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You can rebook an Indigo flight. You can’t rebook your lungs

A reiteration of the obvious is never wasted on the oblivious – Percival Everett, Erasure.I'm a man of contradictions, I'm a man of many moodsI contain multitudes– Bob Dylan, I contain multitudes. On December 6, I wrote a piece for Newslaundry explaining why India has been held hostage by a single airline: IndiGo. It went viral…

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Photographer files Rs 18 cr copyright suit against Zee

A filmmaker and photographer has filed a Rs 18.11-crore infringement suit against Zee Media Corporation Ltd in a West Bengal court for using his footage of cheetahs and branding it as “super exclusive”.

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Delhi CM rewrites pollution science at media summit. The follow-ups? Missing like the data

At the HT Leadership Summit, NDTV’s Padmaja Joshi sat down with Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and then spent the next several minutes watching Gupta bench-press the limits of logic. What followed was a live demonstration of how confidently stated nonsense can still aspire to be policy.

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Dec 8, 2025: ‘Very poor’ air on Delhi’s busy roads

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the ITO intersection in the national capital. The nearest CPCB monitor pegged the AQI at 326, or in the ‘very poor’ category. According to our air monitor, the AQI stood at 364, with PM2.5 at 204 and PM10 at 214.

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‘Overcrowded, underfed’: Manipur planned to shut relief camps in Dec, but many still ‘trapped’

Thirty-nine-year-old Tingkim says she is down to her last Rs 200. What worries her most is the embarrassment of being unable to contribute to buying Christmas gifts for the children in her relief camp in Manipur.

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Dileep acquitted in 2017 actor assault case, Pulsar Suni convicted

In a deeply troubling turn of events, a Kerala sessions court has convicted prime accused Pulsar Suni but acquitted Malayalam actor Dileep in the horrific 2017 sexual assault case of a woman actor.

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8 years of twists: The full timeline of the Kerala actor assault case

Eight years ago, a top female actor was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in a moving car in Kerala’s Kochi. A couple of months later, Dileep, a superstar in the Malayalam industry, was arrested, accused of masterminding the crime.

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Before today’s verdict: The Dileep–Kerala actor assault case in a nutshell

On December 8, a Sessions court in Ernakulam, Kerala, will pronounce the verdict in the case of a well-known south Indian actor who was sexually assaulted in Kochi in 2017. The trial has reached its denouement after eight years of twists and turns, amid intense media scrutiny and industry-wide debate…

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How Himalayan states have higher food prices

The cost of groceries per person per day in Mizoram was Rs 77.5 in November 2025, about Rs 20 more than the all-India average (Rs 57), as per Food Price Watch, IndiaSpend’s realtime dashboard, which aggregates food prices from various groups across the country to estimate how much an individual or…

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Let Me Explain: How Kerala keeps not electing BJP

Imagine Kerala’s long coastline. The waves come and go, sometimes calm, sometimes rough.

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South Central 53: Secularism, Religion and the Indian State in 2025

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna discuss India’s Constitutional value of secularism and the contradictions in its practice. The panel delves into how India has fared, or not, in prioritising Constitutional values vis-à-vis political agenda. They are joined by journalist and activist Aakar Patel…

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Indigo: Why India is held hostage by one airline

It was October 1988. Me, my mother, and my younger sister were supposed to fly in an Indian Airlines flight, from Ranchi, in what was then Bihar, to Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, with an overnight stop at Delhi, to attend my father’s younger brother’s wedding.

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TV Newsance 324 | Putin fever, rupee crash and Parliament dogfight

On this week's episode of Newsance, we dive into how our Godijeevis went gaga the moment Putin’s plane wheels hit the tarmac.

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Hafta letters: Leaving Delhi, AQI, and subscription ideas

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A conversation that never took off: When Nikhil Kamath’s nervous schoolboy energy met Elon Musk

Among internet personalities who speak too much, Elon Musk occupies a special place. The entire world ( including many Indians) know his views on free speech, wokism, on rockets, on civilisation, on Trump and on the people he is fighting on X with this week. Which is why an Indian…

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2 UP towns, 1 script: A ‘land jihad’ conspiracy theory to target Muslims buying homes?

In Meerut and Bulandshahr, two Muslim families set out to build a better life in the homes they had just bought. But almost immediately, local Hindutva groups objected to their presence in Hindu-majority areas.

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As sections of Indian media go gaga over Putin, he launches competitor to challenge ‘Western narrative’

As Indian TV channels aired nonstop coverage of Vladimir Putin’s visit to India, the Russian premier today launched the Indian arm of the Russian state–funded television network Russia Today (RT).

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India Today’s ‘100-minute’ interview, Putin-Modi glazing, and ‘bahut strong visuals’

In a moment reminiscent of former ABP News anchor Rubika Liyaquat's epic softball question to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, "Why don't you get tired? Aap thakte kyu nahi ho?" The Kremlin’s English-language mouthpiece Russia Today channel showed India Today's Executive Editor-in-Chief, Kalli Purie, asking Russian President Vladimir Putin, "We've been…

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‘River will suffer’: Inside Keonjhar’s farm resistance against ESSAR’s iron ore project

Residents of Tikarpada, Kadagada and nearby villages in Odisha’s Keonjhar district are protesting ESSAR’s proposed iron ore beneficiation project, saying it endangers their farms, water sources and way of life.

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Dispatch from Dadri: The lynching that shook India, and govt U-turn stirring it again

The Uttar Pradesh government has moved a Greater Noida court seeking to withdraw all charges against the accused in the 2015 Mohammad Akhlaq lynching case, bringing the case back into national focus.

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Maruti Suzuki Victoris: Its underbody CNG tank is probably its greatest flex

The newly launched Maruti Suzuki Victoris range starts at INR 10,49,900 (ex-showroom) for the base LXI with a manual transmission. Thereafter, it’s like a step ladder all the way through to INR 19,98,900 with a total of 21 variants for customers to choose from. It’s like going to a wedding…

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5 channels spun NCERT textbook poem into ‘love jihad’ plot. Watchdog orders takedown

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has issued an order directing five news channels to take down eight shows that accused an NCERT textbook of a ‘love jihad’ conspiracy.

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Dec 4, 2025: AQI in Vasant Kunj is significantly worse than official data

For today’s AQI, Newslaundry visited Vasant Kunj in South Delhi. The nearest air quality monitoring station at Sri Aurobindo Marg, operated by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, showed an AQI reading of 283 at 9 am, which falls in the ‘Poor’ category. But when we deployed our portable air quality…

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After TNM report on leaked theatre footage, KSFDC strengthens CCTV safeguards

TNM recently published an investigative story on how CCTV footage that captured intimate moments of couples from cinema theatres was leaked and sold illegally through Telegram. Our reportage has now prompted action from theatre authorities in Kerala.

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Navneet Sehgal quits as Prasar Bharati chief before term expiry

Navneet Kumar Sehgal has stepped down as chairman of Prasar Bharati, a year and a half into his three-year tenure. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has accepted his resignation and formally relieved him of his duties.

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