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October 6, 2025: Can the BJP change Delhi’s bad air days?

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the Hauz Khas metro station, the largest metro facility in the national capital. The nearest air quality monitoring station pegged the AQI at 148 or in the moderate category.

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11 years later, Swachh Bharat progress mired in weak verification

Eleven years after India launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the Union government’s flagship rural sanitation programme, it has missed its target of ‘Sampoorn Swachhata’ by 2024-25, exposing gaps in waste management, untreated sewage, and behavioural change that challenge the sustainability of India’s sanitation progress.

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Let Me Explain: Karur stampede and why India keeps failing its people

When thousands gather for a glimpse of a star, you expect joy. Celebration. Memories.

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Hafta x South Central feat. Josy Joseph: A crossover episode on the future of media

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Manisha Pande, and The News Minute’s Dhanya Rajendran and Sudipto Mondal áre joined by senior journalist Josy Joseph for a special Hafta and South Central crossover episode on the future of media.

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TV Newsance Rewind: Manisha tracks down woman in Modi’s PM Awas Yojana ad

This week on TV Newsance, let’s revisit the time when Manisha went beyond the studio, from exposing Godi Media to uncovering the truth behind the Modi government’s claim of providing housing to 24 lakh people.

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A unique October 2: The RSS at 100

What does it mean when the Government of India, on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, releases a coin and a stamp to imprint the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh into history?

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JD(U) spokesperson had two EPIC numbers in same Bihar constituency

In early September 2025, the Bharatiya Janata Party accused Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera and his wife, Telangana Congress vice president Kota Neelima, of electoral violations.

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‘Mehendi jihad’, ‘garba jihad’: News TV’s endless jihad playbook faces another rebuke

Every festive season, primetime TV news finds a new communal bogey to peddle – from “garba jihad” to “love jihad”. This year was no different.

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After the youthquake: Nepal’s fragile path to democratic renewal

The unexpected violent movement of Gen-Z that lasted barely 48 hours brought tremendous upheaval in Nepal.

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The Marwadi Go Back movement and Hindutva politics in Telangana

Amid futile attempts by Sangh Parivar leaders to infuse anti-Muslim ideologies in Telangana, another political contestation began in August in the name of ‘Marwadi Go Back’.

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Garba nights and the death of joy

Navratris have always been something bigger than devotion. Sure, the rituals are there – offerings, prayers, songs honouring the goddess Durga. But it’s also the season when people don their glamour avatars, polish their dance skills, burn through half their wardrobe, and hope someone notices.

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Anxiety and survival: Breaking down India’s stampedes

With three months still to go for the new year, 2025 already seems like an unfortunate year for stampede deaths in India.

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Complaints filed, posters up, jobs gone: Cops turn blind eye to Indore Muslim boycott

In Indore, the police’s response to the forced removal of Muslim workers has once again raised questions of consistency and bias.

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India sees 27% jump in fake news cases in 2023; sedition cases drop by 50%: NCRB data

At 1,087 cases, India recorded a 26.7 percent rise in reported incidents of false/fake news and rumours as compared to the 858 cases in 2022, according to the Crime in India 2023 report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

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सोनम वांगचुक, कॉन्सपिरेसी थियरी, ज़हरीला संगीत रागी और डीवाई चंद्रचूड़

सोनम वांगचुक जैसे सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता को रासुका यानी एनएसए के तहत गिरफ्तार करके जेल में डाल दिया गया है क्योंकि लद्दाख को पूर्ण राज्य और संविधान की छठी अनुसूची में रखने को लेकर चल रहा आंदोलन हिंसक हो गया. इसमें चार लोगों की मौत हो गई.

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‘If service valuable, why pay so low?’: 5,000 MCD workers protest for permanent jobs, equal pay, leaves

For the last two days, more than 5,000 Delhi municipal workers have been protesting outside MCD’s Civic Centre for equal pay, medical and earned leaves, and permanent employment.

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Tata Harrier EV review: Could it be better than itself?

In all my years of reviews, I’ve never quite asked this question. But back then, intelligence didn’t need to be artificial – unless you ran into a naturally stupid individual pretending otherwise. So here we are, about to dive into the Tata Harrier EV and wonder: is this really better…

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Encroachment menace in Bengaluru locality leaves pavements unusable for pedestrians

In the occasional instance, one comes across a pavement in Bengaluru, the brief sense of astonishment and joy is quickly dampened by the potted plants, dumped garbage, and construction material that occupy it.

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‘Witch-hunt against Wangchuk’: Ladakh leaders demand justice at Delhi presser

At a press conference in Delhi on Monday, leaders from Ladakh and several other hill regions demanded accountability for recent police firing in Leh, the release of detained activist Sonam Wangchuk, and constitutional safeguards for the Himalayan region.

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September 29, 2025: Another season of blame game in Delhi soon?

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited a bus stop at Aurobindo Ashram Marg. The nearest air quality monitoring station pegged the AQI at 69 or as satisfactory.

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Lucknow’s double life: UP’s cleanest city rank, but filthy neighbourhoods

In the 2024–25 Swachh Survekshan (cleanliness survey), Lucknow put up an impressive performance. With 12,001 out of 12,500 points – a 96 percent score – the city ranked third in the country. It also bagged the prestigious 7-Star Garbage-Free Certificate (GFC) and the Water Plus ODF certification, making it the…

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PM compares cricket match to Op Sindoor, social media wonders if it’s a parody account

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s congratulatory message for Team India’s Asia Cup triumph on Sunday night was meant to be patriotic, but it quickly turned into meme material.

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‘Threatened after reports’, missing Uttarkashi journalist found dead

Ten days after he went missing, the body of journalist Rajeev Pratap Singh was recovered from a barrage in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district on Sunday.

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Why are dowry-related crimes underreported

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Let Me Explain: From heavy tariffs to H1B visas, how India misread Trump

In 2023, PM Modi called Donald Trump his special friend. Two years on, that ‘friendship’ is being tested, and it may be costing Indians jobs, visas, and their livelihoods.

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