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Hafta letters: Bengal poll issues, Raghu Rai tribute, football

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‘The only dangerous thing about him is his ideas’: Inside the Manesar workers’ arrests

Industrial unrest over minimum wages swept across parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) in April, beginning in Manesar before spreading days later to Noida. In both industrial belts, protests over stagnant pay and increased cooking gas costs escalated into violence, followed swiftly by government-announced wage hikes.

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Why the Charles speech in America had the western media buzzing

When King Charles III rose to address the United States Congress, expectations were modest. State visits by British monarchs are, by design, ceremonial, shaped by protocol, symbolism and restraint. Yet the speech delivered on that occasion travelled beyond ceremony.

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Chinki Sinha quits as Outlook editor

Chinki Sinha, the first woman to head Outlook’s editorial team in 26 years, has quit as the outlet’s editor, Newslaundry has learnt.

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Only 1,468 voters restored for Bengal’s final phase rolls. Poll duty staff among the excluded

Majibar Rahman is helping others vote. “But as a first polling officer myself, I am unable to cast my vote,” says Rahman, a history teacher from Krishnanagar who is on poll duty in the Ranaghat assembly for West Bengal’s second phase of assembly elections on Wednesday.

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‘Bend it like Modi!’ Forget Messi and Ronaldo. We have a ‘Made in India’ GOAT

The equator is not the only thing dividing the world into two halves.

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Cops arrest Lucknow journalist for Noida violence ‘conspiracy’, activists point to ‘witch-hunt’

A group of lawyers has filed a formal complaint with Uttar Pradesh police authorities alleging torture, fabricated recoveries and procedural violations against five accused in the Noida violence conspiracy case, including Lucknow-based journalist Satyam Verma, according to The Hindustan Gazette.

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LaLiT Hotel ducked crores in dues. Justice Varma granted it relief but HC tore up his order

A Delhi High Court bench has done what a Delhi civic agency thought was long overdue: turned down an order that could have drained crores in public money while letting a luxury hotel chain sit on prime Lutyens’ Delhi land for a fraction of what it’s worth.

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Raghu Rai: The eye that held India’s ordinary and extraordinary

There are moments that can wither away with fleeting attention, or even when captured, get frozen in clichéd frames. Only in a few hands do they retain the dignity of detail in their ordinariness.

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Agreeing to disagree: India is using calibrated ambiguity to keep BRICS together

A recent meeting of foreign ministers from the BRICS nations concluded without a joint position on the intensifying West Asian conflict. The lack of consensus meant that the collective's statement had to be worded differently. India, the current chair, summarised proceedings in a voice that sought to balance the concerns.

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Hafta letters: Guwahati flood, trans law discussion, delimitation coverage

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‘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.”

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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 killed in a gunfight on Friday in Ukhrul district, Manipur. In addition, four Naga ‘volunteers’ were also injured.

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From lanterns to the grid: How India is finding ways to see and work after dusk

In the 1950s, Hindi writer Phanishwar Nath Renu wrote a short story called Panchlight – named for the petromax lamp, a corruption of “Petromax light” that had worked its way into the rural vernacular. The story describes a village’s encounter with this object: a source of light but also a…

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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, the already precarious security landscape in Manipur has reached a dangerous new inflection point as the state’s Naga community gets increasingly drawn into the fray.

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‘My faith teaches me to help others’: Noida woman harassed for standing up for Muslim couple

On the night of April 16, a man drinking beer in public allegedly harassed a Muslim couple, asking the burqa-clad woman for her ID and what they were doing in the White Orchid market in Noida’s Gaur City 2.

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India’s media problem in 2 headlines: ‘Anti-women’ opposition, ‘mastermind’ Nida Khan

In the last two weeks, we have seen how easily Indian mainstream media echoes the “manufactured narrative” that the Modi government and its surrogates seek to amplify.

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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 city's ecological balance. To safeguard this landscape, the Delhi Development Authority’s (DDA) Master Plan 2041 has introduced a new roadmap focused on its conservation and effective…

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Vijay in politics: Fan frenzy or real votes for TVK?

Are crowds enough to win elections?

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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, there were at least 200 people outside. “Most of them were youngsters, and more kept arriving,” he said. “Many had a tilak on their foreheads.”

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Fish, funds, and feminism: What Jadavpur University thinks of the Bengal elections

As West Bengal nears the assembly elections, Newslaundry visited Jadavpur University – a historic epicentre of student activism – to look beyond Delhi-centric narratives and capture the raw concerns of young, educated people. While the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists dominates national headlines, the students here offer a…

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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 West Bengal, is completely restricted. CAPF and West Bengal Police guard the gates, and no one is allowed in unless the judges have formally summoned them.

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Indian firms dumped Rs 1,000 crore of unapproved opioid pills into West Africa’s drug crisis

This article is the result of a collaboration with Netherlands-based open-source media outlet Bellingcat. Read Bellingcat’s editorially independent coverage here.

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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 come in peace.” The note was framed with marigold flowers and roses.

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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 food, water, and cash during demonetisation in 2016. He worked through the Covid-19 lockdown inside sealed buildings in Odisha “like a thief in a prison” waiting to…

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