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Yudhvir Ahlawat on cinema, Haryana stereotypes, and Agniveer

Actor Yudhvir Ahlawat, who won praise for his role as Harpal in Kartavya, is not afraid to speak about subjects many in the film industry avoid.

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From 2014 to Kota: Why Rahul Gandhi is wrong about the IAS exam again

The retreating winter morning of February 11, 2014, began unusually in Mukherjee Nagar, one of Delhi’s hubs for civil services aspirants. Some young and some not-so-young candidates boarded buses to 12, Tughlaq Lane. They had come to thank Rahul Gandhi for his intervention in securing two extra attempts at the…

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A pig at the gate, TV cameras outside: The making of a viral Eid controversy

For two days in late May, several television channels ran breathless coverage of events outside Poonam Cluster 1, a cooperative housing society in the Mira Road suburb of Thane district.

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Student suicides to education budget: The issues Rahul put at the centre of ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ in Kota

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has launched a new student outreach campaign, “Chhatron Ki Goonj” (Echo of Students), in Kota, calling for an end to “India’s exploitative education system”.

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What happens if the dollar hits Rs 100?

“100 is just a number.”

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Can longevity be a political message? Decoding the politics of the PM@4399 celebrations

The BJP-led NDA’s celebration of Narendra Modi completing 12 uninterrupted years may prompt a question: what exactly is a governing party asking voters to think about when it asks them to see how long it has been in power?

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Being a Dalit feminist on social media and illegal mining in Tamil Nadu

In this week’s South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna first discuss the recent political developments in Tamil Nadu and the resignation of the BJP’s former state head, Annamalai. They are joined by senior journalist RK Radhakrishnan.

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Cheetahs in Kuno, lions in waiting: Inside India’s most contested conservation project

“After a wait of nearly 70 years, cheetahs returned to India in 2022 with their reintroduction at Kuno National Park, marking a major milestone in wildlife conservation.”

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Safety rules are routinely flouted in India’s factories

Indian factories routinely flout occupational health and safety rules, even as inspections remain scant, and overworked, underpaid workers operate faulty machinery leading to accidents and injuries, many of which are not counted in official statistics, a new report shows.

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Remember the toddler whose death shocked Kerala? This call changes the story

Many of you would have read about 20-month-old Arshith who died in Kerala. Doctors documented around 100 injuries on his tiny body. His step father has been arrested for the crime

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Bullets, Thars and toppers: Inside Bihar’s crazy coaching wars

Kisan Cold Storage Lane – a well-known address in Musallapur, the coaching hub of Patna – looks much as it always does. The narrow lane houses the offices and classrooms of two of the city’s best-known coaching institutes, both currently in the headlines.

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The sadhu wants pulao. The snob rejects veg biryani. Culinary history disagrees with both

The seers of the Akhand Parshuram Akhada in Haridwar have, in their campaign to rename veg biryani as veg pulao, found themselves in unexpected company: the biryani puritans, who have insisted for years that veg biryani is an oxymoron and what you are eating is pulao. For once, the saffron-robed…

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Hafta letters: CJP’s rise, Sarthak’s inspiring interview, app bugs

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TV Newsance 345: The Modi anniversary special nobody asked for

Congratulations, mitron! Newslaundry has successfully completed 5,000 days and your favourite TV Newsance completed 3,090 days! By the way, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also completed 4,399 “uninterrupted days” in power, surpassing his biggest opponent and “ex-longest” PM Nehru. You know what that means.

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6 ‘triggers’ and ‘pressures’ outside: The anatomy of Mamata camp’s collapse

Mamata Banerjee is running out of time. Almost two-thirds of the Trinamool Congress’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs have come together to form a separate bloc and support the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

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The World Cup usually cleans up a country’s image. Not this time

Mega sporting events run on a reliable formula. A country wins the hosting rights, spends money it probably shouldn’t, and receives a month-long image makeover in return. The FIFA World Cup has often been held as the ultimate example of this exchange, accused of being the world’s most expensive reputation…

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‘Not a whisper of incriminating evidence’: What Delhi HC said while quashing case against NewsClick

Quashing the FIR against NewsClick editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha, the Delhi High Court held that the investigations conducted by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) amounted to a “fishing and roving exercise in the financial affairs of the petitioners without the existence of any offence.”

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Delhi Gymkhana takeover: How the govt came to ‘clean up’ but left a bigger mess

On August 13, 2022, during Covid, a Tiranga rally for Independence Day was taken out from the Delhi Gymkhana Club situated across the road from the Prime Minister’s house – perhaps the most heavily guarded square kilometre in India.

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Mainstream media is losing a generation. Cockroach Janta Party is merely a symptom

A pest entered the news cycle recently. One that most people would like to either squash or obliterate with a deadly spray. So far, it has not been either squashed or obliterated. Only time will tell whether it can really weather all the storms that will come its way.

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Rs 3,350-cr MoU, 70,000 jobs: A Yogi govt AI investment deal is now under fraud cloud

In February 2023, Lucknow hosted the Global Investors Summit — Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s marquee pitch to investors. By the time it concluded, 19,250 MoUs had been signed, with proposed investments worth Rs 33.52 lakh crore. One of those signatures belonged to Obdu Digital Health Care Private Limited.

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‘Attack on free press, fishing exercise’: HC quashes PMLA case against NewsClick

The Delhi High Court has ruled that the Enforcement Directorate’s actions against independent digital news outlet NewsClick and its founder Prabir Purkayastha – stemming from a foreign direct investment case – constituted an abuse of power targeting free and impartial journalism. The court has quashed the money laundering case against…

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343 posts since May, but India’s exam crisis barely exists in the education minister’s timeline

On June 5, 2026, two days after the first reports emerged about Akanksha Chaturvedi – a NEET aspirant from Madhya Pradesh who died by suicide after her exam was cancelled due to a paper leak – Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s X feed had other priorities. Birthday wishes for CM Yogi…

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4,399 days of Modi: Ministers and media join the aarti

On June 10, India achieved what every civilisation secretly dreams of: day number 4,399.

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‘This is a Sangh village’: Inside Kerala’s new Hindutva strongholds

“This family adheres to Hindu traditions and beliefs.”

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Hafta letters: Questions for PM, 2029 elections, digital media’s reach

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