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A front-page exposé on MP CM’s family land deals. But primetime couldn’t care less

Remember the primetime coverage of 2G, Commonwealth Games, Robert Vadra’s land deals in the UPA years? None of it would have been possible without the unspoken compact between print and television. Where one format would follow the stories broken by the other.

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From hype to reality: Assessing TVK’s first month in Tamil Nadu

The 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly election has fundamentally altered the state’s political landscape. Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), the two-year-old party led by actor-turned-politician C Joseph Vijay has done what several political formations failed to achieve over the last three decades: break the near six-decade dominance of the Dravidian duopoly. For…

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Is the Cockroach Janata Party threatening the system, or just letting off steam?

While addressing the crowd gathered at the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest at Jantar Mantar on Saturday, founder Abhijeet Dipke invoked the famous Spiderman quote: “With great power comes great responsibility.” It is worth holding him to that standard, and asking what CJP has done right, and what it has…

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No FIR, ‘culprits will escape’: Ayodhya fumes over Ram Mandir ‘scam’

Two years after the consecration of the Ram Mandir, Ayodhya is once again at the centre of a controversy. This time over allegations that devotees’ offerings and donations were stolen.

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What the Lucknow fire says about the everyday gamble of being alive in India

What lies in an afternoon? A few desperate phone calls, corridors swallowed by thick black smoke, shattered windowpanes, and lives trapped inside rooms that had seemed utterly ordinary only minutes earlier. Imagining death by burning is not easy. Many find a grim comfort in believing that smoke suffocated the victims…

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Iran’s defiance: Lessons for the Gulf and the Global South

The 14-point US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed by US President Donald Trump at the Palace of Versailles in France and President Pezeshkian of Iran in Tehran on 17 June, 2026 , clearly indicates that Iran has won the first round of negotiations.

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The Voice of Hind Rajab review: A child’s voice in a world that stopped listening

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The Strait of Hormuz’s future is unsettled even as more ships venture through

Ship traffic has picked up in the Strait of Hormuz since Iran and the U.S. signed an interim deal to end a war that constricted global oil supplies and fueled inflation, but questions surrounding control of the vital waterway and whether vessels will be charged tolls to cross it could…

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‘Alarm bells ringing’: Why Indian newsrooms are losing public trust

The Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2026 highlights a news industry in India that is in flux. Trust in news fell four percentage points year-on-year to 39 percent, in line with a global decline to a decade-low 37 percent — “the lowest since we started recording this figure a decade…

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Digital platforms complicit in pushing hate-filled Hindutva-pop, finds new CSoH report

A report by the Centre for the Study of Organised Hate (CSoH) published on June 15, 2026, shed light on how digital platforms enable the reach of hate-fuelled music in India, not only allowing it to flourish, despite violating their own content policies, but also profiting from its unchecked dissemination.

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‘Among informal workers, the less educated travel the farthest’

When the Covid-19 lockdowns stopped migrant workers in their tracks, with little money, work or means to go back home, governments of destination states struggled to figure out how many migrants they had, in order to provide free foodgrain, support and medical help.

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LME in Hyderabad as SIR stokes fear

89 lakh voter records in Telangana have been flagged for scrutiny during the Election Commission's pre-SIR exercise. For officials, these are records that need to be checked. But for many voters, SIR has raised a worrying question: What if a spelling mistake, an old address, or mismatched documents affect their…

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South Central 80: Why the RSS does not want to register | Rise of Hindutva Pop

Why does the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) not register itself as an organisation? Why do platforms like Meta, Apple and YouTube allow Hindutva content filled with hate to flourish on their platforms?

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एनएल चर्चा 428: ईरान-अमेरिका एमओयू, क्षेत्रीय दलों में फूट और टेलीग्राम पर प्रतिबंध

इस हफ्ते चर्चा में मुख्य रूप से ईरान अमेरिका के बीच हुए एमओयू, शिवसेना (उद्धव बाल ठाकरे) और तृणमूल कांग्रेस के भीतर मचे आंतरिक घमासान एवं नेताओं की बगावत से लेकर, नीट-यूजी री-एग्जामिनेशन विवाद के बाद केंद्र सरकार द्वारा टेलीग्राम पर लगाए गए प्रतिबंध और इसके कानूनी व तकनीकी पहलुओं…

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How the RSS changed its constitution to defend legal status and guru dakshina

Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge’s persistent questioning of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s legal status appears to have forced a reckoning of sorts. The organisation’s chief Mohan Bhagwat and other senior functionaries have now claimed that these questions were settled decades ago and are offering “evidence” to that effect.

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Hafta letters: Need more experts on the podcast, feedback for Anand, CJP predictions

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‘If not India, then who?’: Palestinian envoy flags Gaza healthcare collapse, seeks urgent assistance

Videos of bombed hospitals in the Gaza Strip and testimonies of doctors desperate for medical aid played on the screen as Abdullah Abu Shawesh, the Palestinian Ambassador to India, sought to draw the attention of journalists gathered at the Embassy to the state of the healthcare system in the genocide-ravaged…

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From ‘Maunmohan’ to ‘Maunendra’: Modi’s ‘strategic’ silence’ as Trump walks over India

In 2012, when he was still the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi mocked the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as “Maunmohan” Singh, accusing him of being silent on the issues of the day, including the serious corruption charges against the UPA government.

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China rejects Indian chillis, Japan our mangoes. Who is checking what we eat?

Last week, China’s customs authorities rejected Indian chilli shipments carrying what they described as excessive levels of methamidophos – a pesticide associated with nervous system disorders.

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Equivalent to 83% of TV spend: Odia print daily tops Odisha’s govt’s Rs 84-crore ad list

One newspaper alone nearly matched what the Odisha government spent on 26 TV channels in the 18 months since the BJP under Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi took office in June 2024. Prameya, the Odia daily, received Rs 7.73 crore, accounting for nearly 83 percent of the state government’s total…

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58% news from YouTube, 56% via WhatsApp: Reuters report on India’s news consumption habits

For the first time globally, social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram have overtaken television and news websites as the most widely used way to access news, according to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026. “This shift has now happened in around two-thirds of the markets we…

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Yudhvir Ahlawat on cinema, Haryana stereotypes, and Agniveer

Actor Yudhvir Ahlawat, who won praise for his role as Harpal in Kartavya, is not afraid to speak about subjects many in the film industry avoid.

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From 2014 to Kota: Why Rahul Gandhi is wrong about the IAS exam again

The retreating winter morning of February 11, 2014, began unusually in Mukherjee Nagar, one of Delhi’s hubs for civil services aspirants. Some young and some not-so-young candidates boarded buses to 12, Tughlaq Lane. They had come to thank Rahul Gandhi for his intervention in securing two extra attempts at the…

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A pig at the gate, TV cameras outside: The making of a viral Eid controversy

For two days in late May, several television channels ran breathless coverage of events outside Poonam Cluster 1, a cooperative housing society in the Mira Road suburb of Thane district.

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Student suicides to education budget: The issues Rahul put at the centre of ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ in Kota

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has launched a new student outreach campaign, “Chhatron Ki Goonj” (Echo of Students), in Kota, calling for an end to “India’s exploitative education system”.

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