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From melting glaciers and rising seas to a yearly cycle of floods, droughts and heatwaves, climate change is one of the defining stories of our time. Yet it remains strikingly underreported in Indian newsrooms. And when it is covered, the journalism often lacks depth, context and continuity. 

So, the government in its largesse has decided to increase the rates they pay to print media by 26 percent. 

Hours after multiple news channels devoted segments to an undated clip of Red Fort blast prime accused Dr Umar Nabi, complete with “body-language decoding” and “psychological profiling”, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry issued an advisory warning against airing sensitive material related to the blast.

When Team India cricketer Deepti Sharma returned to Agra for the first time after the World Cup win, the city turned out in full force to celebrate her.

On Wednesday, Newslaundry visited the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change, responsible for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and how our natural resources are utilised. 

Residents came together on Tuesday to once again protest against the deteriorating air quality in the national capital, demanding immediate action from the authorities. Organised by environmentalists, university students and other concerned citizens, the protest at Jantar Mantar took place on a day when the city woke up to an…

The DIGIPUB News India Foundation and the Editors Guild of India have raised serious concerns over the Narendra Modi government’s newly notified Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (DPDPR), warning that the framework risks undermining press freedom, weakens the Right to Information regime, and leaves journalists exposed to ambiguous compliance…

Dhirendra Shastri’s “Sanatan Hindu Ekta Padyatra,” which began from Delhi on November 7 and ended in Vrindavan on November 16, carried the usual packaging of unity, devotion, purity, and cultural reaffirmation. It demanded a clean Yamuna river and a minor phenomenon called “Hindu Rashtra,” nothing too significant.

On Monday, former Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, was convicted to death by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) for “crimes against humanity” over her brutal crackdown of the student-led protests last year.

On paper, Gurugram processes 98 percent of its waste. On the ground, that number dissolves into a mirage.

Delivering the sixth Ramnath Goenka Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government does not win elections by being in “24x7 election mode” but by operating in “emotional mode”. A mode driven by an “inner restlessness” to ease the hardships of citizens, he said.