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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by retired Brigadier Kuldip Singh. In this tense news week, we begin by dissecting India’s Operation Sindoor and strikes on terror camps in Pakistan on May 7. “Neither side, particularly India, wants…

Early Wednesday morning, India launched Operation Sindoor, targeting terror camps in Pakistan. As Pakistan responded with cross-border shelling and drone attacks – intercepted by the military – Indian TV channels gave a whole new meaning to the "fog of war".

In India, most visitors attempting to access the website of news portal The Wire are met with a blank page and a notice that says, “The website has been blocked as per the order of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the IT Act, 2000.”

8 और 9 मई की दरम्यानी रात भारत और पाकिस्तान के बीच सैन्य झड़प हुईं. लेकिन जिस तरीके से भारतीय मीडिया के कई चैनलों ने इस स्थिति को पेश किया. वह बेहद गैर-जिम्मेदाराना और भ्रामक था. ज़मीन पर जो हुआ, उसे तोड़-मरोड़ कर प्रस्तुत किया गया. कई फर्जी वीडियो, पुराने…

Another army soldier has been killed in action during cross-border firing by Pakistani forces along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

All of last evening, my 14-year-old, ridden with anxiety, pestered me for information on what was going on.

The Indian Youth Congress has filed a police complaint against Ashok Shrivastav, a journalist with Doordarshan, for portraying Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge as a “gaddaar” (traitor).

India today is enveloped in a fog, the fog of war. It is so thick that we can neither see nor hear what is going on. We must wait patiently for someone in “authority” to tell us what is happening.

Last night, as the general public struggled to make sense of developments between India and Pakistan, there was a slew of misinformation on media and social media.