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Bombay archbishop among 3 pastors booked in POCSO case

After several police complaints, a family’s months-long ordeal, and intervention by the country’s top human rights panel, three priests have finally been booked in a case filed in Pune under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The main accused remains absconding while two prominent priests have been accused…

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‘Stopped going to cops’: Delhi riots victim struggles to keep up pursuit of justice

Photographed wearing a blood-spattered kurta, his face scalded by acid, Mohammed Vakil Mansoori’s was one of the pictures that captured the brutalities of the 2020 Delhi carnage.

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Impolite Conversations: Lessons from the Emergency

On September 10, Newslaundry and the Internet Freedom Foundation hosted FoE Con 2022, a forum that brought together media personalities and leading voices in the legal sphere to map the media and regulatory framework in contemporary India.

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India’s domestic spy agency bought NSO hardware that matches Pegasus specifications

India’s Intelligence Bureau, the country’s main domestic intelligence agency, bought hardware from the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group that matches the description of equipment used elsewhere to deploy the company’s flagship Pegasus software, import documents show.

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Ghaziabad: One arrested after woman ‘gangraped, left tied in gunny bag’

One person has been arrested and four detained after a 38-year-old woman was allegedly abducted and gangraped in Ghaziabad four days ago.

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Expert take: Why was the Wire compelled to pull down its Meta stories?

After insisting for over a week that its reporting supposedly exposing how Meta allowed BJP leaders to censor content on its platforms was solid, the Wire on Tuesday pulled down the work pending a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”.

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Delhi High Court seeks response to Newslaundry’s plea against income tax notices

The Delhi High Court has sought a response on a petition filed by Newslaundry against the reassessment notices issued to it under the Income Tax Act for 2017-2018 and 2019-2020. The reassessment notice was issued on grounds that the assessment of income for these years was not done.

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Daily Dose Ep 1177: Umar Khalid denied bail, SC to hear plea on Bilkis Bano remissions

Jude Weston brings you the news from New Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, the Supreme Court, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom.

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The Wire will ‘suspend’ its Meta stories until it carries out ‘thorough internal review’: Siddharth Varadarajan

After receiving widespread criticism for its coverage of Meta’s XCheck programme, the Wire has decided to “suspend the stories” until it carries out a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”, the portal’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan told Newslaundry.

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‘When media is independent, efforts are made to misuse it to propagate divisive ideas’: Rajnath Singh

Defence minister Rajnath Singh believes the media should be independent, but warns that “efforts are made to misuse it in the name of freedom of expression to establish and propagate dangerous and divisive ideas”.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 241: #BoycottBollywood trend, Delhi education

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Pratyush Deep from Newslaundry and Kritika Goel, deputy editor at the Quint where she leads a fact-checking initiative.

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87 percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top newspapers are men

Eighty-seven percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top English and Hindi newspapers are men.

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Hafta 402: You ask, we answer – a special feedback episode

This week on NL Hafta, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel with Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Mehraj D Lone and Jayashree Arunachalam.

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‘Narrative terrorism’: Chargesheet filed against Kashmir Walla editor, PhD scholar over 11-year-old article

Earlier this week, the Jammu and Kashmir state investigation agency filed a chargesheet against the Kashmir Walla editor Fahad Shah and research scholar Abdul Aala Fazili in a case of “narrative terrorism” – a report filed by Fazili for Shah’s website 11 years ago.

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In 2019, Indian media had zero SC or ST journalists in leadership roles. In 2022, it’s still zero

In 2019, there were zero journalists from SC or ST backgrounds in leadership positions in India’s mainstream media newsrooms, spanning print, broadcast and digital.

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Why a channel reporting the Delhi excise ‘scam’ became the news

Amid a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in Delhi’s liquor policy, Aam Aadmi Party leaders’ alleged links to the case, the crores of rupees involved, and multiple raids across the country have thrown up several media reports. But one particular media outfit has gone from reporting on the alleged scam…

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Explained: What’s the Wire vs Meta fight all about?

This week, the Wire published a damning report about the content moderation policies of Meta, the social media behemoth that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Meta, which has misled about how it functions and moderates content before, replied saying the news report was misleading at best and fabricated at worst.…

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Daily Dose Ep 1175: Split verdict in hijab case, Uddhav camp writes to EC

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from the Supreme Court, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Chhattisgarh, and Ukraine.

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Sundar Nagri murder: Does BJP leader’s call for Muslim boycott have any takers?

On October 9, BJP parliamentarian Parvesh Verma called for a “total boycott” of Muslims because, he declared, they were trying to turn Delhi into a “mini Pakistan”.

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Daily Dose Ep 1174: Kerala CM objects to ‘Hindi imposition’, Navy plane crashes

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from the Supreme Court, Kerala, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Goa, and Myanmar.

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From bow and arrow to torch: Will a new symbol impact Uddhav Thackeray’s chances in Andheri bypoll?

After the Shiv Sena was formed in 1966, it took 23 years for the party to be allotted its now iconic bow and arrow symbol. Now, 33 years later, that symbol is lost to the party, its use barred until the two rival factions of the party sort themselves out.

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Daily Dose Ep 1173: DY Chandrachud nominated for CJI, Mulayam Singh Yadav cremated

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court, West Bengal, and Ukraine.

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Kharge vs Tharoor: Inside the campaign to elect the new Congress president

“Hello sir, I am calling from Shashi Tharoor sir’s office. You know elections are coming and both Kharge and Tharoor sahib are the choice of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi ji,” a canvasser for Shashi Tharoor solicits the support of a Congress delegate from Amethi. “Please vote carefully.”

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‘Drunk on money and power’: What drove Ankita Bhandari's alleged killer Pulkit Arya?

In 2007, when the Akshay Kumar film Bhool Bhulaiyaa released, protests broke out in pockets of the country. In Mumbai, a case was filed against the movie over a song that allegedly “hurt religious sentiments”. In Haridwar, members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the RSS,…

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Daily Dose Ep 1172: Mulayam Singh Yadav dies, Delhi Commission for Women on Sajid Khan

Tanishka Sodhi brings you the news from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Sweden and Ukraine.

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