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‘I would argue she deserved it’: ‘Racist’ Trump stooge Laura Loomer gets shown her place by a journalist during foreign trip

On March 14, 2026, Trump loyalist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer appeared at the India Today Conclave 2026 in New Delhi, India. While there, she mostly discussed the growing friendship between the United States and India, but was taken aback when she was repeatedly confronted about her past racist comments…

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Laura Loomer tried to bury her offensive tweets before foreign trip. Too bad a journalist with receipts was waiting for her

Laura Loomer sat in stunned silence while one bold journalist called her out in front of hundreds.

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Awkward moment for Laura Loomer as her deleted anti-Indian tweets are read back to her during her trip to New Delhi

The right-wing conspiracy theorist, who is close to President Donald Trump, said in 2024 that the White House would ‘smell like curry’ if then-Vice President Kamala Harris became president

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TV anchors slam ‘fringe’ Bajrang Dal, gush over Modi – miss the connection entirely

Christmas festivities in India have been overshadowed by acts of vandalism, intimidation, and violence by right-wing Hindutva groups this year, whether it’s in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and even Kerala. You can read our reports on such acts committed by members of the Bajrang Dal, VHP and others here…

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Rajdeep Sardesai moves HC over Shazia Ilmi defamation case order

Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai on Friday filed an appeal before the Delhi High Court challenging a single judge’s order, which directed him to take down an allegedly defamatory video clip showing an altercation between BJP leader Shazia Ilmi and an India Today journalist.

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HC tells Shazia Ilmi to pay Rs 25,000 for suppressing facts in case against Rajdeep Sardesai

The Delhi High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on BJP leader Shazia Ilmi for suppressing facts in her defamation suit against India Today journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, Bar and Bench reported.

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Hafta letters: Voter suppression, rewriting history, Rajdeep interview

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Exit journalist, enter podcaster: The year that busted the art of the political interview

Once upon a time, a politician avoiding tough questions was rare. But times have changed. Why face the pesky journalist armed with facts and follow-ups when you can have a podcaster nod and giggle like their salary depends on it?

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‘No authority to record’: Delhi HC orders India Today, Rajdeep to take down video against Ilmi

Delhi High Court has ordered anchor Rajdeep Sardesai and India Today to “take down” a video posted by Sardesai on X, which purportedly shows BJP spokesperson Shazia Ilmi allegedly “abusing” a video journalist from the channel, Bar and Bench reported. The court said the video must be removed for interim…

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BJP’s Shazia Ilmi sues India Today’s Rajdeep Sardesai over ‘defamation’

BJP spokesperson Shazia Ilmi has lodged a defamation case against India Today anchor Rajdeep Sardesai over a video posted by him on social media, accusing Ilmi of “abusing” the channel’s video journalist, Bar and Bench reported.

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‘Silence of Dalits’, ‘unreliable’ answers: Why pollsters thought they got it wrong

Some exit polls hit the bull’s eye. Others get the results partly right. But today was neither of them.

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Battle of media tactics: Modi’s media blitzkrieg vs Congress’s snub

The “breaking news” from the last gasp of this prolonged, hot, and heated election season is surely this quote from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In an interview with ABP News, he said: “In the last 75 years, was it not our responsibility to let the whole world know of Mahatma…

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General Elections 2024 | When campaign trails were carnivals

Seasoned journalists look back at a pre-tech era when charismatic leaders and festival-like canvassing won votes

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A death on the altar of inclusive India: Remembering Gandhi in 2024

I have watched two hours of television in 2024. Two hours too many, it would seem. Here’s a snippet of primetime television on January 22, 2024.

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Sorry Twitter, the ‘leaked’ video of Rajdeep, Rahul Kanwal and Pradeep Gupta was staged

Since last night’s exit polls weren’t chaotic enough, here’s a new twist in the tale.

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‘While We Watched’ Exposes Indian Media’s Complicity Through Complacency

Through the eyes of journalist Ravish Kumar, the documentary sheds light on the deplorable situation of Indian journalism.

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‘Can’t use reporter as a tool’: In Rahul vs ‘godi media’, beat reporters point to ‘low trust’, ‘harmful precedent’

The controversy surrounding Rahul Gandhi’s recent remarks against a reporter has not just pointed to a sense of distrust within the Congress against the media, but also a beat reporter bearing the brunt of the editorial slant of a section of the press.

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Meet Salvatore Babones, the American academic who called Indian intellectuals ‘anti-India’

In remarks widely reshared on social media, a western academic recently said at an India Today conclave that “India’s intellectual class is anti-India” and there’s a class that is “anti-Modi and anti-BJP”. He also argued that the international media is wrongly portraying India as a fascist state.

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Hardeep Singh Puri quotes Goebbels to counter journalist’s ‘fake narrative’ on Central Vista

For your Saturday afternoon entertainment, a union minister seems to be squabbling with a top news anchor on social media. It’s a tale as old as time, involving Twitter, Central Vista and rain.

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‘Fantastic number’: TV anchors miss the nuance in 13.5% GDP growth

The Indian economy grew by 13.5 percent in the April-June quarter of 2022, according to data released by the National Statistical Office on Wednesday. This figure may sound impressive, especially given the dismal numbers over the past two years, but there is more than meets the eye.

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'Publications now carry government's pictures': Press Club event looks at what ails photojournalism

On the first floor of the Press Club of India, in the corridor outside the conference room, a group of photojournalists were smoking cigarettes on Friday afternoon. “These men are stuck in a world that has long passed,” said one of them, carefully balancing a filter and tobacco on a…

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News channels lament India’s ‘Talibanisation’ after Udaipur killing, some blame Zubair

Rahul Shivshankar would like you to believe that Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair “enabled” the gruesome killing of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur.

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Election results LIVE: Capturing the sound and fury on TV news

Welcome to verdict day, where the results will be declared for the assembly elections conducted in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur and Punjab.

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#AssemblyPolls2019: Quick updates on numbers and TV news witticism

The results of the Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana will be announced today. More than 10 crore voters were on the electoral rolls to elect 378 MLAs in the two states — 90 in Haryana and 288 in Maharashtra. Earlier this week, our ground reporters in both states noted…

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#Cobrapost sting and Hindutva in the newsroom

The lines between editorial and marketing departments are more blurred than media organisations would like to acknowledge. This has been well established by documentation of paid news cases. The Cobrapost sting reinforces the fact that media’s business model is advertisement-centric.

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