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Reporters Without Orders Ep 213: Umar Khalid’s bail, ‘harassment’ of TN’s non-Brahmin priests

This week, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Newslaundry’s Laasya Shekhar and Tanishka Sodhi.

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Faith vs art: Why Kerala's Bharatanatyam controversy is more than a Hindu-Muslim issue

“I have experienced even bigger exclusions before. This is not a big deal for me. I am writing this here to show that not only have things not changed over time, but also we are going deeper and deeper into a hole.”

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Are Bengaluru cops ‘forcing’ locals to hand over phones to check WhatsApp, photos?

At 2 am on February 25, Nikhil*, 22, hailed an auto at Bengaluru’s HSR Layout. The IT employee had been drinking with friends and was on his way home when two patrol police personnel stopped his auto at Somasundarapalya.

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NL Playoffs Ep 17: Revisiting India’s 2004 tour of Pakistan

In this episode of NL Playoffs, hosts and Newslaundry subscribers Aniketh and Gowtham are joined by sports journalist Sharda Ugra. They talk about the 2004 India tour of Pakistan – the Samsung Cup where India won the ODI series 3-2 and test series 2-1. They talk about Mohammad Kaif’s brilliant…

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Hafta 373: The Kashmir Files, reportage on the Kashmiri Pandits, Congress party’s survival

This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by senior journalist and writer Alpana Kishore.

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Why Kashmir’s journalists are worried about a ‘fifth column’ in their midst

Two months after the Kashmir Press Club’s “takeover” and subsequent closure in Srinagar, some journalists in Kashmir say a report by the Press Council of India has corroborated what they have alleged for a long time now – that they’re being targeted by fellow journalists for being “critical” of the…

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Daily Dose Ep 999: Hijab protesters denied re-test, AAP’s 5 RS picks

Yusra Hasan brings you the news from Delhi, Karnataka, Punjab, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and China.Produced by Rounak Bhat, edited by Satish Kumar.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 New Delhi. Support their journalism, here.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 211: Faith and Goan politics, and the Congress in UP

This week, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry's Nidhi Suresh and the Quint’s Fatima Khan.

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Why news channels have approached the government against Zee

With auctions for DD Free Dish slots for news channels kicking off earlier this month, dozens of networks are in a tight contest through auctions to reach 38 million regional viewers with Doordarshan’s free direct-to-home service. But the competition has doled out confrontation, when one channel has been perceived to…

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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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