UNBELIEVABLE: 7 - The Untold Story

No FIR, ‘culprits will escape’: Ayodhya fumes over Ram Mandir ‘scam’

Two years after the consecration of the Ram Mandir, Ayodhya is once again at the centre of a controversy. This time over allegations that devotees’ offerings and donations were stolen.

Newslaundry · Jun 23

What the Lucknow fire says about the everyday gamble of being alive in India

What lies in an afternoon? A few desperate phone calls, corridors swallowed by thick black smoke, shattered windowpanes, and lives trapped inside rooms that had seemed utterly ordinary only minutes earlier. Imagining death by burning is not easy. Many find a grim comfort in believing that smoke suffocated the victims…

Newslaundry · Jun 23

‘Alarm bells ringing’: Why Indian newsrooms are losing public trust

The Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2026 highlights a news industry in India that is in flux. Trust in news fell four percentage points year-on-year to 39 percent, in line with a global decline to a decade-low 37 percent — “the lowest since we started recording this figure a decade…

Newslaundry · Jun 22

A pig at the gate, TV cameras outside: The making of a viral Eid controversy

For two days in late May, several television channels ran breathless coverage of events outside Poonam Cluster 1, a cooperative housing society in the Mira Road suburb of Thane district.

Newslaundry · Jun 18

Student suicides to education budget: The issues Rahul put at the centre of ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ in Kota

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has launched a new student outreach campaign, “Chhatron Ki Goonj” (Echo of Students), in Kota, calling for an end to “India’s exploitative education system”.

Newslaundry · Jun 18

Bullets, Thars and toppers: Inside Bihar’s crazy coaching wars

Kisan Cold Storage Lane – a well-known address in Musallapur, the coaching hub of Patna – looks much as it always does. The narrow lane houses the offices and classrooms of two of the city’s best-known coaching institutes, both currently in the headlines.

Newslaundry · Jun 13

The sadhu wants pulao. The snob rejects veg biryani. Culinary history disagrees with both

The seers of the Akhand Parshuram Akhada in Haridwar have, in their campaign to rename veg biryani as veg pulao, found themselves in unexpected company: the biryani puritans, who have insisted for years that veg biryani is an oxymoron and what you are eating is pulao. For once, the saffron-robed…

Newslaundry · Jun 13

TV Newsance 345 | The Modi anniversary special nobody asked for

Congratulations, mitron! Newslaundry has successfully completed 5,000 days and your favourite TV Newsance completed 3,090 days! By the way, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also completed 4,399 “uninterrupted days” in power, surpassing his biggest opponent and “ex-longest” PM Nehru. You know what that means.

Newslaundry · Jun 12

6 ‘triggers’ and ‘pressures’ outside: The anatomy of Mamata camp’s collapse

Mamata Banerjee is running out of time. Almost two-thirds of the Trinamool Congress’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs have come together to form a separate bloc and support the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

Newslaundry · Jun 12

The World Cup usually cleans up a country’s image. Not this time

Mega sporting events run on a reliable formula. A country wins the hosting rights, spends money it probably shouldn’t, and receives a month-long image makeover in return. The FIFA World Cup has often been held as the ultimate example of this exchange, accused of being the world’s most expensive reputation…

Newslaundry · Jun 12