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Reporters Without Orders Ep 242: Wire vs Meta, India Ahead linked to Delhi liquor scam

This week, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry reporters Ashwine Kumar Singh and Aditi Agarwal.  Aditi discusses her report on the Wire versus Meta feud and explains what it was all about, what was at stake and went wrong for the Indian news website. Speaking about her experience reporting t…

DigiPub Condemns Raids On The Wire's Founders Says, Smacks Of Mala Fide Intentions| BJP Amit Malviya

"After the complaint by the BJP leader Amit Malviya against ‘The Wire’, homes of two editors of the organisation were been raided. The police searched the homes of Siddharth Varadarajan and MK Venu, the founding editors of The Wire, and seized their phones and laptops. They have been accused of che…

Trump's Gangsterism in Venezuela, BCCI and Bangladesh, No Justice for Umar-Sharjeel

The US under Trump has conducted large-scale military strikes in Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Trump has assented to a Russia sanctions bill that could potentially increase tariffs on India from 50% to 500% if passed. Cricket has become the latest ground for rising t…

Dhaka-Delhi Eye Reset, AI Summit Chaos, India Turns Blind Eye to Epstein Files

Eighteen months after the youth uprising that resulted in former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's fleeing to India, Bangladesh has a new government headed by the BNP's Tarique Rahman who is looking to reset ties with India. A US court has accepted the guilty plea of Nikhil Gupta, the Indian charged i…

Who's the Biggest Loser of This War?

US President Donald Trump threatened genocidal action against Iran on Tuesday, recanting it only an hour before the deadline he had imposed to say that Iran’s 10-point peace proposal was “workable”. A two-week ceasefire was agreed upon, which is now on tenuous ground as Israel continues to bomb Leb…

Modi-Shah's Push to Change Electoral Map Fails

The Narendra Modi government has failed to pass bills-The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 that sought to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 and delimitation through its stated objective of operationalising 33% reservation for women. The final vote in the Lok Sabha recorded 298 …

Could water become a flashpoint between Islamabad and New Delhi?

Pakistan has said India's suspension of a decades-old treaty could amount to an act of war. And tensions between the two are already high. So, how could they avoid a further escalation? In this episode:  Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor of the independent investigative news organisation, …

BJP's Defection Game, Cold Reality Behind Warm Modi-Trump Meet

It is the season of political defections in India. While a faction of TMC MPs have announced their merger with little known regional party Nationalist Citizens Party of India; 6 Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs are ready to jump ship having missed a parliamentary party meeting on Thursday. Prime Minister Narend…

Authoritarian vs. The Resisters

Authoritarian politics continue to intensify. But so do acts of resistance. This podcast focusses on the resisters who are pushing for accountability as they fight against state violence. They are from Argentina, South Africa and India. Some work alone or in groups trying to stave off ever-encroach…