MYSTERIOUS: 7 - What They Never Told You

India is growing at 7.8%. Should you believe it?

Koi khabar aayi na pasand to end badal denge – Gulzar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Sunidhi Chauhan and Clinton Cerejo, Ek Thi Daayan, 2013.

Newslaundry · Sep 4

Picked up for speaking Bengali: Inside Bengaluru’s Operation Mukta

What happened during Operation Mukta in Bengaluru and what did the crackdown miss?

Newslaundry · Sep 4

Poor results, poorer facilities: The schools Nuh’s children are expected to learn in

A country’s future is shaped in its classrooms. But in several government schools in Haryana’s Nuh district, even basic facilities remain out of reach. In some schools, children sit on the floor to study; in others, school buildings are in poor condition. Toilets exist but lack water, while local residents…

Newslaundry · Sep 3

Out on morning walk, ex-bureaucrat picked up, released after 12 hours

Former additional secretary Ashish Joshi was taken away by two policemen in plainclothes from Delhi’s Nehru Park on Wednesday morning and released roughly 12 hours later – a day in which his family and his friends said they never were told who had picked him up or where he had…

Newslaundry · Sep 2

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.

Newslaundry · Sep 2

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.

Newslaundry · Sep 2

‘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…

Newslaundry · Sep 1

‘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.

Newslaundry · Sep 1

‘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.

Newslaundry · Sep 1

NCLT larger bench stays Subhash Chandra insolvency verdict

A larger, five-member bench of the National Company Law Tribunal has put the August 25 ruling of a smaller tribunal bench on hold – a decision that had come out of the insolvency proceedings against Zee Group founder Subhash Chandra, according to Bar and Bench.

Newslaundry · Sep 1