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Behind JNU’s latest ‘media trial’: What happened on the night of January 5?

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is once again embroiled in controversy.

Newslaundry · Jan 8

Jan 8, 2026: What changes when you step indoors in Delhi’s pollution?

In Delhi, bad air doesn’t stay outside. Today, at our Sarvodaya Enclave office, the air inside a closed room without an air purifier was already dangerous to breathe. The AQI stood at 309, with PM2.5 at 134 and PM10 at 147 – numbers you would expect from a polluted street,…

Newslaundry · Jan 8

Ankita Bhandari murder: A leaked recording, BJP resignations, and letters written in blood

Young girls in Uttarakhand are writing letters to the President in their own blood. State BJP leaders are resigning from the party. From the mountains to the plains, people are taking to the streets. All demanding justice for Ankita Bhandari, the 19-year-old receptionist at a resort near Rishikesh, who was…

Newslaundry · Jan 8

Hostel for SC/ST girls in Ghaziabad now ‘houses only snakes, not students’

While the Union government champions slogans like the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, the ground reality is that a UP government hostel built for scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) girls in Nandgram, Ghaziabad, never properly materialised beyond the paperwork. 

Newslaundry · Jan 7

After ED raid, climate activist calls allegations ‘baseless and biased’

Two days after the Enforcement Directorate accused Satat Sampada Private Limited of misusing foreign funds to influence government policies and undermine India’s energy security, its director and climate activist Harjeet Singh has denied all the allegations against him and his outfit.

Newslaundry · Jan 7

637 acres, 125 court cases: The great Dalit-Adivasi land grab in Rajasthan

On the outskirts of Jaipur, in a village named Machwa, an 86-year-old Dalit widow lives in a cluster of makeshift jhuggis. The settlement is built from uneven brick walls and patched with tarpaulin sheets and rusted tin roofs. Inside, her family of nearly 30 –  sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren –…

Newslaundry · Jan 7

IndiGo’s dominance is not about ‘success’. Here’s what Sanjeev Sanyal overlooked in his ANI interview

When Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance, argued in a recent ANI interview with Smita Prakash that IndiGo’s dominance is not the real issue because “you can’t tax success” and that policy should instead “ensure churn”, he was appealing to a familiar liberalisation-era instinct in Indian…

Newslaundry · Jan 6

‘Raises deep concerns’ and ‘disturbing questions’: Newspapers on SC decision to deny Umar Khalid bail

After the Supreme Court denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case, several activists and legal experts have raised concerns about what the decision means for liberty and justice. While the court did acknowledge that prolonged incarceration, particularly pre-trial detention, seriously infringes the…

Newslaundry · Jan 6

India’s richest civic body, world-class neglect: Why are people still dying on Mumbai’s roads?

In July, 2015, 16-year-old Prakash Bilhore went to fill out a college admission form in Bhandup. But he never made it home. The motorcycle he was travelling on hit a pothole, throwing him off. He died in hospital within an hour.

Newslaundry · Jan 6

Jan 5, 2026: The PM 2.5 problem the environment ministry is pushing downwind

In today’s episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visits the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC).

Newslaundry · Jan 5