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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 7

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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 10

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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...

13.08.2026 8

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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 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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...

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Tanvi Deshpande

Demolishing a varsity, dismantling futures: The story of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University’s fight for survival

“I felt terrible, they were maligning us right in front of us, sitting outside our campus. I was shocked that government teachers were doing this...

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Ankit Jain

Why are job aspirants in Jharkhand angry? JPSC-JSSC protest enters 14th day

The protest by state service aspirants in Jharkhand, alleging irregularities in recruitment examinations, is growing by the day.  Launched on July 25...

07.08.2026 40

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Anmol Pritam

TNM investigation on ONGC funds to Sangh-linked orgs mentioned in JPC on Corporate Laws Bill

The News Minute’s investigation that exposed how 14.7 percent of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation...

07.08.2026 20

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Sachi Hegde

Smokescreens, sneakers, and mass-reporting: Balen’s online machine against Nepal’s press

Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah's asset disclosure, filed after his appointment in accordance with Section 50 of the Prevention of Corruption...

06.08.2026 30

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Dikshya Koirala

Advocate ‘for Hindus’, celeb-commentary influencer: Meet the latest complainants against CJP

Rinki Chatterjee Singh’s account of her own career is a long ledger of cases – ones she has filed, and ones filed against her. An FIR was...

05.08.2026 30

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

Rs 2.3 crore a day, 8 years: Yogi outspends Modi when it comes to ads

Eight years, and more than Rs 2.32 crore a day. That is what the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has spent, on average, publicising itself...

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Basant Kumar

The Raja Singh acquittal pattern: How hate speech cases keep collapsing in court

In August 2022, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi was compelled to appeal for peace. The previous day, hundreds of Muslims had poured out into the streets...

05.08.2026 10

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Anjana Meenakshi

One year after Dharali: The growing cost of building in a fragile Himalaya

A year after the Dharali disaster, the reconstructed road leading to Gangotri has been shifted a few metres away from the banks of the Bhagirathi...

04.08.2026 10

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Hridayesh Joshi

The enigma of BlueKraft: The narrative factory behind Brand Modi

Read the previous instalments of this series here and here. On September 24, 2025, thousands of people were on the streets of Leh demanding statehood...

04.08.2026 40

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Prateek Goyal

‘Feels like career over’: The online campaign to intimidate women part of CJP protest

A BJP MLA posts a video of a bleeding, weeping girl and tells his followers she is being taught a lesson. The video is actually from Varanasi, from a...

03.08.2026 30

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Basant Kumar

‘11-hour days, zero rest’: Delhi’s teachers say they are breaking under SIR duty

“We are not computers or robots that we will do BLO work after teaching hours too,” says Rajat*, a higher secondary teacher in Ambedkar Nagar,...

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Suhasini Biswas

Woman journalist file FIR for assault, molestation during CJP protest coverage

A woman reporter with Times Now was allegedly kicked and struck on the head, and her cameraperson was manhandled, while both were reporting live from...

01.08.2026 30

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Akankhya Rout

An army aspirant, a bystander, a minor: The unanswered bullets of Siwan NEET protest after AK-47 video

Dhiraj Kumar Gond is waiting outside Medanta Hospital in Patna. He is attending to his cousin Bullet Kumar Gond, who was shot at in Siwan during the...

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Pushyamitra

As DU reopens, students decode ‘thinly veiled threats’ and Jantar Mantar protests

There were fewer students than usual in Delhi University’s North Campus this week, as most of those who had joined days earlier were attending their...

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Akankhya Rout

Delhi Police owns the stone-laden truck after NL report. But their lawyer linked it to protesters in HC

After a Newslaundry investigation, Delhi Police have confirmed that the stone-laden truck seen near Jantar Mantar on the morning of the July 20 march...

29.07.2026 30

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Nl Team

Eyes wide shut: On July 20, ANI didn’t share a single X post on students injured in Delhi

For decades, Asian News International (ANI) has occupied a near-monopoly in India’s television news ecosystem. With a business reportedly worth...

29.07.2026 40

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Shinjinee Majumder

Rekha Gupta govt spent Rs 1.83 crore from tourism funds on DU’s Bhajan Clubbing

The Delhi government’s tourism department spent Rs 1.83 crore on eight Bhajan Clubbing events organised across Delhi University colleges in...

29.07.2026 30

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Samarth Grover

As cops target ‘offensive’ posts, Jantar Mantar reportage and reels are disappearing

On July 26, hours after the Cockroach Janta Party called off its 36-day agitation, journalist Yaqut Ali uploaded an interview with Vijeta Dahiya, the...

28.07.2026 40

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Akankhya Rout

July 20 crackdown: One DCP approved pellets, another authorised firearms

A document seen by Newslaundry shows that a Deputy Commissioner of Police, acting with the powers of an Executive Magistrate, authorised the Rapid...

28.07.2026 40

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July 20 Crackdown: One Dcp Approved Pellets

From accident to malkhana to protest site: Tracing the mysterious stone-laden truck

At 8 am on July 20, as the Cockroach Janta Party assembled at Jantar Mantar, its workers pointed to a truck loaded with stones on the road linking...

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Avdhesh Kumar

‘Breach of promise’: How BJP states cracked down on student protesters

The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) called off student protests at Jantar Mantar after receiving assurances, among other things, that no criminal cases...

28.07.2026 20

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Tarun Kumar Sahu

‘Today is your last day’: Nearly 120 staff shown the door at India Today

“Today is your last day. Please submit your resignation.” That, according to Anmol Kumar Mahto*, is what he was told last Wednesday, about an hour...

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Basant Kumar

4 victims, 1 pattern: July 20 injuries put RAF’s ‘sensitive policing’ motto and manual under spotlight

Six days after the July 20 crackdown near Parliament, neither the CRPF nor its Rapid Action Force wing has clarified whether their personnel fired...

27.07.2026 20

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Astha Savyasachi

Govt vows fast-track courts for paper leaks. Existing ones have 2,49,000 pending cases

“Nothing is more important than the welfare and future of our youth!” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on the social media platform X (formerly...

27.07.2026 40

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Karthik Madhavapeddi

Accountability, jobs, education reform: What Gen Z protesters want next after Pradhan’s resignation

Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as the education minister on Saturday afternoon. Soon, the organisers were asking everyone at Jantar Mantar to pack up and...

26.07.2026 40

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Dikshya Koirala

The working class men who risked everything at Jantar Mantar

“We are already living in constant misery and dying a slow death. It's better to die here.” When Arun, a 27-year-old cobbler from Uttar...

25.07.2026 30

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Dikshya Koirala

‘Nobody asked us to’: Meet the silent engine of the Jantar Mantar protest

Despite the police action on July 20, protestors returned to Jantar Mantar to continue demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra...

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Samarth Grover

Delhi metro closures are hurting more than just commuters

For the third consecutive day, 16 Delhi Metro stations remain closed, disrupting the daily commute for thousands across the capital. Office-goers are...

24.07.2026 20

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Satyendra Kumar Choudhury

They got beaten at the Parliament march. But they returned to Jantar Mantar

Protesters had gathered for a march to Parliament on July 20, stating that the demonstration would be peaceful. When it began at 9 am, the atmosphere...

23.07.2026 30

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Akankhya Rout

Fourth pellet-like injury after July 20 march: DU student’s family says he may lose an eye

Sahil Lochab, a 22-year-old from Najafgarh, is undergoing treatment to save vision in his right eye. A student at Delhi University who works part-time...

23.07.2026 30

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Avdhesh Kumar

Pizzas, parathas and solidarity: Supporters from Mumbai to Dubai are feeding Jantar Mantar

Jantar Mantar has seen an unusual show of solidarity over the past two days – not in the form of slogans, but pizzas, parathas and water bottles. ...

23.07.2026 30

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Anmol Pritam

First a prankster, now a policeman: When smart glasses come to India’s protest sites

Shubnam, who identifies as transfeminine, said they were in the middle of moving house in Delhi’s scorching 40 degrees Celsius-plus summer when they...

23.07.2026 20

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Karen Rebelo

From ‘Godi media’ taunts to assault: The reporters caught in Jantar Mantar’s anger

Four days after a young NDTV reporter covered the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar, her mother was surrounded in a neighbourhood park by people demanding...

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Prateek Goyal

Fact check shows Delhi police used baton with nails at Jantar Mantar

After participants from the July 20 march in Delhi put up videos on social media saying that police were carrying batons with nails fixed on them...

22.07.2026 50

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Mohammed Zubair

‘Told my father to quit police job’: Inside Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital after the Parliament march

At 1 am, the emergency building of Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital has not gone quiet. One man waits outside the ICU for his sister to regain...

21.07.2026 30

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Avdhesh Kumar

The story of the Parliament march, told hour by hour

From the first signs of a swelling crowd after Sonam Wangchuk was forcibly shifted by the Delhi Police on Saturday, to the dramatic scenes outside...

21.07.2026 30

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Nl Team

Delhi HC allows Sonam Wangchuk’s shift to private hospital after medical advice

The Delhi High Court has allowed Gitanjali Angmo to immediately shift her husband Sonam Wangchuk from government-run Safdarjung Hospital to the...

21.07.2026 30

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Ritika Jain