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Days after taking charge as the BJP’s national social media convenor, Deepak Mhaske told a gathering of reporters, “My focus will be to tackle the fake narrative spread by the Opposition, which uses AI in reels to twist facts and mislead people. We have been creating positive content and taking it to people. I will try to add momentum to this.” The 58-year-old chemistry professor-turned-politician…
एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में भारतीय जनता पार्टी की नई टीम के गठन, स्मृति ईरानी की वापसी और अमित मालवीय के बाहर होने पर विस्तार से बात हुई. इसके साथ सरकार द्वारा जारी 'टेक डाउन' नोटिसों की बढ़ती संख्या पर भी गहन चर्चा की गई. इसके अलावा दिल्ली के पूर्व मंत्री सत्येंद्र जैन और पूर्व डीजेबी सीईओ की एसटीपी परियोजना टेंडर मामले में गिरफ्तारी, जम्मू-कश्मीर पर अमेरिकी राजदूत का बयान, पश्चिम बंगाल में सीजेपी…
Negative gradient Hello everyone, I am writing this email as a concerned subscriber after having read about the recent allegations against NL. I realise there is always a possibility of a coordinated attack against independent media organisations, but given the trust placed in you, I hope there will be a transparent discussion forthcoming at some point, and it doesn’t end up being a ‘he said, she…
This week on TV Newsance Gen Z Special, the makers of the Urban Naxal gang, Tukde-Tukde gang, Khan Market gang and Azadi gang have manufactured a shiny new villain: the “Dimaagi Naxal”. Godi anchors from Arnab to Sudhir decode who a “Dimaagi Naxal” is. From writers, professors, economists and artists to journalists, it was a curated hit list of people hailing from intellectual professions –…
Five men in five Uttarakhand assembly constituencies filed 6,500 objections to strike voters off the rolls in the ongoing special intensive revision. Every name they targeted is Muslim. Each of the five is linked to the BJP. They are the five highest-volume objectors across the state’s 70 constituencies, a Newslaundry analysis found, with individual tallies of applications running from 230 to…
Independent journalist Abhishek Upadhyay, who runs the YouTube channel Top Secret and has repeatedly highlighted the Ram Mandir donation scam, has been booked in a case registered at the Indirapuram police station in Ghaziabad. In a series of posts on X, he alleged he is being targeted for his reporting, and that the police refused to give him a full copy of the FIR against him. Upadhyay said…
The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) has discontinued its Postgraduate Diploma course in Hindi Journalism at its Amravati centre for the current academic year. This IIMC centre was established four years ago at the initiative of former President Pratibha Patil to provide professional journalism education to the youth of Vidarbha. According to a Times of India report , the institute’s…
Parliament is increasingly passing Bills after relatively short periods of discussion. Data compiled from sessions between 2024 and 2026 across both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha show that while a few politically significant Bills did receive several hours of debate in both Houses, many have been cleared after less than an hour of discussion. Of the 46 Bills analysed from the first session of…
In five financial years since Himanta Biswa Sarma became chief minister of Assam, his government spent Rs 460.82 crore on media and advertising. In the five years before he took office on May 10, 2021, the state spent Rs 145.01 crore – less than a third as much. Among the recipients of that expanded budget is Pride East Entertainment Private Limited, the state’s largest media group, whose managing…
Dimaagi Naxal! Andolan Jeevi! Tuke Tukde Gang! Thanks to our dear Prime Minister Modi and many of his ardent supporters, we have enriched our vocabulary over the years. Modi himself gave us ‘Dimaagi Naxal’ and ‘Andolan Jeevi’. The filmmaker who believes facts are not facts – Vivek Agnihotri gave us ‘Urban Naxals’. Sudhir Chowdhury took a break from his astounding journalism to give us ‘Tukde Tukde…
Early this year, we were in Manchester to attend the British Sociological Association’s 75th annual conference. Sitting among hundreds of academics, we were deeply intrigued by the title of Professor Jason Arday, the former Cambridge scholar’s plenary talk – ‘Wanted dead or alive: The playbook’. Arday, with great enthusiasm but also visible pain, laid it out for all of us. In a chillingly…
After a two-year wait, the Government of India has finally released the audit report for the PM CARES Fund. The Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) currently holds a corpus of Rs 8,452.06 crore. Of this amount, Rs 7,846.6 crore is held in fixed deposits, while Rs 605.4 crore is in savings accounts. The fund was established to tackle emergency…
भारत सरकार ने दो साल के इंतजार के बाद आखिरकार पीएम केयर्स फंड की ऑडिट रिपोर्ट जारी कर दी है. प्रधानमंत्री आपात स्थिति नागरिक सहायता एवं राहत निधि, जिसे पीएम केयर्स फंड के नाम से जाना जाता है, उस फंड में फिलहाल 8452.06 करोड़ रुपये जमा हैं. इसमें से 7846.6 करोड़ फिक्सड डिपोजिट के तौर पर और 605.4 करोड़ रुपये सेविंग खाते में मौजूद हैं. यह फंड कोविड आपदा के समय महामारी से उत्पन्न आपातकालीन परिस्थितियों…
If this racialized world order is so pervasive and structurally embedded, why, one may ask, does it remain largely invisible in the global political consciousness? The answer lies in the epistemic machinery that sustains it. Across the world, discrimination assumes diverse forms, some ancient, some modern, some fading, some intensifying. However, colour-based racial prejudice is distinctive for…
Rs 20,000 annually to every school-going child orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic — this was one of the major promises made by the Union government as part of the PM CARES Fund. But in the financial year 2024-2025, only a mere Rs 88 lakh was released for this purpose. The amount, if divided among the 3,383 children the government listed as beneficiaries of the PM CARES for Children Scheme, would…
A few years after independence, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru offered a journalist the post of ambassador to Moscow. He politely declined because he preferred his profession to a government job. He was Devadas Gandhi, the renowned Managing Editor of the Hindustan Times . He was a freedom fighter, a public intellectual, one who participated in some of the defining debates of his era. And he also…
