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“Pradhan Helped BJP Win Odisha, Gyanesh Is Helping It Win India” | Aishe Ghosh | Teesta Setalvad

Aishe Ghosh speaks with Teesta Setalvad about student protests, political crackdowns and the fight for democracy in India.From the 2020 crackdown on student activists to today’s protests, they discuss...

UP: Mid-day meal cooks get Rs. 7,500 but three months salary still pending

Varanasi’s local authorities say they could only pay five months of mid-day meal cooks’ salaries with the funds they received

Why did Times Now give a platform to communal, seditious statements?

Times Now Summit 2021 allows Kangana Ranaut to say independence was ‘alms’, Himanta Biswa Sarma to say ‘India belongs to Hindus’

No Koli voices in the planning of coastal road project: Mumbai’s fisherfolk

Worli’s Koli community appeals to the BMC to heed the request of a wider navigation span

Punjab: Tensions rise, clashes break out between farmers and SAD leader

Farmers' leaders claim one protester suffered serious injuries after a SAD event

Will Haryana Chief Minister listen to Padma Shri wrestler’s silent demand?

Hearing impared international level wrestler Virender Singh is sitting on protest with his Padma award, asking the Manohar Lal Khattar led Haryana gov't to give deaf athletes their due

Hundreds mourn Srinagar resident Mohammad Ibrahim Khan

Khan was a salesperson at a shop owned by a Kashmir Pandit and was shot dead, allegedly by militants, on Monday evening, the second such killing in 24 hours

Why is Chhath Puja 2021 crucial for the Kejriwal-led Delhi government?

Delhi is due to have Municipal body elections in 2022, which the  BJP has won for decades, AAP needs to make its mark, before next state elections, and ahead of UP elections 2022

More skeletons tumble out of the Rafale closet

French portal Mediapart reveals how Dassault paid huge bribes but the CBI failed to investigate the alleged kickbacks despite having documentary evidence!

Will the US tag India a ‘country of particular concern’?

Recommendation by USCIRF timed in anticipation of the State Department’s announcement about the CPC and Special Watch List (SWL) designations

Assam: Day 1 of eviction in Hojai passes peacefully

Families had already vacated the area in the Lumding Reserve Forest after verbal assurance of rehabilitation, though there is no commitment on paper yet

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