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01/11/2025

NL Hafta is here!

This week, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Sreenivasan Jain and Ritu Rao to discuss Bihar assembly polls, Lalu’s relevance, Yamuna pollution, Chhath row

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https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/11/01/hafta-561-bihar-assembly-polls-lalus-relevance-yamuna-pollution-chhath-row

01/11/2025

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Pareshan Kishore! PK ko itna gussa kyun ata hai?

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31/10/2025

Tension continues to grip Mokama in Bihar after the killing of Dularchand Yadav, a Jan Suraaj worker, with rival candidates trading accusations over who was responsible.

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31/10/2025

Bengaluru's elite Bowring Institute is embroiled in a bitter internal dispute. A controversial decision to build a second unit 100 kms away has led to member suspensions, inquiries, resignations, and court battles, exposing deep divisions within the 150-year-old club.

Shivani Kava reports

https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/10/31/inside-bengalurus-bowring-institute-suspensions-court-battles-and-a-revolt-over-a-land-deal

31/10/2025

“They shot him in the leg, then beat him, and when he still didn’t die, they ran a vehicle over him.”

That’s how Neeraj Yadav described the killing of his grandfather, Jan Suraaj worker Dularchand Yadav, after convoys of JD(U)’s Anant Singh and Jan Suraaj’s Piyush Priyadarshi came face to face on a narrow road in Ghoswari, Mokama.

What began as a campaign standoff soon turned violent exposing the muscle politics that still drive elections in the region.

Watch Basant Kumar's report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q5MIQxzFGo

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Caste equations in flux. Unemployment. Migration. Simmering anti-incumbency.

Bihar’s political landscape is shifting.

Will the NDA hold its ground, or will new entrants like Prashant Kishor skew the map of power?

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31/10/2025

Bihar Elections | The NDA and Mahagathbandhan have made a slew of promises in the run-up to polls.

But on ground, people say migration, unemployment, and healthcare remain the real issues.

Atul Chaurasia unpacks

Watch: https://youtu.be/tIUFj5hez2Y

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Caste equations in flux. Unemployment. Migration. Simmering anti-incumbency.

Bihar’s political landscape is shifting.

Will the NDA hold its ground, or will new entrants like Prashant Kishor skew the map of power?

Power our election coverage: https://rzp.io/rzp/bhrsm

31/10/2025

In 2008, Anil Ambani bought a luxury yacht for his wife.

17 years later, an investigation by Cobrapost, has claimed that the yacht was bought using funds from the now defunct Reliance Communication (RCOM).

Samarth Grover and Sumedha Mittal report

https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/10/31/how-a-20-million-yacht-for-tina-ambani-became-a-case-study-in-corporate-sleight

31/10/2025

As air quality levels dipped across north India this week, Haryana’s pollution monitoring system faltered, leaving many parts of the state without real-time data.

Of the state’s 31 real-time air quality monitoring stations, only 18 were functional as of 2 pm on October 30.

On Friday, seven of the 13 stations that were not recording data had resumed operations. Though some of those that were functional on Thursday went blank again on Friday.

Priya Jain reports

https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/10/31/as-smog-thickened-haryanas-air-quality-network-went-dark

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Many parts of Haryana have seen the AQI worsen over the last few days. In two districts, the AQI is now in the severe category.

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30/10/2025

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30/10/2025

As Delhi's air turned toxic again, the government is reportedly less focused on fighting pollution than it is in massaging the numbers that measure it.

At Jahangirpuri, Anmol Pritam found PWD tankers spraying water around a monitoring station.

Watch: https://youtu.be/1jOSsxW6qQA

30/10/2025

How will Prashant Kishor fix Bihar’s broken public school system?

By building a limited number of ‘world class’ government schools, he tells Sreenivasan Jain.

But what happens to the vast majority unable to gain admission in those schools?

🔒 Watch: https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/10/29/from-jobs-to-education-decoding-prashant-kishors-policy-mantra

30/10/2025

“Building roads doesn’t create jobs, and a metro won’t fix our schools.”

At Patna’s Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chowk, auto drivers speak of broken vehicles, police harassment, and broken promises.

Watch Basant Kumar's report: https://youtu.be/9wsz0M8Peqs