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Total (Fiji) is pleased to congratulate Mr. Basant Kumar on winning the brand-new MAZDA CX3 vehicle from TotalEnergies national promotion – “Stand a chance to win Mazda CX3”. Mr. Basant...

Six persons, four of them members of the same family, died of suffocation after inhaling poisonous gases when they entered a septic tank in East Champaran district, police said.

Legacy Media Learn a Thing or Two From Social Media Journalism? Caste bias Dalit Desk, or a medium to tell stories from a Dalit’s desk, an online news organisation was started by Sahil Valmiki in 2019 on Instagram and Youtube. “The stories that I am able to tell on my social media platform, cannot be told on a traditional media platform. Traditional media is upper-caste dominated,” said Valimiki. "The selection to ‘upper-caste media’ is caste based. When your CV reaches there, it ge...

A reporters’ podcast about what made news and what shouldn’t have.

The sarpach of Ambapuram in rural Andhra Pradesh, in a noble gesture, purchased an ambulance worth Rs 4 lakh with his own mooney to help people in his village and surrounding areas during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The sarpanch Gandikota Sitaiah said that he was concerned with the plight of people who faced difficulties when they had to hail ambulances to ferry patients to hospitals. There was also the high costs to hiring an ambulance with people having to pay rates as high as Rs 10,000 ...

Reporters Without Orders Ep 169: Six months of farmer protests and how rural UP is hiding Covid figures

K B Jandial It is extremely painful to daily receivenews of corona death of a dear one or other. Reports of Covid death of ministers, political leaders,

NL Interview: Ayush Tiwari and Basant Kumar on covering the Delhi carnage Newslaundry hosts our correspondents for NL Recess. 13 May, 2021 The communal carnage in Northeast Delhi in February 2020 left 53 people dead, 40 of them Muslims. Over a year later, the Delhi police’s investigation into the violence is mired in controversy. They have arrested and imprisoned multiple people on flimsy charges such as “conspiracy” even as families of the victims still await compensation and ju...

Reporters Without Orders Ep 164: Covid crisis in UP and MP A reporters’ podcast about what made news and what shouldn’t have. Newslaundry’s Prateek Goyal and independent journalist Saurabh Sharma. Saurabh talks about his recent reports on Uttar Pradesh’s pandemic situation. In the capital Lucknow, he says, there’s utter helplessness and the main reason is the unpreparedness of the Adityanath government. "All of them were busy with elections, nobody paid much attention t...

Reporters Without Orders Ep 156: Dainik Jagran’s ‘PR campaign’ for UP and Disha Ravi’s bail