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Author, activist Dilip Mandal stoked controversy on Thursday when he claimed that Fatima Sheikh, celebrated as one of India’s first Muslim women school teachers, never existed and was a “fabricated character” he had created.

Meta’s decision this week to abandon its fact-checking programme, starting from the US, has reportedly triggered alarm bells among several fact-checking organisations. That the move comes as a response to the politics of the new regime in the US has also been apparent.

Last year, we visited the US amid a heated poll campaign, days after reporting on the Israel-Hamas war. At the Townhall on December 5 last year, award-winning journalist Sreenivasan Jain and Newslaundry producer Priyali Dhingra responded to a wide range of questions from contributors who had supported this coverage.

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has empowered at least 23 Delhi Police officers to issue “takedown orders” to social media platforms and other intermediaries to remove “illegal content” under the Information Technology Act, Hindustan Times reported.

Aaj Ka AQI is a new show aimed at fixing accountability for a solution to India’s air crisis. For episode 12, Newslaundry went to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s residence on Thursday. 

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim relief from coercive action to Telugu actor and former Rajya Sabha member Mohan Babu in the case involving allegations of assaulting a news reporter, according to Bar and Bench.

If you’ve ever lived in north India during the winter and struggled to breathe, you’re likely familiar with the acronym NCAP – the National Clean Air Programme. Launched by the environment ministry, it sets clear air targets for 131 cities that are required to reduce particulate concentration in the air.

After surviving the first deadly explosion at Gaza’s Al-Ahli Arab Hospital on October 17, 2023, it became obvious to British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah that “the destruction and the systematic dismantlement of the health system was going to be a central tenet of the Israeli military doctrine”. 

Nagaland Page, one of Nagaland’s prominent English dailies, has ceased operations after 25 years of publication, announced its founding editor Monalisa Changkija.

Aaj Ka AQI is a new show aimed at fixing accountability for a solution to India’s air crisis. For episode 11, Newslaundry went to the Commission for Air Quality Management's office on Wednesday.The PM 2.5 reading at the commission’s office was around 150, and PM 10 about 170. Importantly, the…

British outlet Financial Times’ chief economics commentator Martin Wolf has termed “today’s economically dynamic India” as former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s legacy.