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Madras High Court tells Vikatan to temporarily remove Modi cartoon, directs Centre to unblock website

The Madras High Court today passed an interim order directing the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to lift its ban on Vikatan’s website. However, the court said this is on the condition that Vikatan temporarily removes its cartoon of Narendra Modi that had precipitated the ban.

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महाराष्ट्र सरकार की मीडिया पर नजर, मॉनिटरिंग सेल के लिए 10 करोड़ का बजट

महाराष्ट्र सरकार ने बीते बुधवार को एक सरकारी प्रस्ताव (रेजोल्यूशन) सार्वजनिक किया. इसके मुताबिक, सरकार ने एक मीडिया मॉनिटरिंग केंद्र स्थापित करने का निर्णय लिया है. जिसकी अनुमानित लागत 10 करोड़ रूपये रखी गई है. यह सेंटर राज्य सरकार से संबंधित समाचारों की कवरेज की निगरानी करेगा.

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March 6, 2025: Can a fuel ban clean up the city’s air?

In this episode, Newslaundry visits the INA Road to look at steps taken by the Delhi government to tackle vehicular pollution. The government recently announced a petrol ban for old private vehicles. But what has it done for public transportation?

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Maharashtra allocates Rs 10 cr to monitor media ‘under one roof’

The Maharashtra government has decided to set up a media monitoring centre at an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore to monitor reportage and act on negative or misleading news about the state government, The Indian Express reported.

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Months after HC order, Army denies permission for Ayodhya hotel

The Indian Army has denied permission for the construction of a hotel in Ayodhya’s Ghatampur village, saying the land was reserved as a buffer zone in a firing range.

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Delhi’s airpocalypse needs more than band-aid solutions

As I sat down to write this piece from my home nestled in the hills of the Western Ghats in Kerala, I had to try hard to summon a memory of the sharp sting of Delhi’s air on a bad air day.

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गिद्ध और सुअरों की खोजबीन के बीच टीआरपी का मसाला बने IIT वाले बाबा

देश ने तय कर लिया है कि मोदीजी के नेतृत्व में वो विश्वगुरू भी बना रहेगा और 80 करोड़ लोगों को मुफ्त राशन बांटता रहेगा. इसका सबूत बीते दिनों दो अलग-अलग अवसरों पर मिला. पहला अवसर था मध्य प्रदेश की महाप्रतापी सरकार द्वारा आयोजित ग्लोबल इन्वेस्टर समिट के दौरान बंट…

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In Sambhal, cops hunt for man already in jail over ‘photo that wasn’t his’

Over three months after the communal violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal, the police have arrested 89 people so far. Yet they’re still searching for 160 others, 74 of whom haven’t even been identified yet, according to posters the police have put up in Sambhal city.

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Delhi’s drainage crisis deepens as NGT deadline looms

As the latest desilting deadline approaches in Delhi, two drains – Sonia Vihar and Shastri Park – exemplify the paralysis within the capital’s drainage management system.

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Ganga purity study was shady from the start. But media amplified it unquestioned

On February 20, the Uttar Pradesh government issued a statement which quoted a Padma Shri awardee scientist to “debunk doubts” about the purity of Ganga water amid the Mahakumbh. This came days after the Central Pollution Control Board had pointed out that faecal coliform levels in the river were 13…

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साफ हवा को लेकर भारत की जरूरत और उसकी करनी में अंतर

राष्ट्रीय स्वच्छ वायु कार्यक्रम के ज़रिए वायु प्रदूषण को कम करने में देश की प्रगति के दावों के बावजूद भारत लक्ष्य से बहुत पीछे है, और पिछले साल दुनिया के 10 सबसे ज्यादा प्रदूषित देशों में से एक था. लेकिन यह समस्या पिछले कुछ वर्षों में सरकारी समितियों, गैर-सरकारी संगठनों…

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High-fives with lions, walks with zebras. Is it Tarzan? No, it’s PM Modi in Vantara

He walks with zebras, watches lions get MRIs, comes face to face with chimpanzees. Is there anything this man, who as a teenager did battle with a crocodile, cannot do?

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Reporters Without Borders campaigns for 2025 include ‘mass harassment of journalists in India’

The “mass harassment of journalists in India” is one of three “thematic campaigns” that Reporters Without Borders will focus on in 2025.

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Available tech, affordability, drawbacks: All you need to know about India’s accessibility gap

I remember my childhood, a time when the radio was our only window to the world. For a visually impaired person like me, the news bulletins, cricket commentaries and entertainment programmes broadcast over the airwaves weren’t just pastimes – they were our sole source of information.

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महेश लांगा केस: सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने गुजरात सरकार को जारी किया नोटिस

द हिंदू के पत्रकार महेश लांगा ने उनके खिलाफ चल रही कानूनी कार्यवाही पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट का दरवाज़ा खटखटाया था, जिस पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने गुजरात हाई कोर्ट को नोटिस जारी किया है. सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने गुजरात सरकार से मामले में जवाब मांगा है, साथ ही आगामी सुनवाई के लिए…

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Tweet on Yati Narsinghanad: HC reserves judgement in Zubair’s plea to quash FIR

The Allahabad High Court today reserved its judgement on a plea moved by Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair to quash an FIR against him. While reserving its verdict, the bench of Justices Siddhartha Varma and Yogendra Kumar Srivastava also extended Zubair’s interim protection from arrest.

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March 3, 2025: How toxic air affects the Red Fort and tourists

Red Fort is one of the busiest sites of historical significance in the national capital. But toxic air impacts both tourists as well as the Mughal era monument. In 2018, the Archaeological Survey of India had removed a two-metre-thick layer that had been formed over a century due to dust…

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Trump-Zelenskyy showdown: In the age of e-lafda, politics and everything else is just performance

Something happened in the White House that felt strangely familiar to Goregaon West, Mumbai. The difference, of course, is that the White House is the office of the most powerful president in the world, while Goregaon West is home to the Bigg Boss set. But in our times, that distinction…

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How weather patterns and faraway mountains make Delhi the world’s most polluted megacity

Delhi is perhaps the most polluted of the world’s megacities. Every winter, the city’s 30 million residents breathe air so toxic that visibility drops to mere metres. If you stand on top of one of Delhi’s monuments you can barely make out buildings across the street as the thick, acrid…

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Let Me Explain: Tamil Nadu's century-long struggle against Hindi 'imposition'

Tamil Nadu is once again at loggerheads with the BJP-led union government over the perceived imposition of Hindi in southern states. The DMK-led Tamil Nadu government has accused the Modi government of withholding over Rs 2,000 crores meant for the state after it rejected the three-language formula proposed in the…

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High pendency in fast-track special courts set up for child sexual abuse cases

In 2022, as many as 239,188 cases out of 268,038 cases filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO, 2012), were awaiting trial, a pendency rate of 89.2 percent, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

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South Central Ep 16: Delimitation’s impact on South India, Karnataka now ‘Naxal-free’

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna and Leena Reghunath are joined by activist and journalist Shivasundar and retired bureaucrat PV Ramesh to discuss India’s looming delimitation exercise and Naxalism’s journey in Karnataka.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 359: Truth behind locals ‘fleeing’ Sambhal, cash for Delhi stampede victims

This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.

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एनएल चर्चा 360 : परिसीमन, भाषा और शिक्षा नीति पर दक्षिणी राज्यों की चिंता और दिल्ली विधानसभा में कैग रिपोर्ट प्रस्तुत

इस हफ्ते परिसीमन को लेकर तमिलनाडु और केंद्र सरकार के बीच हुई तनातनी और दिल्ली विधानसभा में आबकारी नीति मामले पर कैग रिपोर्ट प्रस्तुत करने को लेकर विस्तृत बातचीत हुई.

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Hafta 526: Elon Musk’s DOGE, Tamil Nadu-Centre clash over three-language formula

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Nitin Pai, director of Takshashila Institution, and The News Minute’s Shabbir Ahmed.

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