SHOCKING: 7 | Mind Blowing Facts

BJP promises ‘positive content’. Its new social media team’s record tells another story

Days after taking charge as the BJP’s national social media convenor, Deepak Mhaske told a gathering of reporters, “My focus will be to tackle the fake narrative spread by the Opposition, which uses AI in reels to twist facts and mislead people. We have been creating positive content and taking…

Newslaundry · Aug 22

एनएल चर्चा 437: बीजेपी की नई टीम, स्मृति इन, मालवीय आउट और टेक डाउन नोटिसों का रिकॉर्ड उछाल

एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में भारतीय जनता पार्टी की नई टीम के गठन, स्मृति ईरानी की वापसी और अमित मालवीय के बाहर होने पर विस्तार से बात हुई. इसके साथ सरकार द्वारा जारी 'टेक डाउन' नोटिसों की बढ़ती संख्या पर भी गहन चर्चा की गई.

Newslaundry · Aug 22

Hafta letters: A concerned subscriber, Modiji and singing Vande Mataram

Negative gradient

Newslaundry · Aug 22

Bills passed in 3 minutes, 9 with no LS MPs speaking: Parliament’s growing scrutiny gap

Parliament is increasingly passing Bills after relatively short periods of discussion. Data compiled from sessions between 2024 and 2026 across both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha show that while a few politically significant Bills did receive several hours of debate in both Houses, many have been cleared after…

Newslaundry · Aug 20

Assam’s ad spend tripled after Himanta became CM. Media group linked to his wife got Rs 20 cr

In five financial years since Himanta Biswa Sarma became chief minister of Assam, his government spent Rs 460.82 crore on media and advertising. In the five years before he took office on May 10, 2021, the state spent Rs 145.01 crore – less than a third as much.

Newslaundry · Aug 20

Why ‘Dimaagi Naxal’ is India’s most dangerous label yet

Dimaagi Naxal!

Newslaundry · Aug 20

From Cambridge to Indian campuses, a similar playbook hounds the marginalised

Early this year, we were in Manchester to attend the British Sociological Association’s 75th annual conference. Sitting among hundreds of academics, we were deeply intrigued by the title of Professor Jason Arday, the former Cambridge scholar’s plenary talk – ‘Wanted dead or alive: The playbook’. Arday, with great enthusiasm but…

Newslaundry · Aug 19

Decoding PM CARES Fund audit report: Sitting on thousands of crores, yet only lakhs spent

After a two-year wait, the Government of India has finally released the audit report for the PM CARES Fund. The Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) currently holds a corpus of Rs 8,452.06 crore.

Newslaundry · Aug 19

पीएम केयर्स फंड पर उठे सवाल: हजारों करोड़ जमा लेकिन खर्च हुए महज कुछ लाख

भारत सरकार ने दो साल के इंतजार के बाद आखिरकार पीएम केयर्स फंड की ऑडिट रिपोर्ट जारी कर दी है. प्रधानमंत्री आपात स्थिति नागरिक सहायता एवं राहत निधि, जिसे पीएम केयर्स फंड के नाम से जाना जाता है, उस फंड में फिलहाल 8452.06 करोड़ रुपये जमा हैं. इसमें से 7846.6…

Newslaundry · Aug 19

Why the racial order remains invisible: Answer is in the machinery that sustains it

If this racialized world order is so pervasive and structurally embedded, why, one may ask, does it remain largely invisible in the global political consciousness? The answer lies in the epistemic machinery that sustains it.

Newslaundry · Aug 19