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SC protection in Morigaon, but fresh summons in Guwahati: Wire points to ‘no details’ of new FIR

The Guwahati Crime Branch has issued summons to The Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan and senior journalist Karan Thapar in an FIR citing Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita among other charges. This came on the same day the Supreme Court shielded Varadarajan from coercive action in a separate FIR filed…

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CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s defence on Bihar’s ‘0’ house numbers not convincing

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar at a press conference dismissed allegations against the Election Commission of India (ECI) and asked Rahul Gandhi to submit his complaints in a sworn affidavit within seven days or apologise to the nation.

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Aug 18, 2025: It’s not just rainfall behind better air quality

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the Jawaharlal Nehru University. The AQI at the nearest monitoring station was recorded 74, or satisfactory.

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How the Taliban’s propaganda empire consumed Afghan media

In four years, the Taliban have annihilated Afghanistan’s independent media sector and supplanted it with their own propaganda empire and sophisticated digital bots that flood social media with pro-Taliban content.

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Telegraph front page calls out EC ‘obfuscation’, ToI has NDA’s V-P pick as lead story

In a rare press conference on Sunday, the Election Commission of India sought to counter Rahul Gandhi’s charge of “vote fraud,” calling such language an insult to the Constitution. Flanked by his colleagues, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar insisted that the poll body stood with voters and was above partisan…

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‘The people of Uttarakhand and Himachal want roads, not landslides’

This year, the onset of monsoon in India was under unusual circumstances. The country saw its highest ever rainfall in the month of May. The official onset of monsoon was declared over the hill states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand around June 20 and monsoon covered the entire country by…

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Let Me Explain: Inside India’s voter list scandals

It’s been a week since Rahul Gandhi made allegations of ‘vote chori’ – stealing of votes – in Bengaluru’s Mahadevapura,

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संसद में SIR, वोट चोरी पर हंगामे के बीच ध्वनि मत से पास हुए बिल

संसद सत्र का यह हफ्ता काफी दिलचस्प रहा. संसद के अंदर जहां राजनीतिक तापमान काफी गर्म था वहीं संसद के बाहर भी पारा काम नहीं था. एक तरफ इंडिया ब्लॉक, वोट चोरी और एसआईआर पर चर्चा की मांग को लेकर संसद के अंदर और बाहर, प्रदर्शन करता रहा, तो दूसरी…

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Sansad Watch: Taxation bills passed without debate amid INDIA Bloc protests

In this episode of Sansad Watch, we recap a fiery Parliament session where the heat inside the House was matched by tensions outside it.

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Hafta 550: Opposition’s protest against voter fraud, SC stray dogs order, and Uttarkashi floods

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Priya Sahgal, editorial director at NewsX, Jasmine Damkewala, advocate on record in the Supreme Court, and senior journalist Hridayesh Joshi.

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Hafta letters: Uttarakhand disaster, vote chori, scaling up NL

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TV Newsance 310: Who let the dogs out on primetime news?

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‘Bookings cancelled, no gas, stocks over’: Dharali villages struggle for food, fuel and survival

The disaster in Dharali has left the region cut off. With no road connectivity, the supply of essential goods has ground to a halt. Shopkeepers, hoteliers, dhaba owners, and transporters – whose livelihoods depend on the steady flow of visitors and supplies – now face crippling losses.

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इंडिपेंडेंस डे विशेष: नए मिलेनिया में विकसित भारत का सपना धुंधलाने न पाए

2005 के 59वें स्वतंत्रता दिवस के जश्न के कुछ हफ़्ते बाद सितंबर में मूसलाधार बारिश वाले एक दिन, मुझे मुंबई में अपनी पहली नौकरी का मौका मिला. वो मौसम आत्मविश्वास से भरी अकड़ का था. भारत "अगला चीन" था, शेयर बाजार तेजी से चढ़ रहा था और आशावाद मानसून की…

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मणिपुर इस स्वतंत्रता दिवस को कैसे मनाएगा!

80 के दशक के मध्य की बात है. स्वतंत्रता दिवस पर छुट्टी थी. मैं बाहर जाकर अपने दोस्तों के साथ खेलना चाहता था. लेकिन मेरी मां ने सख्ती से कहा, "आज बाहर मत जाओ… कौन जाने क्या हो जाए. बम और जाने क्या-क्या फट सकते हैं." यह चेतावनी आज भी…

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India’s enduring patriotic songs: When music becomes the nation’s memory

Picture this scene from the 1957 classic Pyaasa: Guru Dutt’s character Vijay, drunk and dejected, wanders through the narrow lanes of a red-light district.

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In Manipur, I-Day boycott used to be a diktat. This time, it’s about disillusionment

It was the mid-‘80s. Independence Day was a holiday. I wanted to go out, play with my friends. But my mother sternly said, “Don’t go out today…who knows what will happen. Bombs may explode and what not.” That warning still rings in my ears every Independence Day.

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80 साल बूढ़ा 15 अगस्त और 15 साल के टीनएजर सा उन्माद

कैसा अजीब मंजर है आंखों के सामने कि लोकतंत्र के पन्ने-पन्ने उखड़ कर, रद्दी कागजों-से हवा में इधर-उधर उड़ रहे हैं और इन्हीं पन्नों के बल पिछले एक दशक से ज्यादा समय से सत्ता में बैठी सरकार आंखें मूंदे बैठी है. कुछ वैसे ही जैसे बिल्ली सामने से भागते चूहों…

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‘Ghost voters’ in high-rises: Behind electoral fraud allegations in Thrissur

Opposition parties in Kerala have alleged electoral roll manipulation in Thrissur a year after the Bharatiya Janata Party's historic first Lok Sabha victory in the state, though evidence for the claims of large-scale manipulation remains limited. The accusations emerged amid broader national allegations by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi about electoral…

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If your food is policed, housing denied, identity questioned, is it freedom?

As India enters its 79th year, the questions of who the Republic belongs to and who belongs in the country stare its citizens in the face in multiple ways. The day has somehow come to be one of enforced vegetarianism, with several municipal bodies across the country ordering the closure…

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SC’s Aug 11 order tears up the rulebook on stray dogs, says lawyer fighting sterilisation legal battle

The sterilisation and vaccination of stray dogs are not just animal welfare measures – they are the centrepiece of India’s legally mandated strategy to manage the street dog population and prevent rabies. The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2023, framed under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, require…

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Aug 14, 2025: After downpour, Delhi gets respite from air pollution

The air quality in Delhi improved after heavy rains lashed the city on Thursday.

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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…

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August 15: The day we perform freedom and pack it away

Every August 15, the country wakes up unusually early, not out of patriotism but because every street and apartment block is blaring Mere Desh Ki Dharti and Vande Mataram on loop through Ahuja speakers, which were last repaired when Nehru was still around.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 379: UP’s half encounters, govt ads in J&K dailies

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Sumedha Mittal.

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