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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 justice. Ayush Tiwari and Basant Kumar reported on the carnage from the start. In this conversation w...

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 to Covid, it was as if it was gone,” he laments. It’s a similar situation in Madhya Pradesh...

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