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As the seven-day Khelo India Para Games 2025 kicks off in Delhi, Newslaundry reached the event’s venue, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, on Thursday, to take stock of the city’s air quality. 

What began as a celebration to mark the birth anniversary of Shivaji Maharaj on Monday descended into hours of chaos and violence across a 2-kilometre radius in Nagpur’s Mahal area – leaving vehicles damaged, 33 police officers injured, and a community divided in its wake.

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.

In this episode, Newslaundry goes to the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences at Lodhi Road. 

A Hyderabad court has struck down the Telangana police’s attempt to prosecute two journalists under Section 111 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, a charge reserved for serious organised crimes, Hindustan Times reported.

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.

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.