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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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Reporters Without Orders Ep 280: NDTV’s Adanification, MP Peegate and Seema Haider

This week, host Gurmehar Kaur is joined by Newslaundry’s Tanishka Sodhi and Avdhesh Kumar.

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Under fire after Newslaundry report, NCW chief says wrote thrice to Manipur authorities

The National Commission for Women received no response to three letters which raised concerns about violence against women in the state and were sent to the Manipur authorities, the commission’s chief Rekha Sharma claimed on Friday.

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Mind ki Baat, Ep 8: PTSD

This is the eighth 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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Kuki viral video: ANI apologises for ‘inadvertently’ claiming Muslim man was arrested

Over 75 days after two Kuki women were paraded naked by a mob in Manipur and then sexually assaulted, the Manipur police made its first arrests in the case. It arrested four people in Thoubal district.

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Exclusive: NCW ignored complaint linked to Kuki women video filed 38 days ago

Since yesterday, there’s been shock and horror over a viral video from Manipur, showing two Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob. The women were sexually assaulted; one of them was allegedly gangraped.

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MP’s new ‘Vyapam scam’: 30 with fake disability, 217 below age, 7 toppers from BJP MLA’s centre

At least 30 candidates falsely declared themselves as differently-abled to get the benefit of a quota, at least 217 applicants violated age norms, and at least seven of the state’s 10 toppers were from the same examination centre.

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Viral Kuki women’s video: Top primetime anchors give it a miss, it’s frontpage news in print

The whole of yesterday, a video trended on social media, showing two Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur.

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‘Battle to save the idea of India’: Front pages today on the Opposition’s new alliance

It’s going to be INDIA versus Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha poll next year.

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Layoffs, pay cuts: Inside CPR’s ‘financial crisis’ after FCRA funds, tax exemption axed

The Centre for Policy Research has downsized its staff by 75 percent. Its faculty members — including fellows and senior fellows — have taken “massive pay cuts” ranging from 50 percent to full. The think tank had come under the income tax department’s tax scanner and faces a “serious financial…

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At Sansad TV, vice president Dhankhar calls the shots on content, layoffs, appraisal

Sansad TV laid off 26 employees last month. Contracts of 19 temporary and freelance staff were terminated on June 12, while seven senior employees were sacked on June 27, and 15 others were told their work will be reviewed over the next six months.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 279: Saudi moderate’s India visit, DD News’ skewed reports on UCC

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.

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Hafta 441: West Bengal’s political violence, missed signs of flood, climate volatility

This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Shardool Katyayan are joined by senior journalist Monideepa Banerjie.

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Adani’s NDTV: New channels, Modi documentaries, a leadership void, and big plans for this year

On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, something very unusual happened.

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‘Cannot bring hammer to kill an ant’: Bombay HC calls IT Rules ‘excessive’

“You cannot bring a hammer to kill an ant,” said the Bombay High Court on Friday while hearing petitions challenging the amended IT Rules against fake content on social media, according to Bar and Bench.

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‘No help, no one told us where to go’: In flood-hit Delhi, anger and despair

Their temporary house in Bella Estate’s Moolchand Basti submerged, Randhir Rajput’s family is among 35 others camping on Mahatma Gandhi Marg in north Delhi’s Rajghat, with a swelling Yamuna inundating many areas in the national capital region over the last few days.

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‘Intermediary for digital but not for print?’: Bombay HC on amended IT rules

Hearing petitions challenging the amended IT Rules, the Bombay High Court on Thursday raised questions about the distinction between print and online media, asking if it will result in an “automatic curtailment of their powers”, LiveLaw reported.

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Pune principal’s assault: No evidence of ‘forced’ Christian prayers, complainant backtracks too

Last week, media and social media was flooded with reports on the Christian principal of a school in Pune being thrashed for purportedly forcing students to recite Christian prayers. Alexander Coates Reed, principal of DY Patil High School in Talegaon, was also accused of installing CCTVs in the girls’ toilet.

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‘Difficult to report’: Kerala journalists say curbs on media access continue despite ‘CM promise’

Despite several letters, meetings with the chief minister and even protests, the Kerala government is yet to ease restrictions on media access to the state secretariat, according to press unions in the state. These restrictions were imposed in the wake of Covid.

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