of a century? What’s its future? How might India’s position on the Ukraine war affect it?…

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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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Punjab’s farmers are burning less stubble. Thanks to super seeders

Standing in his half-burned field, Gurmeet Singh, a paddy farmer in Sangrur’s Sibiya village, acknowledged a gradual change. “We only burn loose straw, not standing stalks,” he said. Gurmeet cultivates 30 acres of leased land and this is the second year in a row when he has only partially burned…

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I&B ministry consults with news broadcasters over content of ‘national importance’

The Narendra Modi government is consulting with news broadcasters over the nitty gritties of the newly mandated compulsory slot for airing content of “national importance”.

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