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In the Malshiras assembly constituency in Maharashtra’s Solapur, NCP-SP candidate Uttamrao Shivdas Jankar had recently defeated the BJP with a margin of over 13,000 votes. But the constituency’s Markarwadi village has decided to hold its own repoll today through “ballot paper”.

The Adani Group has been accused of bribing Indian officials to secure solar energy contracts at inflated rates. The group was earlier accused of selling low-grade coal at inflated prices, and the Hindenburg Research and OCCRP reports had alleged the use of offshore shell companies to manipulate stock prices.

The Isha Foundation led by Jaggi Vasudev has filed a defamation suit against the Tamil media outlet Nakkheeran, accusing it of publishing allegedly defamatory videos. In the plea submitted before the Delhi High Court on Monday, December 2, Jaggi Vasudev sought the removal of the videos and demanded Rs 3…

Ten days after Gautam Adani and seven others were indicted in New York over charges of alleged bribery and securities fraud, there are far more questions than answers. 

On November 19, as many as 22 of the 35 air quality monitoring stations in Delhi recorded an air quality index (AQI) reading of 500, which is the maximum value that the scale can register. The actual pollution is likely much worse.

A profound truth lies in the path of every rail line: As routes are engineered with steel and concrete between different points on a map, or abruptly dismantled, there are stories that unfold of connection and division. 

Six months is a long time in anyone’s life. In writer-director Payal Kapadia’s case, it’s the amount of time it took for her to travel from, as she told me this summer, fame “is freaking me out a bit” to, as she said when we spoke recently, “maybe I’m not…

“Police asked if we were linked to Naxals...warned that if I continued protesting, I would be jailed,” said 17-year-old Madkam Dhanni, one of two minors arrested among 17 others after the Chhattisgarh government’s ban on tribal rights outfit Moolvasi Bachao Manch on November 8. 

This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Sumedha Mittal.

Around 2 lakh surveillance cameras, 350 automatic number plate detection cameras, and over 500 checkpoints guarded by traffic police. And yet, Delhi is choked each day by traffic snarls caused partly by the plying of illegal vehicles.

This week on TV Newsance, we dissect how TV news channels covered the recent Sambhal riots. Did they try to cool tensions? Nope. Instead, usual suspects added fuel to the fire — shouting louder, polarising further.