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Parliament is increasingly passing Bills after relatively short periods of discussion. Data compiled from sessions between 2024 and 2026 across both...
Rs 20,000 annually to every school-going child orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic — this was one of the major promises made by the Union government...
The Delhi Development Authority and Municipal Corporation of Delhi have repeatedly claimed action against illegal construction in Zone-O, including...
Drive through almost any town in Madhya Pradesh and the state government is impossible to avoid. Hoardings at the chowk. Full pages in the morning...
As Jharkhand’s student protest against alleged irregularities in the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection...
Four in 10 Indian schoolchildren were enrolled in private unaided schools in 2025-26, up from 35.4 percent in 2018-19, according to Unified District...
Following the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) statement that there would be an inquiry against students enrolled at Hyderabad’s National Academy of...
Delhi is currently undergoing the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, with the Election Commission extending the deadline to submit forms...
When the floodwaters rose around their home in Rajapul on July 19, Bandana Buragohain had no way of getting out on her own. The 70-year-old clung to...
“I was 15 and Amal was 21 when we felt a romantic spark. For three years, we continued to be in a relationship, but my parents went to the police...
Posts by journalists, political parties, activists and media organisations are increasingly being restricted or taken down on platforms such as Meta...
Thousands of students from all districts of Jharkhand marched on the state assembly in Ranchi on Monday, demanding the cancellation of exams conducted...
Long dry spells this monsoon in some parts of India meant warmer days and nights even in July. Climate change is making the world hotter and more...
“I felt terrible, they were maligning us right in front of us, sitting outside our campus. I was shocked that government teachers were doing this...
The protest by state service aspirants in Jharkhand, alleging irregularities in recruitment examinations, is growing by the day. Launched on July 25...
The News Minute’s investigation that exposed how 14.7 percent of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation...
Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah's asset disclosure, filed after his appointment in accordance with Section 50 of the Prevention of Corruption...
Rinki Chatterjee Singh’s account of her own career is a long ledger of cases – ones she has filed, and ones filed against her. An FIR was...
Eight years, and more than Rs 2.32 crore a day. That is what the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has spent, on average, publicising itself...
In August 2022, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi was compelled to appeal for peace. The previous day, hundreds of Muslims had poured out into the streets...
A year after the Dharali disaster, the reconstructed road leading to Gangotri has been shifted a few metres away from the banks of the Bhagirathi...
Read the previous instalments of this series here and here. On September 24, 2025, thousands of people were on the streets of Leh demanding statehood...
A BJP MLA posts a video of a bleeding, weeping girl and tells his followers she is being taught a lesson. The video is actually from Varanasi, from a...
“We are not computers or robots that we will do BLO work after teaching hours too,” says Rajat*, a higher secondary teacher in Ambedkar Nagar,...
A woman reporter with Times Now was allegedly kicked and struck on the head, and her cameraperson was manhandled, while both were reporting live from...
Dhiraj Kumar Gond is waiting outside Medanta Hospital in Patna. He is attending to his cousin Bullet Kumar Gond, who was shot at in Siwan during the...
There were fewer students than usual in Delhi University’s North Campus this week, as most of those who had joined days earlier were attending their...
After a Newslaundry investigation, Delhi Police have confirmed that the stone-laden truck seen near Jantar Mantar on the morning of the July 20 march...
For decades, Asian News International (ANI) has occupied a near-monopoly in India’s television news ecosystem. With a business reportedly worth...
The Delhi government’s tourism department spent Rs 1.83 crore on eight Bhajan Clubbing events organised across Delhi University colleges in...
On July 26, hours after the Cockroach Janta Party called off its 36-day agitation, journalist Yaqut Ali uploaded an interview with Vijeta Dahiya, the...
A document seen by Newslaundry shows that a Deputy Commissioner of Police, acting with the powers of an Executive Magistrate, authorised the Rapid...
At 8 am on July 20, as the Cockroach Janta Party assembled at Jantar Mantar, its workers pointed to a truck loaded with stones on the road linking...
The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) called off student protests at Jantar Mantar after receiving assurances, among other things, that no criminal cases...
“Today is your last day. Please submit your resignation.” That, according to Anmol Kumar Mahto*, is what he was told last Wednesday, about an hour...
Six days after the July 20 crackdown near Parliament, neither the CRPF nor its Rapid Action Force wing has clarified whether their personnel fired...
“Nothing is more important than the welfare and future of our youth!” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on the social media platform X (formerly...
Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as the education minister on Saturday afternoon. Soon, the organisers were asking everyone at Jantar Mantar to pack up and...
“We are already living in constant misery and dying a slow death. It's better to die here.” When Arun, a 27-year-old cobbler from Uttar...
Despite the police action on July 20, protestors returned to Jantar Mantar to continue demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra...
For the third consecutive day, 16 Delhi Metro stations remain closed, disrupting the daily commute for thousands across the capital. Office-goers are...
Protesters had gathered for a march to Parliament on July 20, stating that the demonstration would be peaceful. When it began at 9 am, the atmosphere...
Sahil Lochab, a 22-year-old from Najafgarh, is undergoing treatment to save vision in his right eye. A student at Delhi University who works part-time...
Jantar Mantar has seen an unusual show of solidarity over the past two days – not in the form of slogans, but pizzas, parathas and water bottles. ...
Shubnam, who identifies as transfeminine, said they were in the middle of moving house in Delhi’s scorching 40 degrees Celsius-plus summer when they...
Four days after a young NDTV reporter covered the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar, her mother was surrounded in a neighbourhood park by people demanding...
After participants from the July 20 march in Delhi put up videos on social media saying that police were carrying batons with nails fixed on them...
At 1 am, the emergency building of Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital has not gone quiet. One man waits outside the ICU for his sister to regain...
From the first signs of a swelling crowd after Sonam Wangchuk was forcibly shifted by the Delhi Police on Saturday, to the dramatic scenes outside...
The Delhi High Court has allowed Gitanjali Angmo to immediately shift her husband Sonam Wangchuk from government-run Safdarjung Hospital to the...