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Meta’s shifting goalposts, new tools of censorship: Will 2025 be India’s year of jeopardy?

Modi’s vision of a restrained online space in India had a busy but not wholly satisfying 2024. The latest version of the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill vanished from sight after content creators vociferously pushed back. The Digital India Bill, which aimed to wrestle control from Silicon Valley, similarly could not…

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AAP के बारे में क्या सोच रहा है Muslim मतदाता

दिल्ली में विधानसभा चुनावों के लिए प्रचार अपने चरम पर है. यहां मतदान के लिए महज दो हफ्ते बचे हैं. एक तरफ जहां आम आदमी पार्टी सत्ता विरोधी लहर का सामना कर रही है तो वहीं भारतीय जनता पार्टी इसे भुनाने का कोई मौका नहीं छोड़ रही. सभी राजनीतिक दल…

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Development, soft Hindutva: Is AAP the default choice for Delhi’s Muslims?

Muslims in Delhi have largely thrown their weight behind the AAP in the last two assembly elections. But the party’s soft Hindutva, its positions on the NRC-CAA protests and the Tablighi Jamaat-Covid controversy, the Delhi riots, and issues of development have triggered disenchantment within sections of the community.

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‘Perhaps America is getting what it voted for’: Editorials in India warn of Trump 2.0

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States this week and signed a swathe of executive orders on day 1 of his term, making headlines across the world. He ended birthright citizenship, designated that the US has “only two genders”, pulled out of the Paris…

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Final voter list in Kejriwal’s constituency out: How many were added or deleted?

New Delhi is the headline assembly constituency due to its prominent contestants. But it has also been in the news for another reason: the governing Aam Aadmi Party’s allegation that there have been attempts to delete and add votes on a “large scale”.

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3 held for ‘extortion’; portal editor’s wife points to ‘pieces critical of commissioner’

Three journalists linked to a Noida-based news portal Tricity Today have reportedly been arrested over allegations that they extorted money by threatening businessmen with fake news against them.

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सैफ अली खान, IIT वाला बाबा और तीन ‘सी’ का गुलाम मीडिया

प्रयागराज में महाकुंभ चल रहा है. यहां आए बाबाओं के कारनामे और मीडिया की लपकई चर्चा में है. इतने बड़े पैमाने पर आयोजित होने वाला कोई भी कार्यक्रम खबरिया चैनलों के लिए टीआरपी बटोरने का मौका होते हैं. साथ ही बड़े पैमाने पर पैदा हो रहे यूट्यूबर्स के लिए भी…

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Malayalam cinema’s reckoning: The Hema report and its aftermath, five months later

2024 was an eventful year for Malayalam cinema, during which its best and worst facets became the centre of a nationwide discussion. All the talk in the first half of the year was about the brilliance of movies like Aavesham, Manjummel Boys, Premalu, and Bramayugam.

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विश्वास नगर: दिल्ली की ये एक सीट आम आदमी पार्टी अब तक नहीं जीत पाई लेकिन क्यों?

साल 2012 में एक आंदोलन की कोख से दिल्ली में नई राजनीति पार्टी का जन्म हुआ. इसके बाद साल 2013 में आम आदमी पार्टी ने अपने पहले ही चुनाव में 28 सीटें जीत लीं. लेकिन सरकार बनाने के लिए ये काफी नहीं था. उसके बाद 2015 में रिकॉर्ड तोड़ते हुए…

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Inside the Delhi assembly which has never voted for AAP

The Vishwas Nagar assembly in Northeast Delhi’s Shahdara has voted for the BJP for three consecutive terms, including the last two elections when the AAP had secured a thumping victory in Delhi.

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Can BJP pull the Valmikis away from AAP?

Located in Mandir Marg, in the heart of central Delhi, the Maharishi Valmiki Mandir has played an important, if symbolic, role in Indian politics.

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Advocate Vrinda Grover on Atul Subhash case and men’s rights activism

Atul Subhash’s suicide has sparked a debate around men’s rights and systemic failures in the law. In this conversation with Nidhi Suresh, senior Supreme Court advocate Vrinda Grover unpacks Section 498A of the IPC, the role of gender bias in legal matters, and addresses the concerns raised by men’s rights…

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दिल्ली चुनाव: अंसारी से लेकर आतिशी तक को ‘गाली देने’ पर क्या बोले रमेश बिधूड़ी

बीजेपी के वरिष्ठ नेता रमेश बिधूड़ी दिल्ली की कालकाजी विधानसभा से चुनाव लड़ रहे हैं. बीते दिनों में आए उनके विवादित बयानों ने दिल्ली के चुनाव को दिलचस्प बना दिया है. उनका मुकाबला आम आदमी पार्टी से मुख्यमंत्री आतिशी सिंह और कांग्रेस की अल्का लांबा से है. बिधूड़ी का कहना…

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Denial and deflection: How the BJP’s Bidhuri walked off when asked about crude remarks

Former MP and senior BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri is fighting what is one of the most interesting poll battles in Delhi. Pitched against chief minister Atishi and All India Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba in Kalkaji, Bidhuri insists people are fed up with the AAP government.

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Tax memes target Nirmala, but who’s the real villain here?

The term meme was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. In this book Dawkins defined a meme as: “A noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission… Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of…

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Cash transfers, free bus rides: How parties are wooing Delhi’s women voters

From higher literacy rate to better nutritional levels to improved access to the internet, men in Delhi are far more privileged in several aspects than their female counterparts. But when it comes to elections, it is the women that feature more prominently in political parties’ poll campaigns.

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Jan 20, 2025: Aaj Ka AQI from CJI official residence

Aaj Ka AQI is a new show aimed at fixing accountability for a solution to India’s air crisis. For episode 19, Newslaundry went to the Chief Justice of India’s official residence on Monday.

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Let Me Explain: The rising financial burden on India’s middle class

India’s middle class, comprising nearly 30 to 40 percent of the population, plays a crucial role in driving consumption, boosting government revenue, and supporting economic growth. Yet, they bear a disproportionate share of the financial burden.

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‘Scam to make contractors rich’: Maharashtra villages struggle to get water under JJM

It was the first day of Diwali, and Rupali Hukire (name changed), a 42-year-old beautician, hurriedly cleaned big buckets and steel pots. She draws water from her neighbour's borewell at a cost of Rs 100 for 30 minutes of pumping. Though her home, in Khandavi village in the Barshi tehsil…

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दिल्ली चुनाव: पार्टियों के वादे ही वादे, क्या हैैं ऑटो वालों के इरादे?

दिल्ली में चुनाव आते ही ऑटो चालकों के प्रति तमाम राजनीतिक दलों का प्रेम उमड़ने लगता है. इसका अंदाजा आप इसी से लगा सकते हैं कि 7 जनवरी को आरएसएस से जुड़े ऑटो रिक्शा संघ ने रेलवे मंत्री अश्विनी वैष्णव को एक पत्र लिखा. पत्र में मांग की गई थी…

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Subsidies, unkept promises: Who has the inside track with Delhi’s auto drivers?

Be it 2013, 2015 or 2020. Autorickshaw drivers in Delhi have openly thrown their weight behind the Aam Aadmi Party in three consecutive elections, and the Arvind Kejriwal government has also been seen taking decisions favouring the group.

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South Central Ep 10: Southern states getting a raw deal, Pattanamthitta rape case

In episode 10 of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna and Leena Reghunath are joined by public policy professionals Tara Krishnaswamy and Tushar Chakrabarthy, and lawyer Sandhya Raju, who practises in the Kerala High Court.

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अश्विनी वैष्णव: नौकरी से व्यापार और लाख से करोड़ों बनाने का ‘चमत्कार’

जब अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी की सत्ता से विदाई हो रही थी तो इसी बीच उनके ऑफिस के एक कर्मचारी अटलजी के पास आते हैं और कहते हैं कि वो कांग्रेसी प्रधानमंत्री के अधीन काम नहीं करना चाहते. इसके बाद ये शख्स साल 2006 तक वाजपेयी के निजी सचिव के रूप…

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हवा का हक़: जां जले, धुआं उठे...

दिल्ली की हवा इतनी प्रदूषित हो चुकी है कि यहां कि हवा में सांस लेना अब करीब 40 सिगरेट पीने के बराबर है. धूम्रपान से दूर रहने वाले लोग भी इस हवा में सांस लेने से बच नहीं पा रहे हैं.

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#FightToBreathe: Burning through your lungs

If you saw someone smoking 50 cigarettes a day, you’d be concerned. But even if you’re not a smoker, a really bad day of air pollution is the equivalent of smoking that much. Fifty cigarettes, 24 hours, killing your body in ways you don’t want to imagine.

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