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Truth vs Hype Of BJP's 20 Lakh 'Messengers' In Uttar Pradesh
BJP President Amit Shah's core campaign mantra in Uttar Pradesh - or any poll-bound state - has been to extend the reach of the BJP right down to the level of electoral booths, the most basic unit of election management.
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Blog: How The Maharashtra Government Might Be 'Licensing' Gau Rakshak Violence
Filming for the NDTV show Truth vs Hype last week, we caught on camera how an aggressive mob of gau rakshaks (cow vigilantes) forcibly stopped a truck on the outskirts of Pune, yanked the driver out, snatched his phone, and forced the truck to a police station.
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How Sexual Harassment Has Scarred Women In India's Garment Industry
Truth vs Hype investigation into India's booming garment industry found women workers saying that sexual propositioning was a common aspect of their work environment and that they are 'tutored' to keep it under wraps or lose their jobs.
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Truth vs Hype: Two ISIS Admirers From Hyderabad Had A Change Of Heart?
In a dusty open ground in Hyderabad's Baba Nagar area, we meet Muwahid, 28 and Zahid, 24 (names changed). In 2014, the two young men - along with a third friend - made a failed attempt to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.
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Truth vs Hype: In Drought-Hit Marathwada, A Sugar Mill Owner 'Downgrades' to Mercedes
Politically-connected sugar barons like Bapurao Patil seem insulated from the turmoil roiling the countryside. Behind him was parked a gleaming Mercedes SUV, an incongruous sight in a village of tiny lanes and low-slung brick and mud homes.
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Lily's Story: From a Harrowing Childhood of Abuse, to Donning Chef's Whites
Even among the harrowing stories of those that pass through the shelter, Lilima's stands out.
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Truth vs Hype: The Invisible Reality of Rape in India
In public imagination, instances like the Delhi gang-rape have come to define 'the rape problem' - women attacked by strangers in a bus, or in an abandoned mill.
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Truth vs Hype Exclusive: How Baba Ramdev, and a Proxy Hindutva Agenda, Have Entered IIT Delhi
The otherwise peaceful IIT Delhi campus has been in the news for the past several months over the exit of its Director, R K Shevgaonkar, over run-ins with the new government.
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Truth vs Hype: Are Mistakes That Led to India's Corporate Debt Bomb Set to be Repeated?
As the Narendra Modi government attempts to jumpstart the economy, attention is turning to a less discussed aspect of the financial system that is threatening a revival: high amounts of debt.
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Truth vs Hype: Behind Jayalalithaa's Acquittal, Charges of Political 'Sabotage'
Jayalalithaa may have returned as Tamil Nadu chief minister, but her controversial acquittal has raised questions over whether behind-the-scenes political manouvering, across party lines, came in the way of a fair legal process.
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Truth vs Hype Exclusive: How the Cost of Sentry Shed Helped Acquit Jayalalithaa
As J Jayalalithaa took over as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for the fifth time today, questions continue to mount over lapses in the Karnataka High Court order acquitting her.
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Truth vs Hype: Crores of Swachh Bharat Toilets, But Where are the Users?
The Swachh Bharat mission's claims of constructing one crore toilets in one year suggest that like the UPA, the NDA government is focused almost solely on meeting construction targets. It also means that it has spent close to Rs 12,000 crore of the programme's whopping Rs 1.34 lakh crore budget, without an indication, at least until now, of toilet ...
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Truth vs Hype: Jan Dhan's Half-Empty Promise
On the Jan Dhan Yojana website, nearly 70 per cent of accounts opened under the scheme are shown as dormant.
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Truth vs Hype: When the Hail Came, a Farmer's Mother Had a Heart Attack
The repeated crop failures have shaken farm families in Alwar, at the border with Haryana, part of India's grain belt.
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Truth vs Hype Exclusive: Behind the Hashimpura Massacre, a Tale of Vendetta and Cover-Up
On 22 May 1987, a group of men were rounded up by the Army and the police from the largely Muslim Hashimpura mohalla in Meerut and handed over the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) of the Uttar Pradesh police.
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Truth vs Hype Of BJP's 20 Lakh 'Messengers' In Uttar Pradesh
BJP President Amit Shah's core campaign mantra in Uttar Pradesh - or any poll-bound state - has been to extend the reach of the BJP right down to the level of electoral booths, the most basic unit of election management.
-
Blog: How The Maharashtra Government Might Be 'Licensing' Gau Rakshak Violence
Filming for the NDTV show Truth vs Hype last week, we caught on camera how an aggressive mob of gau rakshaks (cow vigilantes) forcibly stopped a truck on the outskirts of Pune, yanked the driver out, snatched his phone, and forced the truck to a police station.
-
How Sexual Harassment Has Scarred Women In India's Garment Industry
Truth vs Hype investigation into India's booming garment industry found women workers saying that sexual propositioning was a common aspect of their work environment and that they are 'tutored' to keep it under wraps or lose their jobs.
-
Truth vs Hype: Two ISIS Admirers From Hyderabad Had A Change Of Heart?
In a dusty open ground in Hyderabad's Baba Nagar area, we meet Muwahid, 28 and Zahid, 24 (names changed). In 2014, the two young men - along with a third friend - made a failed attempt to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.
-
Truth vs Hype: In Drought-Hit Marathwada, A Sugar Mill Owner 'Downgrades' to Mercedes
Politically-connected sugar barons like Bapurao Patil seem insulated from the turmoil roiling the countryside. Behind him was parked a gleaming Mercedes SUV, an incongruous sight in a village of tiny lanes and low-slung brick and mud homes.
-
Lily's Story: From a Harrowing Childhood of Abuse, to Donning Chef's Whites
Even among the harrowing stories of those that pass through the shelter, Lilima's stands out.
-
Truth vs Hype: The Invisible Reality of Rape in India
In public imagination, instances like the Delhi gang-rape have come to define 'the rape problem' - women attacked by strangers in a bus, or in an abandoned mill.
-
Truth vs Hype Exclusive: How Baba Ramdev, and a Proxy Hindutva Agenda, Have Entered IIT Delhi
The otherwise peaceful IIT Delhi campus has been in the news for the past several months over the exit of its Director, R K Shevgaonkar, over run-ins with the new government.
-
Truth vs Hype: Are Mistakes That Led to India's Corporate Debt Bomb Set to be Repeated?
As the Narendra Modi government attempts to jumpstart the economy, attention is turning to a less discussed aspect of the financial system that is threatening a revival: high amounts of debt.
-
Truth vs Hype: Behind Jayalalithaa's Acquittal, Charges of Political 'Sabotage'
Jayalalithaa may have returned as Tamil Nadu chief minister, but her controversial acquittal has raised questions over whether behind-the-scenes political manouvering, across party lines, came in the way of a fair legal process.
-
Truth vs Hype Exclusive: How the Cost of Sentry Shed Helped Acquit Jayalalithaa
As J Jayalalithaa took over as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for the fifth time today, questions continue to mount over lapses in the Karnataka High Court order acquitting her.
-
Truth vs Hype: Crores of Swachh Bharat Toilets, But Where are the Users?
The Swachh Bharat mission's claims of constructing one crore toilets in one year suggest that like the UPA, the NDA government is focused almost solely on meeting construction targets. It also means that it has spent close to Rs 12,000 crore of the programme's whopping Rs 1.34 lakh crore budget, without an indication, at least until now, of toilet ...
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Truth vs Hype: Jan Dhan's Half-Empty Promise
On the Jan Dhan Yojana website, nearly 70 per cent of accounts opened under the scheme are shown as dormant.
-
Truth vs Hype: When the Hail Came, a Farmer's Mother Had a Heart Attack
The repeated crop failures have shaken farm families in Alwar, at the border with Haryana, part of India's grain belt.
-
Truth vs Hype Exclusive: Behind the Hashimpura Massacre, a Tale of Vendetta and Cover-Up
On 22 May 1987, a group of men were rounded up by the Army and the police from the largely Muslim Hashimpura mohalla in Meerut and handed over the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) of the Uttar Pradesh police.
