newslaundry.comadded August 2026
Newslaundryby Charu Bahri5h ago
Roads and bridges are designed considering weather and flood events, but the frequency of these extreme events is rising, experts say. Bengaluru-based writer and educationist Chandrika R.
Newslaundryby NL Team2d ago
Police were detaining people hours before the Jantar Mantar protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar began. Newslaundry reporters on the ground were kept behind a police line.
Newslaundryby NL Team10d ago
Multi-layer barricades are in place on routes leading to Jantar Mantar. Several protesters have been detained, at least 12 metro stations shut and internet disruptions reported around Jantar Mantar...
Newslaundryby Sheikh Saaliq11d ago
The Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia said Machchhar was hospitalized in stable condition. An Indian airline captain who was at the controls of a FlyDubai flight when a copilot stabbed him in an...
Newslaundryby Tapasya12d ago
Varaha’s promise of community-led restoration stands tested in what was once Asia’s largest and finest tropical grassland.
Newslaundryby Tanvi Deshpande14d ago
India’s poultry farmers have watched their input costs rising in the last four years, as maize-based ethanol went from 0% in 2021-22 to around 37% in 2025-26.
Newslaundryby NL Team15d ago
The FIR, filed at Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police Station, relates to reports on the alleged exclusion of Muslim IAS and IPS officers from meetings during Amit Shah’s visits to Bengal.
Newslaundryby Astha Savyasachi16d ago
In 26 bankruptcy cases, Adani Group entities had a success rate of 61.5%, and creditors recovered about Rs 33,000 crore against admitted claims of Rs 1.31 lakh crore.
Newslaundryby Abhishek Kumar18d ago
Monika Singh, Bindu Gurjar and Lokbhadra Singh reported extensively on the deaths of tribal children in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat.
Newslaundryby Khushi Mehrotra19d ago
Police say one of the accused Nandan Yadav was injured in an encounter before his arrest. They’ve also identified 120 URLs carrying viral videos of the incident and have asked people not to...
Newslaundryby Shivam Bhardwaj21d ago
The district received 45% less rainfall compared to the normal, and ragi has been sown in 1,213 hectare against a target of 63,385 hectare.
Newslaundryby Amarabati Bhattacharyya22d ago
In July 2014, the Bezbaruah Committee submitted its recommendations to the Modi govt for addressing concerns of NE people. The most crucial component was never implemented.
Newslaundryby NL Team23d ago
The podcast where we discuss the week’s news. This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Rinchen Norbu are joined by Anupam Manur, Professor of Economics at the Takshashila...
Newslaundryby Fahad Zuberi24d ago
One reveals a state that can mobilise with astonishing efficiency when it wishes to destroy. The other, a state that cannot summon the mundane competence required to prevent a building from killing...
Newslaundryby Vivek Kaul24d ago
UPI is a public convenience not a revenue machine. Adding fees to a system that now functions almost like cash threatens to undo years of digital progress. S.N.A.F.U.
Newslaundryby Khushi Mehrotra24d ago
Past High Court warnings and a 20-year-old spending cap haven’t stopped DU’s election season from turning into a spectacle of printed posters, SUVs, and freebies.
Newslaundryby NL Team25d ago
A reading of Thursday’s tributes, jacket ads and advertorials in major newspapers marking the prime minister’s 76th birthday Narendra Modi turns 76 today, and the machinery around the occasion...
Newslaundryby Basant Kumar25d ago
In 2024, the Gujarat government spent over Rs 8 crore on just ads, as part of a campaign marking Modi’s decades in public office. It’s birthday season for the prime minister again.
Newslaundryby Ashwine Kumar Singh25d ago
Many have to start the registration process all over again. An analysis of the New Delhi constituency shows that voters added to the rolls in the two months before the February 2025 elections have...
Newslaundryby Suhasini Biswas10 Sept 2026
In a booth in Bela Estate, all but one voter was struck off the draft roll. A polling officer’s account suggests the exclusions were linked to a ground that electoral law does not recognise.
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