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Pune journalist beaten with stick on camera has faced threats before

14.07.2025 10

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Mystery shutdown of both engines seconds after take-off: Air India crash probe

14.07.2025 10

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The Thackerays are back on stage. But will the script sell in 2025 Mumbai?

11.07.2025 7

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Is Maharashtra’s new security law a blueprint to criminalise dissent?

11.07.2025 6

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No FIR despite complaints: Muslim families say forced to leave Pune village amid ‘boycott, threats’

08.07.2025 20

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‘I can’t breathe’: Not George Floyd, but Maharashtra man’s ‘last words in police chokehold’

02.07.2025 20

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Between FIRs, raids and vandalism, Christian schools feel singled out in MP

20.06.2025 10

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At least 2 dead, 7 missing after pedestrian bridge used by two-wheelers collapses in Pune

15.06.2025 5

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What went wrong before the Air India Dreamliner crash?

14.06.2025 10

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Acquitted in 2 cases, but a former terror suspect is a lifetime prisoner of suspicion

11.06.2025 7

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Bastar IGP on ‘war’ on Maoists, Hidma as an ‘overrated figure’, and welcoming surrenders

27.05.2025 4

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‘Imported’ tyres, toxic fumes, toothless laws: The crisis in Maharashtra’s tribal district

23.05.2025 6

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Pune village calls for economic boycott of ‘outsider’ Muslims

21.05.2025 30

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Uniformed for TV: The making and marketing of Gaurav Arya

20.05.2025 20

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Fake pilots, fake missiles, fake news: How Pak weaponised disinformation against India

12.05.2025 8

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‘A step above anything done before’: Defence experts break down Op Sindoor

09.05.2025 30

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Declared absconding, but Vishalgad fort riot prime accused set to marry in Pune, active on social media

06.05.2025 7

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‘Thought they were Army, but they opened fire’: Survivors recount Pahalgam horror

23.04.2025 10

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Catch me if you Camm: Despite 2014 IMC ban, fake doctor practised with bogus credentials for over a decade

11.04.2025 10

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Attack on Christian priests in MP: FIR after 3 days, no arrests so far

04.04.2025 7

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‘Unchecked powers’: Journalist bodies mount protests against Maharashtra public security bill

04.04.2025 10

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January show, March upload, Sunday night raid: Mumbai club’s fall after Kunal Kamra’s joke

24.03.2025 3

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‘Where will we go?’: Anxiety as USAID freeze shuts down Pune’s transgender clinic

22.03.2025 8

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Anatomy of Nagpur violence: From ‘Hindutva protest to Muslim outfit’s rumour-mongering’

19.03.2025 4

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Crime but no punishment: Is Pune now a city in peril?

17.03.2025 20

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In Maharashtra, tribal women ‘raped, held captive’, FIR filed only after 114 others rescued

13.03.2025 5

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In Madhya Pradesh, ‘love jihad’ crusaders overrule high court orders to target interfaith couples

27.02.2025 9

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‘Business class flights, Singapore stay, escort business link’: The rape case against Shyam Sunder Bhartia

26.02.2025 10

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The undoing of a ‘Fevicol bond’ in Mahayuti alliance?

25.02.2025 10

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Endangered and unpaid: Mukesh Chandrakar’s life symbolised the Bastar media story

On January 1, Mukesh Chandrakar sent me a link on WhatsApp to a story that he and Nilesh Tripathi had worked on, about the conditions of the...

06.01.2025 10

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After firing bullets at them, Chhattisgarh police allegedly ‘harass,’ ‘forcibly detain’ two children

Days after security forces shot at four children in Chhattisgarh’s Abujmarh in an “operation” against “Naxals”, the Chhattisgarh police allegedly...

23.12.2024 3

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‘Bullet lodged near her vertebrae’: Four children fired at by security forces in Chhattisgarh

At 8.30 am on December 11, 14-year-old Chaitram Oyam was with his parents, tending the kosra fields adjoining a jungle near his home in southern...

18.12.2024 10

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‘Join BJP, make video against Rahul’: MP couple ‘suicide note’ alleges ED harassment over politics

In a raid on the house of Madhya Pradesh businessman Manoj Parmar and his wife Neha, who died by suicide on December 13, the Enforcement...

14.12.2024 9

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‘Assault, local pressure, police inaction’: In a village in Chhattisgarh, uncertainty over Christmas

Christian families in a village in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district say they feel uncertain about Christmas celebrations amid local pressure for “...

13.12.2024 10

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‘Don’t write about it’: After bangle seller’s acquittal, cops and attackers say they ‘don’t recall’ case

Three and a half years have passed since Tasleem Banjara lay on the ground in Indore , weeping as a group of men assaulted him.  Tasleem, a bangle...

06.12.2024 3

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17-year-old held after video of 3 MP minors beaten, forced to chant Jai Shri Ram

A day after a video showing three Muslim minors being assaulted and told to chant Jai Shri Ram was circulated on social media, police have filed an...

06.12.2024 4

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Doubting BJP lead, a village in Maharashtra decides to hold a ‘ballot paper repoll’

In the Malshiras assembly constituency in Maharashtra’s Solapur, NCP-SP candidate Uttamrao Shivdas Jankar had recently defeated the BJP with a...

03.12.2024 5

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‘Protest and you’ll be jailed’: Two tribal minors held in Chhattisgarh, kin left in dark for 15 days

“Police asked if we were linked to Naxals... warned that if I continued protesting, I would be jailed,” said 17-year-old Madkam Dhanni, one of two...

30.11.2024 3

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‘Ladki Bahin success, OBC consolidation’: Shinde camp settles Sena vs Sena debate

Winning at least 54 of the 81 seats it contested in Maharashtra, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena seems to have settled the long-standing debate...

23.11.2024 4

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‘We’re Indians or not?’: Pune Muslim voters on hate speech, targeted crime, political representation

Maharashtra, known for its cultural diversity, has seen a troubling rise in hate speeches and targeted hate crimes in recent years. Last year, the...

18.11.2024 4

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‘A boon for common people’: What’s fuelling support for Eknath Shinde?

In the first Maharashtra assembly election after the Shiv Sena split and the swearing-in of Eknath Shinde as the Chief Minister, it’s a battle of...

14.11.2024 2

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Two deaths every day: Inside Marathwada farmers suicide crisis

“Earning even Rs 100 per day had become difficult,” says Meera Nagre, who is mourning her husband Suresh Naagre’s death by suicide allegedly...

14.11.2024 2

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‘Will give Rs 1 lakh if…’: Are Maharashtra voters more worried about price rise than polarisation?

Maharashtra’s political landscape has gotten increasingly polarised between the governing Mahayuti coalition and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi....

06.11.2024 10

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The unguarded prison plots of Lawrence Bishnoi

In 2018, a video popped up in which a fresh-faced young man, flanked by policemen, calmly issued a death threat to a superstar. “Salman Khan ka...

26.10.2024 3

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WhatsApp chats, ‘bid to frame’ driver: The ‘cash, clout and conspiracy’ of the Pune Porsche probe

On the night of May 20, Ashpaq Makandar, a close aide of NCP MLA Sunil Tingre, retweeted the legislator’s post expressing grief over an accident,...

14.10.2024 3

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After media’s ‘garba jihad’ bogey, Hindi newspaper’s garba event ‘only for Sanatani Hindus’

Over the past few years, a section of the mainstream media has been amplifying the bogey of “garba jihad” every Navratri – the Hindutva conspiracy...

07.10.2024 4

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Eknath Shinde: A figurehead or Maharashtra’s new powerhouse?

Two years ago, when the Shiv Sena fractured into two factions and Eknath Shinde aligned with the BJP, backed by 40 MLAs, many political observers...

07.10.2024 2

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‘They didn’t care about kids, imagine the hate’: Family of 4 chased, hit by car in Latur

On Sunday evening, Sadiq Usman Shaikh was on his way home on his motorcycle with his wife, his six-year-old son, and three-year-old daughter –...

03.10.2024 3

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Ruckus outside police station, changed statements: The curious chronology of Ratlam SP’s transfer

➨ In May 2022, a local BJP leader’s nephew was booked for vandalising statues at a temple a day before Eid-ul-Fitr. Hindutva footsoldiers had...

17.09.2024 20

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In MP, postmortem report delay points to a ‘custodial death cover-up’

Three weeks after a tribal man’s death in police custody, the police are yet to accept his family’s request to share a copy of the postmortem...

11.09.2024 1

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