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Shops shut, vehicles and homes charred, and streets wearing a deserted look. That’s how areas affected by communal violence in UP’s Bahraich looked when Newslaundry visited ground zero to take stock of the situation.

Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has alleged that  India Today news director Rahul Kanwal and the channel misleadingly presented an interview with her in the debate format.

Last week, Ola shares plunged after an online spat between its CEO Bhavish Aggarwal and comedian Kunal Kamra over customer service issues with the company’s electric scooters.

“On the counting day, results start coming in from 8.05 am, which is nonsense…counting begins at 8.30 am,” said chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar, hinting at the early trends announced on TV news channels on the election results day. “There is no scientific basis for it.”

Last month, a Comptroller and Auditor General report had pointed to serious lapses on part of the Odisha government which substantially helped 23 private companies deal a loss of Rs 22,392 crore in mining revenue from 2015 to 2022. Newslaundry has now found that eight of these companies, which caused…

India has withdrawn its envoys from Canada and expelled their Canadian counterparts in New Delhi after Indian diplomats were named as “persons of interest” in the investigation of the killing of pro-Khalistan activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. The diplomatic ties have tanked, about a year after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria, Shalabh Mani Tripathi, has defended himself after being widely criticised for targeting Muslims journalists on X, formerly Twitter.

Kanti was 14 when cyclone Amphan damaged her house in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, in West Bengal. Hungry, she was roaming outside her home, expecting food from a nonprofit, when a man with a bag on his back approached her and offered her food and clothes. “I went along. Hardly…

The Indian army was reportedly neither informed nor consulted by the Uttar Pradesh government before the latter “denotified” a village, earlier reserved as a buffer zone for the army’s firing and artillery practices near the Ayodhya cantonment, as per a Right to Information response.

“We watched legendary international cricket players on the internet and television, but now we are getting to see them in real life. We are so excited,” beamed a young fan outside Srinagar’s Bakshi Stadium, which is the venue for six T20 matches of the Legends League Cricket, a global league…

This week was a very exciting one for news anchors as the BJP charted a surprise victory in Haryana. We run you through the rollercoaster of emotions and U-turns witnessed by our usual suspects and the overconfident exit pollsters, who learned nothing from the Lok Sabha polls.