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‘Shelling is our reality’: Evacuees in Jammu camps on attacks, bunkers, and livelihoods

Note: This story was reported three hours before the ceasefire was announced on May 10.

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‘Killed within minutes of each other’: Family of twins killed in Poonch

At the intensive care unit in the Government Medical College and Hospital, Urusa Khan sat on her bed looking dazed and exhausted. Her voice was barely audible, and wept uncontrollably as soon as anyone walked into the room.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 368: Mining mafia in Aravallis, the decline of Delhi School of Journalism

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Pratyush Deep and reporter Ankita Dhar Karmakar.

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IMF approves $1 bn to Pakistan, but why didn’t India vote no?

On Friday, the executive board of the International Monetary Fund completed its first review of the aid given to Pakistan for economic reforms under the Extended Fund Facility lending programme, giving Pakistan immediate access to $1 billion.

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Is posting fake news really part of ‘information warfare’? Here’s what experts say

As tensions escalate between India and Pakistan, sections of social media have committed themselves to the pursuit of ‘psy ops’ against Pakistan, claiming to serve a purpose in the machinery of war as part of information warfare.

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‘I thought I was going to die’: Panic in Jammu city as defused Pakistani shells hit homes

On the night of May 9, Shweta was struggling to sleep.

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Hafta 536: War drums and fake news with India-Pakistan tensions

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by retired Brigadier Kuldip Singh. In this tense news week, we begin by dissecting India’s Operation Sindoor and strikes on terror camps in Pakistan on May 7. “Neither side, particularly India, wants…

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TV Newsance 298: Operation Sindoor and how TV made a joke of war

Early Wednesday morning, India launched Operation Sindoor, targeting terror camps in Pakistan. As Pakistan responded with cross-border shelling and drone attacks – intercepted by the military – Indian TV channels gave a whole new meaning to the "fog of war".

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EXCLUSIVE: Masood Azhar attends kin funeral, Pak army in attendance

Earlier this week, India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri displayed a photograph that showed Pakistan Army’s presence at funeral prayers for those killed in the Indian strikes on the Lashkar-e-Toiba headquarters in Muridke. Videos purportedly showed Abdul Rauf, a US designated terrorist and leader of Falah-i-Insaniyat – a proxy of the…

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Pak used Turkish drones to target India: Govt

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, Colonel Sophia Qureshi, and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh shared details about Pakistan’s drone attacks and Indian response at a press briefing in New Delhi on Friday.

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‘Why no action against fake media industry?’: Behind the ‘blocks’ of media accounts in India

In India, most visitors attempting to access the website of news portal The Wire are met with a blank page and a notice that says, “The website has been blocked as per the order of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the IT Act, 2000.”

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‘Not court’s duty to tell media to take down this or that’: SC rejects ANI’s plea to remove Wikipedia page

The Supreme Court of India on Friday set aside a Delhi High Court order requiring the removal of a Wikipedia page detailing a defamation lawsuit filed by ANI against Wikimedia Foundation, LiveLaw reported.

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‘Fulfilled his duties as son, son of the nation’: Haryana village bids farewell to jawan killed in J&K

Seema stepped out of her small, dimly-lit room. The last time her husband had been home was in March, when the couple learned she was pregnant. They had celebrated. And he had promised to return soon.

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Godi media is having its worst time: Confused by caste census, stunned by Col Qureshi

It is not easy being a legacy media TV journalist today. One day you are upping the ante on traitors within the nation, along with baying for Pakistan’s blood. The next day, you have to say that starving Pakistan of water is a much better form of revenge than any…

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Killed by Pak shelling, branded Pak terrorist on TV: Godi media kills an Indian twice

In its usual sprint to serve up high-decibel patriotism and prime-time body counts, India’s legacy TV media has outdone itself – again. This time, several channels declared Qari Mohammad Iqbal, a madrassa teacher, as a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist killed during Operation Sindoor. The only problem? Iqbal wasn’t a terrorist. He wasn’t…

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Pakistan’s terror subterfuge is a case for global sanctions

The international shame and opprobrium that Pakistan has incurred over the years for employing terrorism as state policy has not deterred that failing state from compulsively resorting to the worst form of inhuman and savage warfare, even as its existence teeters on the brink.

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May 8, 2025: After rain, air quality goes back to being unhealthy

While unseasonal showers in Delhi provided momentary relief to residents from the heat and pollution in the past few days, pollution levels went back to the unhealthy category on Thursday.

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Indian dailies hail Operation Sindoor, ET puts Pak toll at 70

“Justice Served”, “Payback for Pahalgam”, “Indian Forces Hit Pakistan Terror Bases”, “Sindoor Serves Justice” and “India Strikes Deep”, and Sin-Demolished.

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Operation Sindoor is India’s third warning in 9 years. But will Pakistan learn?

Operation Sindoor represents India’s biggest, forceful and most ambitious response yet to a terrorist attack on Indian soil. For the third time in nine years, a military response to a terror attack has shifted both the paradigm and perception of how an Indian government deals with terrorism.

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‘A step above anything done before’: Defence experts break down Op Sindoor

Responding to the Pahalgam terror attack, the Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor, striking nine terrorist sites across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in an operation described as “focused, calibrated, and non-escalatory”.

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India’s measured response: Key takeaways from Op Sindoor briefing

Hours after Operation Sindoor, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh shared key details at a press briefing in Delhi. They emphasised that the airstrikes targeted only terror training facilities.

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From choice of target to press briefing: India’s response to Pahalgam is delivered

Two weeks after the Pahalgam attack, Indian tri-services targeted nine sites through precision strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

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In the movie Phule, an opened door but many missed opportunities

Indian ‘heroes’ are, invariably, upper-caste. From history textbooks to mainstream cinema, the figures we are encouraged to admire, emulate, and celebrate overwhelmingly come from traditional Savarna backgrounds – be it a freedom fighter, a war hero, or a cinematic icon. A few rare exceptions exist, like director Ananth Mahadevan’s latest…

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Declared absconding, but Vishalgad fort riot prime accused set to marry in Pune, active on social media

A Hindutva activist who is officially declared absconding by the police and is the prime accused in the 2024 Kolhapur Vishalgad fort violence is set to get married in Pune today.

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‘Hope water doesn’t rise further this year’: Asola residents fear the monsoon

Water up to their necks. Floating plastic chairs. Houses submerged in water. This is the ordeal of the residents of Valmiki Basti in South Delhi’s Asola every monsoon.

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