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As cops target ‘offensive’ posts, Jantar Mantar reportage and reels are disappearing

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...

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Akankhya Rout

July 20 crackdown: One DCP approved pellets, another authorised firearms

A document seen by Newslaundry shows that a Deputy Commissioner of Police, acting with the powers of an Executive Magistrate, authorised the Rapid...

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July 20 Crackdown: One Dcp Approved Pellets

From accident to malkhana to protest site: Tracing the mysterious stone-laden truck

From accident to malkhana to protest site: Tracing the mysterious stone-laden truck

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...

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Avdhesh Kumar

‘Breach of promise’: How BJP states cracked down on student protesters

The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) called off student protests at Jantar Mantar after receiving assurances, among other things, that no criminal cases...

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Tarun Kumar Sahu

‘Today is your last day’: Nearly 120 staff shown the door at India Today

“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...

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Basant Kumar

4 victims, 1 pattern: July 20 injuries put RAF’s ‘sensitive policing’ motto and manual under spotlight

Six days after the July 20 crackdown near Parliament, neither the CRPF nor its Rapid Action Force wing has clarified whether their personnel fired...

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Astha Savyasachi

Govt vows fast-track courts for paper leaks. Existing ones have 2,49,000 pending cases

“Nothing is more important than the welfare and future of our youth!” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on the social media platform X (formerly...

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Karthik Madhavapeddi

Accountability, jobs, education reform: What Gen Z protesters want next after Pradhan’s resignation

Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as the education minister on Saturday afternoon. Soon, the organisers were asking everyone at Jantar Mantar to pack up and...

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Dikshya Koirala

The working class men who risked everything at Jantar Mantar

“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...

25.07.2026 10

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Dikshya Koirala

‘Nobody asked us to’: Meet the silent engine of the Jantar Mantar protest

Despite the police action on July 20, protestors returned to Jantar Mantar to continue demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra...

25.07.2026 20

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Samarth Grover

Delhi metro closures are hurting more than just commuters

For the third consecutive day, 16 Delhi Metro stations remain closed, disrupting the daily commute for thousands across the capital. Office-goers are...

24.07.2026 8

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Satyendra Kumar Choudhury

They got beaten at the Parliament march. But they returned to Jantar Mantar

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...

23.07.2026 10

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Akankhya Rout

Fourth pellet-like injury after July 20 march: DU student’s family says he may lose an eye

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...

23.07.2026 10

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Avdhesh Kumar

Pizzas, parathas and solidarity: Supporters from Mumbai to Dubai are feeding Jantar Mantar

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. ...

23.07.2026 10

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Anmol Pritam

First a prankster, now a policeman: When smart glasses come to India’s protest sites

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...

23.07.2026 7

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Karen Rebelo

From ‘Godi media’ taunts to assault: The reporters caught in Jantar Mantar’s anger

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...

22.07.2026 20

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Prateek Goyal

Fact check shows Delhi police used baton with nails at Jantar Mantar

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...

22.07.2026 30

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Mohammed Zubair

‘Told my father to quit police job’: Inside Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital after the Parliament march

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...

21.07.2026 20

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Avdhesh Kumar

The story of the Parliament march, told hour by hour

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...

21.07.2026 20

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Nl Team

Delhi HC allows Sonam Wangchuk’s shift to private hospital after medical advice

The Delhi High Court has allowed Gitanjali Angmo to immediately shift her husband Sonam Wangchuk from government-run Safdarjung Hospital to the...

21.07.2026 20

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Ritika Jain

State-owned ONGC donated over Rs 668 crore to 20 Sangh-linked organisations across 10 years

In June this year, Mohan Bhagwat offered many reasons for refuting demands that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) be registered. ...

21.07.2026 40

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Sachi Hegde

A flagship 2024 promise, a 99% shortfall: PM internship scheme spent nearly as much on ads as interns

It was the summer of 2025. The advertisements about the Narendra Modi government’s new internship scheme were splashed across newspapers, TV...

21.07.2026 10

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Indulekha Aravind

‘This is about the future’: At Parliament march, students who came without fear

They came from several states – students, some still in school, who had skipped classes or slipped away without telling their parents to be at...

20.07.2026 20

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Suhasini Biswas

Under shadow of lathis and barricades: The day the Modi govt finally engaged the CJP

Thousands of protesters marching towards Parliament as part of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) demonstration were met with barricades, tear gas,...

20.07.2026 20

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Nl Team

‘With Wangchuk gone, cops thought hope would die’: The weekend that changed the CJP protest

Thousands have turned up for the Cockroach Janta Party’s march to Parliament on Monday, filling the road from Jantar Mantar to the Tolstoy...

20.07.2026 20

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Suhasini Biswas

‘Like a kidnapping’: Delhi Police forcibly remove Sonam Wangchuk under medical pretext

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...

18.07.2026 20

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Nl Team

Chhattisgarh govt spent Rs 1.3 crore a day on publicity; Rs 1,095 crore in just over 2 years

The BJP government in Chhattisgarh, where schools still force children to study under the open sky and where many areas continue to lack basic...

17.07.2026 30

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Akankhya Rout

The Bollywood pracharaks who found their place in Modi’s orbit

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...

17.07.2026 30

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Prateek Goyal

In Bengaluru and Hyderabad, BLOs point to crushing workload, physical exhaustion

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...

16.07.2026 20

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Anjana Meenakshi

An Adivasi struggle, a false case, and brutal torture: The story of KK Surendran

After more than two decades of legal battles, KK Surendran, a victim of custodial torture in Muthanga of Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad, has received a...

15.07.2026 20

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Haritha Manav

More grain, less protein behind India’s rising obesity

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...

14.07.2026 20

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Vijay Jadhav

‘Where do we go?’: Jadavpur’s railway hawkers live in fear of the next bulldozer

“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...

14.07.2026 20

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Chenab Guha

‘No notice, no response sheets’: Disquiet among foreign medical grads over ‘opaque’ licensing exam

When the results of the June 2026 Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) were declared earlier this week, many headlines focused on one...

13.07.2026 20

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Samarth Grover

How the Union government helped Isha Foundation win a case against the Tamil Nadu Pollution Board

“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...

13.07.2026 20

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Akshay Deshmane

‘The film will make you Rs 100 cr, look at Kashmir Files’: Inside the quiet capture of Bollywood

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...

10.07.2026 40

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Prateek Goyal

40 hours on, 8 workers trapped: Garbage heap collapses at Pune plant inaugurated by Modi in 2023

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...

10.07.2026 20

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Prateek Goyal

When PSUs, fertiliser shops, and flour mills became Uttarakhand’s ‘investors’ after global summit

Inaugurating the Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit on December 8, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the state a “new hub for...

08.07.2026 30

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Basant Kumar

Pilot dreams, few fire exits: Delhi’s private aviation training hubs flout safety norms

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...

08.07.2026 20

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Akankhya Rout

Mob attack, broken official promises, then boycott: Life for 11 Muslim families in Maharashtra village

For several weeks now, some Muslim-owned shops in Aarla have opened to empty streets, say their owners. Longtime customers have stopped coming. At...

07.07.2026 60

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Prateek Goyal

One of Kerala’s lowest paid professionals: The private school teacher

Kerala has long been known for offering the country’s highest wages for manual labour, attracting lakhs of interstate migrant workers every year. A...

07.07.2026 20

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Haritha John

‘Pakistani’ flag claim, contested DDA park: Anatomy of the Sagarpur communal violence

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;...

06.07.2026 20

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Akankhya Rout

Accused of ‘Marxist ideology’: Inside UP Police’s Noida protest conspiracy case

Over two months after Noida’s industrial belt witnessed violent protests, the Uttar Pradesh police have now filed chargesheets in four FIRs – 163,...

06.07.2026 20

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Samarth Grover

Why C-Section deliveries are rising in India

More than a quarter of India’s births now happen through Caesarean-section (C-section) deliveries, driven primarily by high rates of surgical...

06.07.2026 20

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Prachi Salve

Who owns your hospitals? Private equity’s growing grip on Kerala’s healthcare

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...

04.07.2026 20

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Jisha Surya

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....

02.07.2026 20

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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...

01.07.2026 20

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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Akankhya Rout