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Reporters Without Orders Ep 210: Polls, polarisation and another hate factory

This week, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel as Basant Kumar is joined by Ashwine Kumar and Prateek Goyal.

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The murky world of Prashasak Samiti: Meet BJP and Adityanath’s social media warriors

Last year in May, the village of Noorpur in Uttar Pradesh made news when its Dalit residents alleged that a marriage procession of theirs had been stopped by a group of local Muslims. The situation became tense enough to warrant armed police being deployed in the area.

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NL Playoffs Ep 16: A tribute to the king of spin

In this episode of NL Playoffs, hosts Aniketh and Gowtham are joined by Newslaundry’s Anand Vardhan to pay tribute to Shane Warne, the ‘king of spin’.

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#NLat10: Lovers and Haters with Newslaundry Part 4

In Part 4 of this series, we look at more claps and criticism we’ve received during our 10-year journey – a decade of ad-free independent news and media critique.

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Will Yogi Adityanath’s 'bulldozer' lead the BJP to victory in UP?

To keep the focus on law and order, the Yogi Adityanath government has been flaunting its “bulldozer” – the action taken against what it calls buildings linked to the “mafia”. But when Newslaundry visited Mau, several traders alleged that a particular community had been targeted in an unlawful manner under…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 209: Delhi riots two years later, Indian students in Ukraine

This week, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry’s Tanishka Sodhi and Supriti David.

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Hafta letters: Reservation in private sector, religious scholars, Newslaundry app

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‘Brahmin self-respect’ vs ‘vikas’: Why UP’s Chillupar and Sadar may vote differently

“Voting this time will be on the basis of Brahmin swabhiman, self-respect,” said Kunal Chaturvedi, 27. “Vikas, development, is a separate issue.”

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Op Ganga ‘most active’: ToI cites unnamed sources, compares with ‘inactive’ countries

Amid videos of Indians facing harassment in war-hit Ukraine, and criticism from the opposition over an alleged delay in evacuation measures, the Times of India on Monday quoted anonymous government sources to say that India’s ‘Operation Ganga’ was the “most active among all nations which have their citizens in Ukraine”.

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Morning Show Ep 20 ft Gorakhpur Univ students: Yogi vs Akhilesh, Zee News vs NDTV

In this episode, Team Newslaundry settles down for a fun chat on the UP assembly election with the students of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 208: UAPA cases in Punjab, women’s safety in UP

This week, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel as host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Ayush Tiwari and Akanksha Kumar.

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Gorakhpur: Over 40 Covid deaths linked to election duty, but is pandemic a poll issue?

In Gorakhpur, chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s bastion and the BJP’s home turf, campaign posters and flags by political parties dot the cityscape ahead of the assembly polls in nine constituencies in the district on March 3. A hoarding by the city municipal corporation near Deen Dayal University urges voters to…

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Bundelkhand farm deaths belie Yogi govt claims on ‘no suicides due to agri distress’

On February 16, during an interview with Doordarshan, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath claimed no farmers in the state had died by suicide due to “agricultural distress” in the last five years.

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#NLat10: Lovers and Haters with Newslaundry Part 3

In Part 3 of this series, we look at more claps and criticism we’ve received during our 10-year journey – a decade of ad-free independent news and media critique.

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Heavy debt, low compensation: 2 years after Delhi riots, damaged businesses struggle to move on

Two plastic bags hang from a broken door in Mohammad Irfan’s building in Delhi’s Shiv Vihar. The door once separated his living quarters from his grocery shop. Both were vandalised, burned and looted during the Delhi riots in February 2020. While he hasn’t been able to repair the door since…

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UP police says Umar Gautam tried to change India’s ‘population demography’. Where’s the evidence?

Days before the first phase of polling for the Uttar Pradesh assembly, the Bharatiya Janata Party presented its election manifesto, the Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra. In it, the party promised to amend the state’s anti-conversion law to introduce a minimum imprisonment of 10 years and a fine of Rs 1…

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Daily Dose Ep 976: Lalu sentenced to jail, Karnataka district tense after murder

Yusra Hasan brings you the news from Bihar, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Qatar.Produced by Yusra Hasan, edited by Umrav Singh.Contribute to our NL Sena for the election coverage here.You can get updates about all our podcasts via Twitter and Facebook.Newslaundry is a reader-supported, ad-free, independent news outlet based out of…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 207: Punjab’s unemployed youth, Delhi’s anganwadi workers’ protest

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Ashwine Kumar Singh and Tanishka Sodhi.

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#NLat10: Lovers and Haters with Newslaundry Part 2

In Part 2 of this series, we continue to explore the feedback we’ve received during our 10-year journey – a decade of ad-free, subscription-driven journalism and media critique.

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‘Disappointed’, embassy advisories ‘delayed’: Indian students stuck in Ukraine

While the Indian embassy has issued advisories amid the escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine, several Indians studying in Ukrainian towns told Newslaundry that the advisories were “delayed”, “disappointing” and “vague”.

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As Karnataka colleges reopen, a tough choice for many between faith, education

“If my parents ask me what is more important to me, Allah or education, then obviously I will choose my god over everything else,” said Naseeba*, 20.

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Punjab police is citing social media activity as evidence of charges under UAPA

In 2016, Mandeep Singh Dhaliwal returned to Punjab from Canada, where he’d moved to with his parents a decade ago. He came back to get married. Two months after his wedding and weeks before the 32-year-old was to return to Canada, Dhaliwal was charged with violating the Unlawful Activities (Prevention)…

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Morning Show Ep 15: Partition wounds, ‘beadbi’ and communalism in Punjab

In this episode, the Newslaundry team is joined by Sukirat, a writer, columnist, and trustee of left-leaning newspaper Nawan Zamana. He talks about communal politics in Punjab and why it's hard to pit Sikhs against Muslims in the way Hindus and Muslims have been divided in some parts of the…

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Another Election Show: Wondering what Hindu Rashtra would look like? Watch this

In December last year, the Dharam Sansad held in Uttarakhand had come under the scanner for open hate speech against Muslims. The participants in the gathering had demanded a Hindu Rashtra. Newslaundry interviews one of the speakers and attendees of the infamous Haridwar Dharam Sansad, Anand Swaroop.

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The ‘guiding force’ of the church in Goa’s assembly election

The white walls of the Chicalim Church in south Goa gleam under the sun as around 40 Goans file into a high-ceilinged hall with chandeliers. At 7 am, before morning mass begins, Father Bolmax Pereira walks up to the altar and says a quick prayer in Konkani for the 12…

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