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From airport to Biden hotel, over 960 G20 ads, around 25% with PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ubiquitous in Delhi. He appears in different sizes at these locations: from the international airport to iron pailings; public toilets to petrol pumps; bus stops to banyan trees; and the façade of a metro station to flyovers and fences.

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G20 beautification drive: PWD workers ‘clean up’ makeshift homes under Delhi flyovers before eviction

A PWD contractual worker, Deepak, swept the pavement below Delhi’s IIT flyover on Wednesday— the area had served his and the families of 14 other PWD contractual workers as “home” until about 10 days ago, when the Modi government’s G20 beautification drive took over.

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Ashoka University row: As campus reopens, faculty tight-lipped, and a student body ‘in wait’

“It looks like everyone has forgotten professor Sabyasachi Das,” commented a fourth-year student from the economics department on festivities marking a new session at the Ashoka University in Sonipat, close on the heels of a controversy.

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G20 traffic restrictions: How to navigate Delhi NCR

New Delhi is gearing up to host the G20 Summit at Pragati Maidan’s Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on September 9 and 10.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 286: Roots of Manipur conflict, failure in fixing accountability

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit, The News Minute journalist Prajwal Bhat and The Frontier Manipur’s executive editor Paojel Chaoba. The panel discussed the ongoing conflict in Manipur, its underlying causes, perspective divide and the lack of accountability for the tragedy.

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Anjana lauded for bulldozer reportage, Sudhir ‘maverick’: All about ENBA Awards

It was another pinnacle of on-ground reporting. Aaj Tak’s Anjana Om Kashyap atop a bulldozer eulogised the “crackdown on illegal construction”, mostly belonging to Muslims, in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri in April last year. Days before her “historic reportage” on the then BJP-led Delhi municipal body’s “bulldozer action”, the area had witnessed…

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Himanta govt spends more on ads than Sonowal; Assam brochure says cap was removed in 2021

After being voted to power in 2021, the Himanta Biswa Sarma government in Assam removed the monetary cap for government advertisements in print and electronic media.

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‘How will I send future generations to school?’: Delhi teacher booked over ‘communal remarks’ in class

A Delhi government school teacher has been booked for allegedly passing communal slurs in a classroom in Delhi, days after another teacher was caught on camera ordering a classroom to slap a Muslim student in Uttar Pradesh.

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Vandalism, roadshows, machismo: Delhi University gears up for student body polls after 3-year hiatus

The beats of Indian drums, punctuated by car horns and the occasional siren, reverberated outside Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College on Monday. It was a tacit announcement, especially for first-year students watching with intrigue — Delhi University students’ body polls are in the offing. The elections are due on…

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‘CM’s cylinder promise false’: In poll-bound MP, women return without BJP govt’s rakhi gift

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s recent announcement to give out subsidised LPG cylinders to women seems to have backfired in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, with many returning empty-handed from gas agencies in Shivpuri district.

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In Himachal’s Gadsa valley, villagers point to impact of mining, felling of trees

Heavy rainfall has continued to wreak havoc across Himachal Pradesh with cloudbursts, landslides, and the collapse of buildings and roads in Kullu, Mandi, Shimla and other areas. Nearly 400 people are dead and more than 12,000 houses damaged so far.

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Journalist ‘assaulted, urinated on’ in custody for ‘report on MP police station’

The family of a journalist has alleged that he was assaulted and urinated on by the SHO of a police station after being arrested and framed in a robbery case in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur.

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‘Why no arrest?’: Amid section 144, protests, a few Hindutva cadres allowed beyond Nuh checkpoints

On a humid Monday morning, Haryana police officials stood guard as vehicles queued up at the Ghamroj toll plaza along the Delhi-Haryana border, peering down windows to enquire about phone numbers and scheduled destinations of countless passengers.

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UP teacher ordering students to hit 7-year-old classmate ‘admits mistake’, but no FIR filed

“Kamar par maaro...kulho par maaro saale ke. Aye kya tum maar rahe ho isse, zor se maaro na, ab kiska number…”

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Hafta letters: Gandhi, political activism and Science desk

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HC orders action if Isha Foundation construction illegal, petitioner says govt job to act now

Nearly six years after a tribal body’s petition, the Madras High Court has sought an inquiry into whether Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Foundation had the necessary permissions to carry out certain constructions on its campus in Coimbatore. The court has also told the district town and country planning department to…

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Session with Sena: Reporting on the conflict in Manipur

It’s been months since the first wave of violence gripped Manipur, leaving behind many crucial questions. Why did it spiral into a civil war? Was the official response too little, or too late, or both? And what lies ahead for the people of the northeastern state?

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Space weather, tectonic activity, solar history: All that Chandrayaan-3 is likely to unravel

India is finally on the Moon. It took an arduous journey of years, a failed mission and a voyage of 40 days for Chandrayaan-3 to be the first to arrive on the Moon’s dark side or south pole on Wednesday. But why at all are we there?

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In Chandrayaan-3 success, lessons for the media, and for developmental policy

On August 23, India was literally “over the Moon” when Chandrayaan-3 successfully made a soft landing on a part of the Moon where no one had succeeded thus far. The achievement was not that of one person, but of a team of literally hundreds of scientists affiliated to the Indian…

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Gaon Savera’s social media handles blocked after ‘correspondence’ from Indian government

The social media handles of independent news website Gaon Savera were blocked this week. The website’s Twitter account was withheld in India on Tuesday, and its Facebook page has been inaccessible since Monday.

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How Dainik Jagran manufactured a ‘surgical strike’ by the Indian army in PoK

Hindi daily Dainik Jagran seemed to have the story of the year in its Tuesday morning edition. The headline of its lead story on the front page screamed “Bharat ne Pakistan par fir ki surgical strike”, translating to India unleashes surgical strike again on Pakistan.

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Bharatmala project: Adani-led consortium, BJP donors, firm with BJP links get tenders in breach of norms

At least one Adani Transport-led consortium, one firm with alleged BJP links, and four companies that donated to the BJP have been awarded road construction projects under the first phase of the central government’s Bharatmala Pariyojana.

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Gurugram top cop says it’s ‘far-fetched’ that her transfer is tied to Sudarshan News FIR

Hours after the BJP government in Haryana transferred Gurugram police commissioner Kala Ramachandran, she told Newslaundry it was a “routine” transfer and not linked to an FIR registered against an editor of right-wing propaganda channel Sudarshan News.

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Modi govt ads in Rajasthan: Over 8 years, about 12% ad spend went to just 2 papers with ‘BJP links’

The Narendra Modi government is spending high on advertisements in states not governed by the BJP, and a lot of these funds are going to newspapers which publish content aligned with the party.

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‘This opaque censorship is gut-wrenching’: The Kashmir Walla’s website, social media blocked in India

The website and social media handles of news website The Kashmir Walla were blocked on August 19, according to a statement issued by the website.

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