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Newslaundry reporter Prateek Goyal is among the five journalists shortlisted for the Vishwa Nath-Delhi Press Award for Fearless Journalism for 2024. The award will be presented at a ceremony on March 21 in Delhi, where Justice S Muralidhar will deliver the BG Verghese memorial lecture.

The Karnataka High Court has quashed a hate speech case against CNN News18 consulting editor Rahul Shivshankar over his post on X about the state government’s allocation of funds for the welfare of religious minorities, Bar and Bench reported.

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. 

Prasar Bharati has signed a deal with Aaj Tak consulting editor Sudhir Chaudhary for a show on DD News, top sources at the state broadcaster told Newslaundry.

The Press Council of India has received 468 complaints of paid news from across the country since 2021-22, including 290 complaints in the current year alone, the Narendra Modi government told the Lok Sabha on Thursday. Of the 290 complaints received this year, 111 of them were from Rajasthan alone.

The detention of two journalists in Hyderabad has triggered an uproar in Telangana with the opposition accusing the Revanth Reddy government of “authoritarian tactics”.