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Gambling with death: Meet the agents helping Gujaratis illegally move to the US

06.02.2025 5

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Exclusive: Hospital, police records suggest at least 79 deaths in Kumbh stampede

05.02.2025 10

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Can Amanatullah hold Okhla fort against AIMIM’s emotive campaign ‘from jail’?

03.02.2025 2

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Uphill battle for Avadh Ojha despite Poorvanchali support for AAP

30.01.2025 9

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Inside the Delhi assembly which has never voted for AAP

21.01.2025 4

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‘Lathi-charge is part of our exam process’: Why Bihar’s students are on the streets

“Government weak, paper leak.” “Whoever saves us from paper leak will build a new Bihar.” “Youth’s hard work is going to waste.” “British Public...

02.01.2025 2

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BJP leader calls for religious segregation among shopkeepers in East Delhi

A viral video of BJP’s Ravinder Negi, alias Ravi Negi, shows him threatening Muslim shopkeepers, asking them to write their names on their shops...

14.12.2024 5

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FIRs, swift police action, little solidarity: The story of Mahesh Langa’s arrest

In May 2020, a journalist named Dhaval Patel wrote a news report suggesting that then Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani’s government would soon...

13.11.2024 2

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‘Govt weakening RTI, our fight not over yet’: Activists in Beawar on 19 years of RTI law

About two decades ago, a grassroots movement in the backward area of Beawar in Rajasthan led to the formation of the Right to Information Act in...

22.10.2024 4

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‘Price rise biggest issue, difficult to run home’: Women at Kumari Selja’s rally

Congress leader Kumari Selja, who was upset over the party’s candidate list, finally began campaigning on September 26. She began her election...

04.10.2024 2

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Ram Rahim is silent ahead of Haryana polls. But his dera’s message is set to ring out loud

Serving life sentence in Rohtak jail for rape and murder, Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has once again walked out of prison, on...

03.10.2024 5

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The dark side of Haryana’s sports success story

In 2019, an audio clip went viral in parts of Haryana, the state known for being the powerhouse of Indian sports. It was a fragment of a...

25.09.2024 5

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Haryana polls: Is Dushyant losing ground to Dalit and farmer anger?

It’s a thorny road for JJP’s Dushyant Chautala in the upcoming assembly polls. The Uchana Kalan MLA, who emerged as a kingmaker in 2019, has been...

25.09.2024 5

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Haryana polls: Will Vinesh Phogat end Congress’s losing streak in Julana?

Olympian Vinesh Phogat, who recently entered the political arena, is gearing to contest the Haryana assembly polls on a Congress ticket from...

20.09.2024 3

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Faridabad Smart City: Crores spent on paper, infrastructure in shambles

Haryana’s Faridabad – one of the 100 cities selected to be developed as a “Smart City” – received Rs 833 crore from the centre and state government...

18.09.2024 5

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Faridabad shooting: Was Aryan Mishra really murdered over ‘cow smuggling’?

In the 14 days since the murder of Aryan Mishra in Faridabad, fact has battled fiction across media and social media.  Headlines and tweets said...

06.09.2024 3

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In herbal firm’s Bihar backyard, women beaten with belts, ‘sexually abused’

In February, a police station in Bihar’s Chapra district had allegedly refused to file an FIR after Kanchan*, a 19-year-old, accused a Surat-...

29.08.2024 3

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Shoorvir programme is Hindus’ ‘own ecosystem’, calling for an economic boycott of Muslims

In June 2024, the Hindu Janjagriti Samiti organised the Vaishvik Hindu Rashtra Mahotsav in Goa. The theme of the event was “From Hindu Nation to...

23.08.2024 6

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‘Won’t let her retire. In our eyes, she won gold’: locals at Olympian Vinesh’s village

After reaching the final round of the Paris Olympics, wrestler Vinesh Phogat was disqualified for being overweight by 100 grams. With this, her...

17.08.2024 4

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A herbal firm’s handbook of ‘abuse’: ‘Drugs, fraud, and youngsters confined to rooms’

At a hotel in Bihar’s Begusarai on March 21, union minister and MP Giriraj Singh thundered on stage before a crowd of youngsters in suits. “A...

10.08.2024 30

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Recruitment of 69,000 teachers in UP: Why did CM Yogi shift stance on ‘quota irregularities’?

Two years after the Yogi Adityanath-led government admitted to “irregularities” in the reservation process for 69,000 assistant teachers’...

03.08.2024 5

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‘Impact on business, motive clear’: Muslim vendors on Kanwar Yatra diktat

Police announcements in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar and Uttarakhand’s Haridwar have triggered an uproar with an order asking all food vendors and...

19.07.2024 2

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