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Coming soon: Monu Manesar’s video profile, powered by you

Monu Manesar is again in the news. This time, the context is the communal violence across parts of Haryana. Just months ago, the lack of tough police action against him had seen public anger spill onto the streets in Nuh – after two Muslim men were allegedly abducted and set…

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Sedition ‘repealed’, death penalty for mob murder: Three new bills to overhaul criminal justice system

Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared today that a new Bill will “completely repeal the offence of sedition” – something that human rights groups have long demanded.

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‘Wanted to become a scientist before he died’: Kuki children of conflict look to ‘reverse time’

In Churachandpur’s Tuibuong, Kuki children staying in the Grace Academy relief camp line up with copies of the Bible to attend Sunday mass. Once a school for Tuibong’s Meitei and Kuki children, the building now serves as a makeshift relief camp for displaced Kuki families from Kangpokpi – sheltering 124…

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‘Our lives are set back 25 years’: In Himachal, a village loses everything to floods

On July 9 and 10, eight-foot waves of water crashed across Pandoh village, which lies on the banks of the Beas river in Himachal Pradesh. The furious torrent tore through a bridge and homes, carrying people and possessions along with it.

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NL Interview: Gaurav Gogoi on no-confidence motion, Manipur, 2024 media strategy

Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has led the opposition’s no-confidence motion to corner the Narendra Modi government in Parliament over the conflict in Manipur.

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Explained: ‘Pro-BJP’, regional better than national – what journalists think of the media

The Indian media landscape has been riddled with bias, declining press freedom, and dipping public trust. These are deemed as ‘tough times’ for media companies. But what about Indian journalists?

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‘Draconian, deeply distressing’: Editors Guild flags concerns in Press & Registration of Periodicals Bill

The Editors Guild is “deeply concerned” by some of the “draconian provisions” of the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill 2023, which was passed by the Rajya Sabha on August 3.

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Mobs in hostels, guards outnumbered: How Assam Rifles rescued 200 girl students at Manipur varsity

Sitting on a hillock in Manipur University, an Assam Rifles camp overlooks the Imphal valley, its view foregrounded with at least six student hostels. The university roads and hostels below are mostly empty – a sharp contrast from the chaos which engulfed the campus nearly three months ago.

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‘Gunned down in sleep’, ‘hit by mortar’: 5 dead as Manipur gunfight intensifies

“It was deserted in the village, and my husband was scared. I asked him to leave for the relief camp, but his father didn’t agree. They were both killed right inside our house… attacked with sharp-edged weapons, and shot in the chest and head… What is the government doing? Is…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 282: Akashvani as Modi’s megaphone, India’s solar infra woes

This week, host Gurmehar Kaur is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal and Washington Post’s Karishma Mehrotra.

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Learned ‘tactics from PUBG’: Students use guns in Manipur’s Bishnupur-Churachandpur to ‘defend land’

A panorama of Bishnupur’s Meitei-dominated Terakhong village spanned in front of 15 self-proclaimed Kuki ‘volunteers’ as they lugged their single- or double-barrel guns to a bunker in P Geljang village of Churachandpur district on Thursday.

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Mind ki Baat, Ep 9: Schizophrenia

This is the ninth episode of Mind ki Baat, a Newslaundry podcast with a neurodivergent host with a focus on the invisible epidemic of mental health issues in society today.

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Manipur violence: 53 bodies – mostly Kukis – lie unclaimed at two Imphal hospitals

Nearly three months into the ethnic violence in Manipur, at least 53 dead bodies – mostly all belonging to the Kuki community – lie unclaimed at two district hospitals in Imphal East and West, sources at the state health department and district administrations told Newslaundry. Officials said three or four…

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‘Releasing, commercially using’ TRP data in violation of guidelines: I&B ministry notice to Chrome DM

The information and broadcasting ministry has issued a showcause notice to private company Chrome Data Analytics and Media for allegedly releasing and commercially using TV channels rating data without being a registered television rating agency.

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India declared target-free family planning in ’96, but UP districts still ‘target’ mass sterilisations

Sikha, a 27-year-old farmer from Shivpur village in Varanasi, does not want a third child. But since her husband has refused to get a vasectomy, Sikha has been taking contraceptives which trigger side effects – her medical complications have not allowed for a sterilisation surgery.

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Exhausted by TV circus, Seema and Sachin restrain media from entering house

“Media, please respect my privacy,” reads a note outside the residence of Sachin Meena and Seema Haider as the couple have now refused to speak to the media in Rabupura village of Greater Noida.

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BJP’s social media push: Outreach efforts span 18 states, thousands of influencers

“I know our country is in the right hands...Under the leadership of Narendra Modi ji, every person is trying to make it stronger,” read the caption of an Instagram post by influencer Sunil Minglani, with pictures of him posing with a gleeful union minister Piyush Goyal.

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Hafta letters: Atheists, moon missions, US court systems

Hey NL team, it’s दिवगुन्न btw. I thought it best to type out in Hindi. My suggestion to the NL team is if they can start film discussions, critique and roundtables with sound designers, cinematographers and writers. As somebody who works in the film industry, it is sad to not…

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Best use of new technology: Newslaundry app wins Digipub Awards 2023

The Newslaundry app won the award in the category of Best Use of Technology at this year’s Digipub Awards organised by AFAQs. The award acknowledges the use of new technology in online publishing to enhance user experience and improve efficiency.

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Manipur village caught in cross-fire: Bombings through the night, teen critically injured

About 40 km from Imphal, Phougakchao village in Manipur’s Bishnupur district has been witness to rampant firing and bombing from the neighbouring Kuki-dominated hills, which intensified this week. On July 25, an 18-year-old boy Lonjam Naocha Singh got severely injured by shrapnel as a bomb cracked through the roof of…

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‘Cops said it would be war if we go to find them’: In Imphal, families wait for 2 teens, ‘dead or alive’

“On the first floor, three rooms are under construction. One of them was for my son. Construction was recently stopped due to lack of construction material. I don’t know who would occupy the room now,” said Phijam Ibungobi Singh, who retired as additional superintendent of police (wireless) last year, at…

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Four social media agencies chosen to popularise govt campaigns: Thakur in LS

The government has chosen four agencies to work with social media influencers for content about government schemes and campaigns, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

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‘His body is still in the morgue’: Two months later, Kuki woman on her brother’s murder

On May 4, when Letminthang Haokip telephoned his sister Kim from Imphal, she immediately knew something was wrong.

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‘Modus operandi to extort, threaten’: Multiple charges against Kerala’s Karma News

Malayalam digital outfit Karma News – which is known to propagate a curious mix of rightwing Christian and Hindutva propaganda – is facing multiple charges of extortion and blackmail. In at least three police complaints filed in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram since May 2022, the portal’s Kerala-based chief PR Somdev and…

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NL Interview: BJP Kuki MLA Paolienlal Haokip on crime against women in Manipur, govts’ action

The video of two Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur has woken up people to the realities of the dire situation in the northeastern state – eliciting condemnation and questions on the BJP-led state and central governments’ actions to end the violence.

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