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Eleven days after it won the assembly polls in Delhi, the BJP yesterday finally announced the name of its new chief minister. 

In 2024, the state of Haryana imposed the most number of internet shutdowns in India followed by Manipur, according to a new report by the Software Freedom Law Centre, India. 

संत रविदास का अमर कथन है- मन चंगा तो कठौती में गंगा. अपनी जान जोखिम में डालकर, मुसीबतों और सांसतों की गठरी सिर पर लादकर गंगा नहाने से बचें. देश के अलग-अलग हिस्सों से हर दिन किसी न किसी दुर्घटना की खबर आ रही है. देश के दूर-दराज तक महाकुंभ…

The blocking of Tamil magazine Vikatan’s website is a “brazen instance of overreach” that “does no good to India’s democratic traditions”, the Editors Guild said in a statement yesterday.

A Central Pollution Control Board report filed in the National Green Tribunal reveals that at several ghats in Prayagraj, where crores of devotees are attending the Mahakumbh, the water is unfit for bathing. In some locations, faecal coliform levels – indicating human and animal waste – were 13 times the…

Despite National Green Tribunal’s strict guidelines prohibiting construction on the Yamuna floodplain, the Delhi Development Authority has been increasingly concretising several areas adjacent to the river, as reported previously by Newslaundry. 

Just days after a Delhi-NCR based woman journalist had complained to the police about allegedly receiving threats from former councillors, including one from the BJP, dozens of traders on Monday staged a protest demanding quashing of the FIR outside a police station in Ghaziabad, Hindustan Times reported.  

Weeks after the Kumbh stampede, much has been reported on ‘mismanagement’ by the Uttar Pradesh administration. What exactly went wrong?

भारतीय रेलवे के अधिकारियों ने, शनिवार रात को हुई भगदड़ में मारे गए लोगों के परिजनों को दिल्ली के तीन अस्पतालों के मुर्दाघरों के बाहर बड़ी मात्रा में नकदी बांटी. हर मृतक के परिवार को 10 लाख रुपये तक कैश दिया गया.