FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 29 | History Defined

Pedestrian zones as driveways, parking lots: The elite encroachments Delhi won’t touch

Read the previous parts of this series here.

Newslaundry · Jul 24, 2025

Luggage by the door, families on edge: Gurugram’s Bengali Market empties out amid police crackdown

Once a tight-knit community of over 500 Bengali-speaking migrant workers, the Bengali Market in Gurugram’s Sector 49 is witnessing a mass departure. 

Newslaundry · Jul 24, 2025

Fake press cards, forged govt seals: Self-styled envoy of ‘West Arctica’ held in UP

Twelve “diplomatic” passports, 34 counterfeit seals of foreign governments and companies, two fake press cards, Rs 44.7 lakh in cash, and four luxury cars bearing diplomatic number plates.

Newslaundry · Jul 23, 2025

2006 Mumbai blasts are a stark reminder of glaring gaps in terror reportage

The acquittal by the Bombay High Court of 12 men accused of being responsible for the 2006 serial bomb blasts on Mumbai’s suburban trains has triggered a much-needed discussion on our criminal justice system, on the police and the investigative agencies, and the absence of closure in so many such…

Newslaundry · Jul 22, 2025

Gurugram community centre doubles up as detention facility, 74 ‘workers from Bengal, Assam’ in custody

Seventy-four Muslim migrant workers “from West Bengal and Assam” have been detained for the past four days at a municipal community centre in Gurugram’s Sector 10A, which is being used as a makeshift detention facility, Newslaundry has learnt.

Newslaundry · Jul 22, 2025

July 22, 2025: Despite heavy rain, AQI remains moderate

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry reached the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi – one of the country’s top educational institutions. 

Newslaundry · Jul 22, 2025

‘True threat at large’: HC order acquitting 12 rips into 2006 Mumbai blasts probe

Branded terrorists, tortured into confessions, and imprisoned for years – 12 men convicted in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case were acquitted on Monday by the Bombay High Court, which set aside a trial court’s judgment that had sentenced five of them to death and the others to life.

Newslaundry · Jul 21, 2025

In a Delhi neighbourhood, the pedestrian zone wears chains

This report is part of a series on impunity for public space encroachments by the elite. Read the previous parts here.

Newslaundry · Jul 21, 2025

Hafta letters: Public transport, electoral rolls, Air India probe report

Jesal Parekh

Newslaundry · Jul 19, 2025

South Delhi elites are encroaching on public land, one driveway at a time

“There appears to be a concerted effort to regularise illegal constructions by the affluent.”

Newslaundry · Jul 18, 2025