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A flagship 2024 promise, a 99% shortfall: PM internship scheme spent nearly as much on ads as interns

It was the summer of 2025. The advertisements about the Narendra Modi government’s new internship scheme were splashed across newspapers, TV channels and social media. Like lakhs of others, P Adarsh*, 22, noticed them from his hometown Bhilai in Chhattisgarh. After finishing his degree in agricultural engineering a while ago,…

Newslaundry · Jul 21

Delhi HC allows Sonam Wangchuk’s shift to private hospital after medical advice

The Delhi High Court has allowed Gitanjali Angmo to immediately shift her husband Sonam Wangchuk from government-run Safdarjung Hospital to the private Medanta Hospital in Gurugram. It allowed Angmo unfettered access to her husband at the hospital in accordance with medical protocol.

Newslaundry · Jul 21

Lathis, tear gas and injured protesters: The ‘Chalo Sansad’ crackdown in pictures

Ramit Verma was still bleeding when he turned around to face the officer who had hit him.

Newslaundry · Jul 21

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11 dailies, differing narratives: How front pages covered the CJP march on Parliament

Eleven newspapers, one Monday of chaos in central Delhi.

Newslaundry · Jul 21

South Central 84: INDIA bloc’s drift towards BJP and how India perceives child abuse

In this week’s South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna first discuss the churning in the country’s political Opposition, with several allies of the Congress now warming up to the ruling BJP. They are joined by senior journalist and author Neerja Chowdhury and journalist Arvind Gunasekar. In the second…

Newslaundry · Jul 20

‘This is about the future’: At Parliament march, students who came without fear

They came from several states – students, some still in school, who had skipped classes or slipped away without telling their parents to be at Jantar Mantar on July 20. Many were teenagers. Some had lost a year to NEET preparation, some had watched siblings fall into depression after the…

Newslaundry · Jul 20

Under shadow of lathis and barricades: The day the Modi govt finally engaged the CJP

Thousands of protesters marching towards Parliament as part of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) demonstration were met with barricades, tear gas, lathi blows and detentions as a heavy police deployment tried to contain the march.

Newslaundry · Jul 20

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‘With Wangchuk gone, cops thought hope would die’: The weekend that changed the CJP protest

Thousands have turned up for the Cockroach Janta Party’s march to Parliament on Monday, filling the road from Jantar Mantar to the Tolstoy Marg–Sansad Marg intersection. Police are trying to block the march with barricades and used batons after some protesters tried to push through.

Newslaundry · Jul 20

Cops detain AAP councillor as she prepares to leave for Parliament march with supporters

Delhi Police detained AAP councillor Ashu Thakur from her CR Park office on Monday morning, hours after she had circulated a video urging citizens to gather on the spot and join a march to Parliament organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP).

Newslaundry · Jul 20

Why PM Modi isn’t asking Dharmendra Pradhan to resign

Do you know what connects Lal Bahadur Shastri, TT Krishnamachari, Natwar Singh, A Raja, Dayanidhi Maran, BS Yediyurappa, Ashok Chavan and Nitish Kumar?

Newslaundry · Jul 20

बारिश के बीच देहरादून में जुटे हजारों छात्र, राहुल गांधी का 'छात्रों की गूंज' कार्यक्रम कैसा रहा?

कोटा के बाद एक बार फिर राहुल गांधी शुक्रवार को 'छात्रों की गूंज' अभियान के तहत छात्रों से संवाद करने के लिए देहरादून पहुंचे. यह कार्यक्रम भारी बारिश के बीच देहरादून के सनातन धर्म इंटर कॉलेज (बन्नू) में हुआ. कार्यक्रम स्थल पर हजारों की संख्या में छात्र और कांग्रेस समर्थक…

Newslaundry · Jul 19

Fierce loyalty, broken leagues: The two faces of our game | Let’s Talk About Indian Football

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup wraps up, this episode turns the lens on the domestic game – and finds it in crisis. In the latest episode of Let’s Talk About Indian Football, Abhinandan Sekhri speaks to Johnson K, founder of Sportfolio Productions and creator of an independently produced documentary…

Newslaundry · Jul 18

एनएल चर्चा 432:लाडकी बहिन योजना से हटे 92 लाख नाम और E20 ईंधन विवाद में कंटेंट क्रिएटर्स पर FIR

एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में महाराष्ट्र की लाडकी बहिन योजना से 92 लाख से अधिक महिलाओं के नाम हटाए जाने के बाद राज्य में उपजे राजनीतिक विवाद और ईंधन नीति को लेकर सोशल मीडिया पर चल रहे विवाद के बीच नागपुर पुलिस द्वारा केंद्रीय मंत्री नितिन गडकरी की कथित…

Newslaundry · Jul 18

Explained: Can the government force-feed a hunger striker? What Indian law says

Climate activist and innovator Sonam Wangchuk was forcefully removed from Delhi's Jantar Mantar protest site by Delhi Police on Saturday, July 18, and shifted to a government hospital after 21 days of indefinite hunger strike. Police said the decision was based on medical advice and a Delhi High Court order…

Newslaundry · Jul 18

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Newslaundry · Jul 18

‘Like a kidnapping’: Delhi Police forcibly remove Sonam Wangchuk under medical pretext

A roughly 10-foot barricade had come up overnight at Jantar Mantar, and hundreds of police personnel with several vehicles had taken position at the protest site by 9 am on Saturday – a scene starkly different from the one Newslaundry’s team had witnessed the previous evening. The change followed the…

Newslaundry · Jul 18

Hafta letters: Subscribers on Satluj debate, KPS Gill, and the World Cup

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Newslaundry · Jul 18

Sonam Wangchuk forcibly taken to hospital as Delhi Police tighten grip on Jantar Mantar protest

Delhi Police forcibly removed activist Sonam Wangchuk from Jantar Mantar and took him to Safdarjung Hospital on Saturday morning with heavy deployment at the protest site as his indefinite hunger strike stretched into its 21st day. The move came a day after Anurag Kumar took over as Delhi Police Commissioner,…

Newslaundry · Jul 17

Will Indian women footballers win a World Cup before the men? | Let’s Talk About Indian Football

As the FIFA World Cup 2026 wraps up, we ask the question India keeps avoiding: what’s stopping us from competing on that stage, and why do we forget football the moment the tournament ends?

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Newslaundry · Jul 17

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 infrastructure such as roads, spent nearly Rs 1,095 crore on publicity in just over two years.

Newslaundry · Jul 17

‘Our collective conscience’: Filmmakers, writers join appeals to Wangchuk to end fast

A cross-section of India’s film, literary, and journalistic community has issued a joint appeal to climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, urging him to end his hunger strike, now in its 20th day. Wangchuk has been fasting as part of the broader Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protests over paper leaks.

Newslaundry · Jul 17

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

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Newslaundry · Jul 16

‘Deeply flawed’ spin: Editors Guild slams MEA’s defense of Modi’s press conference dodge

Why doesn’t Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold press conferences?

Newslaundry · Jul 16

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 tells the sympathetic couple seated across from her. The table at the Anganwadi centre in Hyderabad’s Baggikhana slum is buried under…

Newslaundry · Jul 15

TMC MP Kirti Azad on cracks in his party, BJP in Bengal, and INDIA bloc’s future

The period after the West Bengal Assembly election has been one of the toughest for the Trinamool Congress. Several MPs and MLAs have quit the party, questions are being raised about Mamata Banerjee’s leadership, and Bengal’s political landscape is rapidly changing.

Newslaundry · Jul 15

Sudhir Chaudhary’s heart bleeds for Sonam Wangchuk but no one is buying it

For 17 days, Sonam Wangchuk has been sitting on an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, demanding Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over the NEET-UG paper leak and a string of other failures. His weight has dropped by roughly 8.5 kg, and his blood pressure and blood sugar levels…

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