RARE PHOTOS: 6 | Vintage Vibes

‘Harder Modi tries, the more distant he looks’: Neha on Jantar Mantar, govt response, and solidarity

A little over a week after former Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned, independent journalist Nikita Saxena caught up with Neha, a doctoral student and president of the All India Students' Association (AISA), for a freewheeling conversation. Along with fellow AISA activists Aameen, Amitoj and Manish, the AISA president went on…

Newslaundry · Aug 28

The stories the media sees only in a crisis are now being told by schoolchildren

The fallout of the student protests at Jantar Mantar last month, culminating in the police crackdown on July 20, and the ripples created throughout the country have yet to settle.

Newslaundry · Aug 28

Jharkhand’s exam trap: A generation lost waiting for jobs in the land of minerals

Jharkhand is rich in natural resources, but thousands of its young people are spending years preparing for government jobs. In Ranchi, many cram into small rooms to study, sometimes five to a room. Some have been waiting a decade for an exam, while others remain unemployed despite earning gold medals.

Newslaundry · Aug 27

More than 1,300 are missing in Nepal and Tibet after catastrophic floods caused by glacial collapse

Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacial collapse.

Newslaundry · Aug 27

Knives, pistols and ‘aura farming’: Inside Delhi’s teen ‘gangs’

In the cramped, winding lanes of North-East Delhi, boys are picking up knives and country-made pistols before they ever pick up a schoolbook.

Newslaundry · Aug 26

किताबों की उम्र में चाकू-कट्टे: दिल्ली के 'नाबालिग गैंग्स' की कहानी

नॉर्थ-ईस्ट दिल्ली यानि राजधानी का वो हिस्सा, जहां तंग गलियों और भीड़भाड़ के पीछे एक और दुनिया पल रही है. नाबालिगों का अंडरवर्ल्ड. यहां उम्र छोटी है, लेकिन हाथों में हथियार बड़े. यहां चाकू और कट्टों के साथ ये बच्चे सिर्फ डर नहीं बल्कि मौत भी बांट रहे हैं. कई…

Newslaundry · Aug 26

‘Delhi became the source of all real knowledge’: How TV newsrooms pushed regional reporters aside

Today, it feels as if the role of the reporter on a TV news channel has shrunk compared to the days when we started out. There are, of course, honourable exceptions, reporters who continue to produce high-quality work that makes an impact. But too many of the new crop of…

Newslaundry · Aug 26

A bigger flu season: In Delhi, H1N1 cases nearly 8 times last year’s count

For many Delhi residents, illness begins this time of the year with symptoms easy to dismiss as seasonal sickness: a cough that refuses to go away, a sore throat, body aches and a high fever that lasts for days. But this year, doctors and hospitals across Delhi are seeing more…

Newslaundry · Aug 26

Gurugram is actually drowning in its own real estate boom

After heavy rain on Monday, Gurugram – Delhi’s neighbour and India’s “millennium city” – was thrown into chaos. Waterlogged roads caused traffic jams that lasted hours, and vehicles, including cars, buses, autos and two-wheelers, were submerged. Social media filled with images of flooded homes, school buses submerged in water and…

Newslaundry · Aug 26

‘He could’ve been saved’: Minor’s body found 3 days after he fell in Delhi drain chasing a kite

A JCB excavator pulled Mithun’s body out of an open drain in Southeast Delhi’s Jasola village at around 1.15 pm on Tuesday. He was 15. He had slipped into that drain on Saturday morning, chasing a kite thread a few steps from his house. The body has now been shifted…

Newslaundry · Aug 25