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Umar Khalid gets 7-day interim bail in Delhi riots case to attend family wedding

A Delhi court has granted a seven-day bail to jailed activist Umar Khalid to attend a family wedding. The former JNU scholar, who has been in custody for over four years in a UAPA case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots, will be required to surrender by January 3, 2025,…

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‘Bullet lodged near her vertebrae’: Four children fired at by security forces in Chhattisgarh

At 8.30 am on December 11, 14-year-old Chaitram Oyam was with his parents, tending the kosra fields adjoining a jungle near his home in southern Abujmarh in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur.

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What’s Your Ism? Sudipto Mondal’s story of identity, caste and journalism

In episode 30, What’s Your Ism? takes a personal turn as Dhanya Rajendran interviews Sudipto Mondal, the voice behind the show, about caste, identity and journalism.

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Biomedical waste from Kerala dumped in Tamil Nadu, officials dodge accountability

Hours after it came to light that bio-medical waste from Kerala was illegally dumped in multiple locations in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district, government authorities in both states continue to dodge accountability. Medical documents bearing the name of Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), a state-owned cancer care hospital and research centre in…

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‘Advocate can’t do full-time journalism’: Bar Council of India tells Supreme Court

“A practicing advocate cannot work simultaneously as a full-time journalist,” the Bar Council of India recently told the Supreme Court, citing Rule 49 of the BCI Rules of Conduct, Livelaw reported. The rule mandates that an advocate must not engage in any other full-time or part-time salaried employment while practicing…

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Zakir Hussain: Life and music that transcended boundaries

“A fearsome technician but also a whimsical inventor,” The New York Times’ description of Zakir Hussain after one of his iconic Carnegie Hall performances in 2009 encapsulated the essence of his life and over 60 years of music.

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BJP leader calls for religious segregation among shopkeepers in East Delhi

A viral video of BJP’s Ravinder Negi, alias Ravi Negi, shows him threatening Muslim shopkeepers, asking them to write their names on their shops and urging Hindus to put up saffron flags.

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‘Join BJP, make video against Rahul’: MP couple ‘suicide note’ alleges ED harassment over politics

In a raid on the house of Madhya Pradesh businessman Manoj Parmar and his wife Neha, who died by suicide on December 13, the Enforcement Directorate officials turned off the cameras, assaulted Parmar, locked his family in a room, and seized Rs 10 lakh and 70 grams of gold without…

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Hafta 515: Soros vs Adani, dowry law misuse, Bollywood-Modi moment

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Anand Vardhan were joined by journalist Faye D’Souza.

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Newsance 278: The Kapoor family dethrones TV anchors, Soros obsession

This week all our favourite TV news anchors were dethroned by none other than the Kapoor family. The Bollywood family fulfilled its dreams of asking many “personal sawals” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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‘We want to speak, CRPF saying we can’t’: What happened after Rahul met Hathras victim’s family

Hours before Rahul Gandhi arrived in a small village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, the state police and CRPF thronged the narrow roads. All vehicles were barred entry to the village, forcing eager journalists to walk over a kilometre to reach a nondescript home within.

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‘Assault, local pressure, police inaction’: In a village in Chhattisgarh, uncertainty over Christmas

Christian families in a village in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district say they feel uncertain about Christmas celebrations amid local pressure for “ghar wapsi”, after a mob allegedly stopped a funeral and assaulted seven members of the community last month.

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Cold War, Emergency, Hindenburg: ‘Foreign hand’ pretext to censor media criticism

The ubiquitous “foreign hand” is back again. It has hovered over Indian politics for decades, especially when the party in power is criticised for its actions, or inaction. It has been particularly persistent in the last decade and more since Narendra Modi became prime minister.

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No permanent chairpersons, missing officials: Human rights in limbo in 50% of India’s commissions

State Human Rights Commissions in at least 16 of India’s 28 states do not meet requirements mandated under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.

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Sudha Bharadwaj on activism, why Chhattisgarh will always be home, part 2

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‘Trend of blocking services for anonymous users’: iMAP India report

In its latest annual report on digital censorship in India, internet watchdog Internet Monitoring Action Project pointed to the blocking of news content websites Hindutva Watch and the Kashmir Walla and what “appears to be a trend in blocking services that allow users to operate the internet anonymously”.

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‘If this is trouble, I am a troublemaker’: Sudha Bharadwaj on her activism, human rights in India

Note: This interview was first published in October 2022.

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‘Targeted for fact-checking’: Human rights bodies condemn criminal case against Zubair

Days after reports of a fresh case being lodged against Alt News founder Mohammed Zubair in Uttar Pradesh over his social media post, international human rights organisations have issued a letter in his support, condemning the police action.

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Explained: Why NDTV founders got clean chit 7 years after CBI raids

Seven years ago, the CBI raided NDTV and the homes of its founders, Prannoy and Radhika Roy, in connection with a Rs 375 crore loan they took from ICICI Bank in 2008.

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A photo essay from Ukraine war, Manipur ground reports: Who won the IPI-India awards?

The International Press Institute India Award for Excellence in Journalism has this year acknowledged reportage from strife-torn Ukraine and Manipur.

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TM Krishna vs conservatives: The price of challenging privilege in Carnatic music

TM Krishna has shook the world of Carnatic music, and his work has sparked important conversations about privilege, inclusivity, and the future of arts. He has been democratising the classical space by making it accessible to a wide range of people, including the audience and performers. He has also faced…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 349: Delhi’s traffic ‘mafia’, aftermath of Sambhal violence

This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar.

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Hafta 514: Return of George Soros, BJP’s Maharashtra play, Manipur crisis

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by author Chetan Bhagat, academic Sarthak Bagchi, and journalist Dhiren A Sadokpam to discuss the Maharashtra government formation, the increased violence in Manipur, and the ‘foreign hand’ allegations against OCCRP.

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‘Don’t write about it’: After bangle seller’s acquittal, cops and attackers say they ‘don’t recall’ case

Three and a half years have passed since Tasleem Banjara lay on the ground in Indore, weeping as a group of men assaulted him.

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17-year-old held after video of 3 MP minors beaten, forced to chant Jai Shri Ram

A day after a video showing three Muslim minors being assaulted and told to chant Jai Shri Ram was circulated on social media, police have filed an FIR against two minor suspects and arrested one of them in Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh.

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