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‘Once they see the money, they keep building’: Inside Delhi’s PG ecosystem built on a hostel shortage

On the first floor of a building in the main market of Satya Niketan is a restaurant. The second floor houses a hotel. The third floor is locked. The...

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Khushi Mehrotra

Rs 48 lakh to 2 ex-judges, ‘doubtful voters’: A press club’s costly wait for an election

In July 2024, a district court in Jammu handed two retired judges a clear job: get the Jammu Press Club to hold its overdue election, “by all...

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Tapasya

Inside DU’s election fever: Convoys, songs and the student vote

The buzz surrounding the student union elections in Delhi University is palpable. Across campus, student organisations and their candidates are making...

10.09.2026 10

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Khushi Jaiswal

Minor’s gangrape case: Did Delhi Police break from procedure in ‘keeping Noida police in dark’?

On the night of August 4, a minor student was gangraped inside a bus plying the Delhi–NCR roads. The bus (registration number UP83 ET 3789) had...

10.09.2026 10

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Avdhesh Kumar

A Delhi SIR mystery: 728 of 729 voters deleted in booth, poll official says their homes ‘unauthorised’

Aftab is one of the 728 electors in Bela Estate who has been removedBefore Delhi's Special Intensive Revision, one booth covering part of Bela...

10.09.2026 8

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A Delhi Sir Mystery: 728 Of 729 Voters Deleted In Booth

AAP alleges fraud as Raghav Chadha makes it to Delhi voter rolls

Deleted in Punjab’s special intensive revision, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha’s name is now available in Delhi’s draft roll.  The BJP leader’s...

09.09.2026 20

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

No hostels, no enforcement: Decoding Delhi’s student housing crisis

This country keeps failing its students, whether they are in government schools far from the city or in expensive PGs in the capital. Seven people...

09.09.2026 20

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Samarth Grover

Manipuri musician’s murder sparks outrage: ‘We are targeted for our identity’

Manipuri musician Chongtham Vikram Singh, 55, was beaten to death late on Sunday night outside his South Delhi apartment, allegedly by a group of...

09.09.2026 8

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Avdhesh Kumar

BAPS and its celibate monks: The organisation at the centre of the Eiffel Tower row

A Hindu religious organisation has come under fire in Paris, France after female employees at the Eiffel Tower were allegedly asked to move away or...

08.09.2026 30

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Azeefa Fathima

‘Sanatan’ campaigns to Modi posters: Meet TV media’s ‘CJP rebel’

For several days, ANI and multiple television channels ran with a storyline that a rebellion had broken out inside the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP). ...

08.09.2026 30

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Basant Kumar

‘Why did I let him come to Delhi?’: Families mourn and question the capital after PG collapse

“His birthday is in October, he would’ve turned 20,” said Pushpa, Arpit Jahaj’s mother, recalling his last birthday, when the family surprised...

07.09.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

The climate blindspot in India’s new labour codes

India’s new labour codes, under which the government framed rules for implementation in May this year, do not once mention climate change. This is...

07.09.2026 10

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Rohini Krishnamurthy

The hunt for Sukumara Kurup: How a Malayalam channel ‘exclusive’ fell apart

“Sukumara Kurup is alive. The picture on screen was taken in 2023. Kerala Police, do not close the file on Sukumara Kurup.” This was the startling...

07.09.2026 10

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Jisha Surya

‘Have to fight for our right’: Families of Delhi sewer workers wait for compensation after deaths

“Nothing can bring my son back. Compensation or not, this work is hazardous and no one should be put through this hazardous occupation,” said...

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Khushi Mehrotra

‘Everyone sympathises and forgets’: After Satya Niketan collapse, students ask who will fix unsafe PGs

“My parents called me worried when this incident happened. I just moved to Delhi for college and this situation has scared me. I hope we are...

07.09.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

A POCSO case involving a mining baron that Chennai police tried to close

Trigger warning: This report contains references to child sexual abuse. Last year, in October, the Chennai police had received a pen drive containing...

05.09.2026 20

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Shabbir Ahmed

Picked up for speaking Bengali: Inside Bengaluru’s Operation Mukta

What happened during Operation Mukta in Bengaluru and what did the crackdown miss? On August 8, police picked up hundreds of people from migrant...

04.09.2026 20

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Shivani Kava

Poor results, poorer facilities: The schools Nuh’s children are expected to learn in

A country’s future is shaped in its classrooms. But in several government schools in Haryana’s Nuh district, even basic facilities remain out of...

03.09.2026 20

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Khushi Jaiswal

From a school canteen row to street violence: How Ahmedabad’s Malala controversy escalated

“They beat us with iron and wooden rods. They hit my head, back and elbow even though we were trying to have a dialogue with them,” said Savan...

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Khushi Mehrotra

‘Only a part of the chest was found’: Delhi’s Nepali community tries to count the missing

Sunita Thapa and her son Dinesh were at home in Trishuli Bazaar, in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, when the flood struck on August 26. Within moments, the...

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Khushi Jaiswal

From Okhla to Badarpur: 5 Delhi seats that lost over 40% of their 2025 electorate

The draft roll as part of the Special Intensive Revision exercise is out for Delhi. Of 1,45,10,299 electors, 47,56,722 are currently out – nearly...

31.08.2026 20

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

What does a 13% rainfall deficit mean for India’s kharif crop?

The threat of a strong El Niño still looming, rainfall in this year’s monsoon season varied by the month. June was one of the driest in...

31.08.2026 10

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Tanvi Deshpande

‘Restlessness, and a kind of helplessness’: Families search for Indians missing after Nepal flood

In Mumbai, Sonal keeps opening WhatsApp to look at her sister’s last-seen status. Chetna Gupta, 64, had left the city on August 23 for the...

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Khushi Jaiswal

Uttarakhand SIR: The unsolved mystery of BJP agents’ ‘forged’ objections against Muslim voters

In Uttarakhand’s Jhabrera constituency, 35 people listed as applicants in 1,657 objections to the draft electoral roll say they never filed them and...

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

‘Environment of FIRs harmful for India’: ABP journalist booked after report on Pune college

“Such an environment of FIRs against journalists is wrong for them and not just them but for the country. It is harmful,” says ABP Majha...

28.08.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

Jharkhand’s exam trap: A generation lost waiting for jobs in the land of minerals

Jharkhand is rich in natural resources, but thousands of its young people are spending years preparing for government jobs. In Ranchi, many cram into...

27.08.2026 30

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Anmol Pritam

Why India’s Millennium City has a recurring monsoon crisis

Gurugram’s waterlogging is no longer an annual surprise. Every year, heavy rain leaves roads, lanes and residential areas submerged, triggering a...

27.08.2026 30

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Akankhya Rout

More than 1,300 are missing in Nepal and Tibet after catastrophic floods caused by glacial collapse

Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud...

27.08.2026 10

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Niranjan Shrestha

A bigger flu season: In Delhi, H1N1 cases nearly 8 times last year’s count

For many Delhi residents, illness begins this time of the year with symptoms easy to dismiss as seasonal sickness: a cough that refuses to go away, a...

26.08.2026 30

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Khushi Mehrotra

‘He could’ve been saved’: Minor’s body found 3 days after he fell in Delhi drain chasing a kite

A JCB excavator pulled Mithun’s body out of an open drain in Southeast Delhi’s Jasola village at around 1.15 pm on Tuesday. He was 15. He had...

25.08.2026 30

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Suhasini Biswas

A year after Israeli strikes killed journalists at a hospital, no one has been held accountable

It’s been a year since Israeli soldiers killed 22 Palestinians, including journalists and rescue workers, in a double strike on a hospital in Gaza....

25.08.2026 10

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Sam Mednick

Jaipur Dialogues – a platform that doxxed 15-year-old protestor – has BJP ties

In late July 2026, an online storm upended the life of a 15-year-old girl. The teenager had joined the student demonstrations that forced the former...

24.08.2026 20

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Abir Dasgupta

Years after NEP spoke of digital literacy, 3 of 4 govt schools still don’t have a functional desktop

In May 2020, as India was preparing to overhaul its education policy, the Narendra Modi government held a review meeting on education that placed...

24.08.2026 10

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Ashish Anand

BJP promises ‘positive content’. Its new social media team’s record tells another story

Days after taking charge as the BJP’s national social media convenor, Deepak Mhaske told a gathering of reporters, “My focus will be to tackle the...

22.08.2026 30

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Khushi Mehrotra

Exclusive: Inside the bulk objections targeting Muslims in Uttarakhand’s SIR

Five men in five Uttarakhand assembly constituencies filed 6,500 objections to strike voters off the rolls in the ongoing special intensive revision....

21.08.2026 20

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

Assam’s ad spend tripled after Himanta became CM. Media group linked to his wife got Rs 20 cr

In five financial years since Himanta Biswa Sarma became chief minister of Assam, his government spent Rs 460.82 crore on media and advertising. In...

21.08.2026 40

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Basant Kumar

Rs 428 crore in, Rs 1 crore out: How Chinese capital and public money vanished into Gurugram’s garbage

In the summer of 2024, a Chinese firm that runs waste-to-energy plants sold its entire Indian business for Rs 1 crore – about the price of a modest...

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Anmol Pritam

Bills passed in 3 minutes, 9 with no LS MPs speaking: Parliament’s growing scrutiny gap

Parliament is increasingly passing Bills after relatively short periods of discussion. Data compiled from sessions between 2024 and 2026 across both...

20.08.2026 10

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Khushi Mehrotra

PM CARES spent just Rs 88 lakh of its Rs 8,452 crore in 2024-25, put 93% in FD

Rs 20,000 annually to every school-going child orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic — this was one of the major promises made by the Union government...

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Jahnavi

The curious case of Delhi’s Zone-O: Demolitions on one side, construction on the other

The Delhi Development Authority and Municipal Corporation of Delhi have repeatedly claimed action against illegal construction in Zone-O, including...

17.08.2026 30

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Avdhesh Kumar

Rs 1.9 cr a day: BJP govt in MP spent more on publicity than on environment or minority depts

Drive through almost any town in Madhya Pradesh and the state government is impossible to avoid. Hoardings at the chowk. Full pages in the morning...

17.08.2026 40

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Prateek Goyal

‘Genuine’ vs ‘political’: The social media campaign pitting Ranchi protests against CJP

As Jharkhand’s student protest against alleged irregularities in the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection...

17.08.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

Why 4 in 10 Indian children go to private schools

Four in 10 Indian schoolchildren were enrolled in private unaided schools in 2025-26, up from 35.4 percent in 2018-19, according to Unified District...

17.08.2026 20

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Vijay Jadhav

‘Shadow ban’ fears at NALSAR after BCI seeks inquiry into CJI invite opposition

Following the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) statement that there would be an inquiry against students enrolled at Hyderabad’s National Academy of...

14.08.2026 20

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Anjana Meenakshi

A day inside a Delhi SIR camp: Forms, confusion and long days

Delhi is currently undergoing the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, with the Election Commission extending the deadline to submit forms...

13.08.2026 30

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Khushi Jaiswal

The crisis after the flood in Assam villages: Lost livestock, missed crop, and wait for aid

When the floodwaters rose around their home in Rajapul on July 19, Bandana Buragohain had no way of getting out on her own. The 70-year-old clung to...

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Sanskrita Bharadwaj

The rise of the ‘teen wife’: When young marriage becomes social media content

“I was 15 and Amal was 21 when we felt a romantic spark. For three years, we continued to be in a relationship, but my parents went to the police...

13.08.2026 20

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Sukanya Shaji

‘Bid to eliminate the messenger’: Social media takedowns leaving users in the dark

Posts by journalists, political parties, activists and media organisations are increasingly being restricted or taken down on platforms such as Meta...

12.08.2026 40

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

Inside Jharkhand’s assembly gherao: Lathicharge, tear gas and conflicting claims

Thousands of students from all districts of Jharkhand marched on the state assembly in Ranchi on Monday, demanding the cancellation of exams conducted...

11.08.2026 20

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Anmol Pritam

Climate change is making humid heat more intense in these Indian cities

Long dry spells this monsoon in some parts of India meant warmer days and nights even in July. Climate change is making the world hotter and more...

10.08.2026 60

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Tanvi Deshpande