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Pothole-free Delhi by Diwali? Data offers no flicker of hope

Last month, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi Singh unveiled an ambitious initiative aimed at creating a pothole-free Delhi, with the government’s public works department told to repair roads spanning nearly 1,400 km with this year’s Diwali as the deadline.

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Tracking the Modi trips: Public money used for party promotion

➨ At an official event to mark the Viksit Bharat, Viksit Bihar programme in Bihar’s Bettiah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 6 this year said the district reminded one of the life of “Sita Mata and Luv Kush, but the INDI alliance was even against the Pran Prathishtha of…

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‘Ambiguous communication’: Study points to IT Rules ‘chilling impact’ on audiovisual industry

The IT Rules introduced by the Narendra Modi government are cultivating a climate of self-censorship for the audiovisual industry and legal and economic threats, a recent study has suggested.

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How OpIndia got caught spreading misinformation about LiveLaw

A story on a “Christian conversion racket”, another on Washington Post’s “collusion” with Canada, and restaurants “deceiving customers” over paneer.

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Fraud network, mastermind in Assam: Inside Oswal cyber fraud case

In the two months since textile baron SP Oswal lost Rs 7 crore to scammers posing as CBI sleuths, the Ludhiana police have identified the “mastermind”, arrested 15 suspects, recovered Rs 4 crore, and claimed to have uncovered a network of scammers spread across Assam, West Bengal, and the Delhi-NCR.

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Gujarat journalist arrested in ‘GST scam’ case now booked for ‘possession of confidential files’

Mahesh Langa, a senior assistant editor at The Hindu, who has been in judicial custody in a case of alleged GST evasion since October 8, has now been booked for possession of documents related to the Gujarat Maritime Board, Indian Express reported.

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‘Govt weakening RTI, our fight not over yet’: Activists in Beawar on 19 years of RTI law

About two decades ago, a grassroots movement in the backward area of Beawar in Rajasthan led to the formation of the Right to Information Act in 2005. In the lead-up to the landmark legislation aimed at countering corruption, activists Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, and Shankar Singh led a sit-in protest…

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‘Democracy khatre main hai’: The Donald Trump Edition

The US election – a high-stakes battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump – is being perceived as critical for the future of democracy in America.

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Under new J&K govt, journalists uncertain about press freedom hope, ‘change in policy’

The oath ceremony last week in Jammu and Kashmir was a crucial moment for the region’s press. It had come after a poll campaign featuring promises on press freedom, increased restrictions on the media, and after a decade of political turmoil.

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Private buses in Corbett’s core: Controversial ex-director didn’t have ‘any powers’ to permit it

A committee has filed a report in the Supreme Court that says a former director of Uttarakhand’s Corbett Tiger Reserve permitted private buses to operate within the park’s core reserve area even without “having any powers to do so”.

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‘It’s time for a homecoming’: Why Kamaal Farooqui is returning to the Congress

The Maharashtra polls are a month away and defections are already in full swing.

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Let Me Explain: UAPA’s weaponisation of literature and witnesses

From 2014 to 2022, 8,719 people were charged under the draconian UAPA. A majority are languishing in jail, with trials delayed and bail denied, as in the case of GN Saibaba.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 342: Bahraich violence, influence of money in Pune car crash case

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Prateek Goyal.

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Indian Express relaunches film magazine SCREEN after 11 years

The Indian Express relaunched its film magazine SCREEN in an event in Mumbai on Friday, after a hiatus of 11 years. It’s first digital cover was also launched at the event.

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TV Newsance 270: Anchors celebrate rise of gangster Bishnoi, India-Canada all-out tussle

Kalyug has arrived on our TV screens with news anchors and right-wing commentators celebrating the rise of a new national hero — gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Move over Dawood Ibrahim; the new sheriff in town has got a Sanatani twist. And our anchors glorified the criminal, tossing journalistic integrity out the…

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Working mothers struggle, quit jobs as govt shuts down 22 crèches across Delhi

The Delhi government has closed 22 of the 44 standalone crèches operated by NGOs under the PALNA scheme, affecting families and working women across the national capital. The decision was first detailed in an order by Delhi’s Women and Child Department on March 5, followed by a June 20 order…

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Absence of survey, local resistance: Assam limestone mining auction in limbo

In December last year, the Assam government issued a tender for the auction of seven limestone mines in Dima Hasao district, which operates under the sixth schedule of the Constitution, and is governed by an autonomous council that represents its tribal communities.

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No guarantee of protection or change: What the stories of 3 journalists tell us this month

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A woman’s 16-year crusade for a national channel for Sindhis

It was the late 2000s when Asha Chand made it her life’s mission to advocate for a Sindhi public broadcasting channel.

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PCI issues show-cause notice to Caravan over story on army’s ‘torture of civilians’ in Poonch

Months after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting directed The Caravan magazine to take down its story on the Indian army’s “torture and murder of civilians” in Poonch and Rajaouri of Jammu, the Press Council of India has sent a show-cause notice to the media outlet.

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‘Prima facie contemptuous’: HC orders takedown of Wikipedia page on ANI defamation suit

Terming it “prima facie contemptuous”, the Delhi High Court has ordered the takedown of a Wikipedia page on ANI’s defamation suit against Wikimedia Foundation which hosts the platform, LiveLaw reported.

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Foreign Correspondents’ Club crisis gets messier with two expulsions

Two journalists, who were appointed as the interim president and interim general secretary of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia around 10 days ago, have now been expelled from the club.

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‘They would’ve set my kids on fire’: Mapping the trail of destruction in Bahraich

Shops shut, vehicles and homes charred, and streets wearing a deserted look. That’s how areas affected by communal violence in UP’s Bahraich looked when Newslaundry visited ground zero to take stock of the situation.

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Another Rahul Kanwal episode lands in soup over ‘pre-recorded interview’ aired as debate

Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has alleged that India Today news director Rahul Kanwal and the channel misleadingly presented an interview with her in the debate format.

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‘Buy this if you want to ruin your life’: The hapless Ola e-scooter buyers from Delhi

Last week, Ola shares plunged after an online spat between its CEO Bhavish Aggarwal and comedian Kunal Kamra over customer service issues with the company’s electric scooters.

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