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WHY IS THE SUPREME COURT HEARING THE LGBT RIGHTS PETITION AGAIN?
In the latest developments in the Section 377 issue, the Supreme Court is set to hear a curative petition filed by gay rights activists and Naz Foundation on February 2. The curative petition is...
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA
To, The President of India Subject: An urgent appeal to address discrimination and political interference in academic institutions in the wake of the death of RohithVemula. We, a group of students and...
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‘I WILL CONTINUE PUTTING UP MORE POSTS THAT PEOPLE FIND TROUBLESOME’: ORIJIT...
Orijit Sen is an independent artist and satirist. His graphic novel, River of Stories, published in 1995, is considered to be India’s first graphic novel. Sen is perhaps best known for his political...
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DOES POLITICAL CLOUT AND ELECTION FEVER INFLUENCE THE PADMA AWARDS?
Does political clout & election fever influence the Padma Awards? The data suggests that the number of Padma Shri awards increase by 30% in the election years compared to the average of the...
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IT’S NOT HARD TO GET A CIGARETTE, EVEN IF YOU ARE A MINOR
In an effort to stem the increasing number of adolescents picking up the habit of smoking or chewing tobacco, the Indian government has imposed harsher penalties on the sale of tobacco to minors....
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DESPITE BEING AN INSURGENCY-WRACKED STATE, MANIPUR IS INDIA’S SAFEST STATE...
Image: Sandro Lacarbona/Flickr.com * Mizoram has the same literacy rate as Brazil, 91%, according to World Bank data. * Arunachal Pradesh has the lowest literacy rate among the eight northeast states...
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NETAJI FILES: WHAT HAPPENED TO SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE?
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is said to have died in a plane crash on August 18, 1945, in Formosa, Taiwan. On August 23, 1945, Japanese radio broadcast that Netaji had died. Yet, his death remains a...
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WHY MANEKA GANDHI SHOULD WATCH DOORDARSHAN’S TV SERIES MAIN KUCH BHI KAR...
Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi recently proposed an unheard of strategy to tackle female foeticide. She mooted compulsory registration of pregnant women and compulsory sex...
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BLACK MAGIC MURDERS AND HUMAN SACRIFICE: WHERE’S THE PUBLIC AND MEDIA OUTRAGE?
On January 7, a teenage boy’s headless body was found near a cremation ground on the road to Bhagwanpur village in the Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh. Next to the headless corpse, were strewn...
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IN JAIPUR LIT FEST DEBATE: THEY VOTED – YES, PLEASE CENSOR US
“When you have nothing to say, you start a fire.” Richard Siken “Modi! Modi! Modi!” I looked around. Was I in a political rally? Or in Wembley or Madison Square Garden? What was this circus? It was,...
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HOW DID PM NARENDRA MODI’S ASSETS CHANGE FROM MAY 2014 TO MARCH 2015?
Here is a list of PM Narendra Modi’s assets as per the returns submitted by him. UDAY EROTHU is with Factly.in. This article has been re-published with the permission of Factly. Visit the website...
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FOULED BY TRASH FIRE, MUMBAI AIR STILL 95% BETTER THAN DELHI
Large enough to be seen from space, the fire from a burning garbage dump on Mumbai’s eastern edge shut schools, but the city’s air-pollution levels were almost twice as good–relatively speaking–as...
View ArticleCRICKET IS A SPORT TOO AND INZAMAM IS A SPORTSMAN
Hi Abhinandan, I am a regular consumer of Newslaundry and especially like the NL Hafta podcasts. Despite being a fan of the type of journalism Newslaundry does, I am writing this letter to express a...
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WHY THE RAIL BUDGET IS AN IRRELEVANT COLONIAL HANGOVER DRAMA FOR TV
(Turn the clock to a century ago. Already, the fourth largest rail network in the world by 1900, it is becoming one of the biggest and increasingly productive inland freight carrier. Connecting the...
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WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU A PRISON TERM, MAKE BOOKS: SUBRATA ROY SAHARA FIGURES...
The advertisement below appeared in The Indian Express on February 1, 2016. The task of covering this book launch was conferred upon me. I joined Newslaundry as an intern hoping to get a break as a...
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WHY IS IT ILLEGAL TO DETERMINE THE SEX OF YOUR FOETUS IN INDIA?
The Women and Child Development Minister’s comment that “the woman should be compulsorily told whether it is a boy or girl child whom she is going to give birth to” has evoked sharp reaction. There...
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WHY INDIA HAS THE WORLD’S MOST STILLBORN BABIES
Nagapura, Hunsur district (Karnataka): Her pale, yellow eyes stood out against her dusky skin, and the grief was visible on the face of the young woman from a tribe of traditional honey gatherers...
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DOES THE MINIMUM WAGE ACTUALLY REDUCE SALARIES?
The new notification issued by Rajasthan government to fix the minimum wages of a domestic worker at Rs 5,612 per month, for eight hours of work, contradicts the demand put forth by their own...
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NL HAFTA – EPISODE 53
This week on NL Hafta, Vikas Kumar, a photojournalist with Catch News, joins us. Vikas was attacked by the Delhi police when he was covering students protesting Rohith Vemula’s death outside the RSS...
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