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Hours after it came to light that bio-medical waste from Kerala was illegally dumped in multiple locations in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district, government authorities in both states continue to dodge accountability. Medical documents bearing the name of Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), a state-owned cancer care hospital and research centre in…

सर्दियां आ चुकी थी. हस्तिनापुर के बाग-बगीचों में धुंध, कोहरा, प्रदूषण और शीतलहर का मिक्सचर फैला हुआ था. लाल ऊनी स्वेटर और उसके ऊपर ऊंट के चमड़े से बनी जैकेट पहन कर धृतराष्ट्र गौने के दुल्हा लग रहे थे. हालांकि, जाड़े के असर से धृतराष्ट्र की देह अकड़ी हुई थी.…

झारखंड के सरायकेला-खरसावां जिले के एक गुमनाम गांव रसूना में, 17 अक्टूबर की सुबह खेतों में शौच करने के लिए गए 36 वर्षीय खेतिहर मजदूर सामल मुर्मू की हाथियों के साथ मुठभेड़ में मौत हो गई. लेकिन उनकी मौत से किसी को कोई हैरानी नहीं हुई.

Is the leadership role in the national opposition space open again? 

The death of Samal Murmu didn’t come as a shock to many in Rasunia, a nondescript village in Jharkhand’s Saraikela-Kharsawan district. The 36-year-old farm labourer was killed in an elephant encounter when he went to relieve himself in the fields on the outskirts of the village, early in the morning…

In this episode, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by author and activist Meena Kandasamy and TNM's senior editor Ragamalika Karthikeyan. 

A viral video of BJP’s Ravinder Negi, alias Ravi Negi, shows him threatening Muslim shopkeepers, asking them to write their names on their shops and urging Hindus to put up saffron flags.    

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by independent journalist Akanksha Kumar and the Caravan’s Amrita Singh.

In a raid on the house of Madhya Pradesh businessman Manoj Parmar and his wife Neha, who died by suicide on December 13, the Enforcement Directorate officials turned off the cameras, assaulted Parmar, locked his family in a room, and seized Rs 10 lakh and 70 grams of gold without…