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Hafta 394: Release of Bilkis Bano's rapists, stabbing of Salman Rushdie, Rohingya refugees

This week on NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Mehraj D Lone of Newslaundry are joined by Mahesh Langa, senior assistant editor of the Hindu.

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TV Newsance 183: Anupam Kher’s Nehru bashing on News18, injustice to Bilkis Bano

This week, we look at Network 18’s Independence Day special programme that tracked the history of India through the speeches of its prime ministers from 1947 to 2022. In a one-hour show, the host, Anupam Kher, spent about seven minutes on Jawaharlal Nehru and 15 minutes or so on Narendra…

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‘Not paid news’: New York Times denies BJP’s claim that AAP paid for frontpage story

A day after the New York Times published a frontpage story on the Aam Aadmi Party’s efforts to improve Delhi’s education system, the American newspaper clarified on Friday that the story was based on impartial on-ground reporting and was not an advertisement or paid for in any way, according to…

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Daily Dose Ep 1128: CBI raids Sisodia, China agrees to MEA remarks

Tanishka Sodhi brings you the news from Delhi, Bihar, Kerala and Tripura.

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'Publications now carry government's pictures': Press Club event looks at what ails photojournalism

On the first floor of the Press Club of India, in the corridor outside the conference room, a group of photojournalists were smoking cigarettes on Friday afternoon. “These men are stuck in a world that has long passed,” said one of them, carefully balancing a filter and tobacco on a…

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Cartoon: Justice!

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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How Ramdev’s Patanjali took control of Dalit lands in Haridwar

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Facebook photos are ‘provocative’? How a Kerala court shamed a complainant against Civic Chandran

Earlier today, there were multiple news reports, tweets and posts on how a Kerala court said a sexual harassment complaint “will not prima facie stand when woman was wearing sexually provocative dress”.

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Daily Dose Ep 1126: CAA protests set to restart in Northeast, HC on AIADMK tussle

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from the North East, New Delhi, Madras High Court, and South Korea.

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Daily Dose Ep 1125: Nitish Kumar expands ministry, Gujarat frees Bilkis Bano’s rapists

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Kashmir, and the United States.

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Daily Dose Ep 1124: Sameer Wankhede gets clean chit, Unnao rape victim seeks relief

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, New Delhi, and the US.

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Gompad massacre: A Chhattisgarh village waits for justice 13 years on

In the early hours of October 1, 2009, villagers in Chhattisgarh’s Gompad woke to the loud sound of firing. Terrified, they ran into the surrounding jungle, seeking refuge.

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From Ramkishan Yadav to Swami Ramdev, through enterprise and ‘nepotism’

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 232: Shivraj Chouhan’s bulldozers, Arvind Kejriwal’s ads

Basant Kumar is joined for this episode by fellow Newslaundry reporter Prateek Goyal.

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TV Newsance 182: How to make a Deshbhaktiwalla show

Indian TV news channels perform two primary functions. They tell you how “anti-national” people they don’t like are, and they tell you how nationalist they themselves are. Entire shows are devoted to the rashtra.

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Daily Dose Ep 1122: Jagdeep Dhankhar is new vice president, SC speaks on ‘freebies’

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from New Delhi, the Supreme Court, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Crimea.

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What’s fuelling Shivraj Chouhan’s journey from ‘Mamaji’ to ‘Bulldozer Mama’?

In March, Shivraj Singh Chouhan arrived at BJP legislator Rameshwar Sharma’s house in Bhopal for a function celebrating the completion of two years of his fourth term as Madhya Pradesh’s chief minister. He was greeted by a parade of over a dozen bulldozers decked out with posters championing the chief…

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Daily Dose Ep 1120: New cabinet in Maharashtra, Nitish Kumar breaks BJP alliance

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from Maharashtra, Bihar, New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Taiwan.

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Delhi’s liquor policy woes: Courtroom drama tells the other side of the story

Eight months after the Delhi government launched its Excise Policy 2021-22, it’s failed to achieve any of its targets. The policy – rolled out with much fanfare on November 17 – aimed to increase government revenue, promote consumer choice, prevent monopoly on liquor sale, and provide for equitable distribution of…

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A deaf-mute Delhi girl is brutally raped. Then she vanishes without a trace

“She is not a number, you know? She is a person, in flesh and blood,” Radha, 70, said. She was talking about her granddaughter Divya, who has been missing for the past two months.

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Daily Dose Ep 1118: MPs vote for new vice president, Israel bombards Gaza

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, and Palestine.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 231: Ranveer Singh’s nude photoshoot, Subhash Chandra’s Rajya Sabha sojourn

In this episode, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Newslaundry reporter Tanishka Sodhi and writer and journalist Aishwarya Subramanyam.

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India’s military battles to contain the damage as sexpionage ‘spreads like a pandemic’

In July 2021, as rains lashed Secunderabad, Telangana, a bored Major K opened his Facebook. The infantry officer serving his peace posting at the city’s military station was greeted by a message from Prisha Agrawal. He didn’t know her but was intrigued and promptly got chatting. Prisha said she was…

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Daily Dose Ep 1117: Reserve Bank hikes interest rates, spurious liquor kills 9 in Bihar

Jude Weston brings you the news from New Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, the United States of America, and China.

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Bulldozer terror: Shivraj Chouhan’s war on ‘crime’ leaves ordinary lives in ruin

Addressing a public function in Hoshangabad in December 2020, Shivraj Singh Chouhan declared that he “will wipe out criminals from Madhya Pradesh and bury them 10 feet under”. It was the sort of stock speech that the chief minister would have been expected to deliver on “Good Governance Day”.

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