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17 years of exile: Chhattisgarh’s displaced Adivasis lack basic rights in AP and Telangana

Madkam Sambhu* was 18 years old when the Salwa Judum’s reign of terror began in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar. Sambhu was in Class 12, staying in a government hostel for Adivasi students in Bijapur since his village, Sawnad, was located far away, 15 km deep within the forest.

Newslaundry · Jan 11, 2023

‘Bid to wage civil war’: Why a former BBC journalist moved SC over hate speech

It was 1978. Kuldip Nayar, then an editor at the Indian Express, had written an editorial on the army regime in Pakistan after a trip to the neighbouring country. A boy based in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh shot him a critical letter.

Newslaundry · Jan 11, 2023

Four years, Rs 6,900 crore, and a ‘marginal’ improvement in India’s air pollution: New study

After four years and spending nearly Rs 6,900 crore, there’s been a “marginal” improvement in India’s top 10 most polluted cities – but pollution continues to breach “safe limits”.

Newslaundry · Jan 10, 2023

Cartoon: From lab to land

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…

Newslaundry · Jan 6, 2023

‘Why teach Urdu to children studying Sanskrit?’: On the ground in Bareilly over Iqbal poem row

Two weeks after he filed a police complaint against a school for trying to “convert” students because they recited a poem by a Muslim poet, Sompal Rathore is pleased with how events unfolded.

Newslaundry · Jan 6, 2023

Why Assam delimitation has sparked fears amid politics of the ‘indigenous’

The Election Commission’s delimitation exercise, and the Assam government’s decision to merge four districts and redraw administrative boundaries in 14 areas, have sparked fresh concerns among Bengali-origin Muslims. The fear is that these decisions will have an adverse impact on the electoral influence of the community in around 35 assembly…

Newslaundry · Jan 6, 2023

‘Local nuisance’, Gramin Sewa driver, barber: Meet the 5 suspects in the Delhi hit-and-run case

There is a lock on Deepak Khanna’s house in Mangolpuri since a 20-year-old woman died – after a car allegedly driven by him dragged her for several kilometres – in Delhi’s Sultanpuri on the first day of the new year. The 26-year-old’s neighbours don’t know much about him, except that…

Newslaundry · Jan 6, 2023

At NDTV meet after Adani takeover, staff queries on editorial freedom, BJP leaders on shows

In a town hall meeting held days after the Adani takeover of NDTV, the network’s new leadership on Wednesday addressed questions by staff about the news organisation’s editorial freedom, salaries, expansion, and BJP spokespersons on shows.

Newslaundry · Jan 4, 2023

Could India’s new data protection bill force journalists to reveal their sources?

Before the Panama Papers were published in 2016, what if the Indian Express had been hauled before a data protection board for violating the privacy of those who held accounts in tax havens?

Newslaundry · Jan 4, 2023

Rs 2,500 crore scheme approved for ‘infrastructure development’ at Doordarshan, All India Radio

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the information and broadcasting ministry’s proposal to spend over Rs 2,500 crore on “infrastructure development” at Prasar Bharati – specifically All India Radio and Doordarshan. A press release, which called it a “major boost for public broadcasting”, detailed an outlay of Rs…

Newslaundry · Jan 4, 2023