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From giving weather updates to listing out "medicinal" use of banana peels to unpacking a militant attack in Dagestan – the footprint of India’s growing crop of AI news anchors is expanding by leaps and bounds.

In 2012, the rape and murder of 17-year-old Sowjanya in Karnataka’s temple town of Dharmasthala led to widespread outrage and several protests across the state. Yet, thirteen years later, the perpetrators of the crime have not been brought to justice. Reason: The police allegedly botched up the investigation. 

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by writer and podcaster Amit Varma. 

September 2024. The monsoon retreats from the tribal districts of northern Maharashtra, leaving behind the annual question of survival. For tribal communities in Nandurbar, the answer has long been the same: migrate south to the sugarcane fields of western Maharashtra. A migration that is often also a reminder of a…

Reports about Vantara – the animal rehabilitation centre of Reliance’s Anant Ambani in Gujarat’s Jamnagar – are curiously unavailable, hours after they were published by Deccan Herald, The Telegraph India and The Tribune. 

In Pakistan, where three As – Allah, Army, and America – have long dictated the country's power structures, the current reality under US President Donald Trump remains a bit more complicated. 

In this episode, Newslaundry visits the iconic India Gate, located near India’s most powerful offices and visited by thousands each day. On Thursday, PM2.5 levels hovered around 210 while PM10 was pegged at around 240 at the spot. 

Compared to the Trump Tsunami that has the US president literally flooding the media with new and almost always controversial statements every day, our leaders and their politics appear almost dull. 

आज तक के प्राइम टाइम एंकर सुधीर चौधरी डीडी न्यूज़ के साथ जुड़ने जा रहे हैं. इसे लेकर मंडी हाऊस स्थित प्रसार भारती के कार्यालय में हलचल तेज हो गई है. न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री को मिली जानकारी के मुताबिक, चौधरी दो बार चैनल का दौरा कर चुके हैं. पहली बार बीते साल…