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BJP Criticises Former Vice President Hamid Ansari Over Comments on Mahmud of Ghazni

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday strongly criticised former Vice President Hamid Ansari following his remarks describing Mahmud of Ghazni, the Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, as an Indian. The party accused Ansari of distorting history and attempting to “whitewash” the brutal invasions of India.

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Hafta letters: NL's ‘virtue-signalling’, pointless banter, and govt control of media

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Is Modi saving print media? Congrats, you’re paying for it

So, the government in its largesse has decided to increase the rates they pay to print media by 26 percent.

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Sonia Gandhi for Rs 400 minimum wage, guaranteed 150 workdays under MGNREGA

The UPA government under then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh enacted the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in 2005. Read further on Dynamite News:

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The ‘Bihar bias’ in Budget 2025 is unlikely to impress the state’s regional parties

The union budget presented last week was not expected to steer clear of the allure of electoral politics, even if the next big state polls are as far away as autumn. And so, with Bihar set to vote in November, a slew of budgetary announcements were made for the state.

Newslaundry

Poland hails breakthrough with Ukraine over second world war Volhynia atrocity

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Tusk reach agreement on massacre of up to 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists

The Guardian - UK

Kejriwal vs Sandeep Dikshit vs Parvesh Verma: Delhi’s fiercest poll battle

Home to some of the country’s top political leaders, bureaucrats, judges and industrialists, New Delhi has always been a high-profile constituency. But the stakes are even higher this time, with a former chief minister pitted against the sons of two former CMs.

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The warmth about Manmohan Singh tells you how much we’ve lost as a society

With grace that has been starkly missing in public life in recent years, there has been an outpouring of grief and remembrance at Manmohan Singh’s death. It is the rarest of politicians that manage to make the final exit as the ‘good guy’ after five decades in public life. This…

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Anupam Kher pays tribute to Dr Manmohan Singh

Actor Anupam Kher took to social media on Friday to express his sorrow following the passing of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Air pollution is an existential crisis. That’s why we are making an exception

At Newslaundry, we don’t usually do campaigns. And by campaign, I mean specifically advocate a certain call to action for a cause that is also a story and part of the news cycle. That’s because it can be a slippery slope. While news organisations must have a value system and…

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ECI appoints Ajay Singh as new DGP of Jharkhand

The Election Commission of India on Monday approved Ajay Kumar Singh's appointment as Director General of Police, Jharkhand. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Farewell, comrade: Sitaram Yechury was committed to making the Left responsive to political tides

Amidst the many ways that one can look back at the life of Sitaram Yechury, the most characteristic aspect of his political presence was the link between the core of the institutional Left with the impulse of India’s mainstream national politics. He never let his standing and depth – as…

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Middle-class rage, TRPs: Why legacy media is sliding off the govt’s ‘godi’

India’s middle class is a bit like me. When unhappy we both simmer for a while, get more and more resentful and then explode suddenly. Once our rage is out in the open, we start looking for random reasons to fuel our fury.This is precisely what we are seeing with…

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TV Newsance 257: A trip down the memory lane to media in UPA era

Abhinandan is on hosting duties this week and we decided to take a break from all the craziness of TV news and look back at Newslaundry during the UPA era, when we were still speaking truth to power.

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Election results: How have India’s past coalition governments fared?

PM Modi faces the test of ruling a coalition government. It won’t be easy, say analysts. But the past holds lessons.

Newslaundry

Godi media is about to change, but it must resist the Lutyens pull

Mainstream media is about to change. It will happen in fits and starts. But it is inevitable.Before I go into the reasons why, let me talk about two terms that Ravish Kumar coined for journalists. The first, godi media, has entered our everyday lexicon. It is a product of the Modi era.…

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Exit polls: Modi to return with historic mandate, 3 say BJP largest party in Bengal

If exit polls are to be believed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a historic third term with a landslide mandate. The National Democratic Alliance, led by the BJP, is expected to make inroads into the south, and win big in Odisha, and West Bengal in the 2024 Lok…

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The big picture of Modi’s welfare state: Same budget, new schemes, more coverage, but education hit

Rarely in post-1991 India has a Lok Sabha election felt so bereft of suspense. Most predict a third term for PM Narendra Modi, and an overwhelming number of forecasts revolve around the BJP’s victory margins. And yet, most of the explanations have been in a binary.

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Free foodgrains: How Modi rebranded his most successful scheme

If there’s one welfare scheme that almost everyone knows under the Modi government, it’s the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana.

The Hindu

The pitch for subaltern secularism

The principal national parties are framing the general election in 2024 as a choice between subaltern Hindutva versus subaltern secularism

The Hindu

Turnout in Srinagar shows it was right to revoke Article 370: Amit Shah

The Hindu's Nistula Hebbar interviews Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Varanasi on Lok Sabha elections and Article 370.

The Hindu

PM Modi, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik two sides of same coin: Jairam Ramesh

“Na-veen and Na-rendra are two sides of the same coin. Why is the PM lying about his party’s ‘relationship status’ with the BJD?” Mr. Ramesh said in a statement which he shared on X.

Newslaundry

Road to development: Modi’s rural road scheme uses good tech, but plagued by poor quality

A country’s vision for the future is typically shown through glitzy skyscrapers, sprawling cities, and ultramodern settlement. In India, it’s a little different.

The Hindu

Rahul Gandhi’s political journey from Amethi to Rae Bareli in 20 years

Rahul Gandhi switches from Amethi to Rae Bareli, family bastion, amidst political career tumult and electoral challenges.

The Hindu

People have to decide if they need a secure nation or bomb blasts for vote-bank politics, says Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah emphasizes the importance of the 2024 elections in deciding the country's security and development.

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