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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...
In June this year, Mohan Bhagwat offered many reasons for refuting demands that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) be registered. ...
It was the summer of 2025. The advertisements about the Narendra Modi government’s new internship scheme were splashed across newspapers, TV...
They came from several states – students, some still in school, who had skipped classes or slipped away without telling their parents to be at...
Thousands of protesters marching towards Parliament as part of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) demonstration were met with barricades, tear gas,...
Thousands have turned up for the Cockroach Janta Party’s march to Parliament on Monday, filling the road from Jantar Mantar to the Tolstoy...
A roughly 10-foot barricade had come up overnight at Jantar Mantar, and hundreds of police personnel with several vehicles had taken position at the...
The BJP government in Chhattisgarh, where schools still force children to study under the open sky and where many areas continue to lack basic...
Read the first part of this series here. On the evening of September 21, 2025, as Bollywood celebrities arrived at Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani...
Parveen Begum puts her pen down and drops her writing pad onto the table in front of her. “Please give me a couple of minutes, my hand hurts,” she...
After more than two decades of legal battles, KK Surendran, a victim of custodial torture in Muthanga of Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad, has received a...
A decade ago, in March 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi first mentioned obesity in his 18th Mann Ki Baat address. Since then, Modi has spoken...
“Where do we go?” asks Saraswati Naiya, who has spent the last 35 years selling fritters from a small stall on Jadavpur’s railway platform for...
When the results of the June 2026 Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) were declared earlier this week, many headlines focused on one...
“Listen man…listen to me, every law that is there in the country has been followed. If there is any discrepancy, we fixed it. Long time ago, 20...
His social media reads like a saffron scrapbook. A picture with Yogi Adityanath. A Modi birthday wish. His new film marks the Sangh centenary. His...
More than 40 hours after a towering garbage heap at Pune’s Moshi waste-to-energy plant buried the administrative building of the company operating...
Inaugurating the Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit on December 8, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the state a “new hub for...
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has given coaching institutes one month to fix fire safety or face action. But a ground visit to the city’s...
For several weeks now, some Muslim-owned shops in Aarla have opened to empty streets, say their owners. Longtime customers have stopped coming. At...
Kerala has long been known for offering the country’s highest wages for manual labour, attracting lakhs of interstate migrant workers every year. A...
In East Sagarpur, southwest Delhi, a narrow lane has become a widening fault line. On one side of Gali No. 8 sits a largely Muslim-populated jhuggi;...
Over two months after Noida’s industrial belt witnessed violent protests, the Uttar Pradesh police have now filed chargesheets in four FIRs – 163,...
More than a quarter of India’s births now happen through Caesarean-section (C-section) deliveries, driven primarily by high rates of surgical...
When Chazhikattu Hospital was set up in Thodupuzha municipality in Idukki district in 1933, health facilities were rare in the area. What began as a...
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....
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...
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...
In February 2023, an Indian business group signed agreements with the Uttar Pradesh government at its Global Investor Summit to invest an eye-popping...
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...
Demolition work at Delhi’s Yamuna Bazar ghats began on the morning of June 25. Earlier, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) had issued notices...