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Mathura CCTV footage blows holes in UP’s ‘Operation Langda’

“Half encounter” – or what the Uttar Pradesh Police call “Operation Langda” – is a practice in which police shoot suspects in the leg to capture them alive. Once hit, the accused collapses, and the police make the arrest.

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India is historical, Bharat is mythical: Aatish Taseer

My parents met in Delhi in 1980. My father had just written a biography of his political idol, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; my mother was sent to interview him. That night they went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant called the House of Ming. Then they disappeared together for a week.…

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FIR on Operation Sindoor article, SC grants Siddharth Varadarajan protection from arrest

The Supreme Court has granted protection from arrest to the Wire’s founding editor Siddarth Varadarajan in an FIR lodged against him under section 152 of the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita in Assam, LiveLaw reported.

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मथुरा: पुलिस ने 1 मार्च को उठाया 4 मार्च को पैर में गोली मारकर दिखाई मुठभेड़

'हाफ एनकाउंटर', जिसे उत्तर प्रदेश पुलिस 'ऑपरेशन लंगड़ा' कहती है, एक ऐसी कार्रवाई है जिसमें पुलिस अपराधियों को ज़िंदा पकड़ने के लिए उनके पैरों में गोली मारती है. गोली लगते ही आरोपी ज़मीन पर गिर जाता है और पुलिस उसे गिरफ़्तार कर लेती है.

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Dharali, 8 days on: Buried homes, ‘60 missing’, roads gone

Eight days after disaster struck, Dharali remains cut off. Road connectivity is still not restored, and according to locals, around 60 people are still missing – most of them labourers from Bihar, Jharkhand, and Nepal. Rescue work continues, but with no success in finding survivors or the dead. Only one…

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US SEC says Modi govt has not delivered bribery case summons to Adani Group

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) has been unable to serve summons to Gautam Adani, his nephew Sagar Adani, and the Adani Group in India. The US SEC, in a filing on Monday, August 11, told a New York Eastern District court that they asked India’s Ministry…

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Few questions on Gaza, fewer on media access: Inside Indian media’s Israel junket

Last Friday, Indian readers woke up to a curious headline: Benjamin Netanyahu – accused of war crimes and facing corruption charges — offering to advise Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on dealing with the United States.

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‘Has free speech widened to include more voices and dissent?’: Ex-CJI Khanna at Prem Bhatia awards

Freelance journalists Parth M N and Jeff Joseph Paul have won the Prem Bhatia Award for excellence in political and environment journalism, respectively.

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MPs detained as cops halt INDIA bloc’s ‘vote theft’ protest march to EC

Today, hundreds of MPs from the INDIA bloc – including Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, and TMC leader Mahua Moitra – had called for a protest march from Parliament to the Election Commission against alleged vote theft.

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‘वोट चोरी’ के खिलाफ इंडिया ब्लॉक का मार्च, सैकड़ों सांसदों को पुलिस ने हिरासत में लिया

वोट चोरी के मुद्दे को लेकर आज इंडिया समूह के सैकड़ो सांसदों को दिल्ली पुलिस ने हिरासत में ले लिया. ये सब लोकसभा में नेता प्रतिपक्ष राहुल गांधी के नेतृत्व में नए संसद भवन से चुनाव आयोग तक मार्च निकालना चाह रहे थे.

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Modi govt evades Lok Sabha question on animals in Vantara, inspections

The Union Ministry of Forests, Environment and Climate Change has evaded a parliamentary question on the number of animals kept at the Reliance Foundation sponsored Vantara facility in Gujarat’s Jamnagar district.

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Reaching Dharali means climbing mountains and crossing a disaster

A week after flash floods devastated Dharali in Uttarkashi’s Harsil valley, the destruction is still everywhere you look. Villages remain cut off, roads have vanished, and bridges lie twisted in the river.

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After Bihar’s SIR clean-up, some voters have dots as names. Will they press the EVM button too?

In Bihar’s Kaupa village in Rohtas district lives a family of dots.

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Israel kills Al Jazeera crew in tent for journalists near hospital

Israel has killed five Al Jazeera journalists in a targeted strike near Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital.

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How industries, chemicals ministry influenced India’s plastic rules

As diplomats from 175 countries convene for a plastics showdown in Geneva, India’s negotiators arrive armed with a playbook shaped less by environmental urgency and more by industry whispers.

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Let Me Explain: How caste bias has shaped Malayalam cinema

At a film conclave in Kerala this week, Adoor Gopalakrishnan – one of Indian cinema’s most celebrated directors – stood before an audience and delivered a speech laced with casteist and elitist remarks.

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South Central 39: How Prajwal Revanna was convicted, National Award row

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath first discuss the conviction of former Janata Dal (Secular) leader Prajwal Revanna in the first of four cases of rape against him. The panel, joined by TNM Karnataka bureau chief Anisha Sheth, weighs in on why…

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Sansad Watch: Rahul Gandhi's ‘atom bomb’ continues to create uproar in Parliament

This week on Sansad Watch, we see the INDIA bloc’s uproar against alleged vote theft inside and outside Parliament, while Prime Minister Modi stayed away from the parliamentary discussion.

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Uttarkashi floods: Locals still stranded in Dharali, allege tourists prioritised in rescue operations

Four days after the flash floods tore through Uttarakhand, the Dharali area is still completely cut off from the road. Phone lines were down till Friday evening. The constant helicopter movement gives the impression of large-scale rescue efforts, but locals say the reality is different. They allege that only tourists…

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‘Phussi bomb’: Rahul Gandhi’s presser buried under TV studio spectacle

Spin over scrutiny. Ridicule over reportage.

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Exclusive: Bihar SIR rolls reveal 2,92,048 voters with house number ‘0’

As many as 2,92,048 voters in Bihar have their house number as ‘0’, ‘00’, and ‘000’, shows an analysis of Bihar’s draft voter list prepared after the controversial special intensive revision by the Election Commission of India. The draft rolls were published and uploaded on the ECI’s website on August…

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Self-censorship has ruined the best Hindi film on journalism

With its rotary phones, clanking printing presses, news rooms full of typewriters, ticker tapes and other details of vintage setting, New Delhi Times should feel like a time capsule. But this 1986 film’s recent appearance on YouTube shows it remains tragically relevant for all the wrong reasons.

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Hafta letters: Engaging with the other side, paying for news, solving problems

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TV Newsance 309: Uttarkashi disaster, Trump dhokhaa and Godi media’s MIGA magic

This week on TV Newsance, Navika Kumar and Smriti Irani gave us a saas-bahu masterclass – replete with sly taunts, spicy metaphors, and ticker shade.

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Trump’s Tariff: Why this isn’t India’s '1991 moment'

On August 6, just 57 minutes into the fifth day of the fifth Test match between India and England, fast bowler Mohammed Siraj bowled a searing yorker that shattered Guy Atkinson’s stumps, sealing a thrilling six-run win for India – the narrowest Test victory margin in the country’s cricketing history.

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