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Satish Nandgaonkar remained a journalist to the end, despite the toxicity of the industry around him

Satish Nandgaonkar, a senior journalist and chief of the Thane bureau at Hindustan Times, died of a massive heart attack outside his office at Lower Parel on February 28. 

Newslaundry · Mar 6, 2024

ProtonMail could be banned in India following bomb threat

Indian police ask government agency to ban ProtonMail over E2EE services that prevent criminal tracking.

TechRadar · Feb 16, 2024

Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat

The Indian government is now banning ProtonMail after a bomb threat was sent to local schools via the service.

Android Central · Feb 15, 2024

‘Grim record’, ‘backsliding of democracy’: Newspapers on mass suspension of Opposition MPs

A record 78 opposition members of Parliament – 33 from Lok Sabha and 45 from Rajya Sabha – were suspended yesterday for protesting against the Parliament security breach on December 13. 

Newslaundry · Dec 19, 2023

Parliament breach: Papers profile unemployed suspects, Sudhir, Arnab say terrorists, andolanjeevi

It was a security breach at the Parliament complex on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack, and it was also a protest against “dictatorship”. While some voices, such as BJD MP Bhartruhari Mehtab, cautioned that the incident could not be compared to the  terrorist attack, hawkish faces on television…

Newslaundry · Dec 14, 2023

SC on Article 370: Modi’s oped across papers, The Hindu’s scathing editorial vs everyone else’s

Yesterday, to the surprise of no one, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Modi government’s abrogation of Article 370. 

Newslaundry · Dec 12, 2023

Citing PTI, newspapers and media houses publish AI-generated image of tunnel rescue

The big news last night was the successful rescue of the 41 workers stuck in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel, 17 days after they got trapped. The nightly return of the workers made headlines across media outlets and made it to the front pages of almost every newspaper in the country. 

Newslaundry · Nov 29, 2023

In Diwali week, ToI, HT Delhi printed over 150 pages of ads, The Hindu had the least

From full-page ads by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh to those by an electric appliance chain and ‘Poland Day’ – this Diwali week, advertisements in newspapers were abundant.

Newslaundry · Nov 15, 2023

Grit and glamour: how Mahua Moitra shook up the misogyny and hypocrisy of Indian politics

A divorcee who likes a glass of wine and a pair of Ferragamo shoes, the opposition MP has become a target for character assassination for Narendra Modi’s conservatives. But she hits back twice as hard

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2023

Ahead of key ethics panel meet, its ‘expulsion’ move against Mahua on front pages

Days after TMC leader Mahua Moitra and opposition MPs stormed out of the meeting of the Parliamentary ethics committee, the panel is said to have recommended her expulsion from the Lok Sabha. The panel is probing the cash-for-query allegations against her, and Mahua had slammed the panel chairperson’s line of…

Newslaundry · Nov 9, 2023