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In this episode, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh.

“I am not a criminal…I have simply done my job,” said the Caravan journalist Shahid Tantray, who went off social media on the day the magazine put out a detailed statement alleging that he and his family were being harassed and threatened by the police after his reports on the…

On the first day of June, the world learnt that Subhash Chandra belonged to Rajasthan. The Times of India that day quoted the Essel group chairman calling it his “native” state. The backdrop was political. Chandra’s revelation came after he filed his nomination for Rajya Sabha as an independent candidate…

Last November, in an interview with Newslaundry, data scientist and former Facebook employee Sophie Zhang described the social media company’s reluctance to act against fake accounts in India.

Nupur Sharma’s political career was arguably a whimper but it was certainly paused with a bang. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s national spokesperson was suspended on Sunday for making denigrating remarks against Prophet Muhammad on Times Now in May. Her colleague Naveen Jindal was expelled for similar antics. The BJP’s decision…

In an interview with Zee Punjabi in 2021, the singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, better known by his stage name Sidhu Moosewala, said if he had one superpower he would “cure all cancer patients”.

Surrounded by a group of people under the solitary tree in his large agricultural field, Sandeep Singh, 28, sat staring at a platform a few metres away, in Moosa village of Punjab’s Mansa district – with a poster of his friend Sidhu Moosewala, and the words “Miss you Ustad”.

Three years since its launch, the national clean air programme – aimed at reducing particulate matter levels in 102 cities – is way behind its targets with two years left for the deadline.

On May 30, around 50 journalists gathered in the oppressive summer heat at the Chennai Press Club’s premises in Chepauk, shouting slogans.