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Press freedom index puts focus on newsrooms telling India’s hardest stories

Every year we are informed that India is sinking lower on the World Press Freedom Index put together by Reporters Without Borders. India now stands at 157 out of 180 countries. “So what?” says the government. “We know,” say journalists who have felt the brunt of this decline.

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Ambani files defamation case against NDTV over ‘predatory strategies’

The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to NDTV and its CEO and editor-in-chief Rahul Kanwal after businessman Anil Ambani filed a defamation suit over the channel’s reporting on CBI and ED investigations involving his companies, Bar and Bench reported.

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Congress-DMK split: How Rahul-Stalin bonhomie collapsed over Vijay’s rise

Their parties have been in alliance for almost two decades, except for a brief breakup in 2013. And when Rahul Gandhi and MK Stalin took over their parties, they had always made it a point to publicly display their bonhomie, often calling each other brothers and ideological partners.

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DMK’s fall in 2026: Anti-incumbency or something bigger?

The DMK’s defeat in the Assembly elections was not a simple one.

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Former Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati will now lead CBFC

Shashi Shekhar Vempati, who until 2022 served as CEO of Prasar Bharati, has been appointed chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification, succeeding Prasoon Joshi. Joshi has now taken over as chairman of Prasar Bharati.

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गंगोत्री से गंगासागर तक डंकापति का डंका और प्रेस की आज़ादी का बंटाधार

इस हफ्ते बात डंकापति के जलवे की. दरबार कई दिनों बाद सजा था. फ़िज़ा में गर्मियों की बेचैनी फैली हुई थी. गोया कि फाड़ू टाइप गर्मी पड़ रही थी. दबी जुबान में डंकापति के जश्न के चर्चे चल रहे थे और संजय समेत समस्त दरबारी, उनकी ताजा चुनावी सफलता को…

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‘Killed by a cop after being called a Bihari’: A family loses its sole breadwinner

At their tiny home in Uttar Nagar, the family of Pandav Kumar is trying to pick up the pieces days after his murder, amid a stream of visitors, and a wait for their demands to be fulfilled.

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The Red sunset: How India’s Left lost relevance

The fall of the communist government in Kerala marks another low in the overall trend of decay and decline in the Left movement in India. This decline marks a definitive end to the Left's political relevance, driven by a failure to engage the post-1991 workforce and a geriatric leadership that…

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Anti-defection law or escape route? The Raghav Chadha case explained

Seven MPs switch sides.

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Saffron ink: How Bengal’s newspapers covered – and coloured – the BJP’s win

By Monday night, the BJP had established leads in over 200 seats in West Bengal. The numbers on the ECI website were not final, but the picture they painted was already difficult to misread.

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Operation Sindoor: One year on, Poonch has a plaque for its dead, few bunkers for its living

A year after Operation Sindoor, the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir is still tending its wounds and still waiting for the bunkers that were promised years ago.

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Can BJP govern Bengal without becoming its old political order?

After weeks of saturation coverage and sustained commentary, election outcomes in India often arrive weighed down by interpretation. A familiar tendency persists to read into them too many meanings and to insert too many subtexts.

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‘Saffron tsunami’, ‘sunset for the satraps’: Front pages on assembly results

The verdicts are in.

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2 Indians win Pulitzer for graphic report on digital arrest

The Pulitzer Prize Board has awarded the 2026 prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary to Anand RK and Suparna Sharma, along with Bloomberg colleague Natalie Obiko Pearson, for trAPPed – a graphic investigation into a neurologist in India held captive by her own phone under what is known as “digital…

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A new saffron geography: BJP’s Bengal breakthrough extends its eastern dominance

The BJP has swept West Bengal and cemented Assam. The trends now point to something larger: a continuous saffron arc running from the northeast to Gujarat’s coast.

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UDF ends decade-long break in Kerala, comes back with stupendous win

Giant billboards across the state displayed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's smiling visage. “Who else but the LDF?” read the caption. The Left Democratic Front's progress card claimed 97% delivery. A 'Third coming' was certain, said their leaders. The front ran on the audacity of defying incumbency – it was non-existent,…

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Kerala polls see 11 women MLAs, IUML gets first woman MLA

Eleven women emerged victorious in the 2026 Kerala Assembly elections, the results for which were announced on Monday, May 4. While nine of them are from the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), two are from the Left Democratic Front (LDF). A total of 35 women contested this election from major…

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‘Suspended for speaking up’: Hansraj College’s crackdown leaves 1 student still fighting

Parth Srivastava had questions about how his college spent its money. He filed RTIs and posted videos online. For that, he claims, he was suspended. He is now the last of 26 students still suspended at Hansraj College, and his case has reached the Delhi High Court.

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Tamil Nadu hung assembly: What are TVK and Vijay’s options?

Tamil Nadu is not a state known for fractured mandates. For decades, voters in the state have delivered decisive verdicts, largely alternating between the two Dravidian giants, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), and rarely leaving room for post-poll arithmetic.

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Early trends: BJP surges in Bengal, Vijay’s TVK springs a surprise in Tamil Nadu

Early counting trends from five state and union territory assembly elections point to a possible BJP breakthrough in West Bengal and an unexpected frontrunner in Tamil Nadu in the form of actor-turned-politician Vijay’s new party.

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4 states and a UT: Decoding the verdict from West Bengal to Tamil Nadu

To capture the trends and decode the big picture, Newslaundry and The News Minute came together to bring you the sharpest insights on the 2026 assembly election results from Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

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Piping hot: India’s delivery economy runs on worker heat stress

“No matter if it is hot or raining, we have to work," says 30-year-old Rakesh Sahu (name changed), from Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur, who works as a delivery agent for Swiggy in Delhi. When IndiaSpend met him in early April in Saket, he had a cloth wrapped around his head, and a cap…

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Chandrababu Naidu’s delimitation pivot: What it means for southern states

“I see no threat to south India.”

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TN and Kerala exit polls: Believable or not?

In the first part of this week’s South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna discuss the Kerala and Tamil Nadu exit polls and the recent political developments in both states. They are joined by TNM’s Tamil Nadu bureau chief Shabbir Ahmed, Kerala bureau chief Haritha John, and senior reporter…

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Modi govt names Prasoon Joshi as new chairman of Prasar Bharati

On Saturday, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting appointed lyricist and writer Prasoon Joshi as the Chairman of Prasar Bharati, India’s public service broadcaster.

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