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Wrong sheets, missing pages, no response: The cost of CBSE’s rushed marking overhaul

Jalaj boarded a train from Vidisha at 1 pm on May 26 with his friend and his father. They were travelling 60 kilometres to the CBSE Regional Office in Bhopal. He had no other choice.

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Not a purge, a protection: SC backs EC’s voter drive as a democratic shield

In a judgement that clearly reaffirms some core tenets of election laws in India, the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. It is one of the most important election-law rulings since Lakshmi Charan Sen v. A.K.M. Hassan Uzzaman (1985).…

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‘Let them drink water’: Media is burying the corporate plunder driving our climate crisis

India is at boiling point, literally. The world's hottest cities are all in India, and most are in Uttar Pradesh. It is a crisis that impacts the majority, especially the poor.

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Pune Porsche crash: Old video or not, victims’ families are still left with the ‘arrogance of money’

A video allegedly showing Vishal Agarwal, the father of the minor accused in the 2024 Pune Porsche crash case, dancing and celebrating with family members went viral on social media on Wednesday.

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Inside CBSE’s digital evaluation fiasco

When Vedant spoke about it online, several right-wing handles abused him and called him a Pakistani. Then another student discovered the answer sheet in his name was not in his handwriting.

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Think it’s hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says

In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.

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Dharmendra Pradhan’s guide to surviving India’s exam crisis

This May, CBSE’s Class 12 board results arrived like a bad smell in an already scorching summer – hard to ignore, unwelcome, and somehow spreading everywhere.

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Company behind CBSE evaluation platform says complaints limited to ‘one or two cases’

This copy has been updated to reflect the Coempt CEO’s responses to charges of hacking, multiple complaints and scanning quality

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Peak irony just dropped. Sudhir Chaudhary slams ‘OG Godi media’

Sudhir Chaudhary, editor-in-chief of DD News, once asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi where he gets his energy from. On a recent episode of Decode, broadcast on a government-owned channel, he had thoughts on the “OG Godi media”.

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SC upholds SIR, says ‘it advances free and fair election’

The Supreme Court upheld the legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar and other states, and the Election Commission of India’s authority to conduct it, ending a legal challenge that had questioned the constitutional basis of the exercise, according to this report in LiveLaw.

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I had to leave India to become a doctor. NEET exposed a system I already knew

I did not leave India out of anger.

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Who picks Bengaluru’s garbage?

Who picks Bengaluru’s garbage? And why are Bengali Muslim workers among the most vulnerable labourers in Indian cities today?

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India’s GDP revisions explained: What changed and why it matters

Amidst the ongoing West Asia crisis, the Indian economy is expected to take a hit: the World Bank’s latest projections suggest that the country’s GDP growth could fall to 6.6 percent in this financial year.

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Why the Naidu govt needs to talk to women before offering cash to have more babies

A year ago, a TDP MP in Andhra Pradesh offered Rs 50,000 to women giving birth to a third girl child, provided the first two children are also daughters. He promised a cow if the third child is a boy, spending from his salary as a parliamentarian. The announcement from…

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DD News anchor’s latest gem: Turning a CBSE student’s grievance into Pak conspiracy

When Vedant Srivastava, a student, received his CBSE physics answer sheets through the re-evaluation process, he found the sheets uploaded by the board were not his.

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Video on people displaced for Vizag Google data centre blocked by Meta after govt notice

Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC)—an international network of journalists —has issued a statement against Meta, the parent company of Instagram, for reportedly restricting their video story in India, which addressed the forced displacement of Dalits in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam to accommodate a Google data centre, without offering any clarification.

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NDTV enters television’s ‘Thook Jihad’ hall of shame

NDTV, once synonymous with sober television journalism, has been formally cautioned by the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) for doing what it once prided itself on never doing: turning a roti-maker spitting in food into a story about “Thook Jihad”.

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Extreme heat imperils chronic disease patients in informal settlements

Within hours of sunrise, the two-room flats in the government-constructed apartment in New Rajarajeshwari Peta in Vijayawada feels like a pot on a stove.

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Can India blame just war for its economic slowing?

For years, Indians have been told that the economy is booming.

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‘Heads they won, tails he lost’: How ‘desi consultancies’ prey on Indian grads in America

Manu rushed through the John F. Kennedy International Airport, hoping to reach the college as soon as possible. He had refused the pick-up offer from the Indian Student Association, thinking he’d take a bus. But, outside the airport, New York overwhelmed him, so he asked a middle-aged American about the…

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South Central 76: TVK’s social media game in Tamil Nadu and anti-SIR debate

In this episode of South Central, hosts Pooja Prasanna and Anisha Sheth first discuss the unprecedented use of social media in Tamil Nadu by Vijay’s TVK and whether it has reshaped politics in the state. They are joined by journalist and translator Kavitha Muralidharan and TNM’s Associate Editor Nandini Chandrasekhar.

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The Cockroaches are restless: Anatomy of a 22-million-strong meme movement

Let’s be clear. The Cockroach Janta Party is not a political party. It started as satire – its founder has said so many times, and he said so again when I spent an hour chatting with him for a Newslaundry interview.

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‘I started a joke…now I get death threats’: Abhijeet Dipke on India’s Cockroach Party

What began as a tweet has snowballed into one of India’s most unexpected political phenomena. Abhijeet Dipke, who spoke to Newslaundry from Boston, is the unlikely founder of the Cockroach Janata Party. Within a week, this satirical movement amassed over a million registered members and about 500,000 signatures on a…

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एनएल चर्चा 424: युवाओं का व्यंग्यात्मक पलटवार 'कॉकरोच जनता पार्टी', इटली में मेलोडी और नॉर्वे में प्रेस की आज़ादी

एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में देश में जारी व्यंग्यात्मक राजनीतिक अभियान कॉकरोच जनता पार्टी और पीएम मोदी के विदेश दौरे के दौरान उपजे विवादों को लेकर विस्तार से बात हुई.

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Three violations, one fine: NBDSA lets Zee News off easy on anti-Muslim broadcasts

The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has fined Zee News Rs 25,000 for forcibly interviewing the mother of a murder accused and found that the channel violated its Code of Ethics related to Good Taste and Decency, and Privacy.

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