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Cold stoves, broken dreams: LPG cylinder crisis triggers migrant worker exodus in Delhi

The fallout from the escalating conflict between Iran and the US-Israel alliance has reached the doorsteps of the National Capital Region’s most...

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Anmol Pritam

Your Instagram reel is now ‘news’ — and the Govt wants to censor it

While the government has already been using the IT Rules 2021 to block online content and creators, its powers are about to expand significantly —...

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Samarth Grover

‘Attack on free expression’: Content creators, media contest govt’s ‘arbitrary’ notices

In recent weeks, the Central government has intensified its scrutiny of popular social media accounts that critique the government, policy or...

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Akankhya Rout

Courting the Church: The Battle for Kerala’s ‘Christian Vote’

As Kerala heads toward elections, political parties are once again reaching out to the Church leadership, hoping to secure what is often called the...

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Maria Teresa Raju

Labour room videos leaked online: Hospitals’ CCTV sold on Telegram

CCTV cameras inside hospitals are meant to keep patients safe. Instead, across India, they are capturing some of the most private moments of women,...

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Shivani Kava

The sacred geography they bulldozed: How Modi’s vision erased Kashi

Mahadev floats in ghostly neon blue inside a glass box. As he tilts his head to swallow the poison of Samudramanthan, a cloud of blue smoke hisses out...

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Alpana kishore

Pinarayi Vijayan: The man, the party, and the third-term challenge

Kerala’s politics has long followed a predictable cycle. One term for the Left, the next for the Congress-led alliance. But that pattern broke in...

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Azeefa Fathima

Locked doors, dry taps, and burnt bidis: The stinking reality of Delhi’s public toilets

Assertions by the BJP government that it is transforming Delhi into a ‘World City’ and ‘ODF ’ certifications for the Municipal Corporation of...

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Basant Kumar

I-T dept cracked down on non-profits with a law that didn’t apply. Tribunals kept saying no

Imagine being fined for jumping a red light – on a road where the traffic light was installed only after you drove past. That, in essence, is what...

31.03.2026 9

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

Follow the money: Inside Modi govt’s Rs 1.5 crore-a-day ad spend

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha to a question raised by Samajwadi Party MP Iqra Hasan and others, the Minister of State for Information and...

31.03.2026 10

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Basant Kumar

‘Secret censorship’: The quiet crusade to scrub cartoons and dissent off social media

In response to legal demands from the Indian government, the social media platform X has restricted or entirely removed a wide array of posts,...

30.03.2026 10

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Anmol Pritam

Four times over target: India's TB elimination problem

India recorded about 2.7 million cases of tuberculosis in 2025. Based on population projections for that year, this translates to an incidence of...

30.03.2026 10

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Prachi Salve

Ghaziabad mall shuts shop over ‘kurta-pyjama’: Man alleges bias, SHO says he is ‘kattar Hindu’

A dress code dispute at an upscale mall in Ghaziabad has left a Muslim shopkeeper out of pocket, out of a shop, and filing complaints. Mohammad...

28.03.2026 20

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Avdhesh Kumar

Echo chambers and ‘super mamas’: How Assam’s media created a pro-government loop

In the days leading up to February 8, Assamese news channels carried a sense of anticipation. The build-up followed a series of allegations by Chief...

27.03.2026 9

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Sanskrita Bharadwaj

‘I’ll have to go home’: How India’s LPG crisis is pushing gig workers to the brink

Triggered by the conflict between Iran and the US-Israel alliance, an acute LPG shortage is placing a serious strain on India’s gig economy. As...

27.03.2026 20

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Akankhya Rout

Zee Media ‘misused’ the law to ‘settle scores’ with journalist Ashish Dave, says SC

Zee Media Corporation Limited “misused” the law to “settle scores” with its former journalist by getting an FIR registered against him at a...

25.03.2026 20

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

The anatomy of a protest: Why workers across refineries in India are striking work?

For the last four years, around 8 am every morning, including Sundays, thousands of men dressed in navy blue and orange overalls, yellow hard-hats and...

25.03.2026 20

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Anumeha Yadav

Himanta Biswa Sarma: The fixer who found faith

One month before Himanta Biswa Sarma walked into Amit Shah’s residence to join the BJP, the party had published a booklet titled Saga of Scams in...

24.03.2026 20

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Astha Savyasachi

Sathankulam horror: 9 cops convicted for brutal father-son custodial killing

A Madurai court on Monday, March 23, convicted nine police officers for the brutal custodial killing of P Jeyaraj and his son J Benniks at the...

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Azeefa Fathima

How Araku’s coffee farmers are tackling climate change

Coffee farmer Vanthala Raju was 21 when he applied to get his rights over forest land recognised in 2014. It took two years for an official to...

23.03.2026 10

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Karthik madhavapeddi

Palam fire: 9 people dead as locals allege faulty hydraulics and fatal delays in rescue

A massive fire tore through a four-story building in southwest Delhi’s Palam area early Wednesday morning, killing nine members of a family,...

19.03.2026 20

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Akankhya Rout

When the bulldozer came for Mahadev’s city

On January 9 this year, a bulldozer arrived at Manikarnika Ghat in Banaras – one of the holiest sites in Hinduism – by barge, through the river,...

19.03.2026 10

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Alpana kishore

Day after Sonam Wangchuk presser, Ladakh leaders say 6th Schedule, statehood demands non-negotiable

Leaders from Ladakh have clarified that their twin demands for statehood and inclusion in the Sixth Schedule remain non-negotiable and they will not...

18.03.2026 10

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

‘Muslims can’t sit here’: 4 days after mob attack on Pune iftar, no arrest

Four days after a mob attacked an Iftar gathering in the Saswad area of rural Pune, the police are yet to make any arrest.  An FIR was filed hours...

18.03.2026 20

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Avdhesh Kumar

‘Talks are a give-and-take’: Sonam Wangchuk on 6th schedule, statehood and being ‘flexible’

In his first public remarks after spending nearly six months in custody, Ladakhi activist and education reformist Sonam Wangchuk stated on Tuesday...

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

Off script: How Bollywood’s #MeToo moment lost the plot

By 2018, things were finally looking up for Arya Menon. Originally from Kerala, Arya had spent nearly a decade carving out space for herself in the...

17.03.2026 10

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Nidhi Suresh

‘No going back’: Trans persons rally against the Centre’s ‘identity’ check in new amendment

A new bill titled the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 was tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday, March 13. The bill seeks...

17.03.2026 20

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Samarth Grover

11 dead as fire breaks out at Cuttack’s SCB Medical College; judicial inquiry ordered

At least 11 patients were killed in the early hours of Monday after a fire broke out at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, Odisha. The...

17.03.2026 20

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Akankhya Rout

UP journalist booked over LPG queue video, cops say ‘visuals old, misleading’

A journalist in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad has been booked over visuals of people queuing outside a gas agency – uploaded the same day that a...

17.03.2026 20

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Akanksha Kumar

‘This Bill is nothing but erasure’: How India’s new trans amendment could undo decades of rights

When the Supreme Court recognised the right to self-identify one's gender in the 2014 National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) v Union of India...

16.03.2026 20

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Azeefa Fathima

Gods in the commons: Noida’s norms ‘on paper’, temples on the ground

On a bright February morning in Sector 15-A, one of Noida’s oldest and most affluent neighbourhoods, around 50 residents gathered in Vrindavan Park...

16.03.2026 20

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Samarth Grover

Three years, no trial: Bail for Monu Manesar ignites fresh anguish for Nasir and Junaid’s families

The Nasir-Junaid murder case of February 2023 has resurfaced in the national spotlight after the Rajasthan High Court granted bail to the prime...

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Anmol Pritam

From Kashmir to Ayodhya to SIR: The making of India’s most divisive chief election commissioner

On December 31, 2025, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee walked out of the Election Commission of India’s New Delhi...

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Sumedha Mittal

Hindu Ekta Sammelanams in Kerala disguise Sangh politics as temple gatherings

Saffron flags fluttered along a narrow lane about 300 metres off Edappally’s busy main road as the chenda melam drew people toward the Anjumana Devi...

13.03.2026 10

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Haritha Manav

Uttam Nagar unrest: A neighbourhood on edge, and ‘outsiders’ stoking a communal fire

Tarun Kumar, a 26-year-old Dalit youth, was beaten to death in the JJ Colony area of West Delhi’s Uttam Nagar on March 4.  What began as a dispute...

13.03.2026 20

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Avdhesh Kumar

‘My mother cries on the phone’: TV’s war spectacle leaves Indians in Israel calming frightened families

Mohan Chandpa has lived around a mile from the Gaza border for two months. The 40-year-old spray-painter, who works in Sderot, an industrial town in...

13.03.2026 20

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Ravi Parmar

‘Don’t call me Dhruv Rathee’: A 14-year-old has a newsroom at UP home, critics nearby, and now an FIR

In a neighbourhood in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 14-year-old Ashwamit Gautam lives a life very different from most teenagers his age. While many of his...

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Tasneem Fatima

Limited menus, closures: Iran conflict hits Indian hotels as LPG shortage spreads

Patrons in Bengaluru and Chennai walked into eateries on Tuesday, March 10, only to see some of their favourite dishes missing, smaller menus and...

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The News Minute

7 ‘good’ air days in 5 years: How coastal Mumbai normalised chronic pollution

In Mumbai, a coastal city that once relied on sweeping sea breezes to clear its skies, winter pollution has become an inescapable feature of its urban...

10.03.2026 20

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Nl Team

EC’s app was used to file fake voter forms before 2024 Maharashtra polls. The probe hasn’t moved

In the weeks before the 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections, someone used the Election Commission of India’s own Voter Helpline App to file hundreds...

10.03.2026 20

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Sumedha Mittal

Elder care was meant to reach homes. In most of India, it hasn't.

India’s increasing demographic of the elderly needs long-term care, daily support and palliative services. While national policies emphasise care at...

09.03.2026 30

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Ayman khan

‘Bury your infant here’: A UP family’s nightmare at a Rajasthan brick kiln

For the past five days, Raj Jatav has done little but cry following the death of his two-month-old daughter, Ananya, who was suffering from pneumonia....

07.03.2026 30

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Jigyasa Mishra

10 months after Pahalgam attack, another victim’s family waits for promised govt job

In April 2025, when the bodies from the Pahalgam terror attack returned home, governments across India promised swift help to grieving families. But...

07.03.2026 20

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Anmol Pritam

‘How can we believe he’s dead?’: As Gulf war traps Indian sailors, a family waits

Anshu last spoke to her husband on the night of February 28. Their five-year-old son was starting at a new school the next morning, and Captain Ashish...

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Anmol Pritam

From Dubai to Bahrain, Indian passengers stuck as conflict escalates

Hundreds of south Indians have been stranded as the violence rages in the Middle East. State governments have been coordinating with the Ministry of...

03.03.2026 10

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The News Minute

Kejriwal’s show of strength in Delhi

Discharged in the CBI’s Delhi excise policy case, Arvind Kejriwal made his first public appearance on Sunday. He thanked the court and termed the...

02.03.2026 20

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Anmol Pritam

Garbage on the streets, congestion in the city: Decoding Delhi’s grim ground reality

By December 2024, all landfills and dhalaos – the three-sided open enclosures where sanitation workers consolidate daily waste before it is hauled...

02.03.2026 10

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Akankhya Rout

सड़कों पर कचरा, शहर में जाम: दिल्ली की ग्राउंड रियलिटी

जब हम दिल्ली के बाहर बैठ कर दिल्ली के बारे में सोचते हैं,...

02.03.2026 10

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आकांख्या राउत

Govt claims it is blood-sufficient. But is it?

On August 19, 2025, the government claimed that the annual blood requirement for the county was met the previous year. This, despite several reports...

02.03.2026 20

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Menaka Rao

Rahul Kanwal’s new NDTV for new India

The first town hall after Rahul Kanwal took charge of New Delhi Television in May 2025 was meant to reassure a newsroom in the middle of rapid change....

27.02.2026 20

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Furquan Ameen