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BBC Director General Tim Davie and CEO of news Deborah Turness have resigned amid reports suggesting that a BBC documentary misleadingly edited Donald Trump’s speech from January 6, 2021. 

For nearly three months, journalists have neither been allowed to stand outside the Election Commission of India’s headquarters on Delhi’s Ashoka Road, nor film visuals from across the road. The area remains heavily barricaded with police restrictions.

It was a warm summer morning in May in the quiet border village of Banda, nestled in Maharashtra’s Sawantwadi taluka of Sindhudurg district, near the Goa border. At a small flower stall in the bustling Bazaar Peth market, 38-year-old Aftab Shaikh and his mother, Fahmida, were arranging garlands and flowers…

Indian roads are increasingly becoming more dangerous for its most vulnerable users, an IndiaSpend analysis of national data shows. In a decade to 2023, road accident deaths increased 24 percent to about 173,000, but pedestrian deaths nearly tripled, those of two-wheeler riders nearly doubled, and cyclist deaths rose 13 percent.

India has just won its first-ever ICC Women’s World Cup – a victory decades in the making. From travelling in unreserved train coaches to lifting the trophy before packed stands, this is a story of grit, resilience, and history rewritten.

‘एक और चुनावी शो’ के लिए हमने बात की देश के पूर्व गृह सचिव भारतीय जनता पार्टी के नेता और पूर्व केंद्रीय मंत्री आर.के. सिंह से. आर के सिंह ने हाल ही में बिहार की गठबंधन सरकार पर राज्य में 62,000 करोड़ रूपए का बिजली घोटाला करने का आरोप लगाया…

Kerala has announced that it has “eradicated extreme poverty”, a claim that has drawn admiration, scepticism and everything in between. On South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Anisha Sheth speak to IAS officer Anupama TV, Special Secretary of the Local Self Government Department, and Professor Freddy Thomas from Bengaluru’s Christ…

बिहार विधानसभा के दूसरे चरण के लिए 11 नवंबर को मतदान होगा. इस चुनाव में महागठबंधन का एक अहम घटक दल भारतीय कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (माले) लिबरेशन भी है. पार्टी के महासचिव दीपांकर भट्टाचार्य से हमने बिहार चुनावों के आलोक में तमाम विषयों पर बात की. जैसे प्रदेश में उनकी पार्टी…

On November 6, while polling was underway in 121 seats in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a crowd in Bhagalpur. The audience seethed with excitement, telling Newslaundry that under the NDA, the state’s roads and rations had improved, and that the “government was working so well”.

6 नवंबर को बिहार की 121 सीटों पर मतदान चल रहा था, इसी बीच प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी भागलपुर के एयरपोर्ट ग्राउंड पहुंचे, जहां उन्होंने एक जनसभा को संबोधित किया. रैली में भारी भीड़ उमड़ी मंच पर जोश था, नारे गूंज रहे थे, लेकिन इसी भीड़ के बीच कुछ सवाल भी…

A few years ago, when you said “Thailand” to an Indian man, his face would undergo a minor muscular transformation. A smirk would appear on face that can be interpreted as half-guilt for the sins he’s committed or half-anticipation for the sins he desires to commit.