Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Bharatiya Janata Party

A language of dissent: How artists are protesting citizenship law, campus violence, and BJP

Amid the citizenship law protests across the country, artists and illustrators have stepped forward with artwork that represents the angst and anger of the people.

Newslaundry

‘Modi for nation, Kejriwal for Delhi’: What Purvanchalis are thinking ahead of the election

As the Delhi Assembly election campaign gathers pace, all main players are out wooing one of the city’s most influential voter communities — the Purvanchalis.

Newslaundry

'KejriWall' to 'AAP Kahan Thhe': This Delhi election is also a battle of memes and songs

The dates for the Delhi election have been announced and with it an entertaining and quite imaginative mix of social media jousting. The Aam Aadmi Party has been punching it out and perhaps it has I-PAC to thank – the PR agency it has brought on board for the 2020…

Newslaundry

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Why Prasar Bharati’s tweet-rebuttal to Alt News is lame and lazy

If reality spoke for itself, Prasar Bharati would probably dispute it.

Newslaundry

How Saffron Supremacists are using religion to polarise India

Interrogating the mechanics of power in security, territory and population, French philosopher Michel Foucault coined the term “governmentality” to explain how governments try to produce citizens who obediently follow policies and practices through which subjects are governed. In the modern day, it translates to the state legitimising its power through…

Newslaundry

Priya Ramani’s friend tells court: I know all about her sexual harassment by MJ Akbar

A key witness on Friday supported the journalist Priya Ramani’s allegation that she was sexually harassed by her former editor and now BJP leader MJ Akbar in 1993. Niloufer Venkatraman told the Rouse Avenue court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal how Ramani, who is her friend, had called…

Newslaundry

#Results2019: Why Sharad Pawar is the big winner of the Maharashtra Assembly election

The alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena is poised to form the government in Maharashtra again, but the big winner of the 2019 Assembly election is Sharad Pawar. Popularly known as the “Chanakya of Maharashtra”, the Nationalist Congress Party chief proved his mettle yet again, at…

Newslaundry

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

#HaryanaResults: Why the Jats are disillusioned with the BJP

Results of the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana were declared today. The outcome in Haryana was far from what most exit polls had predicted. The BJP under Manohar Lal Khattar was expected to bag up to over 75 of the 90 seats on offer. Current trends indicate the party…

Newslaundry

#AssemblyPolls2019: Quick updates on numbers and TV news witticism

The results of the Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana will be announced today. More than 10 crore voters were on the electoral rolls to elect 378 MLAs in the two states — 90 in Haryana and 288 in Maharashtra. Earlier this week, our ground reporters in both states noted…

Newslaundry

‘Propaganda politics of BJP’: Why BHU students aren’t impressed by Amit Shah’s call to rewrite India’s history

Last week, Amit Shah was at Banaras Hindu University to inaugurate a seminar on Skandagupta Vikramaditya, the 5th century Gupta emperor. Addressing a gathering of academicians, the home minister said there was a need to rewrite India’s history from a new perspective. Why? Because history, as it’s taught today, doesn’t…

Newslaundry

Political game: Is Sourav Ganguly’s elevation as BCCI president part of the BJP’s design for Bengal?

In 1996, a lanky young left-handed batsman — Sourav Ganguly — announced himself to the cricketing world when he scored a scintillating debut century at Lord’s, the mecca of the sport. Even when he became the captain of the Indian cricket team, he took Indian cricket to new heights by…

Newslaundry

Why Haryana’s Jats are disillusioned with the BJP

October is a time of transition for the Jats in Haryana: the landed community prepares to harvest their crops. The day starts at dawn, with men walking out to the fields and women to hand pumps. Afternoons are reserved for hookah and siesta, evenings are for taking care of their…

Newslaundry

#JadavpurUniversity: What happened on September 19?

Black flags fluttered and slogans reverberated at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University on September 19. It was a protest against the presence of the “Hindutvadi people” on the campus. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, was holding a conference that day and had invited BJP…

Newslaundry

#UnnaoRapeCase: Doctors who examined survivor’s father will be prosecuted if trial throws up evidence, court says

The Delhi court trying the Unnao rape case this week disposed of an application for prosecuting doctors who examined the teenage survivor’s father after he was allegedly assaulted by Uttar Pradesh legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the main accused in the case who has since been suspended by his party, the…

Newslaundry

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Newslaundry

Want to increase GDP? Buy more Roasted Mashed Aubergine Masala

Last week, the Government released figures of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and it led to a lot of general furor about the state of our economy. While economists, politicians and commentators like to go bananas over this one term, it is quite difficult for a mango person to understand…

Newslaundry

A review of NL Hafta by Arvind, Vikas and Anand

Is Newslaundry speaking “truth to power”?

Newslaundry

The Original Lutyens’ Insider

Maurice Nagar chowk in Delhi University doesn’t exactly look like a place that could host a bustling public event. But, it did once — four decades ago. Old timers recall that a huge crowd had gathered here in 1977 when Arun Jaitley was welcomed in a public reception on his…

Newslaundry

#RavidasTemple: Politicians queue up with opinions, but residents call it a ‘matter of faith’

The demolition of the Saint Guru Ravidas Temple in New Delhi has created a stir over the last 10 days. A bandh was held in Punjab last week and exams were postponed in the state as protests boiled against the demolition of the temple in Tughlaqabad Extension by the Delhi…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Newslaundry

Meghalaya Police goes after Northeast Now to remove a news report and divulge sources

The Meghalaya Police has been caught on the wrong foot for trying to train its guns on the media. On August 13, it launched an attack on the media by serving a notice to Northeast Now, a Guwahati-based news portal, to remove a news report related to former state chief…

Newslaundry

#Phase3: Voting begins in 117 seats across 13 states and 2 UTs

One hundred and seventeen Lok Sabha seats across 13 states and two Union Territories are going to polls in the third phase of the 2019 General Elections. In the first two phases, polling was held to 91 and 95 seats on April 11 and April 18.

Newslaundry

Why Facebook’s recent purge is problematic to the core

Facebook just did a Thanos-esque move on April 1st, snapped its fingers, and deleted a bunch of pages and accounts that were either engaging in ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ or ‘civic spam’. These removals were specifically targeted to India and Pakistan.

Newslaundry

A review of NL Hafta by Arvind and Rahul

Here’s a quick feedback on Hafta 188: Hartosh Singh Bal comes across as rude and nasty

Newslaundry

Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan wants to take the fight to Delhi

The celebration in Saharanpur’s Chhutmalpur has just begun. The man of the moment is Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’, who is out on bail.

Newslaundry

Why must the BJP government repeat the worst behaviour of previous governments?

Read Part 1 on how the Modi government systematically made Parliament irrelevant. And then Part 2 on how the Modi government has started an era of Ordinance Raj and avoided proving its legitimacy in Parliament.

Newslaundry

Does the Modi government have the legitimacy to run the government anymore?

Read the first part of how the Modi Government systematically made Parliament irrelevant here.

1 … 837 838 839 840

People

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Instagram

41,314 stories

Bharatiya Janata Party

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.