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After renaming towns and public places, the Narendra Modi government is at the centre of a storm for ostensibly pushing its first international name change idea – India to Bharat. And amid a political war of words, Newstrack – which is one of India Today’s flagship shows hosted by the…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ubiquitous in Delhi. He appears in different sizes at these locations: from the international airport to iron pailings; public toilets to petrol pumps; bus stops to banyan trees; and the façade of a metro station to flyovers and fences.

A PWD contractual worker, Deepak, swept the pavement below Delhi’s IIT flyover on Wednesday— the area had served his and the families of 14 other PWD contractual workers as “home” until about 10 days ago, when the Modi government’s G20 beautification drive took over.

“It looks like everyone has forgotten professor Sabyasachi Das,” commented a fourth-year student from the economics department on festivities marking a new session at the Ashoka University in Sonipat, close on the heels of a controversy. 

New Delhi is gearing up to host the G20 Summit at Pragati Maidan’s Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on September 9 and 10.

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit, The News Minute journalist Prajwal Bhat and The Frontier Manipur’s executive editor Paojel Chaoba. The panel discussed the ongoing conflict in Manipur, its underlying causes, perspective divide and the lack of accountability for the tragedy.

It was another pinnacle of on-ground reporting. Aaj Tak’s Anjana Om Kashyap atop a bulldozer eulogised the “crackdown on illegal construction”, mostly belonging to Muslims, in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri in April last year. Days before her “historic reportage” on the then BJP-led Delhi municipal body’s “bulldozer action”, the area had witnessed…

After being voted to power in 2021, the Himanta Biswa Sarma government in Assam removed the monetary cap for government advertisements in print and electronic media.

A Delhi government school teacher has been booked for allegedly passing communal slurs in a classroom in Delhi, days after another teacher was caught on camera ordering a classroom to slap a Muslim student in Uttar Pradesh.

The beats of Indian drums, punctuated by car horns and the occasional siren, reverberated outside Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College on Monday. It was a tacit announcement, especially for first-year students watching with intrigue — Delhi University students’ body polls are in the offing. The elections are due on…