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“No eligible voter should be left out” has become the Election Commission’s refrain during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral...
On a blistering afternoon in June, when the temperature had crossed 40 degrees Celsius, 48-year-old Manju (name changed on request) was at home in the...
Eight Instagram posts in 48 hours. For independent journalist and educator Raghav Trivedi, who has 772,000 followers, the takedowns came in quick...
The Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) in Kolkata has filed a case against students’ union vice president Shubham Waydande for...
For nearly three months, young people have been protesting in Delhi and other cities. Will these protests have an electoral impact? Sreenivasan Jain...
On February 25, 2025, Union Home Minister Amit Shah closed Madhya Pradesh’s Global Investors Summit in Bhopal by announcing that MoUs worth Rs 30.77...
A cyclone that powered up over unusually warm ocean waters hit part of India’s coastline that’s dense with billions of dollars of investment in...
In Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, a 2,400 MW thermal power plant is rising on land whose true costs are only beginning to surface. Awarded to Adani...
Anger is growing in Maharashtra’s Raigad district against a 3,000 MW pumped-storage project being built by the Torrent Group in Karjat, days before...
The security presence outside Jamia Millia Islamia is sparser, but each entrance is guarded. There is a police warning and loudspeakers outside....
“They showed the world a way,” said Neha Bora in a viral clip, about Bangladeshi student protesters. The All Indian Students Association (AISA)...
In August, Newslaundry reported how bulk Form 7 applications were being used to target voters in Uttarakhand during the Special Intensive Revision...
Right before the Mapusa river meets the Mandovi river near Panjim, it crosses the wetlands, creeks and low lying paddy fields of Salvador Do Mundo....
This is part 2 of Newslaundry’s investigation into voter deletions in Kichha, Uttarakhand. A BJP booth-level agent filed Form 7 objections that he...
On October 15, 2026, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari, in a press conference, alleged that All India Students’...
After hours of proceedings, repeated scrutiny of sureties and a police request for further custody, Cockroach Janata Party members Saurav Das and...
CJP leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka remain in custody, but no criminal court has remanded them. They are instead held under a law meant to...
Disha Salian died in June 2020. A young talent manager working in Bollywood, she tragically fell to her death from the 12th storey of a flat in Mumbai...
Amid the recent protests and thousands of detentions in Delhi, at least 24 mobile phones belonging to detainees remain unaccounted for. Their owners...
Delhi Police has set up around 120–130 pink booths across the capital since 2021 to help women report complaints and access assistance. But with...
Even as gig and platform workers form the backbone of several companies that control their incentives, pay and working hours, companies do not have to...
There is a moment: Neha Bora is being detained in a police bus that protesters have managed to stop. Neha and the other activists leap out. Footage of...
Fidal Royas, a member of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) from Kerala, said the Delhi Police detained him five times between October 2...
After journalists covering the protests in New Delhi were detained and forcibly prevented from doing their work, social media posts documenting the...
At the Delhi protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, the police seemed to have a clear plan: get to the protesters before they...
On the evening of October 11, a white Maruti Suzuki Fronx, registration UP14-HA-4945, sat near Gate 7 of the metro station in Connaught Place for...
While Saturday witnessed an unprecedented fortification of Jantar Mantar - followed by right-wing goons attacking protesters on Sunday, the march of...
As Delhi witnessed a wave of protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, the Delhi Police and the CRPF, deployed to maintain law and...
Neha Bora meant it when she said, “Don’t be late.” The protest, led by the All India Students’ Association (AISA), began at exactly 2.30 pm...
Bengaluru-based writer and educationist Chandrika R. Krishnan has made five visits to the mountains in North India in the last decade. And each time,...
On October 9, as the sun gently set over central Delhi, the city fell into an unusually quiet lull. It was the day before the protests demanding the...
Several journalists were stopped from doing their work and detained in Delhi on October 10. They were dragged by their clothes, pushed and manhandled,...
What Delhi witnessed on October 10 felt like an ‘undeclared emergency.’ A protest called by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and Left student...
The Cockroach Janta Party and Left organisations had called a protest at Jantar Mantar on October 10, demanding the resignation of Chief Election...
On a day when people came out to protest and demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Delhi Police played a game of cat...
People picked up from the streets. Journalists detained. Reporting phones seized. Delhi’s October 10 protest became a day of sweeping detentions....
Ahead of the October 10 protest called by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Delhi is witnessing an...
“I won’t come back now, my friend…” This line from a video recorded at Surat’s Udhna Railway Station in April 2020 became a symbol of the...
Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson...
Adarsh is a third-year BSc student from Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh. He wants to pursue a career in journalism, and has been making videos on...
The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and several Left-wing organisations have called for a protest at Jantar Mantar on October 10, demanding the...
A counter-narrative calling for a mobilisation against the “cockroaches” has emerged across social media, with several right-wing handles and...
The Indian state machinery has moved to ensure that Jantar Mantar does not become the site of a second Cockroach Janata Party agitation. Accounts from...
Employees at Madhyamam, a prominent Malayalam daily, have re-ignited their agitations against prolonged salary delays. After internal pressure did not...
On October 6, around 240 Opposition MPs marched towards the Election Commission of India’s office in New Delhi, demanding a meeting with Chief...
While the Cockroach Janata Party protest went ahead in Mumbai, tribal students who had marched from Nashik demanding better food and conditions in...
Opposition MPs marched from Parliament on Tuesday to demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation, and ended up in a standoff...
Around 20 people, some of them journalists and content creators, were detained by the Delhi Police on the morning of October 5 from outside the...
“I returned from the hospital just a short while ago. A brick the size of my palm was thrown at me,” a student from the Satyajit Ray Film and...
In the second week of September, a cinema screen floated on the Dal. Srinagar was hosting the first International Film Festival of Jammu and Kashmir,...