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South Central 31: Chinmayi Sripaada’s Thug Life performance and follow-up of Bengaluru stampede

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath discuss the Bengaluru Chinnaswamy stampede with senior journalist Nandini Chandrasekhar. They weigh in on whether the Karnataka government is scapegoating the police and evading responsibility.

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Air India crash: Flames from aircraft reached doctor’s residential quarters

The London-bound Air India flight that crashed on Thursday claimed at least 270 lives. However, the impact of the crash extended beyond the immediate crash site, with flames reaching the nearby BJ Medical College’s residential quarters – home to several super-specialist doctors serving at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and cancer…

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Israel-Iran conflict and India’s strategic dilemma

The latest escalation in tensions between Israel and Iran is arguably the most significant among a slew of flare ups, involving both state and non-state actors, in West Asia in the last two years. Even if these conflicts have been seen as the spillover of the Gaza conflict, each one…

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What went wrong before the Air India Dreamliner crash?

Experts from the US and UK are expected to join Indian investigators in the coming days to ascertain what caused the London-bound Flight AI171 to crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon, which killed at least 270 people.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 372: Kumbh stampede death toll, UP police encounters

This week, host Avdhesh Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal, BBC’s Abhinav Goel and reporter Akansha Kumar.

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Air India crash: Kin wait in despair to take bodies of loved ones home

Days after the tragic Air India flight crash in Ahmedabad, which killed at least 270 people, every corner of the city’s civil hospital bore an atmosphere of grief and mourning.

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Hafta 541: Air India crash, Manipur violence, covering crime stories

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by former Executive Director, Air India, Jitendra Bhargava, and Executive Editor of The Frontier Manipur, Paojel Choaba.

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‘They were burnt beyond recognition’: Eyewitnesses of the Air India plane crash

Eyewitnesses of the Air India flight crash on Thursday in Ahmedabad reported a massive explosion, followed by thick smoke and panic as people fled their homes following the tragic incident.

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Hafta letters: Sindoor, media and metabolic health, AI and jobs

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TV Newsance 302: How TV anchors turned Raja Raghuvanshi’s murder into a low-budget soap opera

This week, as astronaut Shubhanshu Sharma took the country forward by going to space, TV news anchors took the country centuries back with their coverage of Raja Raghuvanshi’s murder. TV news turned the murder of an innocent man, allegedly committed by his wife Sonam, into a media spectacle.

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‘Too many bodies to identify’: Gujarat man looks for missing mother, daughter, and answers, after crash

“They’re all saying the same thing – that there are too many bodies, and it’s hard to identify them,” says Thakur Ravi Prahlad, who has been frantically searching for any trace of his mother Sharlaben and his two-year-old daughter. Both were at the BJ Medical College hostel canteen in Ahmedabad…

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Awful and Awesome Ep 388: Mountainhead, Stolen, Last Of Us S2

While discussing the headlines:Rajaysree: In bad news, Kamal Haasan’s comments led to his film Thug Life not releasing in Karnataka.Manisha: In worse news, Akshay Kumar’s Housefull 5 cruised ahead of the box office…I had no idea that five Housefulls have been made. Rajyasree: And also Fardeen Khan has made a comeback!Shardool:…

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After crash, Air India bars employees from speaking to media

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Mahakumbh stampede: 4 months on, no official clarity on death toll

The Uttar Pradesh government had initially downplayed the January 29 Mahakumbh stampede but later acknowledged 30 deaths. However, an investigation by Newslaundry on February 5 suggested the actual toll was at least 79.

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‘They lied for our votes’: Displaced from Madrasi Camp, families slam slum rehabilitation promise’

On June 1, under heavy police presence, bulldozers rolled into Madrasi Camp in Jangpura, demolishing slum homes following a Delhi High Court order that deemed the settlement – along the Barapullah drain – illegal and a cause of monsoon flooding.

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‘Miracle Brit in seat 11A’, ‘descent into tragedy’: Front pages on the Air India crash

In what is being described as one of the worst aviation disasters in recent memory, a London-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing at least 260 on board and in the area impacted by the crash.

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Air India crash: Aviation expert Capt Mohan Ranganathan demands impartial probe

What exactly caused the Air India Dreamliner to crash in Ahmedabad remains a mystery, and only a comprehensive investigation can provide answers. Given the aircraft’s safety track record, aviation authorities and experts around the world are closely watching the developments.

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‘Things changed in 30 seconds’: Survivor recounts Air India crash

A 40-year-old man, Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, walked away from the wreckage of Air India Flight AI 171 that crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday, surviving a tragedy that claimed at least 204 lives.

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‘Against factual scenario’: Court dismisses Ajit Anjum’s objection to private counsel in POCSO case

A special court in Haryana’s Gurugram has dismissed Ajit Anjum’s petition raising objections against a private counsel assisting the complainant in a 2013 POCSO case. The plea requested that the private counsel be “disallowed from taking over the role of the prosecutor”.

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Murder, manglik, men’s rights: Welcome to TV’s fever dream of the Sonam-Raja case

Newlyweds Sonam and Raja Raghuvanshi disappeared during their honeymoon in the misty hills of Shillong’s East Khasi district between May 23 and 24. On June 2, Raja was discovered in a gorge below Wei Sawdong Falls in the district, with his throat slit and valuables missing. Sonam was found in…

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One of 242 passengers survived Air India crash: Top cop

Of the 242 people onboard, only one passenger survived the London-bound Air India Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday, police said.

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June 12, 2025: Road dust outside road research institute

The Central Road Research Institute recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work on reducing road dust. A report had found road dust to be contributing 42 percent to PM10 levels in Delhi.

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Days after ‘derogatory remarks’ on Amaravati women, another Andhra arrest

Journalist and political analyst VV Krishnam Raju has reportedly been arrested for allegedly making derogatory remarks about women from the Amaravati region during a debate on Sakshi TV, owned by the family of former chief minister and YSR Congress Party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

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Acquitted in 2 cases, but a former terror suspect is a lifetime prisoner of suspicion

At 12.48 pm on May 13, 2025, Abdul Wahid Shaikh stood at the threshold of academic triumph. After years of struggle, the 47-year-old school teacher was finally submitting his PhD thesis on “prison literature” at Mahatma Gandhi Mission University in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A man who had spent nine years…

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Decoding Mallya’s 259-minute spin job: From king of good times to podcast prince of excuses

When Raj Shamani – a role model for much of India’s Gen Z – sat across Vijay Mallya for a podcast lasting 258 minutes and 47 seconds – what we ended up with wasn’t just highly viral content but also a carefully constructed image management exercise vaguely masquerading as some…

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