On the evening of 25 August, the day after he returned from flood-rescue operations, Chinthu Pradeep was attacked with swords by activists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. | Read more|
They want Congress to suspend a move that would limit access to information about facilities and could hinder the panel’s ability to oversee worker health and safety. | Read more|
Data journalism has experienced a boom in Latin America, and several countries have been recognized for the quality of their work, despite difficulties accessing government data. | Read more|
On 10 August, The Caravan published an article detailing how the BJP’s national president Amit Shah mortgaged two of his properties to enable his son Jay Shah’s firm Kusum Finserve LLP to obtain credit facilities from a cooperative bank. | Read more|
Last year, HUD Secretary Ben Carson gave control of the city’s public housing complexes back to local officials after a lengthy federal receivership. He said problems had been fixed, but an investigation by The Southern Illinoisan and ProPublica found deteriorating conditions. | Read more|
An updated order emphasizes that participating in white supremacist groups is prohibited and calls on service members to report those who violate the policy. | Read more|
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This report is part of the “Hate in America" project produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project by top college journalism students and recent graduates from across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Ari | Read more|
Editor of Cobrapost, Aniruddha Bahal, spoke at the UNESCO Head Quarters on August 29 | Read more|
Activists' arrest over alleged caste incitement also draws condemnation from rights groups and opposition parties. | Read more|
This report is part of the “Hate in America" project produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project by top college journalism students and recent graduates from across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Ari | Read more|
The Slovak authorities are not doing enough to investigate the murder of my friend and colleague. If journalists have to do the police’s job to discover the truth, then we will. | Read more|
Compared to other countries, American officials often receive more generous reimbursements for food and lodging | Read more|
The Trump administration defended an order that could be used to withhold information about nuclear facilities from a federal board, but its leader says the action is not consistent with the U.S. Atomic Energy Act. | Read more|
In the past two years of the JNU vice chancellor's tenure, the university’s students witnessed crackdowns on nearly every expression of free thought and critical thinking. | Read more|
Since their first use in 2013, for the Noksen assembly seat in Nagaland, the VVPAT slips have been tallied over 500 times. In each case, the EVM votes have matched the VVPAT slips. | Read more|
Elgaar Parishad probe: Pune police sources have claimed that Tuesday's arrests followed a probe into at least 200 communications between the five people arrested in June. | Read more|
Washington and Moscow trade chemical attack warnings as Russian naval buildup grows ahead of strike on Syria's Idlib. | Read more|
A ProPublica review found that the agency that oversees New York City’s commercial trash industry may have overlooked another potential impropriety involving Sanitation Salvage. | Read more|
Investigations, the saying goes, are just regular stories with a lot more labor put in. Investigative reporters spend inordinate amounts of time sifting through documents, verifying sources and analyzing data — and that’s if they can even get the data. As an investigative reporter with way too many stories I want t | Read more|
Union representing agency employees warns of ‘potential exposure’ | Read more|
Tehran accuses Washington of 'naked economic aggression' and urges UN's top court in The Hague to nullify US sanctions. | Read more|
The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother. | Read more|
Conservatives and alt-right followers claim colleges are sanitizing campuses of dissent, in violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech. | Read more|
We lead a research project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School called the Single Subject News Project, funded by the Knight Foundation. | Read more|
The Business Integrity Commission suspended the license of one of New York’s biggest garbage haulers after it was involved in two fatal accidents and a spate of collisions. | Read more|
It takes a special counsel to actually catch white-collar criminals. | Read more|
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Violent crimes and other hate incidents targeting LGBTQ Americans consistently are unreported and often not prosecuted | Read more|
Since 18 August, a team from INS Venduruthy, a naval base located on Willingdon Island in Kochi, has been working round-the-clock at this makeshift community kitchen to prepare food for survivors of the floods. | Read more|
Widely supported legislation would have allowed Uber and Lyft to operate throughout Louisiana. But John Alario took steps to kill it, and colleagues point to his long-standing ties to a power broker who sells insurance to cab companies. | Read more|
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Most of BlackPAC’s July income came from a limited liability company | Read more|
Winsome Diamonds, which was declared as a “wilful defaulter” in 2016, has claimed that it did not divert funds and was a victim of non-payment by Obaidah’s firms. | Read more|
Israa al-Ghomgham documented demonstrations in the kingdom's Eastern Province from 2011, before being arrested in 2015. | Read more|