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The week’s news cycle, clogged with the surplus reportage of elections, briefly took note of the two fire tragedies in Rajkot and Delhi, which together claimed 34 lives — at least 27 were dead at the gaming centre in Rajkot and, merely a few hours later, seven died at a…

लोकसभा चुनाव के पांचवें चरण मे केंद्रीय एजेंसियों की निगरानी में मौजूदा विधायक, बंगाल के पार्टी-पार्टी कूदने वाले और बिहार के दलबदलू नेताओं की हॉट सीट समेत 15 दलबदलू नेताओं में से आठ एनडीए में और छह इंडिया गठबंधन में हैं.

Last week’s letter:

Many say that trains are a microcosm of India, snaking their way through various regions while carrying passengers from diverse social groups. But does the idea of India change from one coach to another, from station to station? 

लोकसभा चुनावों में पांचवें चरण के 15 दलबदलू उम्मीदवारों में से आठ भाजपा की एनडीए में हैं तो 6 इंडिया गठबंधन में हैं. 

Over four months after she was “forced to leave India”, French journalist Vanessa Dougnac has written a detailed account of how she was “banned from practicing my profession as a journalist” in a cover story for French magazine La Croix L’Hebdo.

पांचवे चरण में कुल 15 दलबदलू उम्मीदवार चुनाव में खड़े हो रहे हैं. इनमें से 8 भाजपा की एनडीए में हैं तो वहीं एक तृणमूल कांग्रेस समेत छह इंडिया गठबंधन में हैं. बीजू जनता दल ने भी एक दलबदलू उम्मीदवार को उतारा है. 

Four days before polling, only one face dominates political posters through Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib city. That face belongs to Amritpal Singh, whose visage is splashed across the Lok Sabha constituency of the same name. The separatist leader, currently lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam, is contesting as an independent candidate.

At about 5 pm today, while the temperature in Delhi touched 37 degrees Celsius, the open space on the ground floor of Delhi’s Press Club of India thronged with people. They’d all turned up to attend “Freedom of Expression in Today’s India” in solidarity with NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha.