RARE PHOTOS: 33 - The Real Truth

Vairamuthu gets Jnanpith: What does this say about #MeToo?

Tamil lyricist Vairamuthu has been chosen as this year’s Jnanpith award recipient.

Newslaundry · Mar 19

Why KD The Devil song row is really about cinema’s old misogyny

It took just two days for the Hindi version of ‘Sarke Chunar Teri Sarke’, from the upcoming pan-India action drama KD: The Devil to disappear from YouTube. Complaints over its sexually explicit lyrics reached multiple authorities, and the song was described as vulgar, obscene, sexually suggestive, and unfit for public circulation. The…

Newslaundry · Mar 19

When the bulldozer came for Mahadev’s city

On January 9 this year, a bulldozer arrived at Manikarnika Ghat in Banaras – one of the holiest sites in Hinduism – by barge, through the river, because the galis were too narrow for it to enter any other way.

Newslaundry · Mar 19

कश्मीर से कन्याकुमारी तक गैस का अकाल और गोदी ने बनाया मोदी को विश्वगुरू

इस समय देश में एलपीजी गैस की सप्लाई हेलमहेल हो गई है. अगर कोई व्यक्ति यह कह रहा है कि उसके सिलेंडर में गैस नहीं है तो इसका सीधा सा मतलब है कि वह अफ़वाह फैला रहा है. और अगर आपको फिर भी गैस की कमी खल रही है तो…

Newslaundry · Mar 18

‘Talks are a give-and-take’: Sonam Wangchuk on 6th schedule, statehood and being ‘flexible’

In his first public remarks after spending nearly six months in custody, Ladakhi activist and education reformist Sonam Wangchuk stated on Tuesday that both sides must remain flexible to ensure a meaningful and constructive dialogue regarding demands in Ladakh for statehood and sixth schedule protections. 

Newslaundry · Mar 17

‘No going back’: Trans persons rally against the Centre’s ‘identity’ check in new amendment

A new bill titled the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 was tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday, March 13. The bill seeks to amend the 2019 Transgender Persons Act, with the Centre claiming it will make the definition more precise and legally clear so that benefits…

Newslaundry · Mar 17

‘We carried patients down stairs’: Odisha ICU fire puts compliance under scrutiny

At least 11 patients were killed in the early hours of Monday after a fire broke out at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, Odisha. The blaze – suspected to have been triggered by an electrical short circuit – originated adjacent to the ICU, which was housing 23…

Newslaundry · Mar 17

UP journalist booked over LPG queue video, cops say ‘visuals old, misleading’

A journalist in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad has been booked over visuals of people queuing outside a gas agency – uploaded the same day that a 70-year-old man died of a suspected heart attack while waiting in queue for an LPG cylinder.

Newslaundry · Mar 17

HC summons Arnab Goswami in a Rs 2 crore defamation case filed by Congress

In not-so-good news for Arnab Goswami and Republic TV, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a summons in a defamation suit filed by the Indian National Congress over a May 2025 broadcast claiming that the party operated an office in Turkey. The Congress party has sought damages of Rs…

Newslaundry · Mar 17

March 16, 2026: Delhi breathes ‘good’ air, but not due to policy

In today’s episode of Aaj Ka AQI, our air quality monitor recorded an AQI of around 40 in Sarvodaya Enclave, which falls in the “good” category — something we rarely see in the city.

Newslaundry · Mar 16