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The exit polls nearly got everything wrong. The markets tanked. The pollsters cried. And the papers underlined the need for stricter disclosure norms. But while the trends solidified on Tuesday, Zee News chose to bring out the knives against at least four media rivals and their owners – purportedly over…

Of 78 Muslim candidates, 24 have won Lok Sabha contests in six states and three Union territories – none of them are from the NDA camp. This is a slide from the 27 MPs that were part of the lower house of Parliament the last time.

On a blistering Saturday afternoon, a homeless man in his sixties was found unconscious near the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Delhi. He was brought in with a body temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit, and immersed in a tub filled with water and ice cubes. About an hour and another…

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar, Pratyush Deep, and Sumedha Mittal to discuss the coverage of the Lok Sabha elections and provide insights into the pulse of the people. 

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by The Caravan’s editor-in-chief Hartosh Singh Bal and investigative journalist Aruna Chandrashekhar.

Over four months after she was “forced to leave India”, French journalist Vanessa Dougnac has written a detailed account of how she was “banned from practicing my profession as a journalist” in a cover story for French magazine La Croix L’Hebdo.

Four days before polling, only one face dominates political posters through Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib city. That face belongs to Amritpal Singh, whose visage is splashed across the Lok Sabha constituency of the same name. The separatist leader, currently lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam, is contesting as an independent candidate.

At about 5 pm today, while the temperature in Delhi touched 37 degrees Celsius, the open space on the ground floor of Delhi’s Press Club of India thronged with people. They’d all turned up to attend “Freedom of Expression in Today’s India” in solidarity with NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed more than twice the number of public meetings than that of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi since the beginning of the NDA and INDIA poll campaigns, shows a Newslaundry analysis.