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Before BJP’s USAID outrage: MoUs, collaborations, and government partnerships

yesterday 5

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Maharashtra police’s selective justice: Swift action on ‘obscenity’, red tape on hate crime

15.02.2025 20

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Jailed for ‘kidnapping’ her own child, a homeless woman’s long road to justice

11.02.2025 5

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Behind the mystery pollsters offering predictions through exit polls

07.02.2025 3

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‘What choice do we have?’: Anger and apathy in Delhi seats with decisive Sikh vote

31.01.2025 7

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The Midas touch of Ashwini Vaishnaw

13.01.2025 20

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82 cities used less than 66% of NCAP funds in the last 5 years to combat pollution

09.01.2025 20

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‘Miscarriages, stench, soot’: Delhi’s eco-friendly plant is also a toxic threat

Delhi’s toxic air is often in the news, but few talk about a major source of this pollution located in the heart of the city.  The waste-to-energy...

06.01.2025 20

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‘Never saw such police action’: Cong worker dead, journalists injured at Guwahati protest

A local Congress leader died and at least eight journalists were allegedly injured after the police action at the Raj Bhawan Chalo protest held by...

18.12.2024 7

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‘Bid to divide media fraternity’: Viral list spooks journalists in Bhopal

A widely circulated list, accusing more than 150 journalists of corruption, has unnerved the media fraternity in Bhopal. The crime branch is...

30.10.2024 3

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Fraud network, mastermind in Assam, suspicion on bank officials: Inside Oswal cyber fraud case

In the two months since textile baron SP Oswal lost Rs 7 crore to scammers posing as CBI sleuths, the Ludhiana police have identified the...

23.10.2024 2

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Absence of survey, local resistance: Assam limestone mining auction in limbo

In December last year, the Assam government issued a tender for the auction of seven limestone mines in Dima Hasao district, which operates under...

17.10.2024 1

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8 mining firms indicted by CAG in Odisha are political donors

Last month, a Comptroller and Auditor General report had pointed to serious lapses on part of the Odisha government which substantially helped 23...

15.10.2024 1

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‘Took time to pick up the pieces’: A trio’s struggle after ‘ULFA label’ and ‘staged’ police shooting

On December 23 last year, Dipjyoti Neog, Biswanath Borgohain, and Manuj Buragohain left their homes in Assam’s Tinsukia district for a picnic in...

18.09.2024 3

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Power theft, ‘illegal’ charging, no safety: Inside Delhi’s e-rickshaw chaos

It had been less than a year since Deepu switched gears from driving someone else’s vehicle to owning and operating his own e-rickshaw in northeast...

14.09.2024 9

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How Sheikh Hasina suffocated the media in Bangladesh

When Faisal Mahmud, a reporter in Dhaka working with Al Jazeera, reached a site of student protests around Dhaka University on July 17, he was met...

12.09.2024 3

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Asked about hill cutting in his constituency, Sarma hints at reporter’s Muslim identity

A local reporter became the latest target of  Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s communal rhetoric as the CM attempted to dodge his...

22.08.2024 8

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Indian mission’s Berlin project in limbo over faulty agreement: CAG cries foul

The Ministry of External Affairs had approved a proposal for nine homes for the Indian mission in Germany in 2011. But 13 years later, the project...

16.08.2024 4

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‘Report with facts, would be better for us’: Hindu students in Bangladesh on Indian media coverage

“If the Indian media had done its job properly, we would’ve had an easier time talking about what we are facing,” said Bipra Prasun Das, a...

09.08.2024 3

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Sudhanshu Trivedi asked about fake news in RS. Was it an investment in irony?

There seemed to be an investment in irony in the form of an unstarred question in Rajya Sabha last month. It was when BJP MP and national...

06.08.2024 2

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‘Lame excuse’ to ‘waking up late’: Letters show L-G, AAP govt tussle’s shadow on Delhi flood control

Delhi’s coaching centre deaths have once again spotlighted not just the problem of waterlogging but also the impact on civic governance due to a...

29.07.2024 2

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Assam spent Rs 1,500 crore on embankments in 3 years, but it does little to control flood

On July 7, as devastating floods hit Assam, claiming at least eight lives and affecting more than 220,000 people across 3,446 villages, a war of...

25.07.2024 1

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