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REGISTRATION OF 10,000 NGOS CANCELLED, FOREIGN AID SET TO DROP
Foreign funding for Indian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) doubled in 2014-15 over the previous year, but with 10,000 NGO registrations cancelled in 2015, foreign contributions are likely to...
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WHY I CAN NO LONGER LAUGH AT ARNAB GOSWAMI
When does a joke stop being funny? Arnab Goswami has always been something of a joke. For Anglophone India, its highest-rated newsman has always been entertainment – less a real person, more a parcel...
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CLINTON VS. TRUMP: WHOSE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH HIT THE RIGHT NOTE?
TeddyandMia / Shutterstock.com Tonight at the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton formally accepted the nomination of the Democratic party. Last week, Republican nominee Donald Trump did...
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ARNAB VS BARKHA: ‘THE LIBERAL GOLD DUST HAS WORN OFF’
A fuming Barkha Dutt has finally broken the omertà that’s long existed in the mainstream Indian media: of staying clear from publicly censuring or critiquing other colleagues, even though one may...
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LIVING INSIDE A 100-YEAR-OLD RING OF FIRE
“Dhyan se! Pairo tale zameen khisak sakti hai” (Careful! The ground beneath your feet might give way),” warned my driver. I was on my way from Dhanbad to Bokaro when noxious fumes forced me out of my...
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RELIGION INSPIRES ‘VERY HIGH’ SOCIAL HOSTILITY IN INDIA
Intolerance has been the word on everyone’s lips since 2014, when the Right-inclined Bharatiya Janata Party led by Narendra Modi won the Indian general elections. Anxieties surged on both sides of the...
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THE RISE AND FALL OF ‘CHENNAI GUY’, COURTESY NEWS MEDIA
Everyone loves a Good Samaritan. Especially the news media because it allows for some positivity to break the clutter of grim reports making it to our newspapers and television sets day in and day...
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TRAFFICKING OF ASSAM TRIBALS: WHOSE EXCLUSIVE IS IT ANYWAY?
Cobrapost is calling it ‘Operation Shuddhikaran’. Outlook, meanwhile, has dubbed it ‘Operation Baby Lift’, an exclusive. While the stories are not identical, the premise is. Both charge Rashtriya...
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A REVIEW OF #NLHAFTA FROM SAUGAT MAJUMDAR AND RAJIV RAO
Hello Newslaundry Team, I am starting with the disclosure that I have been a subscriber of NL for more than a year however, I have been following NL since I watched Madhu’s interview (Can you take it)...
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HAFTA 78: IS IT BARKHA VS ARNAB OR THE MEDIA VS ARNAB?
After the apex court allowed a rape survivor to terminate her pregnancy post the mandated 20 weeks, we asked our panel: Shouldn’t abortion be a woman’s prerogative? Is it Barkha vs Arnab or the media...
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HAFTA 78 EXTRA: IS AMERICA THE GREATEST COUNTRY?
In this special segment, Kishalay Bhattacharjee, journalist, author & consulting editor with Newslaundry, joins Madhu Trehan, Anand Ranganathan, Deepanjana Pal & Abhinandan Sekhri to discuss...
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CHILD LABOUR, LOKPAL BILL AND FAIRNESS CREAMS
Last week in Parliament child labour was partially legalised (not kidding), a wild amendment to the Lokpal and Lokyuktas Bill appeared, a notice on exploitation of women by fairness cream companies...
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NL INTERVIEWS: BEZWADA WILSON TALKS ON THE PERILS OF DEALING WITH ‘SHIT’
Born to a Dalit family in Karnataka’s Kolar gold fields, Bezwada Wilson has led a long fight against the practice of manual scavenging in India and this week, he received a very special recognition...
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MONITORING TV CHANNELS IS A FAILURE
After the recent terror attacks by ISIS in Bangladesh, the controversial preacher Zakir Naik and hisPeace TV have come under immense scrutiny and there is a renewed debate on monitoring the content on...
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#TRUMPSACRIFICES: HOW GHAZALA AND KHIZR KHAN OWNED THE WORD
An American election usually throws up more or less the same clutch of catchphrases. Economy. Taxes. Healthcare. War. National security. Immigration. Jobs. Social Security. Outsourcing. Military....
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#NLPRIMETIME: EPISODE 24
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INDIAN WORKER-EXPLOITATION RAMPANT IN GULF NATIONS
As thousands of laid-off Indian workers in Saudi Arabia were said to be without food, 87% of complaints received from Indian workers at Indian missions across nine countries were from six Gulf...
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FLOOD REPORT: FORGET GURGAON AND ASSAM, SEE THE NATIONAL CALAMITY
In Assam, many are saying these could be one of the worst floods in recent memory. Millions — yes, millions — of people have been displaced and millions of hectares of cropland have gone under water....
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WHEN ARUNDHATI ROY MET ED SNOWDEN AND JULIAN ASSANGE
Photograph by Ole von Uexküll What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been...
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HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE PAKISTAN?
Let me at the onset settle the core issue that worries every Indian. Nations with stable democratic governments, professional Armed Forces and nuclear weapons do not part with their territory. The...
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