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Delimitation, Vijay’s rise, ‘unhappy alliance’: The Annamalai interview

In a wide-ranging interview with Sreenivasan Jain on the campaign trail, K. Annamalai, the BJP’s most prominent face in Tamil Nadu, navigates questions about the party’s “anti-South” perception, the friction-filled AIADMK alliance, and the emergence of actor-politician Vijay.

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Deleted despite documents: Inside West Bengal’s ‘political’ SIR

The run-up to elections in West Bengal has been anything but normal. The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has led to the exclusion of nearly 90 lakh voters from the electoral rolls. Of these, 27 lakh were excluded after being placed “under adjudication” over “logical discrepancies” in their documents,…

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Jobs, corruption, SIR | Mahua Moitra on the Mamata mandate

With voting in West Bengal less than two weeks away, questions abound as to whether the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise will hurt the incumbent Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) chances. Concerns are mounting over the reported targeting of Muslim-dominated constituencies where the party has historically been strong. At the…

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Infiltration, SIR, ‘washing machine’ | The Suvendu Adhikari interview

With West Bengal heading to the polls in just two weeks, credible reports indicate that the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has disenfranchised millions of voters. The SIR exercise, the opposition TMC alleges, has been designed to pave the way for a BJP victory.

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The Mama of ‘hate’: Decoding Himanta’s politics of division

As Assam heads to the polls, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma projects the image of an unstoppable leader. He frames his quest for a second term (and the BJP’s third term) as a ‘done deal’, built on welfare schemes and ‘development’. To his followers, he is ‘Mama’ (uncle), but this…

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Defections, bulldozers and a party in decline: Does Gaurav Gogoi have answers for all?

Assam goes to the polls with the Congress in a familiar but uncomfortable position: believing a turnaround is imminent while the evidence points the other way. Two consecutive assembly defeats, a poor Lok Sabha showing, and a string of senior leaders walking out the door – some of them pointing…

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Hafta letters: NL recommendations, PK interview, thumbnail optics

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NDA’s ‘jungle raj’ candidate? Interview with Bihar strongman Anant Singh

In this ground report from Mokama constituency in Bihar, Sreenivasan Jain speaks to JDU’s strongman candidate Anant Singh and his supporters to understand why the bahubali politician continues to thrive, despite Prime Minister Modi’s recent claim that the NDA has ended the ‘Jungle Raj’ of the Lalu Prasad years.

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Crores of govt jobs, cash handouts: Tejashwi Yadav’s ‘unreal’ promises?

In an interview with Sreenivasan Jain, RJD leader and INDIA alliance’s chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav addresses questions on the alliance’s unity, the feasibility of RJD’s job promises, and the recurring charge of a return to ‘jungle raj’. He dismisses concerns that delays in seat-sharing and in declaring him the…

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TMR 2025: Is this the end of the road for TV news, or is a revival possible?

Once the most powerful medium for news in India, TV journalism’s credibility is collapsing under the weight of sensationalism, partisanship and ad-driven priorities. So, is reform possible or are we losing the medium entirely to new forms of storytelling and distribution? And what are the challenges, limitations and possibilities of…

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Hafta letters: Rahul Gandhi, Chandrachud interview, media’s role

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Rajiv Pratap Rudy on PM’s claims on ‘infiltrators’, ‘vote-chori’, Nishikant Dubey’s ‘arrogance’

In an interview with Sreenivasan Jain, senior BJP leader and Bihar MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy addresses the controversy over the Election Commission’s deletions of 65 lakh names from Bihar’s electoral rolls, which the opposition calls “vote chori.” He defended the Prime Minister’s claims of a surge of infiltrators into Bihar…

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‘No evidence of deterrence’: Counter-terror expert on Op Sindoor, govt claims

In an exclusive interview with Sreenivasan Jain, founding member and executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management Ajai Sahni discusses Operation Sindoor and its impact, India’s military strategy and geopolitical stance following the military clash with Pakistan, and the discrepancies in the government’s narrative.

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Delhi CM Atishi on unkept jobs promise, AAP’s ‘soft Hindutva’, Kejriwal’s future

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi Singh is confident that the Aam Aadmi Party will return to power in the national capital. In an exclusive conversation with Sreenivasan Jain, she talks about her government’s efforts to tackle pollution, the jobs it had promised, her party’s “soft Hindutva”, its politics around Rohingya immigrants,…

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NL-TNM Townhall: Sreenivasan Jain on US poll coverage

Last year, we visited the US amid a heated poll campaign, days after reporting on the Israel-Hamas war. At the Townhall on December 5 last year, award-winning journalist Sreenivasan Jain and Newslaundry producer Priyali Dhingra responded to a wide range of questions from contributors who had supported this coverage.

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BJP’s Ashish Shelar on how ‘arrogance’ and ‘lethargy’ cost the party in the Lok Sabha

Ashish Shelar is the president of the Mumbai BJP, a senior cricket administrator, and the candidate from Mumbai’s Vandre West constituency, which he’s represented since 2014. In this interview with Sreenivasan Jain, he talks about the “anti mood” against the BJP in Mumbai, and blames “arrogance” and “lethargy” within the…

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Exclusive: Sharad Pawar on BJP-NCP’s 2019 ‘dinner meeting’ at Adani’s home

In 2019, Sharad Pawar’s colleagues in the NCP were worried about cases against them. They believed there was “no escape” unless their party decided to “go” with the BJP.This is why, Pawar told Newslaundry and The News Minute, he agreed to a 2019 meeting with the BJP. More sensationally, he…

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Ajit Pawar said Adani attended BJP-NCP talks: Did it make front pages?

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar’s revelation that billionaire Gautam Adani was present alongside BJP leader Amit Shah and NCP veteran Sharad Pawar during 2019 BJP-NCP talks has stirred the political circles.

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Gautam Adani was part of BJP-NCP talks, Ajit Pawar reveals in NL-TNM interview

Gautam Adani, the billionaire and chairman of the Adani Group, was part of political talks between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Nationalist Congress Party five years ago, Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said in an interview with Newslaundry and The News Minute. At the end of that episode, Ajit Pawar…

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Exclusive: Journalist Mehdi Hasan on Trump’s threats to the press, founding Zeteo, reporting on Hamas

“I am actually feeling quite good about not being in corporate media in a year like this,” says journalist Mehdi Hasan, who quit his over 24-year career as a mainstream journalist to start his own news media company Zeteo.

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Kante ki Takkar: A look inside Kamala Harris’s faltering campaign

Donald Trump has threatened to scrap America’s Constitution, has denied the results of the last election, and has been charged with inciting a riot. His rival, Kamala Harris, is none of those things.

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Hafta letters: Google and data, legacy of CJI Chandrachud, Punjab in 1980s

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Israel journalist Gideon Levy on TV propaganda, losing friends, and ‘traitor’ tag

“October 7 was horrible. Nothing of what happened after October 7 justifies what Israel has done ever since then,” says Israeli journalist and Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy, in an exclusive conversation with Sreenivasan Jain.

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Hafta letters: Bad corporate culture, swearing on Hafta, India’s youth and future

I saw NL’s video on the protest in support of Nasrallah. I felt very odd as many Muslims looked up to Nasrallah and called him innocent.

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Israeli raids, settler attacks, demolitions: In Ep 3, how West Bank is turning into Gaza 2.0

After last year’s October 7 attack, the Israeli army has justified its brutal offensive in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas. But the aftermath of October 7 witnessed an escalation of violence in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory not controlled by Hamas.

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