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Global brands, Hindutva journals, non-existent magazine: Inside Dhami govt’s print ad spree

In January 2022, the Pushkar Singh Dhami government decided to release Rs 71.99 lakh to a Delhi-based magazine called Khabar Manak. The magazine...

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Basant Kumar

Over 2 weeks after violence, Leh struggles to return to normalcy

Two weeks after the violent September 24 statehood protests in Leh, parts of the city are struggling to return to normalcy. Footfall has shrunk in...

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Ashish Anand

Gurugram’s waste crisis worsens as garbage collection stalls

Piles of uncollected garbage line busy roads, residential colonies, and gated societies across the city. Gurugram, the Millennium City, is facing a...

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Avdhesh Kumar

MP cough syrup deaths: Ground report from TN company that made deadly drug

On August 16, a quiet village in Madhya Pradesh witnessed the beginning of one of India’s worst medical tragedies in recent years. Seventeen...

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Shabbir Ahmed

Nikhil Kamath: The making and myths of India’s self-made billionaire

“If you want to portray an accurate picture of me to your audience, you shouldn’t care about if I get offended, right? Pick the faults in my life,...

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Indulekha Aravind

4 ml of poison, four times a day: Inside the Coldrif tragedy that claimed 17 children

It began quietly on a rainy August afternoon in Madhya Pradesh. It was around 3 pm on August 16, when six-year-old Divyansh Yaduvanshi developed a...

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Prateek Goyal

Delhi shut its thermal plants, but chokes from neighbouring ones

In 2018, Delhi bade farewell to its last thermal power plant. Before this, the other two had wound up their operations in 2009 and 2015. The...

07.10.2025 4

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

Cuttack on edge after violent clashes

“Cuttack is a city of brotherhood. We all want to live together here. Some people spoil this atmosphere. They attack the police, and this troubles...

07.10.2025 1

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Akankhya Rout

11 years later, Swachh Bharat progress mired in weak verification

Eleven years after India launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the Union government’s flagship rural sanitation programme, it has missed...

06.10.2025 2

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Prachi Salve