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As smog thickened, Haryana’s air quality network went dark

As air quality levels dipped across north India this week, Haryana’s pollution monitoring system faltered, leaving many parts of the state without...

friday 10

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Priya Jain

Shrinking funds, broken infra, ‘rising fear’: What’s at stake in JNUSU polls this year?

Outside the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) election committee office on Wednesday, a student was seen asking a committee member why his...

friday 8

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Samarth Grover

How a $20 million yacht for Tina Ambani became a case study in ‘corporate sleight’

In the middle of the 2008 global financial crisis, Anil Ambani bought a luxury yacht worth US$ 20 million to gift it to his wife Tina Ambani....

friday 8

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Samarth Grover

Inside Bengaluru’s Bowring Institute: Suspensions, court battles, and a revolt over a land deal

“They have gone to the extent of maligning us personally. They will not go scot-free,” thundered Srikanth HS, honorary secretary of the Bowring...

friday 7

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Shivani Kava

Delhi AQI ‘fraud’: Water sprinklers cleaning the data, not the air?

Newslaundry had earlier reported how several of Delhi’s air quality monitoring stations were themselves in violation of basic norms, placed behind...

30.10.2025 5

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Anmol Pritam

Was Odisha prepared for Cyclone Montha?

Cyclone Montha, which formed over the Bay of Bengal, made landfall along the coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on Tuesday evening, lashing...

29.10.2025 2

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Akankhya Rout

Haryana’s bulldozer bias: Years after SC Aravalli order, not a single govt building razed

This June, the Haryana government carried out a massive anti-encroachment drive in the ecologically fragile Aravallis. But when the dust settled, a...

28.10.2025 4

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Sumedha Mittal

‘We thought the battle was over’: 40 years after resistance, mining fears return to Odisha’s sacred hills

There is an uneasy calm in Kuradiphasa village at the foothills of the Gandhamardhan Hills. “It is the calm before the storm,” says Himanjali Das,...

27.10.2025 9

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Nidhi Jamwal

Reality check of the Yamuna ‘clean-up’: Animal carcasses, a ‘pond’, and open drains

The Rekha Gupta government in Delhi claims that it has reduced pollution in the Yamuna ahead of the Chhath festival. The water may not be fit to...

27.10.2025 2

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Anmol Pritam

Ground still wet, air stays toxic: A reality check at Anand Vihar air monitor after water sprinkler video

Amid allegations of data manipulation by AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj and reports of water sprinklers circling air quality monitors, Newslaundry...

27.10.2025 1

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Samarth Grover

The Yamuna PR wash: Anchors interview Delhi CM next to ‘pond’, no question on pollution data

This weekend, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta sat for interviews with DD anchor Sudhir Chaudhary and Aaj Tak’s Anjana Om Kashyap at Vasudev Ghat....

27.10.2025 4

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Suhasini Biswas