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On August 5, 2025, over 1,400 persons representing 183 countries arrived in Geneva, Switzerland to chalk out a consensus for a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution. The hope was that by August 14, an effective inter-governmental treaty would be signed that can significantly reduce the amount of plastics ending up in oceans and…

Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar has pitched a 190-km tunnel road as the only solution to Bengaluru’s traffic mess. He says it’s inevitable, given the high cost of land acquisition for road widening. His supporters call the tunnel road futuristic, a project that will cut travel time and ease pile-ups.

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath first discuss the ‘vote chori’ press conference by the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, issuing a seven-day ultimatum to Rahul Gandhi and anyone else casting doubts on the election process. Senior investigative journalist and Executive Editor…

The final week of the Monsoon Session was as chaotic as its beginning. Opposition MPs continued protests over alleged ‘vote chori’ and Bihar’s special intensive revision until the last day. The session, which ran from July 21 to August 21, lasted 32 days with 18 sittings. Against the scheduled 120…

संसद के मानसून सत्र का आखिरी हफ्ता भी हंगामे के नाम रहा. लोकसभा और राज्यसभा दोनों सदनों में अंतिम क्षण तक वोट चोरी और एसईआर के मुद्दे पर विपक्ष का प्रदर्शन जारी रहा. 21 जुलाई से शुरू हुआ संसद का यह सत्र 21 अगस्त यानी 32 दिनों तक चला. इस…

This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Ashish Anand.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Dharmasthala case arrested the whistleblower in the case on August 23. 

This week, a lot went down on TV news. From the opposition tearing up Amit Shah’s bills in Parliament, to Delhi CM Rekha Gupta being attacked at an event. Thankfully, anchors didn’t over-sensationalise this assault. But remember how they covered the attack on former CM, Arvind Kejriwal, 10 years ago?…

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In Assam, three recent FIRs have turned the spotlight on a pattern: journalists critical of the government hauled up under a new sedition-style law. There’s another trend – the complainants in at least two of the FIRs ostensibly had links to the BJP or the RSS student wing ABVP.

दिल्ली के गुलमोहर पार्क की एक कोठी के बाहर लगे पौधे दूर से किसी बगीचे जैसे लगते हैं. पहली नज़र में लगता है मानो यह घर नहीं बल्कि किसी पार्क का हिस्सा हो. लेकिन यह नज़ारा दरअसल सार्वजनिक फुटपाथ पर निजी कब्ज़े की तस्वीर है.