EXPLAINED: 3 - The Real Truth

Why labour codes offer little climate protection for women in manufacturing

Rama Devi (name changed), a 33-year-old garment worker in Gurugram’s Udyog Vihar, has a packed schedule six days a week. She wakes up at 6 a.m., gets her three children ready for school, packs lunch for her family and manages to reach the factory at 9 a.m. Her work station…

Newslaundry · Sep 14

What the RSS didn’t tell its New York guests

We all saw the images from Madison Square Garden. Thousands of people. An aarti. A packed hall. And RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat at the centre of it all.

Newslaundry · Sep 14

‘Once they see the money, they keep building’: Inside Delhi’s PG ecosystem built on a hostel shortage

On the first floor of a building in the main market of Satya Niketan is a restaurant. The second floor houses a hotel. The third floor is locked. The fourth floor is a boys’ paying guest accommodation with five rooms, let out on double and triple occupancy. On the fifth,…

Newslaundry · Sep 12

From biological weapons to espionage: What Anthropic’s report reveals about AI misuse

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used not just to help people carry out malicious activities, but to take over several steps of those operations, according to a new report by AI company Anthropic.

Newslaundry · Sep 11

The Subhash Chandra insolvency controversy explained

Zee Group founder Subhash Chandra has been at the centre of a long-running insolvency battle over debts he had personally guaranteed for.

Newslaundry · Sep 11

GDP numbers say India is thriving. Is it?

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Newslaundry · Sep 11

Anatomy of a ‘conspiracy’: How UP cops turned a wage protest into a national security case

When the Uttar Pradesh government invoked the National Security Act against Aakriti Chaudhary and journalist Satyam Verma following the Noida workers’ protests, it raised a question that went far beyond the two individuals in jail: how had a labour protest become a matter of national security?

Newslaundry · Sep 10

Inside DU’s election fever: Convoys, songs and the student vote

The buzz surrounding the student union elections in Delhi University is palpable. Across campus, student organisations and their candidates are making promises and soliciting votes.

Newslaundry · Sep 10

Minor’s gangrape case: Did Delhi Police break from procedure in ‘keeping Noida police in dark’?

On the night of August 4, a minor student was gangraped inside a bus plying the Delhi–NCR roads. The bus (registration number UP83 ET 3789) had entered Delhi from Noida and continued to ply the roads of both cities for hours while the conductor and driver subjected the girl to…

Newslaundry · Sep 10

Siddharth Varadarajan, Mexican journalist Marcela Turati win El Mundo journalism awards

Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor of The Wire, and Marcela Turati, veteran Mexican journalist and author, have been named recipients of the 24th El Mundo International Journalism Awards. Selected by a jury of nine people, Varadarajan won the award in the Press Freedom category while Turati was selected for Outstanding Journalist…

Newslaundry · Sep 10