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From Okhla to Badarpur: 5 Delhi seats that lost over 40% of their 2025 electorate

The draft roll as part of the Special Intensive Revision exercise is out for Delhi. Of 1,45,10,299 electors, 47,56,722 are currently out – nearly...

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

What does a 13% rainfall deficit mean for India’s kharif crop?

The threat of a strong El Niño still looming, rainfall in this year’s monsoon season varied by the month. June was one of the driest in...

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Tanvi Deshpande

‘Restlessness, and a kind of helplessness’: Families search for Indians missing after Nepal flood

In Mumbai, Sonal keeps opening WhatsApp to look at her sister’s last-seen status. Chetna Gupta, 64, had left the city on August 23 for the...

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Khushi Jaiswal

Uttarakhand SIR: The unsolved mystery of BJP agents’ ‘forged’ objections against Muslim voters

In Uttarakhand’s Jhabrera constituency, 35 people listed as applicants in 1,657 objections to the draft electoral roll say they never filed them and...

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

‘Environment of FIRs harmful for India’: ABP journalist booked after report on Pune college

“Such an environment of FIRs against journalists is wrong for them and not just them but for the country. It is harmful,” says ABP Majha...

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Khushi Mehrotra

Jharkhand’s exam trap: A generation lost waiting for jobs in the land of minerals

Jharkhand’s exam trap: A generation lost waiting for jobs in the land of minerals

Jharkhand is rich in natural resources, but thousands of its young people are spending years preparing for government jobs. In Ranchi, many cram into...

27.08.2026 20

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Anmol Pritam

Why India’s Millennium City has a recurring monsoon crisis

Gurugram’s waterlogging is no longer an annual surprise. Every year, heavy rain leaves roads, lanes and residential areas submerged, triggering a...

27.08.2026 20

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Akankhya Rout

More than 1,300 are missing in Nepal and Tibet after catastrophic floods caused by glacial collapse

Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud...

27.08.2026 7

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Niranjan Shrestha

A bigger flu season: In Delhi, H1N1 cases nearly 8 times last year’s count

For many Delhi residents, illness begins this time of the year with symptoms easy to dismiss as seasonal sickness: a cough that refuses to go away, a...

26.08.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

‘He could’ve been saved’: Minor’s body found 3 days after he fell in Delhi drain chasing a kite

A JCB excavator pulled Mithun’s body out of an open drain in Southeast Delhi’s Jasola village at around 1.15 pm on Tuesday. He was 15. He had...

25.08.2026 20

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Suhasini Biswas

A year after Israeli strikes killed journalists at a hospital, no one has been held accountable

It’s been a year since Israeli soldiers killed 22 Palestinians, including journalists and rescue workers, in a double strike on a hospital in Gaza....

25.08.2026 10

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Sam Mednick

Jaipur Dialogues – a platform that doxxed 15-year-old protestor – has BJP ties

In late July 2026, an online storm upended the life of a 15-year-old girl. The teenager had joined the student demonstrations that forced the former...

24.08.2026 20

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Abir Dasgupta

Years after NEP spoke of digital literacy, 3 of 4 govt schools still don’t have a functional desktop

In May 2020, as India was preparing to overhaul its education policy, the Narendra Modi government held a review meeting on education that placed...

24.08.2026 9

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Ashish Anand

BJP promises ‘positive content’. Its new social media team’s record tells another story

Days after taking charge as the BJP’s national social media convenor, Deepak Mhaske told a gathering of reporters, “My focus will be to tackle the...

22.08.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

Exclusive: Inside the bulk objections targeting Muslims in Uttarakhand’s SIR

Five men in five Uttarakhand assembly constituencies filed 6,500 objections to strike voters off the rolls in the ongoing special intensive revision....

21.08.2026 20

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

Assam’s ad spend tripled after Himanta became CM. Media group linked to his wife got Rs 20 cr

In five financial years since Himanta Biswa Sarma became chief minister of Assam, his government spent Rs 460.82 crore on media and advertising. In...

21.08.2026 30

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Basant Kumar

Rs 428 crore in, Rs 1 crore out: How Chinese capital and public money vanished into Gurugram’s garbage

In the summer of 2024, a Chinese firm that runs waste-to-energy plants sold its entire Indian business for Rs 1 crore – about the price of a modest...

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Anmol Pritam

Bills passed in 3 minutes, 9 with no LS MPs speaking: Parliament’s growing scrutiny gap

Parliament is increasingly passing Bills after relatively short periods of discussion. Data compiled from sessions between 2024 and 2026 across both...

20.08.2026 10

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Khushi Mehrotra

PM CARES spent just Rs 88 lakh of its Rs 8,452 crore in 2024-25, put 93% in FD

Rs 20,000 annually to every school-going child orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic — this was one of the major promises made by the Union government...

18.08.2026 40

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Jahnavi

The curious case of Delhi’s Zone-O: Demolitions on one side, construction on the other

The Delhi Development Authority and Municipal Corporation of Delhi have repeatedly claimed action against illegal construction in Zone-O, including...

17.08.2026 30

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Avdhesh Kumar

Rs 1.9 cr a day: BJP govt in MP spent more on publicity than on environment or minority depts

Drive through almost any town in Madhya Pradesh and the state government is impossible to avoid. Hoardings at the chowk. Full pages in the morning...

17.08.2026 30

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Prateek Goyal

‘Genuine’ vs ‘political’: The social media campaign pitting Ranchi protests against CJP

As Jharkhand’s student protest against alleged irregularities in the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection...

17.08.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

Why 4 in 10 Indian children go to private schools

Four in 10 Indian schoolchildren were enrolled in private unaided schools in 2025-26, up from 35.4 percent in 2018-19, according to Unified District...

17.08.2026 20

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Vijay Jadhav

‘Shadow ban’ fears at NALSAR after BCI seeks inquiry into CJI invite opposition

Following the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) statement that there would be an inquiry against students enrolled at Hyderabad’s National Academy of...

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Anjana Meenakshi

A day inside a Delhi SIR camp: Forms, confusion and long days

Delhi is currently undergoing the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, with the Election Commission extending the deadline to submit forms...

13.08.2026 20

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Khushi Jaiswal

The crisis after the flood in Assam villages: Lost livestock, missed crop, and wait for aid

When the floodwaters rose around their home in Rajapul on July 19, Bandana Buragohain had no way of getting out on her own. The 70-year-old clung to...

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Sanskrita Bharadwaj

The rise of the ‘teen wife’: When young marriage becomes social media content

“I was 15 and Amal was 21 when we felt a romantic spark. For three years, we continued to be in a relationship, but my parents went to the police...

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Sukanya Shaji

‘Bid to eliminate the messenger’: Social media takedowns leaving users in the dark

Posts by journalists, political parties, activists and media organisations are increasingly being restricted or taken down on platforms such as Meta...

12.08.2026 30

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

Inside Jharkhand’s assembly gherao: Lathicharge, tear gas and conflicting claims

Thousands of students from all districts of Jharkhand marched on the state assembly in Ranchi on Monday, demanding the cancellation of exams conducted...

11.08.2026 20

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Anmol Pritam

Climate change is making humid heat more intense in these Indian cities

Long dry spells this monsoon in some parts of India meant warmer days and nights even in July. Climate change is making the world hotter and more...

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Tanvi Deshpande

Demolishing a varsity, dismantling futures: The story of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University’s fight for survival

“I felt terrible, they were maligning us right in front of us, sitting outside our campus. I was shocked that government teachers were doing this...

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Ankit Jain

Why are job aspirants in Jharkhand angry? JPSC-JSSC protest enters 14th day

The protest by state service aspirants in Jharkhand, alleging irregularities in recruitment examinations, is growing by the day.  Launched on July 25...

07.08.2026 40

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Anmol Pritam

TNM investigation on ONGC funds to Sangh-linked orgs mentioned in JPC on Corporate Laws Bill

The News Minute’s investigation that exposed how 14.7 percent of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation...

07.08.2026 30

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Sachi Hegde

Smokescreens, sneakers, and mass-reporting: Balen’s online machine against Nepal’s press

Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah's asset disclosure, filed after his appointment in accordance with Section 50 of the Prevention of Corruption...

06.08.2026 40

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Dikshya Koirala

Advocate ‘for Hindus’, celeb-commentary influencer: Meet the latest complainants against CJP

Rinki Chatterjee Singh’s account of her own career is a long ledger of cases – ones she has filed, and ones filed against her. An FIR was...

05.08.2026 30

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

Rs 2.3 crore a day, 8 years: Yogi outspends Modi when it comes to ads

Eight years, and more than Rs 2.32 crore a day. That is what the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has spent, on average, publicising itself...

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Basant Kumar

The Raja Singh acquittal pattern: How hate speech cases keep collapsing in court

In August 2022, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi was compelled to appeal for peace. The previous day, hundreds of Muslims had poured out into the streets...

05.08.2026 20

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Anjana Meenakshi

One year after Dharali: The growing cost of building in a fragile Himalaya

A year after the Dharali disaster, the reconstructed road leading to Gangotri has been shifted a few metres away from the banks of the Bhagirathi...

04.08.2026 20

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Hridayesh Joshi

The enigma of BlueKraft: The narrative factory behind Brand Modi

Read the previous instalments of this series here and here. On September 24, 2025, thousands of people were on the streets of Leh demanding statehood...

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Prateek Goyal

‘Feels like career over’: The online campaign to intimidate women part of CJP protest

A BJP MLA posts a video of a bleeding, weeping girl and tells his followers she is being taught a lesson. The video is actually from Varanasi, from a...

03.08.2026 30

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Basant Kumar

‘11-hour days, zero rest’: Delhi’s teachers say they are breaking under SIR duty

“We are not computers or robots that we will do BLO work after teaching hours too,” says Rajat*, a higher secondary teacher in Ambedkar Nagar,...

03.08.2026 30

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Suhasini Biswas

Woman journalist file FIR for assault, molestation during CJP protest coverage

A woman reporter with Times Now was allegedly kicked and struck on the head, and her cameraperson was manhandled, while both were reporting live from...

01.08.2026 30

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Akankhya Rout

An army aspirant, a bystander, a minor: The unanswered bullets of Siwan NEET protest after AK-47 video

Dhiraj Kumar Gond is waiting outside Medanta Hospital in Patna. He is attending to his cousin Bullet Kumar Gond, who was shot at in Siwan during the...

31.07.2026 20

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Pushyamitra

As DU reopens, students decode ‘thinly veiled threats’ and Jantar Mantar protests

There were fewer students than usual in Delhi University’s North Campus this week, as most of those who had joined days earlier were attending their...

30.07.2026 30

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Akankhya Rout

Delhi Police owns the stone-laden truck after NL report. But their lawyer linked it to protesters in HC

After a Newslaundry investigation, Delhi Police have confirmed that the stone-laden truck seen near Jantar Mantar on the morning of the July 20 march...

29.07.2026 40

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Nl Team

Eyes wide shut: On July 20, ANI didn’t share a single X post on students injured in Delhi

For decades, Asian News International (ANI) has occupied a near-monopoly in India’s television news ecosystem. With a business reportedly worth...

29.07.2026 40

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Shinjinee Majumder

Rekha Gupta govt spent Rs 1.83 crore from tourism funds on DU’s Bhajan Clubbing

The Delhi government’s tourism department spent Rs 1.83 crore on eight Bhajan Clubbing events organised across Delhi University colleges in...

29.07.2026 30

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Samarth Grover

As cops target ‘offensive’ posts, Jantar Mantar reportage and reels are disappearing

On July 26, hours after the Cockroach Janta Party called off its 36-day agitation, journalist Yaqut Ali uploaded an interview with Vijeta Dahiya, the...

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Akankhya Rout

July 20 crackdown: One DCP approved pellets, another authorised firearms

A document seen by Newslaundry shows that a Deputy Commissioner of Police, acting with the powers of an Executive Magistrate, authorised the Rapid...

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July 20 Crackdown: One Dcp Approved Pellets

From accident to malkhana to protest site: Tracing the mysterious stone-laden truck

At 8 am on July 20, as the Cockroach Janta Party assembled at Jantar Mantar, its workers pointed to a truck loaded with stones on the road linking...

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Avdhesh Kumar