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Killer cough syrups, zero accountability: Investigating three pharma companies

When the news of over 22 child deaths due to contaminated cough syrups came out of Madhya Pradesh in October 2025, there was shock and frustration....

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Prateek Goyal

The making of Champat Rai: From trusted organiser to Ayodhya’s most controversial figure

In 1990, when L K Advani set out on his Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya, the journey didn’t survive contact with Bihar – Lalu Yadav’s...

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Basant Kumar

As BJP govt ads celebrate Ujjwala, beneficiaries count costlier cylinders

This month, LED hoardings inside several metro stations across Delhi show PM Narendra Modi on one side, CM Rekha Gupta on the other, and beaming...

30.06.2026 10

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Samagra Thakur

Dubious MoUs, paper investors: The art of adding zeroes to UP’s investment story

In February 2023, an Indian business group signed agreements with the Uttar Pradesh government at its Global Investor Summit to invest an eye-popping...

30.06.2026 10

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Basant Kumar

How Mumbai’s poor waste segregation contributes to methane emission spikes

Earlier this year, Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg landfill—a place that takes in most of the city’s waste—was found to be one of the largest emitters of...

29.06.2026 10

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Tanvi Deshpande

DDA’s bulldozer leaves over 300 families homeless at Delhi’s Yamuna Bazar

Demolition work at Delhi’s Yamuna Bazar ghats began on the morning of June 25. Earlier, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) had issued notices...

27.06.2026 10

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Akankhya Rout

Off the PM’s plane, in a WhatsApp feed: The rewiring of India’s foreign affairs beat

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels abroad, he does so aboard Air India One – a taxpayer-funded Boeing 777-300ER fleet that cost Rs 8,400...

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Samarth Grover

After convicting a lynch mob, a judge becomes communal campaign’s target

Communal slurs. Threats. A campaign centred on a judge’s religious identity. This is how some Hindutva footsoldiers have decided to respond to a...

26.06.2026 20

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Avdhesh Kumar

Delayed rains bring water shortages to cities and uncertainty to farms across India

The late arrival of India’s monsoon season and below-average rainfall have caused problems ranging from planting delays for farmers to water...

26.06.2026 4

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Sibi Arasu

Footfall, food, logistics: Tracking it all in a day at Cockroach Janta Party’s protest

Who is funding the Cockroach Janata Party protest at Jantar Mantar? How many people are actually showing up? And is the movement really dominated by...

25.06.2026 10

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Anmol Pritam

‘Buy a funeral garland’: A gig worker vanishes after the Andhra police picked him up

For weeks, 55-year-old Gade Vijayalakshmi has lived in a state of suspended animation, running from pillar to post, searching police stations and...

25.06.2026 20

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Anjana Meenakshi

How one Indian textile worker copes with extreme heat in factory work and cramped living quarters

Before dawn breaks over the Indian industrial hub of Surat, textile worker Sibaram Pradhan is already awake, sitting on the floor in a cramped room he...

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Sibi Arasu

Delhi’s nights have changed. Its poor can’t sleep

After enduring the blazing heat all day, people return home hoping for some relief at night. But for thousands of families living in Delhi’s JJ...

24.06.2026 10

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Akankhya Rout

‘Water comes once in 3 days’: Gurugram’s forgotten neighbourhoods

“Water comes once every three days, and today I couldn’t even wash clothes because none came,” says Anju Devi, a resident of Dundahera village....

24.06.2026 10

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Suhasini Biswas

The Strait of Hormuz’s future is unsettled even as more ships venture through

Ship traffic has picked up in the Strait of Hormuz since Iran and the U.S. signed an interim deal to end a war that constricted global oil supplies...

23.06.2026 20

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Wyatte Grantham-Philips

Digital platforms complicit in pushing hate-filled Hindutva-pop, finds new CSoH report

A report by the Centre for the Study of Organised Hate (CSoH) published on June 15, 2026, shed light on how digital platforms enable the reach of...

22.06.2026 10

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Prantik Ali

‘If not India, then who?’: Palestinian envoy flags Gaza healthcare collapse, seeks urgent assistance

Videos of bombed hospitals in the Gaza Strip and testimonies of doctors desperate for medical aid played on the screen as Abdullah Abu Shawesh, the...

19.06.2026 10

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Samagra Thakur

A pig at the gate, TV cameras outside: The making of a viral Eid controversy

For two days in late May, several television channels ran breathless coverage of events outside Poonam Cluster 1, a cooperative housing society in the...

18.06.2026 20

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Prateek Goyal

In the red and on their knees: Why corporate media tolerated its own ruin under Modi

In the summer of 2020, India had no shortage of stories.  The country was emerging from what was described as the world’s harshest lockdown, one...

18.06.2026 20

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Aakar Patel

Bengaluru market vendors hired to train AI robots that could replace them

On a Tuesday morning in Bengaluru’s New Thippasandra market, Nagraj is doing what he does every day. The owner of a small grocery shop, he is...

16.06.2026 10

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Shivani Kava

Cheetahs in Kuno, lions in waiting: Inside India’s most contested conservation project

“After a wait of nearly 70 years, cheetahs returned to India in 2022 with their reintroduction at Kuno National Park, marking a major milestone in...

15.06.2026 20

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Hridayesh Joshi

Safety rules are routinely flouted in India’s factories

Indian factories routinely flout occupational health and safety rules, even as inspections remain scant, and overworked, underpaid workers operate...

15.06.2026 20

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Vijay Jadhav

Bullets, Thars and toppers: Inside Bihar’s crazy coaching wars

Kisan Cold Storage Lane – a well-known address in Musallapur, the coaching hub of Patna – looks much as it always does. The narrow lane houses the...

13.06.2026 20

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Umesh Kumar Ray

6 ‘triggers’ and ‘pressures’ outside: The anatomy of Mamata camp’s collapse

Mamata Banerjee is running out of time. Almost two-thirds of the Trinamool Congress’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs have come together to form a separate bloc...

12.06.2026 20

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Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

‘Not a whisper of incriminating evidence’: What Delhi HC said while quashing case against NewsClick

Quashing the FIR against NewsClick editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha, the Delhi High Court held that the investigations conducted by the Economic...

12.06.2026 10

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Balakrishna Ganeshan

Rs 3,350-cr MoU, 70,000 jobs: A Yogi govt AI investment deal is now under fraud cloud

In February 2023, Lucknow hosted the Global Investors Summit — Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s marquee pitch to investors. By the time it...

11.06.2026 10

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Basant Kumar

343 posts since May, but India’s exam crisis barely exists in the education minister’s timeline

On June 5, 2026, two days after the first reports emerged about Akanksha Chaturvedi – a NEET aspirant from Madhya Pradesh who died by suicide after...

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Astha Savyasachi

‘This is a Sangh village’: Inside Kerala’s new Hindutva strongholds

“This family adheres to Hindu traditions and beliefs.”  The notice pasted outside Sreekala’s house in Keraladithyapuram, on the outskirts of...

10.06.2026 20

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Haritha John

What happened at the INDIA bloc meeting? Pushback against Congress, conciliatory end

The meeting of the INDIA bloc in New Delhi, on Monday, June 8, saw criticism of the Congress from several regional parties, introspection on the...

09.06.2026 20

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Dhanya Rajendran

After the poll debacle, the revolt: How Mamata is losing control of her TMC

“In nightmares and terror, you protected me on your lap, you affectionate mother…” Ritabrata Banerjee was passionately reciting the full version...

05.06.2026 20

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Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

The mattress shop that turned its stock into a safety net for Delhi fire victims

When fire engulfed the Flourish Stay hotel in Malviya Nagar on Wednesday morning, Riyazuddin did not wait for instructions. The owner of a mattress...

05.06.2026 20

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Avdhesh Kumar

Delhi’s ‘cleanest May in 5 years’ is a toxic illusion

This May, Delhi recorded a monthly average AQI of 156, its cleanest in five years. The Central Pollution Control Board considers this ‘moderate’...

05.06.2026 20

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Gs dhanush

25 cases in 3 years: The anti-conversion law problem Congress refuses to fix in Karnataka

Three years after promising to repeal Karnataka’s anti-conversion law, the Congress government is no closer to keeping its promise. In that time, 25...

04.06.2026 20

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Syed shahid

65°C on the ground: Delhi’s bus stops are turning into heat traps

Delhi’s Heat Action Plan says passengers should have access to basic amenities such as drinking water at buses and bus stops. But our ground report...

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Akankhya Rout

‘Getting panic attacks’: College deadlines loom with students trapped in CBSE chaos

Saransh, 19, from Meerut, had been studying twelve to thirteen hours a day since mid-April, surviving on sleepless nights and BITSAT mock tests,...

03.06.2026 20

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Shardool Katyayan

The ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran are stretching the term’s meaning

Ceasefires have been announced, often to great fanfare, in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. So why is there still so much fighting? In just the last few...

02.06.2026 20

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Sam metz

Key indicators missing in National Family Health Survey-6 fact sheet released by govt

The 6th National Family Health Survey NFHS fact sheets, when finally released on Friday, May 29, display some ‘Houdini tricks’. A set of crucial...

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Jisha Surya

Blacklisted, family in debt, out on bail: The human cost for workers a month after Noida crackdown

A month after worker protests shook Noida’s industrial area, a Provincial Armed Constabulary bus sat parked outside Motherson factory’s Gate 4....

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Samarth Grover

A rare natural wonder is unfolding in Delhi’s Lodhi Garden

Nature plays countless games in remote forests that human civilisation may never discover, but there are moments when rare coincidences occur amidst...

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Hridayesh Joshi

Wrong sheets, missing pages, no response: The cost of CBSE’s rushed marking overhaul

Jalaj boarded a train from Vidisha at 1 pm on May 26 with his friend and his father. They were travelling 60 kilometres to the CBSE Regional Office in...

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Akankhya Rout

Behind CBSE’s Class 12 evaluation contract, a trail of unanswered questions

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is under scrutiny over the processes it followed while awarding the tender for Class 12 answer sheet...

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Indulekha Aravind

Why the BCCI, one of the world’s richest sports bodies, answers to no one

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is one of the wealthiest sports governing bodies in the world. But for years, one simple question has...

29.05.2026 20

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Jahnavi

Govt removes anti-monopoly clause, Adani wins another battlefield. This time, Rs 9,700 cr FCI contracts

The Food Corporation of India’s Rs 20,000 crore silo programme was supposed to modernise how India stores its foodgrain stocks for the public...

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Astha Savyasachi

How old is Monalisa Bhosle? Two states and many truths behind an interreligious marriage

On March 11, 2026, when Monalisa Bhosle married Farman Khan at a temple in Thiruvananthapuram, the facts seemed settled, at least on paper. She had...

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Lakshmi Priya

Think it’s hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says

In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter...

28.05.2026 20

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Seth borenstein

Company behind CBSE evaluation platform says complaints limited to ‘one or two cases’

VSN Raju, CEO of Hyderabad-based Coempt Edu Teck, the company responsible for CBSE’s digital evaluation platform currently under fire over multiple...

27.05.2026 20

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Indulekha Aravind

Why the Naidu govt needs to talk to women before offering cash to have more babies

A year ago, a TDP MP in Andhra Pradesh offered Rs 50,000 to women giving birth to a third girl child, provided the first two children are also...

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Jahnavi

Extreme heat imperils chronic disease patients in informal settlements

Within hours of sunrise, the two-room flats in the government-constructed apartment in New Rajarajeshwari Peta in Vijayawada feels like a pot on a...

25.05.2026 30

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Hemanth chandu

UoH student Mayukh dies by suicide, mob harassment and assault alleged

Mayukh Kundu, a first-year MA student at the University of Hyderabad (UoH), allegedly died by suicide on May 18. His body was found in the Buffalo...

22.05.2026 20

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Jahnavi

5 years, over 21% rise in preterm birth rate: Delhi’s air is cutting pregnancies short

On the morning of October 13, 2025, Moni woke up to another uncontrollable coughing fit. She reached for water, then more water, hoping the scratch in...

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Astha Savyasachi