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All 29 air monitoring stations of Haryana’s pollution control board are defunct

All 29 air quality monitoring stations of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) are currently closed.

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हरियाणा: हवा की गुणवत्ता पर नजर रखने वाला सिस्टम ठप, प्रदेश के सभी मॉनिटरिंग स्टेशन बंद

हरियाणा राज्य प्रदूषण नियंत्रण बोर्ड (एचएसपीसीबी) के सभी 29 एयर क्वालिटी मॉनिटरिंग स्टेशन वर्तमान में पूरी तरह बंद हैं. हमने गुरुग्राम स्थित चार प्रमुख मॉनिटरिंग स्टेशनों का दौरा किया, जिनमें विकास सदन, टेरी ग्राम, सेक्टर 51 स्थित गुरुग्राम यूनिवर्सिटी और ग्वाल पहाड़ी स्थित राष्ट्रीय सौर ऊर्जा संस्थान (एनआईएससी) शामिल है.…

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Elephant Madhuri’s relocation: Animal welfare or Vantara love?

Madhuri, a 36-year-old elephant living at a Jain monastery in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, has found herself at the centre of a jumbo-sized controversy. The Bombay High Court recently ordered that she be relocated to Vantara – the plush private animal sanctuary in Gujarat run by Anant Ambani of Reliance Group.

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लाइफ सपोर्ट सिस्टम पर मागा-मीगा वाली दोस्ती और जज्बाती अंकल का क़हर

जज्बाती अंकल को सुबह-सुबह हैप्पी फ्रेंडशिप डे का एक वीडियो प्राप्त हुआ था. वह वीडियो दोस्ती की मौत का पैगाम था. अंकल उसे बार-बार देखे जा रहे थे और देख-देख कर निराशा और गुस्से से भर जा रहे थे. लेकिन हम जज्बाती अंकल की कहानी पर हम बाद में आएंगे.…

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The News Minute moves Karnataka HC against Dharmasthala gag orders

The News Minute has approached the Karnataka High Court challenging two separate gag orders that have been used to curb its reportage on the Dharmasthala mass burial case. The court is likely to hear the matter next week.

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हाथी महादेवी के बहाने पीआर का नया अवतार: यह पशु प्रेम है या वनतारा प्रेम?

कुछ दिनों पहले महाराष्ट्र की एक हथिनी माधुरी उर्फ महादेवी खूब चर्चा में रही. बॉम्बे हाईकोर्ट के आदेश के बाद इसे रिलायंस समूह के चश्मेचिराग़ अनंत अंबानी के निजी अभ्यारण्य वनतारा में पहुंचा दिया गया था. इसे लेकर एक तबका विरोध पर उतर आया. लोग प्रदर्शन करने लगे. हथिनी को…

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Let Me Explain on ground: A history of deaths and burials that haunt Dharmasthala

This episode was shot on July 31. There have been more developments in the case, which you can read here.

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Poora Sach: The story of the journalist who exposed Gurmeet Ram Rahim & paid with his life

The story was first published on Newslaundry in 2017 after Ram Rahim was convicted of rape. It has been republished this week as he has been cleared in a 2002 journalist murder case.

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Dharmasthala media gag: Case transferred after journo reveals judge’s links to Veerendra Heggade

The Principal City Civil and Sessions Judge of Bengaluru Urban district has transferred the Dharmasthala mass burials gag order case to another court. The move comes after a journalist and one of the respondents in the case pointed out that the judge who was hearing the case had earlier worked…

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Built a library, got an FIR: Welcome to India’s war on rural changemakers

In the village of Shukrawasa, tucked deep inside the jungle in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district, a quiet transformation was underway. A group of young professionals – a NEET topper, an MBA graduate, a filmmaker, a dancer, two students, and two journalists – had come together with one goal: to change…

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Ram Rahim out on yet another parole, 14th since conviction in 2017

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is serving a 20-year sentence for raping two of his followers, was released from Rohtak’s Sunaria jail on Tuesday after being granted a 40-day parole by the Haryana government, The Indian Express reported.

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‘Don’t say anything against our pitaji’: The lure of Ram Rahim

The story was first published on Newslaundry in 2017, a day before Ram Rahim was convicted of rape. We are republishing it today as Ram Rahim, who is serving a 20-year jail term, gets parole – again.

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Over 100 journalists demand ‘immediate, unsupervised press access to Gaza’

More than 100 journalists from various global media outlets have signed a petition demanding “immediate and unsupervised foreign press access to the Gaza Strip”.

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Can INDIA bloc keep pace with Rahul Gandhi’s politics of institutional distrust?

Newspaper reports suggest that the leaders of the national opposition bloc, INDIA, are set to attend a dinner hosted this week by Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition, Rahul Gandhi. This is being seen as the first instance of the major bloc partners closing ranks since the parliamentary polls…

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How machine learning can help discover drugs against hepatitis C

Every year, the hepatitis C virus affects more than 200 million across the world. The infection is a major cause of chronic liver disease, including chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and liver cancer.

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What’s missing from your child’s textbook? A deep dive into NCERT’s revisions in Modi years

Year after year, whole sections, topics, and names are altered if not altogether taken out of the school textbooks that belong to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). This has occurred so steadily over the last few years that news about history being erased from the school…

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Should India host the Olympics? An authoritative guide to why this is a bad idea

On July 1, inside a glass tower in Lausanne, India made its pitch to the world.

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Explained: Why India’s inequality is underestimated

India’s consumption gap appears to shrink, but income inequality is rising fast, as per analysis of India’s consumption data by the World Bank.

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South Central 38: Kerala nuns arrested in Chhattisgarh, TCS layoffs

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by Human Rights Law Network founder and senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, TNM Kerala bureau chief Haritha John, Sriram Rajagopal, and A Welkin.

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SSC: पेपरलीक, रिजल्ट में देरी और परीक्षा में धांधली के ख़िलाफ़ दिल्ली में छात्रों का हल्ला बोल

एसएससी (कर्मचारी चयन आयोग) परीक्षाओं में कथित अनियमितताओं और धांधली को लेकर देशभर से आए सैकड़ों प्रतिभागियों और शिक्षकों ने दिल्ली के जंतर मंतर पर 31 जुलाई गुरुवार को प्रदर्शन किया. छात्रों के साथ इस प्रदर्शन में शामिल होने के लिए जानी-मानी शिक्षिका और केडी कैंपस की फॉउंडर नीतू मैम…

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Unreliable testimonies, coercion, illegalities: All the questions raised in Malegaon blast judgement

Unreliable testimonies, statements extracted under coercion, illegal detentions and harassment.

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Hafta letters: Favourite panellists, farmer protests, questions on misinformation

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TV Newsance 308: Godi media dumps Trump, return of Media Maulana

This week on TV Newsance, our usual suspects did a full u-turn on Donald Trump.

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How the SIT proved Prajwal Revanna’s guilt: A breakdown of the case

The Special Court for MPs and MLAs in Bengaluru on Friday, August 1, held former MP Prajwal Revanna guilty of rape in the first of the four cases against him. The court also found him guilty of recording a video of the rape. Investigators and prosecutors in the case said…

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As SSC protest enters Day 2, aspirants point to ‘uncertainty’

By 3 pm on Friday, Ankita Bhadoria was still seated at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, joined by hundreds of other Staff Selection Commission aspirants. Despite her exam being scheduled for 5.30 pm the same day, Ankita had already decided not to appear.

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