RARE PHOTOS: 26 - The Real Truth

The challenges in UP’s wetland conservation

Sanjaya Singh knew that most bureaucratic decisions last only until a transfer order is issued, or a new official takes charge. So, when it came to the conservation of Uttar Pradesh’s 1.24 million hectares of wetlands, Singh – then principal chief conservator of forest and chief wildlife warden – led with an…

Newslaundry · Sep 1, 2025

The swagger’s gone: What the last two decades taught me about India’s fading growth dream

Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?– Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965. I was offered my first job in Mumbai on a very rainy day in September 2005, a few weeks after we had celebrated the…

Newslaundry · Aug 14, 2025

Mathura CCTV footage blows holes in UP’s ‘Operation Langda’

“Half encounter” – or what the Uttar Pradesh Police call “Operation Langda” – is a practice in which police shoot suspects in the leg to capture them alive. Once hit, the accused collapses, and the police make the arrest.

Newslaundry · Aug 12, 2025

India’s fight against bonded labour: A tale of delayed rehabilitation

Manoj Kumar Anant and his wife Shakuntala Bai were rescued from bonded labour at a brick kiln in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar in 2022. He had told IndiaSpend in September 2023 that he was waiting for rehabilitation assistance under the Union government’s Central Sector Scheme for Rehabilitation of Bonded Labour, 2021.…

Newslaundry · Jun 9, 2025

TV Newsance Rewind: Best of news interviews

This week on TV Newsance, we take a trip down memory lane. We look back to 2018 — back when Navika tried to ask tough questions to Yogi Adityanath on women’s safety in Uttar Pradesh. Then we move on to the 2023 promotions of the iconic movie — The Vaccine…

Newslaundry · Jun 7, 2025

Investigating UP’s new normal: 3 encounters, 1 spot, same story?

The BJP government and its supporters see the uptick in encounters in Uttar Pradesh as part of a ruthless crackdown on crime, but families are turning to the courts to seek justice against what they say have been extrajudicial measures by the police. 

Newslaundry · Jun 6, 2025

Allahabad HC refuses to quash FIR against Zubair over Narsinghanand tweet

The Allahabad High Court has refused to quash the FIR filed by the Uttar Pradesh Police against Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair for his tweets on Yati Narsinghanand, Bar and Bench reported.

Newslaundry · May 22, 2025

Gems supposedly buried with Buddha are to be sold at auction – it’s a symptom of Buddhism’s ongoing commercialisation

Almost 2,000 years ago in modern-day Uttar Pradesh, India, someone deposited a cache of gems inside a reliquary (a container for holy relics), along with some bone fragments and ash. The gems were precious, but the bones and ash even more so, for according to an inscription on the reliquary,…

The Conversation · May 9, 2025

‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India

Attacks and self censorship, draconian anti-terror laws and tycoons’ control over the media, are all seen as eroding the country’s democracy

The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2025

5 FIRs in UP against DD News anchor, others for ‘defaming’ Bharat Samachar

The Uttar Pradesh police have filed five FIRs against DD News primetime anchor Askok Shrivastav and two others for allegedly defaming Hindi news channel Bharat Samachar on social media platform X. 

Newslaundry · Apr 30, 2025