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 Newslaundry

Delhi HC reserves order as NewsClick founder insists ‘not a penny from China’

The Delhi High Court on Monday reserved its order in the petitions moved by NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and HR head Amit Chakraborty against their police remand in a UAPA case, LiveLaw reported.

Newslaundry

11 FIRs in 4 days: MP journalist targeted for report on BJP minister?

When a journalist in Madhya Pradesh filed a report earlier this month, he had no idea he would soon be named in 11 FIRs in the span of four days – and that he would be arrested.

Newslaundry

NewsClick and patterns of repression: The tiredness of being a journalist

For a particular kind of journalist, life is supposed to play out in sanctimonious technicolour, just like The Newsroom. Speaking truth to power, telling the stories that matter, separating fact from fiction, holding people accountable. Did you annoy a government or local bigwig in the process? No problem! That’s par…

Newslaundry

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

Reporters Without Orders Ep 291: NewsClick case, raids on journalists

This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Pratyush Deep.

Newslaundry

NewsClick founder challenges arrest, Delhi High Court seeks police response

Hearing a petition by NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and the outfit’s HR head Amit Chakraborty against their arrest in a UAPA case, the Delhi High Court sought the Delhi police’s response on Friday, according to a LiveLaw report. The court will hear the matter again on Monday.

Newslaundry

NewsClick FIR says ‘Gautam Bhatia’ is ‘key person’ who legally defended Vivo, Xiaomi

The Delhi police’s FIR against news portal NewsClick claims that “big Chinese telecom companies like Xiaomi, Vivo” purportedly “incorporated thousands of shell companies in India” – and that one “Gautam Bhatia” is a “key person” in the matter.

Newslaundry

‘No camps, amenities’: How Indian wrestlers were left to ‘fend for themselves’ ahead of Asian Games

“If Indian wrestlers win medals at Asian Games this year, the credit would be theirs entirely, and not the system,” Gian Singh, Wrestling Federation of India’s ad-hoc committee official, told Newslaundry. “They have been left to fend for themselves,” he said, pointing to the suspension of the Sports Authority of…

Newslaundry

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

‘Only the latest action against journalists in India’: What global press said on NewsClick raids

In the wake of this week’s unprecedented police action against journalists linked to NewsClick, several international news organisations have turned their attention to the searches, seizures and arrests.

Newslaundry

‘Worst time for journalism in India’: Outrage at Press Club protest over NewsClick searches

“Free the press”; “stop harassing Indian media”; “say no to persecution of the media”. These were jottings on several posters and banners as the clock ticked past 4 pm, and journalists, academics, writers and activists began to fill the courtyard at the Press Club of India in Lutyens’ Delhi.

Newslaundry

NewsClick arrests: Journalists asked about farm protests, views on Oppn

NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and the news outfit’s HR head Amit Chakravarty were arrested after hours of questioning by the Delhi Police special cell on Tuesday.

Newslaundry

‘There were 90 pellets in his shoulder’: In Manipur, central forces accused of targeting school students

“They could have used water cannons or lathi-charged the students. But why did they have to use pellet guns to attack student protesters? Have they used pellet guns on school students protesting in Delhi, Mumbai or other parts of mainland India? Then why Manipur?”

Newslaundry

‘Not profitable’: Brut Hindi to ‘shut down’, lays off 13 of 15 employees

Brut Hindi employees had convened for their usual editorial meeting, geared with story ideas, on Friday, when Brut vice president and editor-in-chief Mehak Kasbekar announced its management’s decision to shut the channel’s Hindi vertical. She said the unit, which was started two years ago, did not turn a profit.

Newslaundry

Kuki groups demand union territory similar to Puducherry, file ‘sent to Amit Shah’

During their ongoing negotiations with the union home ministry, Kuki-Zo militant groups demanded a union territory similar to the administrative setup of Puducherry.

Newslaundry

Kerala journalist shares own article on Facebook, booked by police

A month after he wrote a news story about real estate agents “illegally acquiring” 12 acres of tribal land in Kerala, a journalist with media house Madhyamam was booked by the police in Palakkad.

Newslaundry

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Newslaundry

‘Will boycott such leaders’: Journalists demand apology from Maha BJP chief for ‘tea’ comments

After the Maharashtra BJP chief urged party workers to “take journalists out for tea” to make sure they only filed “positive” stories, journalists across the state have demanded that he apologise.

Newslaundry

Delhi: Transgender OPD at RML Hospital step towards inclusivity, but with caveats

“I am happy, at least something has been done,” said Muskan, one of the transgender persons visiting Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on the inaugural day of its OPD facility for the transgender community.

Newslaundry

Reporters Without Orders Ep 289: Dating coaches in India, ‘political analysts’ on TV news

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and The Morning Context’s Ayush Tiwari.

Newslaundry

Delhi University polls: Decoding first-time voters’ decisions

On the polling day of Delhi University’s student body elections on Friday, thousands of students casted their votes at both the collegiate and central student union levels. Several of these students were first-time voters.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Newslaundry

Hindu Post, Karma News and others summoned in defamation plea filed by The News Minute

A Bengaluru court has summoned the officials of digital outfits Karma News, Indus Scrolls and Hindu Post, and also Malayala Manorama reporter Binnu Vijayan Vijaykumari over a plea accusing them of running a “malicious campaign” against The News Minute and its chief editor Dhanya Rajendran.

Newslaundry

Aspiring editor, hopeful politician, farmer’s son: Meet DUSU’s presidential candidates

The Delhi University Student Union election is all set to happen on Friday, September 22. Thousands of students will cast their votes to decide the new union at the collegiate level and the central DUSU panel.

Newslaundry

No ‘right-wing’, unfulfilled promises: Inside the Press Club of India’s ‘one-sided’ election

The sloganeering is absent, and candidates hop from one table to another to discreetly hand out pamphlets. In stark contrast to the last two years, the campaign for the annual polls at Delhi’s Press Club of India appears to be lacklustre this year, despite a list of unfulfilled promises.

Newslaundry

Weeks after alums of his school flagged India Today ‘complicity’, Purie points to ‘diverse perspectives’

Three weeks after a letter by former students of the Vasant Valley School to clamp down on the “hatred” aired on his channels, the institute’s owner and India Today Group chairman Aroon Purie has said that he has “read and duly taken note of” these concerns.

Newslaundry

How INDIA selected 14 anchors to boycott: Review of anchors’ social media, hate on debates

In the run-up to the opposition INDIA alliance’s blacklisting of 14 TV news anchors last week, almost all the members of the 26-party bloc’s coordination committee narrowed down on names of “partisan” anchors ahead of a joint discussion.

Newslaundry

After INDIA bloc ban, News18 dubs Narsimhan ‘editorial Sherpa’—new designation or high praise?

It could, at best, have been a time for introspection.

Newslaundry

Hafta letters: Talking points, empirical evidence and why explore space

I’m a big Hafta fan and listen to it every week without fail.

1 … 72 73 74 75

People

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

Organisations

Bharatiya Janata Party

the Enforcement Directorate

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.