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TV Newsance 330 | Savarna khatre mein hai? Primetime hysteria over UGC’s equity rules

This week on TV Newsance, we look at how primetime studios have successfully manufactured a brand-new existential crisis. Move over Hindu khatre mein hai; it's now time for Savarna khatre mein hai. We decode the UGC’s new equity guidelines and why they’ve left our brave, tireless anchors very, very concerned.

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Hafta letters: On NL’s ‘editorial bias’ and the Ajit Pawar ‘hagiography’

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इलाहाबाद विश्वविद्यालय के छात्रों में यूजीसी के नियमों पर फैली नाराज़गी और उलझन की ग्राउंड रियलिटी

13 जनवरी को विश्वविद्यालय अनुदान आयोग की ओर से जारी किए समता के संवर्धन नियमों पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने फिलहाल रोक लगा दी है. मामले की अगली सुनवाई 19 मार्च को होगी.

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UGC norms row leaves Allahabad University campus divided

The Supreme Court has temporarily stayed the UGC’s new equity regulations with the next hearing scheduled for March 19.

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‘Full enjoy bhai’: Free birds or civic nuisance? Why Indian tourists are hated worldwide

One of the strangest images to emerge in the age of social media is that of young men from NCR and Haryana dancing half-naked on snow-covered mountains. It makes you wonder what kind of rush comes from dancing without a shirt when the temperature, like their IQ, is below zero.

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‘Hindu ekta khatre mein’: How TV news rewrote UGC’s equity norms

“Don’t savarna students face bias too?”

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‘False cases clause would silence complaints’: Lawyer for Vemula, Tadvi families

Amid mounting outrage by certain sections and slogans such as “Modi teri kabar khudegi, UGC ki dharti par”, the Supreme Court has stayed the University Grants Commission’s new Promotion of Equity Regulations 2026.

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Palki Sharma quits Firstpost to launch her own venture

Palki Sharma has decided to step down from her position as managing editor of Firstpost to launch her own venture.

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Jan 29, 2026: The air quality is ‘very poor’ even in south Delhi homes

Is the air in our homes as dirty as the air outdoors? To find out, Newslaundry compared the air quality index (AQI) levels inside and outside a home in Munirka, South Delhi. Using our portable monitoring device – and without any purifiers running – we recorded an outdoor AQI of…

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Only 3 meetings on Delhi’s air crisis. But guess how many air purifiers in ministry’s office

Delhi’s air crisis is neither sudden nor unforeseeable.

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The Lutyens blind spot: Mark Tully saw the English media’s disconnect with ordinary Indians

In 1991, Mark Tully, by then the face of the BBC in India and one of the most recognisable foreign broadcasters covering the country, turned a critical gaze towards the English-language news media in India.

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Rahul Gandhi-Kanimozhi hold cordial talks, no decision on seat sharing

Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers. This week’s edition is by Shabbir Ahmed and Pooja Prasanna.

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वायु प्रदूषण: ओडिशा के शहरों में एक उभरता संकट, ट्विन सिटी की हवा हुई ‘खराब’

ओडिशा में वायु प्रदूषण लगातार बढ़ता जा रहा है. प्रदेश के कई शहरों में हवा की गुणवत्ता चिंताजनक स्तर तक पहुंच चुकी है. भुवनेश्वर और कटक, जिसे ट्विन सिटी भी कहा जाता है, बीते कुछ वक्त से खराब हवा का सामना कर रहे हैं.

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Gasping for breath: Are Odisha’s twin cities going the Delhi way?

Air pollution levels are steadily rising across several cities in Odisha, particularly in the ‘Twin Cities’ of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data, the air quality index (AQI) in the Twin Cities has ranged between 230 and 300 since December 2025, oscillating between the ‘poor’…

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गणतंत्र के शोर में बर्बाद बनारस और गंगा

पूरे देश में उत्साह और धूमधाम से 77वां गणतंत्र दिवस मनाया गया. तो हमने सोचा क्यों न इस मौके पर थोड़ी सी बात अपने संविधान के बारे में की जाय, वो बातें जो कम लोगों को पता है. मसलन आपको पता है कि भारत की संविधान सभा बनाने का विचार…

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Jan 28, 2026: Despite rain, air quality remains ‘very poor’

For today’s episode of Aaj Ka AQI, we stood outside the Gopaldas building on Barakhamba Road, one of the city’s bustling economic hubs. The nearest official CPCB monitoring station at ITO recorded an AQI of 262, placing it in the ‘poor’ category. Our independent air quality monitor, however, recorded an…

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‘Can’t imagine Baramati without Dada’: The end of a powerhouse who shaped Maharashtra politics

Vishal Jadhav’s voice breaks as he tries to find words. The NCP worker stands in Baramati on what should have been a day of political rallies and jostling crowds – four sabhas scheduled across the constituency for the Zilla Parishad elections. Instead, there is only silence. The party chief who…

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Ajit Pawar dies in plane crash, Maharashtra politics loses a key power centre

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar reportedly died in an aircraft accident on Tuesday morning while en route from Mumbai to Baramati. The crash also claimed the lives of four others travelling with him, including two pilots and members of his security detail.

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Swords, slogans and Hindu Rashtra: The ‘mahant’ calling for a ‘religious war’ against minorities

Despite a 2023 Supreme Court order directing all states to take suo motu action against hate speech, such incidents have only surged in recent years. According to a 2025 report by the Centre for the Study of Organised Hate (CSOH), the number of hate speech incidents reached 1,318, surpassing the…

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‘Few can do accountability reporting’: Washington Post’s India bureau joins fight against ‘job cuts’

Staffers at the Washington Post have begun a public campaign urging owner Jeff Bezos to reconsider potential layoffs that they say could significantly shrink the paper’s international reporting network.

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Jan 27, 2026: ‘Very poor’ AQI outside Hauz Khas metro station, but govt data says otherwise

For today’s episode of Aaj Ka AQI, we stood outside Hauz Khas metro station, one of the city’s busiest commuter points with heavy passenger footfall.The nearest official DPCC monitoring station at Aurobindo Marg recorded an AQI of 190, placing it in the ‘moderate’ category. Our independent air quality monitor, however,…

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The world India must budget for

As India looks ahead to its next Union Budget on February 1, global factors are shaping the broader context which its economy must navigate in the coming year. Developments in the world’s two largest economies – the United States and China – will shape that context.

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‘New Nepal’, old anxieties: Will a Gen Z mandate trigger a new playbook for South Block?

With the close of nominations, the contours of Nepal’s next parliamentary contest on March 5, 2026, have begun to take shape. These elections carry profound implications for India’s strategic interests. The voting comes after a violent Gen Z uprising that ousted the Oli government in September 2025 and reinstated Nepal’s…

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‘Unique, the reporter who lived like a local’: Mark Tully, as others remembered him

Long before podcasts and push alerts, before television debates swallowed the news cycle, many Indians first encountered the world each morning through a radio voice that sounded unhurried and quietly certain. In homes, tea shops and hostel rooms, the BBC bulletin would crackle on, and somewhere in it would be…

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9 in 10 Indians do not exercise

Only one in 10 Indians exercised on a given day in 2024, according to the Time Use Survey by the National Statistics Office (NSO). Exercise participation has increased since 2019, when 5.7 percent Indians reported exercising, but remains close to the 8 percent recorded in the 1998 survey conducted by the Central…

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