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Chhattisgarh govt spent Rs 1.3 crore a day on publicity; Rs 1,095 crore in just over 2 years

The BJP government in Chhattisgarh, where schools still force children to study under the open sky and where many areas continue to lack basic...

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Akankhya Rout

The Bollywood pracharaks who found their place in Modi’s orbit

Read the first part of this series here. On the evening of September 21, 2025, as Bollywood celebrities arrived at Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani...

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Prateek Goyal

In Bengaluru and Hyderabad, BLOs point to crushing workload, physical exhaustion

Parveen Begum puts her pen down and drops her writing pad onto the table in front of her. “Please give me a couple of minutes, my hand hurts,” she...

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Anjana Meenakshi

An Adivasi struggle, a false case, and brutal torture: The story of KK Surendran

After more than two decades of legal battles, KK Surendran, a victim of custodial torture in Muthanga of Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad, has received a...

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Haritha Manav

More grain, less protein behind India’s rising obesity

A decade ago, in March 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi first mentioned obesity in his 18th Mann Ki Baat address. Since then, Modi has spoken...

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Vijay Jadhav

‘Where do we go?’: Jadavpur’s railway hawkers live in fear of the next bulldozer

“Where do we go?” asks Saraswati Naiya, who has spent the last 35 years selling fritters from a small stall on Jadavpur’s railway platform for...

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Chenab Guha

‘No notice, no response sheets’: Disquiet among foreign medical grads over ‘opaque’ licensing exam

When the results of the June 2026 Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) were declared earlier this week, many headlines focused on one...

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Samarth Grover

How the Union government helped Isha Foundation win a case against the Tamil Nadu Pollution Board

“Listen man…listen to me, every law that is there in the country has been followed. If there is any discrepancy, we fixed it. Long time ago, 20...

13.07.2026 20

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Akshay Deshmane

‘The film will make you Rs 100 cr, look at Kashmir Files’: Inside the quiet capture of Bollywood

His social media reads like a saffron scrapbook. A picture with Yogi Adityanath. A Modi birthday wish. His new film marks the Sangh centenary. His...

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Prateek Goyal

40 hours on, 8 workers trapped: Garbage heap collapses at Pune plant inaugurated by Modi in 2023

More than 40 hours after a towering garbage heap at Pune’s Moshi waste-to-energy plant buried the administrative building of the company operating...

10.07.2026 20

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Prateek Goyal

When PSUs, fertiliser shops, and flour mills became Uttarakhand’s ‘investors’ after global summit

Inaugurating the Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit on December 8, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the state a “new hub for...

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Basant Kumar

Pilot dreams, few fire exits: Delhi’s private aviation training hubs flout safety norms

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has given coaching institutes one month to fix fire safety or face action. But a ground visit to the city’s...

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Akankhya Rout

Mob attack, broken official promises, then boycott: Life for 11 Muslim families in Maharashtra village

For several weeks now, some Muslim-owned shops in Aarla have opened to empty streets, say their owners. Longtime customers have stopped coming. At...

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Prateek Goyal

One of Kerala’s lowest paid professionals: The private school teacher

Kerala has long been known for offering the country’s highest wages for manual labour, attracting lakhs of interstate migrant workers every year. A...

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Haritha John

‘Pakistani’ flag claim, contested DDA park: Anatomy of the Sagarpur communal violence

In East Sagarpur, southwest Delhi, a narrow lane has become a widening fault line. On one side of Gali No. 8 sits a largely Muslim-populated jhuggi;...

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Akankhya Rout

Accused of ‘Marxist ideology’: Inside UP Police’s Noida protest conspiracy case

Over two months after Noida’s industrial belt witnessed violent protests, the Uttar Pradesh police have now filed chargesheets in four FIRs – 163,...

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Samarth Grover

Why C-Section deliveries are rising in India

More than a quarter of India’s births now happen through Caesarean-section (C-section) deliveries, driven primarily by high rates of surgical...

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Prachi Salve

Who owns your hospitals? Private equity’s growing grip on Kerala’s healthcare

When Chazhikattu Hospital was set up in Thodupuzha municipality in Idukki district in 1933, health facilities were rare in the area. What began as a...

04.07.2026 20

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Jisha Surya

Killer cough syrups, zero accountability: Investigating three pharma companies

When the news of over 22 child deaths due to contaminated cough syrups came out of Madhya Pradesh in October 2025, there was shock and frustration....

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Prateek Goyal

The making of Champat Rai: From trusted organiser to Ayodhya’s most controversial figure

In 1990, when L K Advani set out on his Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya, the journey didn’t survive contact with Bihar – Lalu Yadav’s...

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Basant Kumar

As BJP govt ads celebrate Ujjwala, beneficiaries count costlier cylinders

This month, LED hoardings inside several metro stations across Delhi show PM Narendra Modi on one side, CM Rekha Gupta on the other, and beaming...

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Samagra Thakur

Dubious MoUs, paper investors: The art of adding zeroes to UP’s investment story

In February 2023, an Indian business group signed agreements with the Uttar Pradesh government at its Global Investor Summit to invest an eye-popping...

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Basant Kumar

How Mumbai’s poor waste segregation contributes to methane emission spikes

Earlier this year, Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg landfill—a place that takes in most of the city’s waste—was found to be one of the largest emitters of...

29.06.2026 20

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Tanvi Deshpande

DDA’s bulldozer leaves over 300 families homeless at Delhi’s Yamuna Bazar

Demolition work at Delhi’s Yamuna Bazar ghats began on the morning of June 25. Earlier, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) had issued notices...

27.06.2026 20

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Akankhya Rout

Off the PM’s plane, in a WhatsApp feed: The rewiring of India’s foreign affairs beat

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels abroad, he does so aboard Air India One – a taxpayer-funded Boeing 777-300ER fleet that cost Rs 8,400...

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Samarth Grover

After convicting a lynch mob, a judge becomes communal campaign’s target

Communal slurs. Threats. A campaign centred on a judge’s religious identity. This is how some Hindutva footsoldiers have decided to respond to a...

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Avdhesh Kumar

Delayed rains bring water shortages to cities and uncertainty to farms across India

The late arrival of India’s monsoon season and below-average rainfall have caused problems ranging from planting delays for farmers to water...

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Sibi Arasu

Footfall, food, logistics: Tracking it all in a day at Cockroach Janta Party’s protest

Who is funding the Cockroach Janata Party protest at Jantar Mantar? How many people are actually showing up? And is the movement really dominated by...

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Anmol Pritam

‘Buy a funeral garland’: A gig worker vanishes after the Andhra police picked him up

For weeks, 55-year-old Gade Vijayalakshmi has lived in a state of suspended animation, running from pillar to post, searching police stations and...

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Anjana Meenakshi

How one Indian textile worker copes with extreme heat in factory work and cramped living quarters

Before dawn breaks over the Indian industrial hub of Surat, textile worker Sibaram Pradhan is already awake, sitting on the floor in a cramped room he...

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Sibi Arasu

Delhi’s nights have changed. Its poor can’t sleep

After enduring the blazing heat all day, people return home hoping for some relief at night. But for thousands of families living in Delhi’s JJ...

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Akankhya Rout

‘Water comes once in 3 days’: Gurugram’s forgotten neighbourhoods

“Water comes once every three days, and today I couldn’t even wash clothes because none came,” says Anju Devi, a resident of Dundahera village....

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Suhasini Biswas

The Strait of Hormuz’s future is unsettled even as more ships venture through

Ship traffic has picked up in the Strait of Hormuz since Iran and the U.S. signed an interim deal to end a war that constricted global oil supplies...

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Wyatte Grantham-Philips

Digital platforms complicit in pushing hate-filled Hindutva-pop, finds new CSoH report

A report by the Centre for the Study of Organised Hate (CSoH) published on June 15, 2026, shed light on how digital platforms enable the reach of...

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Prantik Ali

‘If not India, then who?’: Palestinian envoy flags Gaza healthcare collapse, seeks urgent assistance

Videos of bombed hospitals in the Gaza Strip and testimonies of doctors desperate for medical aid played on the screen as Abdullah Abu Shawesh, the...

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Samagra Thakur

A pig at the gate, TV cameras outside: The making of a viral Eid controversy

For two days in late May, several television channels ran breathless coverage of events outside Poonam Cluster 1, a cooperative housing society in the...

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Prateek Goyal

In the red and on their knees: Why corporate media tolerated its own ruin under Modi

In the summer of 2020, India had no shortage of stories.  The country was emerging from what was described as the world’s harshest lockdown, one...

18.06.2026 20

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Aakar Patel

Bengaluru market vendors hired to train AI robots that could replace them

On a Tuesday morning in Bengaluru’s New Thippasandra market, Nagraj is doing what he does every day. The owner of a small grocery shop, he is...

16.06.2026 20

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Shivani Kava

Cheetahs in Kuno, lions in waiting: Inside India’s most contested conservation project

“After a wait of nearly 70 years, cheetahs returned to India in 2022 with their reintroduction at Kuno National Park, marking a major milestone in...

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Hridayesh Joshi

Safety rules are routinely flouted in India’s factories

Indian factories routinely flout occupational health and safety rules, even as inspections remain scant, and overworked, underpaid workers operate...

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Vijay Jadhav

Bullets, Thars and toppers: Inside Bihar’s crazy coaching wars

Kisan Cold Storage Lane – a well-known address in Musallapur, the coaching hub of Patna – looks much as it always does. The narrow lane houses the...

13.06.2026 20

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Umesh Kumar Ray

6 ‘triggers’ and ‘pressures’ outside: The anatomy of Mamata camp’s collapse

Mamata Banerjee is running out of time. Almost two-thirds of the Trinamool Congress’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs have come together to form a separate bloc...

12.06.2026 20

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Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

‘Not a whisper of incriminating evidence’: What Delhi HC said while quashing case against NewsClick

Quashing the FIR against NewsClick editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha, the Delhi High Court held that the investigations conducted by the Economic...

12.06.2026 10

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Balakrishna Ganeshan

Rs 3,350-cr MoU, 70,000 jobs: A Yogi govt AI investment deal is now under fraud cloud

In February 2023, Lucknow hosted the Global Investors Summit — Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s marquee pitch to investors. By the time it...

11.06.2026 20

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Basant Kumar

343 posts since May, but India’s exam crisis barely exists in the education minister’s timeline

On June 5, 2026, two days after the first reports emerged about Akanksha Chaturvedi – a NEET aspirant from Madhya Pradesh who died by suicide after...

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Astha Savyasachi

‘This is a Sangh village’: Inside Kerala’s new Hindutva strongholds

“This family adheres to Hindu traditions and beliefs.”  The notice pasted outside Sreekala’s house in Keraladithyapuram, on the outskirts of...

10.06.2026 20

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Haritha John

What happened at the INDIA bloc meeting? Pushback against Congress, conciliatory end

The meeting of the INDIA bloc in New Delhi, on Monday, June 8, saw criticism of the Congress from several regional parties, introspection on the...

09.06.2026 20

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Dhanya Rajendran

After the poll debacle, the revolt: How Mamata is losing control of her TMC

“In nightmares and terror, you protected me on your lap, you affectionate mother…” Ritabrata Banerjee was passionately reciting the full version...

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Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

The mattress shop that turned its stock into a safety net for Delhi fire victims

When fire engulfed the Flourish Stay hotel in Malviya Nagar on Wednesday morning, Riyazuddin did not wait for instructions. The owner of a mattress...

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Avdhesh Kumar

Delhi’s ‘cleanest May in 5 years’ is a toxic illusion

This May, Delhi recorded a monthly average AQI of 156, its cleanest in five years. The Central Pollution Control Board considers this ‘moderate’...

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