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In 2020, a fire broke out in the Intensive Care Unit of a designated Covid hospital in Gujarat’s Rajkot. Five people died, even though a fire brigade was just 300 metres away. Reports at the time pointed at a flouting of fire safety norms, including a blocked emergency exit.

Amid election fervour and campaigning, a poster is drawing locals’ attention in Punjab’s Amritsar. The poster saying “Jo Ram ko laye hain, hum unko layenge (Whoever has brought Ram, we will bring him)” is pasted across the city. 

In Delhi’s high-stake battle, the BJP is up against the INDIA bloc, which has fielded three Congress candidates and four from the AAP across the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in the national capital.

Bihar, which has 40 Lok Sabha seats, recorded polling across eight constituencies today. The state had witnessed post-poll violence in Saran on May 21, in which a youth died and three others were severely injured after clashes between the RJD and the BJP workers, divided along caste lines of Yadavs…

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam and Prateek Goyal are joined by journalist Faye D’Souza.

My question is related to Hafta #469. On the organised nature of Ram mandir decor in public spaces, Shardool brushed it off, claiming that I don’t “understand” India. I thought his answer had more to do with his own mandir-time-tribulations than the uniformity of the decor, and Raman sir did…

On May 20, five days before polling day in Delhi, the Congress party’s Chandni Chowk president, Rahul Dabla, was rushed to a hospital.

After the public outcry over the Pune Porsche accident, a video of a rap song was posted on social media. 

From high-profile rallies to the hot seats being contested by Congress’s Kanhaiya Kumar and BJP’s Bansuri Swaraj and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s return to the election campaign after getting interim bail in the alleged liquor scam case – the national capital is bustling with political activities ahead of voting…