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Interfaith wedding function cancelled after Suresh Chavhanke’s ‘love jihad’ tweet

Two families in Maharashtra’s Vasai cancelled a wedding function after Suresh Chavhanke, editor and managing director of Sudarshan News TV channel, tweeted out a picture of the invitation alleging “love jihad”.

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NL Playoffs Ep 31: T20 World Cup, FIFA World Cup, Sao Paulo F1

Newslaundry subscribers Aniketh Kalur and Gowtham Kode are joined by sports journalist Sharda Ugra to discuss the recently concluded T20 World Cup, the impending FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar, and Formula One.

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Cartoon: A walk in the park?

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…

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WhatsApp head, public policy director in India quit as Meta churn continues

Days after Ajit Mohan, the vice president and managing director of Meta India, announced his departure from the company, Meta India has confirmed the resignations of two other senior executives. Abhijit “Bobby” Bose, the head of WhatsApp India, and Rajiv Aggarwal, the public policy director of Meta India, have resigned…

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Gujarat election: Out on bail, 2002 convict campaigns for BJP candidate daughter

In Gujarat’s Naroda constituency, a TV journalist from Delhi tutors BJP candidate Payal Kukrani on how to dodge questions about her father by sticking to the development plank and highlighting her medical education.

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TMR 2022: Where is India's relationship with the US at after 75 years?

What are the areas of cooperation between India and the US? What are the areas where cooperation, even negotiation, has been rather difficult? How has the India-US relationship evolved in the last three quarters of a century? What’s its future? How might India’s position on the Ukraine war affect it?…

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NL Baithak: Interact live with Team NL

An independent media platform is important to us. We think this is so for most people who value democracy and freedom of speech. It is with this belief that we launched the Newslaundry experiment of Pay To Keep News Free in 2014.

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Punjab’s farmers are burning less stubble. Thanks to super seeders

Standing in his half-burned field, Gurmeet Singh, a paddy farmer in Sangrur’s Sibiya village, acknowledged a gradual change. “We only burn loose straw, not standing stalks,” he said. Gurmeet cultivates 30 acres of leased land and this is the second year in a row when he has only partially burned…

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I&B ministry consults with news broadcasters over content of ‘national importance’

The Narendra Modi government is consulting with news broadcasters over the nitty gritties of the newly mandated compulsory slot for airing content of “national importance”.

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TV Newsance 192: Finding nuclear war in a lunar eclipse as Himachal prepares for polls

TV Newsance is back, and this week we analyse TV9’s loony show on the lunar eclipse, which the channel thought could be a sign of impending doom with inputs from defence experts. Chitra Tripathi, back to Aaj Tak from her brief spell at ABP, also hinted at a dangal in…

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OpIndia is caught peddling fake news. Again

The Hindu nationalist news website OpIndia has been caught publishing fake news – again. This time the “news” was about veteran journalist Sucheta Dalal, managing editor of the news website Moneylife.

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Delhi air pollution: How are the sick coping?

As Delhi's air quality continues to worsen with stubble burning in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana, Newslaundry visits some of the capital's leading government hospitals to find out how people with a history of breathing ailments are coping.

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15 villages, 1,000 km: Why Haryana is doing better than Punjab in tackling stubble burning

The sky and landscape provide clues on how the governments of Punjab and Haryana are handling the menace of stubble burning this year.

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JP Nadda vs Anurag Thakur: How high command hostility stoked a BJP rebellion in Himachal

All is not well in the Bharatiya Janata Party in Himachal Pradesh. Workers, leaders and sympathisers know it but do not talk about it openly. The BJP puts up a united front on camera. But there’s no missing the frosty ties between two party leaders from the hill state who…

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‘Upset by media, wanted to expose them’: Cricket fan who called Zee News ‘worst channel’ on live telecast

After confirming the telecast was live, an Indian cricket fan in Australia called Zee News “the worst channel in India” and urged it to not communalise issues, before he was pushed away by a reporter. A clip of the incident was widely circulated on social media.

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Himachal manifesto: BJP’s ‘revdis’ exceed Rs 2,250 crore

The Bharatiya Janata Party in Himachal Pradesh might’ve not taken Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hint.

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NL Playoffs Ep 30: T20 World Cup, F1 championship

In this episode, Newslaundry subscribers Aniketh Kalur and Gowtham Kode discuss the ongoing T20 World Cup, their predictions for the India-Bangladesh cricket match, the F1 championship, and more.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 244: The Wire raids and Andhra government's data collection

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Ashwine Kumar Singh of Newslaundry and freelance journalist Vidheesha Kuntamalla.

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Himachal Pradesh: Why the fight for better pension is making the BJP sweat

The crew of Delhi-based news channels in Shimla are putting up at the Willow Banks hotel on the Mall road – the venue of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s media centre in the Himachal Pradesh capital. On Friday morning, reporters from Zee News, ABP News and TV9 Bharatvarsh stepped out of the…

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Criminal defamation: Problems and precedents of a provision used commonly against the press

Earlier this week, the Delhi police searched the Wire’s office and the homes of its five staffers, days after BJP leader Amit Malviya accused the portal of maligning his and his party’s reputation through a criminal conspiracy, cheating and forged documents.

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Photojournalists from The Print, New Indian Express barred from Kejriwal-Mann press conference

Photojournalists associated with the New Indian Express and the Print were allegedly barred from attending a joint press conference by Delhi chief minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann in Delhi on Friday. The press conference was intended to discuss the worsening air quality in…

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Operation Lotus in Telangana? Arrested priest had ‘Rs 1.25 crore flat’, worked at Faridabad temple

A symbol to ward off the evil eye frowns down at passersby from the first floor of a newly constructed, four-storey building in Faridabad’s Sector 31 in Haryana. It’s Monday and the street is empty, except for a few cars.

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Newslaundry wins two Laadli awards for reportage on Hathras, Yati Narsinghanand

The year is winding down, journalists are looking back at their work, and Newslaundry has received two more accolades for its journalism.

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The Wire raids: 18 devices seized, including a reporter's phone at the news website’s office

Sixteen electronic devices have been seized in police searches at the Wire’s office and residences linked to its staff in Delhi and Mumbai, according to employees at the portal. The organisation is yet to receive the hash value of the devices. (Newslaundry later learned on November 3 that a total…

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Raids on The Wire: Delhi police seized electronics, asked for passwords, refused to provide hash value

During a raid this evening on the home of the Wire founder-editor Siddharth Varadarajan, the Delhi police seized his laptop, two mobile phones and an iPad.

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