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Uttarakhand SIR: 2,700+ names deleted in Gadarpur on objections filed by poll officers after the deadline

“No eligible voter should be left out” has become the Election Commission’s refrain during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral...

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

Invisible and unprotected: India’s new labour codes fail domestic, home-based workers

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...

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Rohini Krishnamurthy

Shrinking reach, silent bans: Inside Instagram’s surge in content restrictions

Eight Instagram posts in 48 hours. For independent journalist and educator Raghav Trivedi, who has 772,000 followers, the takedowns came in quick...

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Khushi Mehrotra

‘Only demanding our safety on campus’: SRFTI students’ union vice president on FIR after rustication

The Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) in Kolkata has filed a case against students’ union vice president Shubham Waydande for...

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Khushi Jaiswal

Will Gen Z vote out the BJP in ‘27? Sreenivasan Jain asks UP’s youth

For nearly three months, young people have been protesting in Delhi and other cities. Will these protests have an electoral impact? Sreenivasan Jain...

29.10.2026 20

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Nl Team

After Uttarakhand, it’s MP: CM Yadav spent Rs 230 cr to sell a Rs 30 lakh cr ‘MoU’ mirage

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...

29.10.2026 20

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Prateek Goyal

The path of Cyclone Arnab went through India’s plans for data centres and future growth

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...

29.10.2026 6

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Sibi Arasu

‘Today I only see denuded land’: Mango orchards give way to Adani’s power plant

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...

28.10.2026 20

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Abir Dasgupta

A pristine forest, wildlife, over 32,000 trees at risk: Anger grows over Torrent project in Maharashtra

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...

28.10.2026 10

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Prateek Goyal

‘Was just trying to pass water’: Jamia detentions and campus shutdown deepen standoff over union

The security presence outside Jamia Millia Islamia is sparser, but each entrance is guarded. There is a police warning and loudspeakers outside....

28.10.2026 9

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Khushi Mehrotra

Rap, memes, and internet slang mark BJP’s revamped digital outreach

“They showed the world a way,” said Neha Bora in a viral clip, about Bangladeshi student protesters. The All Indian Students Association (AISA)...

26.10.2026 10

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Khushi Mehrotra

Uttarakhand ERO refused BJP worker’s bulk Form 7 objections. After ECI complaint, 5,359 were accepted

In August, Newslaundry reported how bulk Form 7 applications were being used to target voters in Uttarakhand during the Special Intensive Revision...

26.10.2026 20

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

In Goa, real estate land grab threatens protected eco-sensitive slopes

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....

26.10.2026 20

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Shreya Raman

A BJP worker in Uttarakhand objected. Voters in Kichha who never knew him are off the roll

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...

24.10.2026 10

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

No, Neha Bora did not call for Bangladesh-like situation in India; viral claim misses important context

On October 15, 2026, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari, in a press conference, alleged that All India Students’...

23.10.2026 10

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Ankita Mahalanobish

Surety hurdles, questions over video, then release: The SEM proceedings for CJP leaders

After hours of proceedings, repeated scrutiny of sureties and a police request for further custody, Cockroach Janata Party members Saurav Das and...

22.10.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

Why CJP leaders are still in custody: The preventive power at the centre of the case

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...

20.10.2026 50

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Samarth Grover

A father’s U-turn, a YouTuber, and a CCTV ‘glitch’: Inside the revival of the Disha Salian case

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...

20.10.2026 50

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Prateek Goyal

The curious case of protesters’ missing phones: Neither FIR for ‘snatching’, nor memo for ‘seizure’

Amid the recent protests and thousands of detentions in Delhi, at least 24 mobile phones belonging to detainees remain unaccounted for. Their owners...

20.10.2026 40

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Astha Savyasachi

Locked when women need help? Delhi Police’s pink booth reality check

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...

20.10.2026 10

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Khushi Jaiswal

Why gig workers can’t choose working hours even in extreme weather

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...

19.10.2026 150

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Rohini Krishnamurthy

Neha Bora, the angriest person in town: A profile of rage

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...

17.10.2026 30

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Nidhi Suresh

Eardrum damaged after assault: Kerala activist recounts Delhi Police violence

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...

17.10.2026 30

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Maria Teresa Raju

Now, Meta restricts reportage on Delhi Police crackdown on protesters; bans posts, accounts, citing IT Rules

After journalists covering the protests in New Delhi were detained and forcibly prevented from doing their work, social media posts documenting the...

15.10.2026 10

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Prantik Ali

Catch me if you can: Inside flash demonstrations by student groups against Gyanesh Kumar

At the Delhi protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, the police seemed to have a clear plan: get to the protesters before they...

14.10.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

Police cover, a car with lathis: The lumpen elements given a free run against CP protesters

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...

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Prateek Goyal

‘It’s about saving this country’: Why they marched to the Supreme Court

While Saturday witnessed an unprecedented fortification of Jantar Mantar - followed by right-wing goons attacking protesters on Sunday, the march of...

13.10.2026 30

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Samarth Grover

Over 20 journalists recount the Delhi Police’s use of brute force against them

As Delhi witnessed a wave of protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, the Delhi Police and the CRPF, deployed to maintain law and...

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Maria Teresa Raju

A prison-like bus, an unknown location: A day in detention with Neha Bora

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...

12.10.2026 20

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Nidhi Suresh

The climate trouble on India’s roads

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,...

12.10.2026 30

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Charu Bahri

A city under siege by its own guardians: The Delhi of October 9 and 10

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...

11.10.2026 20

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Nidhi Suresh

“Koi media nahi hai”: Inside the Delhi police’s October 10 crackdown on journalists

Several journalists were stopped from doing their work and detained in Delhi on October 10. They were dragged by their clothes, pushed and manhandled,...

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Shinjinee Majumder

Delhi sealed, journalists detained: Inside the CJP protest on October 10

What Delhi witnessed on October 10 felt like an ‘undeclared emergency.’ A protest called by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and Left student...

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Anmol Pritam

Barricades, blockades, mass detentions: What happened in Delhi on October 10

The Cockroach Janta Party and Left organisations had called a protest at Jantar Mantar on October 10, demanding the resignation of Chief Election...

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Nl Team

Delhi Police vs protesters: The extraordinary cat-and-mouse chase across the capital

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...

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Basant Kumar

Delhi’s Detention Day: Protesters picked up, journalists detained

People picked up from the streets. Journalists detained. Reporting phones seized. Delhi’s October 10 protest became a day of sweeping detentions....

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Nl Team

How will you even reach Jantar Mantar tomorrow? Delhi turns into a fortress ahead of protest

Ahead of the October 10 protest called by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Delhi is witnessing an...

09.10.2026 40

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Anmol Pritam

Textile workers in Surat fight for 8-hour workdays and a weekly off

“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...

09.10.2026 20

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Kushal Pandya

Nobel Peace Prize for head of UN commission that found Israel committed genocide in Gaza

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...

09.10.2026 20

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Stefanie Dazio

Students, creators, journalists: The 17 arrested by Delhi Police for demanding an FIR

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...

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Akankhya Rout

‘Are you going to Delhi?’ Gujarat Police detain, call and house arrest students, activists before protest

The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and several Left-wing organisations have called for a protest at Jantar Mantar on October 10, demanding the...

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Basant Kumar

From ‘5 lakh’ to ‘10 lakh’: Social media claims fuel counter-mobilisation ahead of CJP protest

A counter-narrative calling for a mobilisation against the “cockroaches” has emerged across social media, with several right-wing handles and...

09.10.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

Train detentions, PG meetings: Police move against October 10 protest over CEC Gyanesh Kumar

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...

09.10.2026 20

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Khushi Mehrotra

Salary delays, loss of benefits: Why Malayalam daily Madhyamam employees are protesting

Employees at Madhyamam, a prominent Malayalam daily, have re-ignited their agitations against prolonged salary delays. After internal pressure did not...

08.10.2026 60

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Haritha Manav

No entry, no answers, just ‘get lost’: The Opposition’s battle to be heard by Gyanesh Kumar

On October 6, around 240 Opposition MPs marched towards the Election Commission of India’s office in New Delhi, demanding a meeting with Chief...

08.10.2026 20

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Ashwine Kumar Singh

Tribal students marched for better school meals. Mumbai Police detained them before they could protest

While the Cockroach Janata Party protest went ahead in Mumbai, tribal students who had marched from Nashik demanding better food and conditions in...

07.10.2026 40

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Prateek Goyal

‘Gyanesh Kumar must go’: Opposition MPs march to Election Commission, meet barricades instead

Opposition MPs marched from Parliament on Tuesday to demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation, and ended up in a standoff...

06.10.2026 30

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Anmol Pritam

How a protest for FIR against ACP ended with an FIR against 17 protesters

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...

06.10.2026 350

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Akankhya Rout

A week of fear at SRFTI: Students demand safety after fresh violence

“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...

06.10.2026 30

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Khushi Jaiswal

Srinagar’s Smart City project is 98% done. But locals say it’s beautification without the basics

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,...

06.10.2026 20

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Iram Ibrahim