This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Anmol Pritam and Basant Kumar. 

Anmol reported on the increasing encroachment and concretisation of the Yamuna River floodplains, which has heavily contributed to the river’s degradation. He throws light on the consequence of arbitrary construction by the Delhi Development Authority. 

Basant’s report was on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official visits, which often comprise activities focused on promoting the BJP. He delves into the details of his official visits from January to October and the lack of transparency about the PMO billing the BJP for these unofficial expenses. 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:22 - Yamuna river pollution 

00:08:30 - Modi’s trips

00:45:10 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Anmol 

Yamuna is choking in Delhi. Is floodplain encroachment to blame?

Basant

Sharda Sinha’s Chhath songs

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This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Scroll’s Ayush Tiwari.

Ayush has reported on the increasing rift between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the BJP. He explains how the making of Yogi as a “tough and strong” leader has led to dissatisfaction among the cadre and created cracks within the party. He says the power has shifted from party workers and MLAs to police officials.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:02:50 - Yogi’s Police Raj

00:17:20 - Caste dynamics in BJP

00:43:58 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Ayush

Cardinal Numbers

Why the EBCs are the key to the 2024 election

Good Morning, Vietnam

Anmol

Lowering the Bar The RSS legal front’s increasing hold over the judicial system

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This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Scroll’s Rokibuz Zaman and Newslaundry’s Drishti Choudhary.

Rokibuz reported on the Supreme Court’s judgement upholding the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 – a provision added exclusively for Assam. He says that the judgement upholds 1971 as the year of entry, which contradicts the government’s 2014 cut-off under the CAA. 

Drishti’s report was on the Delhi administration’s efforts and failures in tackling air pollution. She explained the measures undertaken by the Delhi government and that despite spending crores of money and sanctioning extensive resources, the situation has worsened. 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:02:38 - Citizenship laws in Assam

00:25:45 - Delhi air quality crisis

00:33:20 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Drishti

Hippie

Rokibuz

Provoked Narratives

Pratyush

Modi Gov’t Produces Spurious Expert Opinion To Remove Health Warning on Fortified Rice

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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Prateek Goyal.

Avdhesh reported from ground zero on the communal violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich, which resulted in the killing of a 22-year-old man and mob-led arson of several local houses. He delves into the factors that led to the communal tensions and how they escalated.  

Prateek’s report was on the chargesheet in the Pune car crash case. He spotlights the details of the 90-page chargesheet, the sequence of events, and how power and money were used to suppress the justice system.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:02:23 - Bahraich violence

00:24:30 - Pune Porshe case

00:33:08 - Lawrence Bishnoi

00:46:35 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Prateek

Bahraich के अंदरूनी इलाकों में दंगाइयों द्वारा मचाई गई तबाही की पहली Ground Report

Avdhesh

Bihar में बच्चियों को मारने और बचाने की चौंकाने वाली कहानी...

A Professor's Diary - The Untold Story Of Higher Education

Basant

RTI Kaise Aayee

Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, and recorded by Anil Kumar.

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This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.

Basant reported extensively on the Haryana polls from ground zero. He sheds light on the factors that didn’t work in favour of the Congress in Haryana. He also talks about how the exit poll predictions fell flat.

Shivnarayan’s recent report was on the legal dispute between the Indian army and the Uttar Pradesh government over a stretch of land officially earmarked as a “notified” buffer zone for army field practice in Ayodhya. He explains what the dispute is all about and its Adani connection.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:04:10 - Haryana election result

00:12:25 - J&K election result

00:26:35 - Army vs UP government

00:37:30 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Basant

Army says its drills are ‘greatly limited’ due to ‘illegal’ encroachments in Ayodhya

Simon & Schuster India R.A.W. Hitman

Shivnarayan

Lowering the Bar The RSS legal front’s increasing hold over the judicial system

Anmol

Meri Jaan..Swanand Kirkire, Hansika Pareek, Shrey Gupta, Bharath

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This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Drishti Choudhary.

Drishti reported on the crisis facing the Delhi Commission for Women. She says that at present, the commission does not have any office bearers, its helpline numbers are defunct, and many of the staffers and NGOs have not been paid for months.

Basant covered the Haryana elections and reported on the influence of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Ram Rahim on the polls. He talks about the political dynamics between different parties and workers on the ground and how Ram Rahim followers vote en bloc. 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:03:44 - The dark side of Haryana’s sports success

00:09:00 - Haryana elections: ground zero

00:14:04 - Crisis at the Delhi Commission of Women

00:19:28 - Ram Rahim’s effect on elections

00:33:20 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Shivnarayan

Ram Rahim is silent ahead of Haryana polls. But his dera's message is set to ring out loud

Drishti

Independence

Basant

Ulajh

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This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.

Manisha reported on press freedom in Kashmir from ground zero. She speaks about her interviews and conversations with journalists in the valley, who described an intensifying clampdown on media, a sense of suffocation, and censorship, particularly after the abrogation of Article 370. 

Shivnarayan reported on an Adani-operated coal mine in Chhattisgarh that received environmental clearance despite a National Green Tribunal order. He delved into how these clearances were granted and the loopholes used to violate orders passed by the NGT. 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:26 - Media in Kashmir

00:27:16 - Violation of NGT orders

00:39:52 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Shivnarayan

The Great Nicobar Betrayal

Manisha

The Case Against Travel

The Rohingya Suffer Real Horrors. So Why Are Some of Their Stories Untrue?

Loving Lies

Tanishka

Indian village midwives make a shocking confession - BBC World Service Documentaries

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This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Anmol Pritam.

Basant and Anmol are currently on ground zero to report from poll-bound Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, respectively. 

In Haryana, Basant has so far examined the progress of the Smart City Mission, issues of one of the most backward districts, and Olympian Vinesh Phogat’s political contest in Julana. Meanwhile, Anmol has reported on the divide over issues such as Article 370 in Jammu’s Doda. 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:00:51 - Haryana election

00:13:53 - J&K election

00:29:52 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Anmol

SYMPATHY -RARE BIRD 1969

Basant

Faridabad Smart City का सूरत-ए-हाल: करोड़ों खर्च का दावा पर जमीनी हकीकत खस्ताहाल | Ground Report

Pratyush

But I Am One of You: Northeast India and the Struggle to Belong

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This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by independent journalist Sunil Kashyap.

Sunil reported on the purported rift between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the BJP workers. He delves into the changes in party dynamics after its lukewarm performance in the state in the Lok Sabha polls. He adds that despite the turmoil within the BJP and the tussle between Adityanath and the party’s top leadership, there is no anti-incumbency in the state. 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:19 - Yogi vs BJP

00:45:45 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Sunil

Chitralekha

Sumedha

Clerical Error Adityanath’s loosening grip on Uttar Pradesh

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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Scroll’s Ayush Tiwari and independent journalist Anand Dutta.

Ayush reported on the controversies surrounding SEBI chief Madhabi Puri Buch. He delves into the allegations against Buch in the Hindenburg report and why the undisclosed information about her association with her former firms is a “conflict of interest”.

Anand talks about his report on the ongoing political tussle in Jharkhand, focusing on why former chief minister Champai Soren departed the JMM for the BJP.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:03:00 - SEBI chief and Hindenburg

00:18:46 - Champai Soren and Jharkhand politics

00:42:33 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Ayush

Watch MADOFF: The Monster of Wall Street

Husband of a Fanatic

Anand

Laal Lakeer

Walking with the Comrades

Basant

Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard

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This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal, The News Minute’s Sukanya Shaji, and independent journalist Nidhi Suresh.

Nidhi and Sukanya reported on Kerala’s #MeToo storm and the exploitation of female actors in the Kerala film industry. They also reported on the recently published Hema Committee report, which revealed that the industry’s top male actors, directors, and producers were involved or complacent in the matter. They discuss the report’s findings and fallout.

Sumedha reported on the death of a 23-year-old Faizan after alleged police brutality during Delhi riots in February 2020. A viral video of him lying semi-conscious on the road, battered, taunted, and forced to sing the national anthem by cops was widely circulated then. She found out that despite clear duty charts, no police official was held responsible for what the high court termed a hate crime. The probe was eventually transferred to the CBI after the court issued a stinging indictment of the “tardy” police investigation.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:02:42 - AMMA and the Malayalam industry

00:08:37 - Hema Committee Report

00:46:15 - Faizan and Delhi cops

00:01:04:45 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Sukanya

Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback

Nidhi

Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India

Sumedha

She Said

Shivnarayan

‘Take Hema Committee report seriously’: Parvathy to Kerala govt | Dhanya Rajendran | Interview

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