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EC cracks whip on Rajasthan Congress for newspaper ads that ‘look like news items’

Days ahead of polling in Rajasthan, the Election Commission of India has asked the state’s Congress unit to furnish an explanation about its advertisements in mainstream newspapers that “looked like news items”.

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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.

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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…

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Centre set to release guidelines for govt ads on websites, social media platforms: Report

The Central Bureau of Communication, which is the nodal department under the union ministry of information and broadcasting for government advertising, is working on rates and preparing guidelines for government advertisements on websites and social media platforms, the Indian Express reported.

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Runners at a track meet in India wanted to avoid drug tests — so they ran away

Some athletes just didn't show up. One young woman ran her race — and then kept running after crossing the finish line, forcing a doping control officer to run after her, a coach said.

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Deadly train shooting in India: What to know

Indian railway security guard allegedly killed four people on board express train before being apprehended by police.

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Indian guard kills colleague and three passengers on train, then hails Modi

A railway security constable shoots dead a senior colleague on a train travelling from Mumbai to Jaipur.

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Brij Bhushan Singh snaps at Times Now journalist, slams car door on her mic

News channel Times Now has stated that WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh misbehaved with its journalist at Delhi airport today. This was hours after the Indian Express reported that the Delhi police, in its chargesheet filed last month, had found Singh liable to be “prosecuted and punished” for sexual harassment,…

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Bengal violence: IE editorial points to ‘TMC bombs’, Telegraph says central forces ‘invisible’

The violence in West Bengal seems to be unrelenting with reports of fresh clashes amid repolling for the single-phase panchayat polls in several areas on Monday. At least 19 have been killed during the election, and 22 in the run-up to it, despite the deployment of nearly 60,000 central security…

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Months after he complained of ‘threats from land mafia’, journalist ‘shot at’ in Uttar Pradesh

Two days after a journalist in Unnao was allegedly shot at, the Uttar Pradesh police is yet to register an FIR in the matter, and said they are awaiting a complaint from his family, the Indian Express reported. Around 10 pm on Saturday, Mannu Awasthi, 25, was reportedly shot at…

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Digital fact-checking platforms may need to seek govt registration: IE report

The government is considering making it mandatory for digital fact-checking platforms to seek a registration from the centre under the upcoming Digital India Bill, the Indian Express has reported.

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Hardeep Singh Nijjar: Khalistani leader shot dead inside gurdwara in Canada

The 46-year-old Sikh separatist was found shot dead inside a car

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‘Casual attitude to safety’: After Odisha accident, editorials demand accountability from railways

In the wake of the horrific train accident in Odisha, multiple newspapers published editorials on lessons that need to be learned – and why the railways must prioritise safety.

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Imran Khan arrest: Pakistan enters ‘uncharted territory’

“Kaha tha Imran Khan ko na chhedna.” If there’s a single slogan that captures the “profound crisis” of the Pakistani state, it is this, said Avinash Paliwal in The Indian Express (Delhi): “We told you, don’t touch Imran Khan.”

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Tourist boat capsizes near beach with more than 20 dead - including seven children

The horror happened on Sunday night in a coastal town in Kerala state’s Malappuram district, and most of the passengers were tourists - including seven children

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Bureaucrat Ashish Kundra’s new book ‘A Resurgent Northeast: Narratives of Change’ launched in New Delhi

Author, IAS officer, and senior bureaucrat Ashish Kundra's new book on the history of Northeast India and its people, ‘A Resurgent Northeast: Narratives of Change’, was released on April 21, 2023, at an event in New Delhi. The book was launched in the presence of Kiren Rijiju- Union Minister of…

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Edit-E-Azam: Editorial cartoons take on NCERT’s ‘revisions’ to textbooks

The Indian Express has a very impactful front page this morning – perhaps one of its most impactful pages since the Emergency.

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Kashmir agency probes news subscription model for ‘anti-India’ links

While legacy and independent news publishers look at the subscription model as the way forward in the post-pandemic years, an Indian probe agency suspects this revenue mechanism can be used by “unscrupulous elements” to pump money and foment trouble in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Who Owns Your Media: The Indian Express empire and where it stands today

Twenty-three years ago, Robin Jeffrey, a professor of politics at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, had described Ramnath Goenka’s “Indian Express empire” as the “grandest version of newspapers with some link to the ‘freedom struggle’” in his book. When Goenka died in 1991, Jeffrey wrote in India’s Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics…

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The Hindu is now synonymous with civil services aspirants. What brought on this cult readership?

“This is a newspaper to be studied, not read.”

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#MediaRumble: The layers of identity in writing and journalism

At The Media Rumble 2019, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Newslaundry Madhu Trehan is in conversation with author Prayaag Akbar, author and contributing writer Aatish Taseer, and Raj Kamal Jha, author and chief editor of The Indian Express. They discuss their craft and writing, and the role of identity, legacy and…

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What do people think of the #Cobrapost sting

Nearly all media houses except The Indian Express blacked out the Cobrapost sting. What impact has that had on people? Do they know of the sting and the conversations around it? Do they trust the media? We ask a few people.

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Women in media: The power and the struggle

Each year, the Network of Women in Media (NWMI), India, holds a national meet for its members, who hail from a range of platforms in states across India. On January 4-6, Chennai’s Anna University hosted over 100 female journalists – early-career reporters, long-time veterans of print newsrooms, old friends, new…

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Six reasons why the media should stop publishing opinion and exit polls

This piece was originally published on November 24, 2015, when Bihar’s exit polls got a Mahagathbandhan landslide spectacularly wrong. Sadly, its relevance has aged better than the polling industry.

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