Anxiety and survival: Breaking down India’s stampedes With three months still to go for the new year, 2025 already seems like an unfortunate year for stampede deaths in India. Newslaundry · Oct 1, 2025
Complaints filed, posters up, jobs gone: Cops turn blind eye to Indore Muslim boycott In Indore, the police’s response to the forced removal of Muslim workers has once again raised questions of consistency and bias. Newslaundry · Oct 1, 2025
India sees 27% jump in fake news cases in 2023; sedition cases drop by 50%: NCRB data At 1,087 cases, India recorded a 26.7 percent rise in reported incidents of false/fake news and rumours as compared to the 858 cases in 2022, according to the Crime in India 2023 report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Newslaundry · Oct 1, 2025
‘If service valuable, why pay so low?’: 5,000 MCD workers protest for permanent jobs, equal pay, leaves For the last two days, more than 5,000 Delhi municipal workers have been protesting outside MCD’s Civic Centre for equal pay, medical and earned leaves, and permanent employment. Newslaundry · Sep 30, 2025
‘Witch-hunt against Wangchuk’: Ladakh leaders demand justice at Delhi presser At a press conference in Delhi on Monday, leaders from Ladakh and several other hill regions demanded accountability for recent police firing in Leh, the release of detained activist Sonam Wangchuk, and constitutional safeguards for the Himalayan region. Newslaundry · Sep 29, 2025
September 29, 2025: Another season of blame game in Delhi soon? For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited a bus stop at Aurobindo Ashram Marg. The nearest air quality monitoring station pegged the AQI at 69 or as satisfactory. Newslaundry · Sep 29, 2025
Govt ‘idiotically misinterpreted’ organisation’s reply: Sonam Wangchuk’s wife on FCRA license cancellation While cancelling the FCRA licence of an organisation founded by Ladakh-based climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on September 25 said that the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (Secmol) received foreign funds to study the national sovereignty against the “national interest” and in violation… Newslaundry · Sep 27, 2025
India vs Pak: Why cricket’s favourite love-hate story echoes history ”India forces Pak to surrender”. That was The Telegraph’s front-page headline after India’s 39-run win over Pakistan in the 1996 World Cup quarter-final. Newslaundry · Sep 26, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel to Kunal Kamra: Trump’s US follows a familiar playbook from Modi’s India What do the current government of the United States, headed by Donald Trump, and the government in India, led by Narendra Modi, have in common? Newslaundry · Sep 25, 2025
September 25, 2025: Moderate air quality outside Nizamuddin railway station For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the area outside Sarai Kalai metro station and Nizamuddin railway station. The AQI recorded at the nearest air monitoring station in ITO was 93 (moderate), while the highest AQI in Delhi was at 263 in Anand Vihar. (See daily AQI data… Newslaundry · Sep 25, 2025
HC dismisses X plea challenging govt portal over takedown orders The Karnataka High Court has dismissed X Corp’s (formerly Twitter) petition challenging the legality of the Central government’s ‘Sahyog’ portal – an online platform used to issue content takedown orders to intermediaries, Bar and Bench reported. Newslaundry · Sep 24, 2025
Shops shut, at least 50 lose jobs, but cops silent on Indore BJP leader’s ultimatum on Muslim workers What if a politician told shopkeepers in your area to sack all their Hindu employees within a month? TV studios would likely erupt in outrage, FIRs would be filed, and even bulldozers might not be far behind. But when a threat of this nature has targeted Muslims in an Indore… Newslaundry · Sep 24, 2025
BJP office torched, Ladakh tense, several injured in clashes A BJP office was torched while the situation in Leh town turned tense amid stone-pelting, teargas, and baton charges. Newslaundry · Sep 24, 2025
Newslaundry · Sep 24, 2025 ‘Indian Muslims not equal’: ABP show allows hate speech, slurs as Ragi vs Pathan On her primetime show Mahadangal, ABP News anchor Chitra Tripathi sat by as her guest, Delhi University professor Sangit Ragi, launched into a communal diatribe – calling Muslims “betrayers,” calling for a denial of equal rights, and hurling slurs – without so much as a decisive rebuke.
Newslaundry · Sep 23, 2025 ‘Bhujiya jihad’ with benefits: Your taxes will fund 100 interns at Sudarshan News In what appears to be a bizarre misuse of public funds, the Ministry of Education has approved a one-month internship programme for Sudarshan News under its Indian Knowledge System (IKS) initiative for 2025–26.
Newslaundry · Sep 23, 2025 Will restrain defamatory posts, not satire: HC in Gaurav Bhatia’s News18 show case BJP leader and senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia has approached the Delhi High Court seeking the removal of defamatory content on social media over his alleged appearance on a News18 India show without pants, Bar and Bench reported.
Newslaundry · Sep 22, 2025 September 22, 2025: Toxic air reducing life expectancy For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited Sarvodaya Enclave in South Delhi. The nearest monitoring station, Aurobindo Marg, recorded a satisfactory AQI.
Newslaundry · Sep 22, 2025 The fight for Pune’s green heart: A city’s soul vs 6 minutes of saved commute For more than 40 years, Punekars have rallied to save Vetal Tekdi – the city’s highest hill, a green lung thick with trees, birdsong, and clean air. It’s where thousands walk and birds find rest. Each time the hill has faced the axe of development, citizens have risen in protest,…
Newslaundry · Sep 20, 2025 Reporters Without Orders Ep 382: Field experiences, reporting insights, hiatus In the final episode of the podcast, all the Newslaundry reporters come together to share their thoughts. They share their experiences about how they managed to do some of their stories despite several hurdles. They also shed light on what a reporter should and should not do while reporting. While…
Newslaundry · Sep 20, 2025 Kashmir’s apple farmers face Rs 2,000 cr loss as NH-44 closure strands thousands of trucks “I don’t even have money for poison to kill myself. All my harvested apples have rotted before reaching the markets after the NH-44 was shut,” said Ezaj Ahmed, apple farmer from Anantnag district of Kashmir.
Newslaundry · Sep 20, 2025 The real E20 story: How a botched rollout turned India’s big fuel fix into a national burden The most burning issue in the Indian motoring community of late has been fuel. That intentional PJ aside, the fact remains: vehicle owners have been crying foul ever since the Union government advanced its plans to roll out E20 nationwide – five years before it was originally intended.
Newslaundry · Sep 19, 2025 Operation Langda: Three districts, three encounters, same story In Newslaundry’s ongoing investigation into Uttar Pradesh police’s alleged ‘half encounters’, also known as ‘Operation Langda’, we chart three such incidents – all with similar stories.
Newslaundry · Sep 19, 2025 In Jangpura, Saket and Vasant Kunj, many sidewalks aren’t for walking Delhi has a parking issue. The city has 1.5 crore registered vehicles, but not enough parking space, leading to the obvious casualty: pedestrian zones.
Newslaundry · Sep 19, 2025 Beyond Brotherhood: Why the new Saudi-Pakistan pact matters The Saudi-Pakistan Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement was signed in Riyadh by Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif this week. The pact pledges that an attack on either country will be treated as an act of aggression against both. This is not…