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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...

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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....

yesterday 10

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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...

yesterday 10

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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...

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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,...

thursday 10

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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...

thursday 10

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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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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 20

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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 20

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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 10

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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 10

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

Children killed in Lebanon as Israeli strikes hit homes far from front lines of war with Hezbollah

Jawad Younes, 11, and his cousins were playing soccer in the lot between their houses, as they often did. His little brother, 4-year-old Mehdi, had...

15.04.2026 9

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Abby sewell

Dead children, dirty drugs, a giant ‘racket’: The curious case of Digital Vision Pharma

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

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Prateek Goyal

‘Targets keep rising, but our salaries don't’: Inside the Noida workers’ protest

Since last Thursday, hundreds of contractual workers in Noida have blockaded roads near the NSEZ metro station, demanding a minimum wage of Rs 20,000,...

14.04.2026 10

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Samarth Grover

A crowded courtroom, Kejriwal’s 10 reasons, and a bigger question: What makes a judge recuse?

An unusually high media presence combined with a heavy police bandobast was the first indication that a high-profile matter was going to be heard in...

13.04.2026 20

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Ritika Jain

Noida workers protested for days over one basic demand. Then came the violence

Since Thursday last week, hundreds of contractual workers blockaded the main road next to the NSEZ metro station in Noida. They stood in the sun...

13.04.2026 10

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Tarun sahu

Inside the pro-UGC protest: Caste faultlines at Allahabad University

The Supreme Court has stayed the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) latest equity promotion regulations. Following the court’s directive,...

13.04.2026 10

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Akanksha Kumar

As India braces for summer, informal workers have little heat protection

“Of course the heat is increasing. My eyes burn,” said Sangeeta Sonawane in Mumbai’s Borivali on a hot April day. Sonawane sets up her stall on...

13.04.2026 10

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Tanvi Deshpande

Trump threatens Strait of Hormuz blockade after US-Iran ceasefire talks end without agreement

President Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. Navy would “immediately” begin a blockade to stop ships from entering or leaving the Strait of...

12.04.2026 10

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Munir Ahmed

‘We are Chitragupta of the Bengal SIR’: Meet the SABAR team tracking deleted voters

Earlier this month, a study by the Kolkata-based SABAR Institute uncovered an alarming disparity in West Bengal’s Nandigram constituency, where...

12.04.2026 20

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Kainat Sarfaraz

Perambur’s long neglect resurfaces as Vijay enters fray

After years of official and political neglect, Perambur has, this election season, become impossible to ignore. The spotlight returned to the...

10.04.2026 30

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Ramyasre n

A father, a beneficiary, ex-BLO: The SIR chaos queue in Bengal’s worst-hit district

Aftab Alam gave his primary school examination at Krishnanath School in Titagarh in 1976. He is 64 now. Today, he was back at the same school. It was...

09.04.2026 20

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Suhasini Biswas

‘No disease’, only ‘impediment removal’: Delhi meet flags Bengal’s 90 lakh voter deletions

Two days after the Election Commission of India released another list of deleted voters in West Bengal’s controversial special intensive revision,...

08.04.2026 10

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

Concrete over commons: How Delhi’s vanishing wetlands are choking on bureaucracy

Chote Lal, a longtime resident of Khichripur in East Delhi, recalls, “Around 15 years ago, a talab (pond) existed here.” Once a vital lifeline for...

08.04.2026 20

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Akankhya Rout

US and Iran agree to 2-week ceasefire as Trump pulls back on threats

U.S. President Donald Trump pulled back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran late Tuesday, as the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week...

08.04.2026 10

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Bassem mroue

Elections 2026: Why parties keep women out of the race

Women are everywhere during elections, at rallies, in campaigns, and at polling booths. In Kerala and Tamil Nadu, they even outnumber men as voters....

07.04.2026 10

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The News Minute

‘Feels like a betrayal’: SIR deletions hit BJP’s own Hindu refugee base in West Bengal

“It feels like we aren’t worth anything at all. Everyone is able to vote but us. Money aatonko aatonko hocche (My mind is wracked with fear)....

07.04.2026 10

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Kainat Sarfaraz

BJP says Kerala is failing, data says otherwise

Claims about Kerala’s lack of development have become a recurring theme in political speeches, especially during election campaigns. But how much of...

07.04.2026 20

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Pooja Prasanna

Is Kerala’s healthcare system really on a ventilator?

Low infant mortality, high life expectancy, and few maternal deaths during childbirth – these are among the key factors that make Kerala’s public...

07.04.2026 10

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Sukanya Shaji

‘Go back, you Bihari’: Why BJP’s ‘outsider’ pitch in Assam is hitting a cultural wall

In 1985, a popular Assamese skit lampooned a Hindi-speaking businessman as he fumbled through the language, mixed up cultural references, yet remained...

07.04.2026 30

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Tora Agarwala

Amid Bengal voter roll uncertainty, activists flag ‘disproportionate’ exclusions

As West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Office prepared to publish the final supplementary voter list under the Special Intensive Revision, the Association...

07.04.2026 20

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Sumedha Mittal

BJP banks on select seats to break Kerala’s bipolar poll pattern

After senior BJP leader O Rajagopal broke the party’s jinx in 2016 by winning its first seat in the Kerala Legislative Assembly, poll pundits...

06.04.2026 20

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Haritha John

India wants 1,000 new clinical trial sites. Patients are still being left in the dark

Thirty-five-year-old Ritu Bhalla was twice diagnosed with blood cancer, at the ages of four and 11. She developed chronic hepatitis B as a long-term...

06.04.2026 10

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Charu Bahri

The Mama of ‘Hate’: Decoding Himanta’s politics of division

As Assam heads to the polls, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma projects the image of an unstoppable leader. He frames his quest for a second term...

05.04.2026 20

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Nl Team

Cold stoves, broken dreams: LPG cylinder crisis triggers migrant worker exodus in Delhi

The fallout from the escalating conflict between Iran and the US-Israel alliance has reached the doorsteps of the National Capital Region’s most...

04.04.2026 10

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Anmol Pritam

Your Instagram reel is now ‘news’ — and the Govt wants to censor it

While the government has already been using the IT Rules 2021 to block online content and creators, its powers are about to expand significantly —...

04.04.2026 20

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Samarth Grover

‘Attack on free expression’: Content creators, media contest govt’s ‘arbitrary’ notices

In recent weeks, the Central government has intensified its scrutiny of popular social media accounts that critique the government, policy or...

03.04.2026 10

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Akankhya Rout