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‘Found out after video went viral’: Father of Jamui assault survivor says ‘arrest is not enough’

“I will be happy only when my daughter gets justice. I hope they are encountered by police. Arrest is not enough,” said Deepak Kumar, whose Class 10 daughter was harassed and assaulted by a group of men in Bihar’s Jamui district on September 19.

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Trump TV is 6 years late. Vishwaguru actually got there first with NaMo TV

Donald Trump just launched a 24/7 White House channel starring himself, after the major networks refused to cover him. Interesting timing. But familiar move, if you happen to have a memory that stretches back to April 2019.

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Imagine Trump without the cameras and mics. Now imagine his solution. Enter Trump TV

If you’ve ever wondered what a streaming platform run entirely by one dictatorship-adjacent ego would look like, wonder no more. The White House has launched its own 24/7 channel – no competing opinions, just Donald Trump, on a loop, forever.

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From vanguard to bystanders: What happened to teachers’ collective voice?

Teachers in India have no shortage of reasons to protest, and this month many of them have.

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South Central 93: Could AI destroy humanity? What’s happening in Telangana politics?

Could AI really threaten humanity by the end of this decade, or are tech companies using the fear of AI to push for more control over the technology?

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The men building AI want us to fear it. We should – but not for the reasons they give

Is AI going to run wild and kill us all – or are the concerns lately voiced by the bosses of the AI titans just some kind of convenient business ploy on their part? Those bosses include Dario Amodei of Anthropic, which owns Claude; his rival Sam Altman of OpenAI,…

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The science on trans athletes is inconclusive. Cricket’s prejudice isn’t

If cricket fans across the eras are to be believed, the game has always been on the brink of extinction. The game should have died yesterday; somehow it survived today, but tomorrow it will definitely slip into oblivion. The unintended consequence of this perpetual mode of apprehension is that on…

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How deficient rainfall is affecting ragi farmers in Karnataka’s Mandya

Shiva Shekhar, a 40-year-old farmer from Padavalapatna village in Mandya district's Nagamangala taluk, could not sow ragi this kharif. “I kept waiting for the rain but it never came, so I sowed cowpea instead, which is more drought-tolerant,” he said on September 16.

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BAPS: The Hindu organisation at the heart of Modi’s cultural diplomacy

“Strike and closure of the Eiffel Tower after the expulsion of female staff during a visit by a Hindu delegation”

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Did Delhi do as told on Modi’s birthday? | Vibe Check with Abhinandan Sekhri

The day after Narendra Modi’s 76th birthday, which the BJP marked as “Sewa Diwas” with the month-long Seva Sankalp Abhiyan outreach campaign and an “Ashirwad Ka Diya” at more than 500 prominent locations, Abhinandan Sekhri went out for his second “vibe check” (the first was at the CJP protest) to…

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‘Go back to your country’: Manipuri musician’s killing reignites concerns over racism against Northeasterners and govt inaction

What is the cost of a life? For the wife and 20-year-old son Chongtham Vikram Singh, it is the lifelong grief and trauma of losing a family member. For Manipur, it is the loss of a homegrown musical talent, who began practicing his craft when he was a child, and…

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एनएल चर्चा 441: एनडीए में यूसीसी पर मंथन, सेवा संकल्प अभियान और बिहार की बाढ़

एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री अमित शाह द्वारा 2029 तक सभी 21 एनडीए शासित राज्यों में समान नागरिक संहिता लागू करने के ऐलान, प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के 76वें जन्मदिन और सार्वजनिक जीवन में 25 साल पूरे होने पर भाजपा द्वारा शुरू किए गए 'सेवा संकल्प अभियान'…

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Hafta 607: Who pays for UPI? Is the UCC even ‘uniform’?

This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Rinchen Norbu are joined by Anupam Manur, Professor of Economics at the Takshashila Institution, and Mihira Sood, Supreme Court lawyer specialising in women’s rights.

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Hafta letters: Billionaires funding Europe’s far-right, media algorithms, measuring NL’s impact

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TV Newsance 352 | Modi At 76: Ads, aura and unlimited bhakti

This week, the biggest event of the year has hit the godiverse: Modi ji has turned 76. Naturally, the celebrations will last an entire month, as the BJP has launched a month-long campaign, “Seva Sankalp Abhiyan,” because, well… why not? This campaign will witness reels, painting competitions, giant human rangolis…

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A global guide to birthdays that nearly need a ministry of their own

For most 76-year-olds, a birthday means cake, a call from the grandchildren and perhaps a gentle argument about sugar. For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it now means a month-long national exercise in seva.

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UPSC aspirant on suing Sudhir Chaudhary, holding Godi media accountable

On July 27, Sudhir Chaudhary’s primetime DD News show ‘Decode’ identified UPSC aspirant and student activist Vijay Sherawat as the man who allegedly said Parliament should be “uprooted” and India should be turned into Nepal.

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Saharanpur mosque, Satya Niketan PG are monuments to the same politics of violence and neglect

Two ruins have featured prominently in the news recently. The collapse of a student PG in Delhi’s Satya Niketan, and the demolition of a 100-year-old mosque in Saharanpur. In one case, the state failed to enforce building regulations – resulting in seven deaths – and in the other, it invoked…

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Let UPI be! Why fix a payment system that isn’t broken?

S.N.A.F.U. = Situation normal all fouled up.

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A Rs 5,000 spending cap. A fleet of Defenders, Thars. Welcome to the DUSU election

Walking out of Gate Number 4 of the Vishwavidyalaya metro station, students are met with a familiar sight during Delhi University’s election season: pamphlets and posters carrying the names and ballot numbers of ABVP, NSUI and other candidates.

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Modi turns 76: Same ad, five papers, and the advertorial that wasn’t labelled one

Narendra Modi turns 76 today, and the machinery around the occasion, including the Union government, a clutch of BJP-run states, and the party organisation, has already lined up a month’s worth of events. Thursday’s newspapers got the opening act: front pages replaced by paid jacket advertisements, wishing the prime minister…

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Rs 14 cr in 9 days in just 1 state: The ever-expanding Modi celebration machine

It’s birthday season for the prime minister again. PM Narendra Modi turns a year older today, and right on cue, his government, an assortment of BJP-run states, and the party itself are gearing up to stretch the celebrations into a full month of inaugurations, foundation-stone ceremonies and publicity blitzes.

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Private players should not replicate ISRO’s efforts: G Madhavan Nair writes

India is at an important transition point in its space programme.

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‘We are scared to sit inside’: MP govt spends crores on ads, this school waits years for repairs

The Madhya Pradesh government has spent nearly Rs 2 crore every day on publicity and promotion over the last two years. Yet schools in rural areas of the state such as Barbatpura Primary School in Ashok Nagar district have been waiting years for repairs costing barely anything between Rs 1.5…

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Doctored ‘bikini in Ganga’ video goes viral; News18 runs it without verification

The story uses screenshots and not the actual viral video in view of its sensitive nature.

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