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A Delhi SIR mystery: 728 of 729 voters deleted in booth, poll official says their homes ‘unauthorised’

Before Delhi's Special Intensive Revision, one booth covering part of Bela Estate — a jhuggi-jhopri cluster on the Yamuna floodplains in Zone O — had 729 registered voters. When the draft roll was published in August, it retained just one name: a 99.8 percent deletion rate at this single booth.

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No hostels, no enforcement: Decoding Delhi’s student housing crisis

This country keeps failing its students, whether they are in government schools far from the city or in expensive PGs in the capital.

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Uttarakhand SIR: Who is targeting Muslim voters?

A Newslaundry investigation into the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Uttarakhand has revealed a deeply concerning pattern.

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Manipuri musician’s murder sparks outrage: ‘We are targeted for our identity’

Manipuri musician Chongtham Vikram Singh, 55, was beaten to death late on Sunday night outside his South Delhi apartment, allegedly by a group of youths.

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AAP alleges fraud as Raghav Chadha makes it to Delhi voter rolls

Deleted in Punjab’s special intensive revision, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha’s name is now available in Delhi’s draft roll.

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‘Sanatan’ campaigns to Modi posters: Meet TV media’s ‘CJP rebel’

For several days, ANI and multiple television channels ran with a storyline that a rebellion had broken out inside the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP).

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‘Why did I let him come to Delhi?’: Families mourn and question the capital after PG collapse

“His birthday is in October, he would’ve turned 20,” said Pushpa, Arpit Jahaj’s mother, recalling his last birthday, when the family surprised him with a silver bracelet. “His bracelet and neck chain were gone. I was able to identify my son only with the birthmark near his shoulder,” she said.

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‘Have to fight for our right’: Families of Delhi sewer workers wait for compensation after deaths

“Nothing can bring my son back. Compensation or not, this work is hazardous and no one should be put through this hazardous occupation,” said Kiran, whose son Chand died on June 26 after entering a septic tank at a factory in Delhi’s Mundka.

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‘Everyone sympathises and forgets’: After Satya Niketan collapse, students ask who will fix unsafe PGs

“My parents called me worried when this incident happened. I just moved to Delhi for college and this situation has scared me. I hope we are safe,” a first-year student from Shri Venkateshwara College told Newslaundry, requesting anonymity.

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Two women journalists say Delhi cops assaulted them after detaining them at hospital event

Two women journalists in Delhi alleged on Thursday that Delhi Police personnel detained and assaulted them while they were covering a news event in South Delhi. Delhi Police has not responded to the allegations so far. Dinesh Kumar, the Station House Officer (SHO) of Saket Police Station, declined to comment…

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From a school canteen row to street violence: How Ahmedabad’s Malala controversy escalated

“They beat us with iron and wooden rods. They hit my head, back and elbow even though we were trying to have a dialogue with them,” said Savan Zalariya, a theatre artiste and professor of political theatre at Ahmedabad University, about a book-reading session disrupted on August 27.

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Ex-finance secretary questions GDP calculation, NDTV anchor insists on govt data ‘sanctity’

According to the Government of India earlier this week, India’s economy grew 7.8 percent in the April–June quarter of FY27, comfortably beating the Reserve Bank of India’s more conservative 7 percent estimate.

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‘Only a part of the chest was found’: Delhi’s Nepali community tries to count the missing

Sunita Thapa and her son Dinesh were at home in Trishuli Bazaar, in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, when the flood struck on August 26. Within moments, the family’s house and shop were gone, swallowed by the current, and so were Sunita and Dinesh. A search began, and three days later, Dinesh’s…

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‘Got funds for temple, but was kept away from puja’: UP BJP MLA says she faced caste discrimination

BJP MLA Jai Devi Kaushal has alleged that she was stopped from performing a puja at a temple because she belongs to the Pasi Dalit community.

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‘Targeting journalists and their work’: Press bodies condemn Bengal FIR against Anandabazar Patrika journalists

The Indian Women’s Press Corps and Press Association has issued a statement seeking the immediate withdrawal of the case filed against Anandabazar Patrika editor Ishani Dutta Roy, chief reporter Soma Mukherjee and others part of the organisation’s editorial team.

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Smoking is a ‘choice’ for men, but a ‘character flaw’ for women?

A boy smokes. A girl smokes. Why do we judge them differently?

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Uttarakhand SIR: The unsolved mystery of BJP agents’ ‘forged’ objections against Muslim voters

In Uttarakhand’s Jhabrera constituency, 35 people listed as applicants in 1,657 objections to the draft electoral roll say they never filed them and that their identities were misused. Most of the voters targeted were Muslim.

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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.

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Public money, govt line: How DD News used pro-Modi govt farmer leaders to push E20

A nationwide debate is raging over ethanol-blended petrol, or E20, with motorists complaining of lower mileage and alleged engine damage. The government, meanwhile, has stuck to a central defence: E20 is good for farmers.

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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…

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Exclusive: Inside the bulk objections targeting Muslims in Uttarakhand’s SIR

Five men in five Uttarakhand assembly constituencies filed 6,500 objections to strike voters off the rolls in the ongoing special intensive revision. Every name they targeted is Muslim. Each of the five is linked to the BJP.

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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…

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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.

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Rs 1.9 cr a day: BJP govt in MP spent more on publicity than on environment or minority depts

Drive through almost any town in Madhya Pradesh and the state government is impossible to avoid. Hoardings at the chowk. Full pages in the morning paper. Sponsored posts around every government event. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s face is on most of them, and not only inside the state. Madhya Pradesh…

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A fake E20 bandh, anchors off air, and a mystery yet to be solved

Through the first week of July, Instagram reels began warning of a ‘Bharat Bandh’. Many were alarmist. Thumbnails urged people “not to step out of home”, said India was “on high alert”, and claimed public services would be disrupted on July 15. The shutdown, they said, was about E20 petrol.

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