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The World Cup usually cleans up a country’s image. Not this time

Mega sporting events run on a reliable formula. A country wins the hosting rights, spends money it probably shouldn’t, and receives a month-long image makeover in return. The FIFA World Cup has often been held as the ultimate example of this exchange, accused of being the world’s most expensive reputation…

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‘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 Offences Wing (EOW) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) amounted to a “fishing and roving exercise in the financial affairs of the petitioners without the existence of any offence.”

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Delhi Gymkhana takeover: How the govt came to ‘clean up’ but left a bigger mess

On August 13, 2022, during Covid, a Tiranga rally for Independence Day was taken out from the Delhi Gymkhana Club situated across the road from the Prime Minister’s house – perhaps the most heavily guarded square kilometre in India.

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Mainstream media is losing a generation. Cockroach Janta Party is merely a symptom

A pest entered the news cycle recently. One that most people would like to either squash or obliterate with a deadly spray. So far, it has not been either squashed or obliterated. Only time will tell whether it can really weather all the storms that will come its way.

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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 concluded, 19,250 MoUs had been signed, with proposed investments worth Rs 33.52 lakh crore. One of those signatures belonged to Obdu Digital Health Care Private Limited.

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‘Attack on free press, fishing exercise’: HC quashes PMLA case against NewsClick

The Delhi High Court has ruled that the Enforcement Directorate’s actions against independent digital news outlet NewsClick and its founder Prabir Purkayastha – stemming from a foreign direct investment case – constituted an abuse of power targeting free and impartial journalism. The court has quashed the money laundering case against…

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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 her exam was cancelled due to a paper leak – Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s X feed had other priorities. Birthday wishes for CM Yogi…

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4,399 days of Modi: Ministers and media join the aarti

On June 10, India achieved what every civilisation secretly dreams of: day number 4,399.

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

“This family adheres to Hindu traditions and beliefs.”

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Hafta letters: Questions for PM, 2029 elections, digital media’s reach

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Shamli’s conversion story falls apart when its ‘victim’ speaks. But Aaj Tak calls him brainwashed

Mohammad Ali, officially identified as Ayush Malik, has told the media clearly that nobody forced him to convert to Islam. That he has no interest in his family’s property. That his family could give it to others for all he cared. At that point, coverage of the “forced conversion” case…

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Punjab journalist approaches HC over police summons after AAP’s ‘identical’ complaints

A journalist from Bathinda, Rattandeep Singh Dhaliwal, has approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court after several police complaints were filed against him by AAP MLAs, Bar and Bench reported.

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‘Don’t call homeopaths quacks’: AYUSH body flags insults, govt blocks Liver Doc’s post

On the evening of June 8, the Board of Ethics and Registration for Homoeopathy (BERH) under the National Commission for Homoeopathy, a statutory body under the Ministry of AYUSH, issued a circular warning that calling registered homoeopathic practitioners “quacks” is defamatory and may be legally actionable.

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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 alliance’s functioning, and a decision to form a coordination committee and meet once every two months.

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HC refuses interim injunction in Anjana Om Kashyap’s case against Khan Sir, others

The Delhi High Court on Monday declined to grant any interim injunction in the defamation suit filed by Anjana Om Kashyap and TV Today Network against online educator Faisal Khan, widely known as Khan Sir, and several others.

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Peddi wants the politics of Tamil anti-caste cinema, but without its progressive vision

The controversy surrounding Ram Charan’s latest film Peddi began with criticism over its portrayal of women, particularly the treatment of Janhvi Kapoor’s character Achiyamma. However, the debate has since expanded into a larger discussion about women’s representation in Telugu cinema and the limited agency female actors often have within mainstream…

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Why India cannot let the rupee float

India’s exchange-rate debates often proceed as though the price of the rupee were merely another financial price best left to market correction and macroeconomic adjustment. In theory, a weakening currency performs a useful balancing function.

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The farm failures keeping India hooked on imported oil

India meets only 44 percent of its domestic demand for edible oil and spends more than $20 billion a year on imports, a bill that is bound to increase with the war in West Asia disrupting global supply chains and India’s foreign currency reserves under strain.

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The Adani rising story aided by policy changes

In 2018, a policy change removed the requirement for prior experience in airport operations. Soon after, one corporate group won all six airports up for bid.

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South Central 78: Annamalai says bye to BJP – Reasons and what’s in store

In this week’s South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna first discuss the recent political developments in Tamil Nadu and the resignation of the BJP’s former state head, Annamalai. They are joined by senior journalist RK Radhakrishnan.

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‘Go Back, Godi media’: CJP protesters at Jantar Mantar had no time for TV media

While Instagram, X and YouTube were flooded with videos from the ground, India’s mainstream television news channels – central to what many derogatorily call Godi Media – seemed to be watching an entirely different country.

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Hafta letters: What South Korea does for students, questions for Anand, visa monopoly

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YouTube live: Godi media vs online teachers

CBSE's new digital marking system is broken and students are paying the price.

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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 of Rabindranath Tagore's Jana Gana Mana on March 9 when Mamata Banerjee abruptly cut him short.

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