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‘Raid madam’ to BJP councillor: The story of Kerala’s first woman IPS officer

Years ago, while she was still in the police force, R Sreelekha walked into a sari sale in Thiruvananthapuram. Spotting the other women there, she said with a laugh: “Well, I wonder where to start [shopping] from.” The remark immediately put everyone at ease.

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Bodies, blackouts, bombastic headlines: How the West is covering Iran

Major Western media publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC and The Guardian, among others, have maintained a sharp focus on the Iranian government’s violent crackdown on protestors.

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Mann Ki Baat, Yoga Day, Ram Mandir: Inside Modi govt’s media advisory playbook

In 2002, Narendra Modi sat across Jill McGivering from the BBC for an interview. It was shortly after the Gujarat riots, and McGivering asked Modi what he could have done differently.

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Jan 12, 2026: At Safdarjung Hospital, AQI numbers show a grimmer reality

For today’s episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited Safdarjung Hospital in south Delhi. Official data from the Central Pollution Control Board painted a worrying picture: the AQI stood at 190, with PM2.5 levels at 190 and PM10 at 104.

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Satellite images show how cities are heating up

Between 2003 and 2020, India's cities warmed at 0.53°C per decade –double the rate of the rest of the country. Satellite imagery reveals this transformation, documenting how green turned to grey, water bodies vanished, and land surface temperatures soared – in some cases by as much as 15°C in three decades. This…

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Why Umar Khalid is still in jail

The Supreme Court said this week that the right to a speedy trial applies no matter how serious the offence is. It also said keeping someone in jail for years without real progress in the trial is a punishment, and that if the State cannot ensure a speedy trial, it…

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South Central 57: Chandrababu Naidu’s RSS shift and the Kochi Biennale controversy

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna first discuss the recent political developments in Andhra Pradesh, including CM Chandrababu Naidu’s growing affiliation with the BJP. They are joined by Professor K Nageshwar, a politician, academic, and political analyst.

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UP SIR data shows higher voter deletions in BJP seats, including Modi’s Varanasi

In Uttar Pradesh’s draft voter list, published after the recent Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, 50 assembly constituencies recorded more than one lakh voter deletions each. All but three of these constituencies were won by the BJP in the 2022 UP assembly elections. These include high-profile seats the BJP won…

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Dalit woman murdered, daughter abducted: Silence and tension grip Rajput-majority Kapsad

Tensions are running high in Kapsad village in Meerut district, Uttar Pradesh, after a Dalit woman was murdered and her daughter was allegedly abducted on January 8.

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राजपूत बहुल गांव में दलित महिला की हत्या, बेटी अब भी लापता: कपसाड़ में सन्नाटा और तनाव

पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश के मेरठ जिले के कपसाड़ गांव में दलित महिला की हत्या और बेटी के कथित अपहरण के बाद हालात बेहद तनावपूर्ण हैं. गांव पूरी तरह छावनी में तब्दील हो चुका है और क्षेत्र में भारी पुलिस बल तैनात है.

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Get your Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand right: Zomato and Blinkit aren’t capitalism

Late last week, I wrote a piece responding to Deepinder Goyal’s tweets on how he views India’s gig economy. It went viral – and as is inevitable with anything that does, it brought with it an equal measure of bouquets and brickbats.

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TV Newsance 327 | New Year, old script: ‘Tukde Tukde’ returns

The year began with a glitch in the matrix. Godi anchors briefly discovered what it felt like to question power. BJP leaders were asked uncomfortable questions, ministers looked irritated, and for a brief moment, it felt like accountability had entered the chat

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Hafta letters: Questioning Arnab's ‘opposition’, Venezuela discussion, Instagram tips

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Learning to linger: On longform writing in a time of noise

A large part of my journalistic life has been in Delhi, a strange city full of people trying to find their own space, their own words, their own life. Very early on a senior journalist friend gave me a piece of advice that I held on to – “Be diligent,…

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SC’s baffling bail order rattled the press. Voter rolls exercise should terrify it

It is rare for India’s mainstream media to speak with one voice on an issue that makes the government uncomfortable. It is remarkable, therefore, that almost every major newspaper made strong editorial comments about the recent Supreme Court ruling granting bail to five of those implicated in the 2020 Delhi…

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Vembu’s lawyer claims $1.7 billion bond order ‘invalid’, Pramila’s lawyer says it remains in force

On January 8, 2026, The News Minute published an exclusive story reporting a California court’s order directing Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu to post a $1.7 billion bond to protect his ex-wife Pramila Srinivasan’s rights in their ongoing divorce case.

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What does investigative journalism really take? The journalist who exposed Bofors explains

Every journalist dreams of cracking that one big story, whether it’s an investigation that exposes a corrupt official or politician, unearths a dangerous cover-up, or holds a large corporation accountable. The process of doing such work isn't easy. You must find sources willing to talk, verify everything they say, and…

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Behind JNU’s latest ‘media trial’: What happened on the night of January 5?

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is once again embroiled in controversy.

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Jan 8, 2026: What changes when you step indoors in Delhi’s pollution?

In Delhi, bad air doesn’t stay outside. Today, at our Sarvodaya Enclave office, the air inside a closed room without an air purifier was already dangerous to breathe. The AQI stood at 309, with PM2.5 at 134 and PM10 at 147 – numbers you would expect from a polluted street,…

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Ankita Bhandari murder: A leaked recording, BJP resignations, and letters written in blood

Young girls in Uttarakhand are writing letters to the President in their own blood. State BJP leaders are resigning from the party. From the mountains to the plains, people are taking to the streets. All demanding justice for Ankita Bhandari, the 19-year-old receptionist at a resort near Rishikesh, who was…

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BJP with Congress, NCP factions against their allies: Welcome to Pune’s political freak show

There is an old political cliché about there being no permanent friends or enemies in politics, only permanent interests. In Pune right now, that line sounds less like wisdom and more like warning.

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GIJN names Newslaundry investigation on Delhi’s cattle crisis among India’s best of 2025

The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) has selected a Newslaundry investigation into the growing problem of stray cattle in Delhi as one of the best investigative stories from India in 2025.

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An insider’s account of how Apollo Tyres went global and the ‘graveyards’ of Indian manufacturing

From the Licence Raj to liberalisation, labour unrest to global expansion – how did an Indian tyre company rise, fall, and rise again?

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‘Disastrous’: Modi govt allows commercial plantations in forests, drops safeguards

In a move that further weakens India’s forest conservation laws, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is all set to open up forests for commercial plantations by private and government entities without the requirement of a one-time monetary compensation, called net present value (NPV), and compensatory afforestation.…

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Hostel for SC/ST girls in Ghaziabad now ‘houses only snakes, not students’

While the Union government champions slogans like the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, the ground reality is that a UP government hostel built for scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) girls in Nandgram, Ghaziabad, never properly materialised beyond the paperwork.

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