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Fake news items about a BJP leader’s violent encounter with sex workers have sent the party into a tizzy in Madhya Pradesh. The party has filed an FIR against the Congress for promoting ill will against the BJP by amplifying the articles. And as more details emerge, the focus has…

On March 2, Coal Pulz Private Ltd, a private company registered in October 2020, won the bid for the Namchik Namphuk coal mine in Arunachal Pradesh. With nearly 15 million tonnes of geological coal reserves, Namchik Namphuk is the largest commercial coal mine in northeast India, producing one of the…

The Delhi police today denied permission for an event on “media blackout and state repression in Kashmir”. The event had been scheduled to take place at the Gandhi Peace Foundation this afternoon. 

The BBC is back as an “anti-national” force, but Arnab Goswami may not get a chance to pull off a 56-inch Godi Award-worthy performance this time. The nationalist trolls, after all, are not desi but British in the public broadcaster’s latest controversy.

A journalist has alleged that he was arrested and harassed by the police because he raised questions about secondary education minister Gulabo Devi’s unfulfilled poll promises at an event in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal on March 11. 

On February 18, two students from IIT Bombay discussed how Darshan Solanki’s roommate “reduced his interaction” with him after asking Solanki his rank in JEE.

This week, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel as Basant Kumar is joined by Avdhesh Kumar and Anmol Pritam.  

Cartoon is one of the oldest and boldest artistic genres for speaking truth to power. In India, however, cartoonists, in the news media and outside, are under pressure to curtail their free speech and not annoy the powerful as the finest of them are wont to do. They are being…

The bogey of north Indian migrants “under attack” in Tamil Nadu refuses to die down. The police in Tamil Nadu have filed six cases so far over such rumours and come up with a series of guidelines to quell fake news propagating similar claims.

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“If in reality, the incident was caused by those four persons and the victim had been raped, then she would have told the reporters about the accused as well as the rape.”