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As temperatures rise, a Delhi neighbourhood grapples with water crisis

As temperatures rise in Delhi, residents across several sectors of Dwarka are once again grappling with water shortages. From Sector 6 to Sector 12,...

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Akankhya Rout

A camera, a sleeping drunk man, welder who thought it was ‘a rally’: Inside Delhi’s new ‘cooling zone’

It is 38°C. The sun hangs directly overhead Jama Masjid metro station, unforgiving and exact. At the entrance to what the Delhi government is calling...

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Gs dhanush

‘We’ve lost all faith’: Another NEET fiasco leaves aspiring doctors devastated

The cancellation of the NEET exam has left lakhs of medical aspirants angry, exhausted, and unsure of what lies ahead. While the National Testing...

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Anmol Pritam

VD Satheesan will be Kerala’s next Chief Minister, Congress leadership decides

Days of uncertainty over Kerala’s next Chief Minister finally ended on Thursday, May 14, after mounting public support for VD Satheesan and pressure...

14.05.2026 20

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Haritha John

VCK: The Dalit party that reshaped Tamil Nadu politics

Editor’s note: With the VCK emerging as a key force in Tamil Nadu’s changing political landscape after extending support to Vijay’s TVK in the...

13.05.2026 10

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Azeefa Fathima

The untold story of the collapse of the Maoist insurgency in India

For decades, the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency was described as India’s gravest internal security problem. Grave enough that Manmohan Singh as prime...

13.05.2026 9

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Shubhranshu Choudhary

Living under notice: Fear and uncertainty along the Yamuna in Delhi

Yamuna Bazar is home to around 310 families, nearly 1,100 people, spread across 32 ghats. For most residents, their livelihoods are inseparable from...

12.05.2026 10

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Akankhya Rout

Delhi’s women gig workers are battling far more than the punishing heat

In Delhi’s blistering summer, when temperatures soar past 45°C, most of us tap an app from the comfort of our air-conditioned rooms. Minutes later,...

12.05.2026 10

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Akankhya Rout

Over 1 lakh pending cases: Noida burned after years of silence in labour courts

Ram Kishan left for work before his family woke up. It was November 3, 2017, and the Moser Baer plant in Greater Noida had been dark for two days –...

12.05.2026 20

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Astha Savyasachi

‘Someone who is TMC in the morning can become BJP by night’: Bengal’s week of violence

On Monday morning, fresh reports of arson emerged from Khejuri, the second such incident in as many nights. The BJP called it an electrical fault. The...

11.05.2026 20

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Arijit Sen

A man injected her with HIV. A YouTube video blamed her and drove her to death

Kandikonda Ramani was the daughter of flower sellers. At 24, she was on track to getting a Master’s degree in Chemistry, hoping to land a government...

11.05.2026 20

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Jahnavi

Medical boards are gatekeeping abortion access

The Supreme Court, on April 30, disagreed with an appeal by a medical board, and permitted a 15-year-old girl in her third trimester to terminate her...

11.05.2026 10

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Ritika Jain

Congress-DMK split: How Rahul-Stalin bonhomie collapsed over Vijay’s rise

Their parties have been in alliance for almost two decades, except for a brief breakup in 2013. And when Rahul Gandhi and MK Stalin took over their...

07.05.2026 20

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Dhanya Rajendran

‘Killed by a cop after being called a Bihari’: A family loses its sole breadwinner

At their tiny home in Uttar Nagar, the family of Pandav Kumar is trying to pick up the pieces days after his murder, amid a stream of visitors, and a...

06.05.2026 20

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Avdhesh Kumar

Operation Sindoor: One year on, Poonch has a plaque for its dead, few bunkers for its living

A year after Operation Sindoor, the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir is still tending its wounds and still waiting for the bunkers that...

05.05.2026 20

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Anmol Pritam

‘Suspended for speaking up’: Hansraj College’s crackdown leaves 1 student still fighting

Parth Srivastava had questions about how his college spent its money. He filed RTIs and posted videos online. For that, he claims, he was suspended....

04.05.2026 20

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Akankhya Rout

Tamil Nadu hung assembly: What are TVK and Vijay’s options?

Tamil Nadu is not a state known for fractured mandates. For decades, voters in the state have delivered decisive verdicts, largely alternating between...

04.05.2026 20

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Pooja Prasanna

Piping hot: India’s delivery economy runs on worker heat stress

“No matter if it is hot or raining, we have to work," says 30-year-old Rakesh Sahu (name changed), from Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur, who works as...

04.05.2026 10

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Shivam Bhardwaj

What to know about May Day demonstrations as workers face rising energy costs due to Iran war

Activists worldwide will march in May Day rallies Friday, calling for peace, higher wages and better working conditions as many workers grapple...

01.05.2026 20

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Sylvie corbet

‘The only dangerous thing about him is his ideas’: Inside the Manesar workers’ arrests

Industrial unrest over minimum wages swept across parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) in April, beginning in Manesar before spreading days...

01.05.2026 30

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Samarth Grover

Palestine freer for journalists than India: It’s the Press Freedom Index again

Every year, on or around World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) releases its World Press Freedom Index and India does what India...

30.04.2026 20

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Nl Team

Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsrooms

Australia has proposed taxing digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok on a part of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government released...

29.04.2026 20

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Rod mcguirk

Only 1,468 voters restored for Bengal’s final phase rolls. Poll duty staff among the excluded

Majibar Rahman is helping others vote. “But as a first polling officer myself, I am unable to cast my vote,” says Rahman, a history teacher from...

28.04.2026 20

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Suhasini Biswas

Trumps call for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel – again – after morbid joke about first lady

Donald and Melania Trump both called for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel on Monday after a joke last week in which the late-night comic described the first...

28.04.2026 20

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David bauder

LaLiT Hotel ducked crores in dues. Justice Varma granted it relief but HC tore up his order

A Delhi High Court bench has done what a Delhi civic agency thought was long overdue: turned down an order that could have drained crores in public...

27.04.2026 30

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Astha Savyasachi

‘Will AI replace me?’: Anxiety grips tech workers amid mass layoffs, slowing recruitment

When Akanksha woke up in her flat in Bengaluru around 7 am on March 31, the first thing she did was check her email. This had become a routine ever...

27.04.2026 30

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Indulekha Aravind

Kavitha launches TRS, name mirrors KCR’s party she was suspended from

Kalvakuntla Kavitha officially launched her political party, Telangana Rashtra Sena (TRS), on April 25. The party’s name has piqued curiosity as it...

25.04.2026 20

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Anjana Meenakshi

‘Joined politics for justice’ | RG Kar victim’s mother on the campaign trail

The words woven into the border of Ratna Debnath’s saree read, “Our spine is not for sale.”  As the mother of the victim in the horrific R.G....

25.04.2026 30

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Nl Team

As Mamata’s seat prepares to vote, faith is thin: ‘Whoever comes to Lanka will be Ravan’

For 30 years, Bapi Das has run his tea shop on a narrow Bhabanipur lane, stirring kettles, watching governments come and go. When you ask him about...

25.04.2026 20

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Suhasini Biswas

Manipur crisis: 3 dead, 4 injured in Ukhrul as conflict between Kuki-Zos and Nagas escalate

In further escalation of hostilities between the Tangkhul Naga and Kuki-Zo tribes, one Naga ‘volunteer’ and two Kuki-Zo ‘volunteers’ were...

24.04.2026 30

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

Beyond the Valley: Naga-Kuki tensions pile pressure on Manipur’s new government

For nearly three years, the ethnic conflict in Manipur remained primarily between the Meiteis of the Valley and the Kuki-Zos in the hills. But now,...

23.04.2026 20

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

Delhi Ridge: Can Master Plan 2041 safeguard the city's lungs?

Many people often refer to the Delhi Ridge as the city’s “lungs”. Alongside the Yamuna River, it plays a pivotal role in maintaining the...

23.04.2026 20

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Akankhya Rout

Vijay in politics: Fan frenzy or real votes for TVK?

Are crowds enough to win elections? As Vijay steps into Tamil Nadu politics with TVK, his rallies are packed with fans cheering and chanting his name....

21.04.2026 30

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Azeefa Fathima

Hindutva activists, a ‘crowd at midnight’, and 9 FIRs: The making of TCS Nashik case

A crowd began gathering outside Deolali Camp Police Station in Nashik on the evening of March 25 and by midnight, an eyewitness told Newslaundry,...

20.04.2026 20

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Prateek Goyal

BJP calls Soros India’s enemy; Hardeep Puri’s daughter managed $200 million for him

George Soros is among the most reviled foreign names in Indian political discourse today. BJP leaders have called him an “enemy of India” and an...

20.04.2026 20

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Astha Savyasachi

India’s cities are crumbling. The rich are seeking urban oases

India’s top metros—Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, home to 75 million people—rank among the world’s 10 most populous cities. However,...

20.04.2026 20

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Charu Bahri

Deleted despite documents: Inside West Bengal’s ‘political’ SIR

The run-up to elections in West Bengal has been anything but normal. The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has led to the...

19.04.2026 20

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Nl Team

Appellate tribunals or a black hole? Where the Bengal SIR goes to bury a ‘second chance’

The Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation, which houses all 19 appellate tribunals set up by the Election Commission in...

18.04.2026 20

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Manisha Pande

‘An hour too late’: Fire devastates Lucknow settlement, residents allege it was ‘deliberate’

On Wednesday evening, a massive fire reduced a labourers’ settlement near Sector-12 in Vikas Nagar, Lucknow, to ashes. The fire, which broke out in...

17.04.2026 30

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Tasneem Fatima

Constitution amendment defeated in Lok Sabha, fails to get two-thirds majority

The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First Amendment) Bill, 2026, was defeated in the Lok Sabha on April 17, following which the Union government...

17.04.2026 20

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Jahnavi

Flowers, fear, and ‘apolitical’ claims: Inside the LSR campus protest

On April 16, students of Delhi University’s Lady Shri Ram College (LSR) posted a sheet of paper outside their principal’s office that read, “We...

17.04.2026 20

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Samarth Grover

Opioids without oversight: The Indian pipeline feeding West Africa’s crisis

This article is the result of a collaboration with Netherlands-based open-source media outlet Bellingcat. Read Bellingcat’s editorially independent...

17.04.2026 30

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Pratyush Deep

Bengal’s migrant workers caught between ‘ghuspaithiya’ politics and SIR deletions

Md Anikul Hoque, a migrant labourer from Samserganj in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, has waited through many crises. He stood in queues for...

17.04.2026 20

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Kainat Sarfaraz

In TN’s fishing hamlets, Vijay’s rise meets both support and scepticism

Around 1.30 pm, under a punishing sun in Tamil Nadu’s Nagercoil town, families hurried along the highway towards Kanniyakumari. On two-wheelers,...

17.04.2026 20

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Haritha John

As delimitation fears mount, Modi offers a ‘guarantee’ in Parliament

Responding to concerns of opposition parties, especially from southern states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that it was his “guarantee” that...

16.04.2026 20

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

After 66 child deaths, a clean chit, and a ‘vanishing act’: Maiden Pharma is coming back, rebranded

This is the second part of an investigative series examining pharmaceutical companies linked to the deaths of children from contaminated medicines,...

16.04.2026 30

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Maria Teresa Raju

In Bengaluru’s water-stressed areas sit most of its data centres

Every summer, Bengaluru goes back to doing what it knows too well — figuring out how to make its water last. The Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage...

16.04.2026 30

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Shivani Kava

Promises, scepticism and unanswered questions: How Karur remembers TVK stampede deaths

Velusamypuram in Karur district does not speak easily about September 27, 2025. On that day, what was meant to be a show of strength for...

15.04.2026 30

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Shabbir Ahmed

‘At least tell us you have him’: Families search for ‘missing’ workers after Noida crackdown

Thirty-two-year-old Sita was sitting on the ground outside Noida’s Phase 2 police station with her two young children – aged three and six –...

15.04.2026 20

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Samarth Grover

‘Bid to move us to Bangladesh’: At the Bengal poll booths where every second voter is gone

Gajol SK’s name was deleted from West Bengal’s voter rolls. Now he is afraid of what comes next. “Our forefathers have lived in India. If the...

15.04.2026 20

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit