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A video clip from a Gauhati High Court hearing has been raging across social media. It shows Justice Sanjay Kumar Medhi, visibly astonished, reacting to the allotment of 3,000 bighas of land in Assam’s Dima Hasao district to a private cement company.

Diplomacy is subtle. News TV? Not always.

The difference between a good policy and a bad one lies in its implementation and its intent.

Cartoonist Hemant Malviya informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday that he would issue an apology on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms for publishing an objectionable caricature of the RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bar and Bench reported. 

The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of the assault of a journalist by two policemen in Gurdaspur’s Batala and sought a detailed report from the Punjab DGP within two weeks. 

The Guwahati Crime Branch has issued summons to The Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan and senior journalist Karan Thapar in an FIR citing Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita among other charges. This came on the same day the Supreme Court shielded Varadarajan from coercive action in a separate FIR filed…

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar at a press conference dismissed allegations against the Election Commission of India (ECI) and asked Rahul Gandhi to submit his complaints in a sworn affidavit within seven days or apologise to the nation. 

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the Jawaharlal Nehru University. The AQI at the nearest monitoring station was recorded 74, or satisfactory.

In a rare press conference on Sunday, the Election Commission of India sought to counter Rahul Gandhi’s charge of “vote fraud,” calling such language an insult to the Constitution. Flanked by his colleagues, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar insisted that the poll body stood with voters and was above partisan…

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Priya Sahgal, editorial director at NewsX, Jasmine Damkewala, advocate on record in the Supreme Court, and senior journalist Hridayesh Joshi.

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