Umang Poddar
@UmangPod
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Bilingual Correspondent at Collective Newsroom. reporting for @BBCWorld | prev @scroll_in and @lawctopus | DM for leads/ideas. Tweets are personal views.
Joined January 2020
ЁЯЪи EXCLUSIVE: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), IndiaтАЩs largest Hindu far-right organization, initiated a well-funded lobbying effort in the U.S. earlier this year. The RSS did so without being listed as a foreign entity, in violation of lobbying disclosure requirements, our
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So finally, I have left Bawana Police Station, after several hours of detention and signing a notice for appearance infront of a Magistrate, as apparently citizens violated тАШlawтАЩ by asking the government to clean the air. Governance and government has become a joke, and also the
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Seems Delhi Police is taking all the air pollution protestors to the outskirts of Delhi, or may be Bawana. We have been the bus for over two hours, with half a dozen cops guarding the gates! ItтАЩs really a shame and disgrace, that people asking for clean air, are punished.
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A tiny post-mortem of Rahul Gandhi's 'hydrogen bomb' claims. Let's take this slide on the voter list of a village in Haryana's Mullana constituency. There is good amount of EC data on it. LoP claims that in two booths of this AC, there are 223 voters with the same photo.
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ЁЯУвThree months of reporting, 27 experts, over 20 RTIs From rural hospitals, private nursing homes to India's top corporate hospitals & AIIMS This series by @tabassum_b takes a hard look at why Indian hospitals fail to keep silent killers in check https://t.co/3R5h63UFHv
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The first in a three-part series that investigates the untold story of hospital-acquired infections in India.
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Journalists from India to Brazil say they were hit with fake legal threats and spoofed Google notices тАФ all for reporting on AmbaniтАЩs Vantara zoo. Read full story by @AzeefaFathima
https://t.co/DntgnLjfUo
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A suspicious entity created a fake law firm, using the identity of a noted lawyer, in an attempt to gag journalists and media outlets critical of Vantara wildli
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тАЬAn Indian lawyer has thrown a shoe at the country's Chief Justice BR Gavai after being angered by remarks the judge made about a Hindu god.тАЭ @UmangPod
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A lawyer attacks India's Chief Justice BR Gavai over remarks he made about a Hindu god.
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I have sought relief from the SUPREME COURT OF INDIA through a HABEAS CORPUS petition against @Wangchuk66тАЩs detention. It is one week today. Still I have no information about Sonam WangchukтАЩs health, the condition he is in nor the grounds of detention.
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From October 1, 2025, our company will cease import/export activities in India. For the past 45 days, Chennai Customs officials have relentlessly harassed us. After exposing their bribery practices twice this year, they retaliated, effectively crippling our operations and
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I ask Justice Chandrachud why he permitted the survey of the Gyanvapi mosque in Benares, despite the law banning any change in the character of religious structures. He said because it is "undisputed" that prayers have taken place "through the ages" inside the mosqueтАЩs cellar.
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The "very erection" of Babri mosque was the "fundamental act of desecration", DY Chandrachud tells me. A startling statement -- all the more given the verdict he co-authored clearly says no evidence was supplied to show if the earlier structure was demolished to build a
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рдЦрд╝реБрд╢рдЦрд╝рдмрд░реА! рдмреАрдмреАрд╕реА рдХреЗ рдЙрдордВрдЧ рдкреЛрджреНрджрд╛рд░ рдХреЛ ''рд╣реНрдпреВрдорди рд░рд╛рдЗрдЯреНрд╕ рдПрдВрдб рд░рд┐рд▓реАрдЬрд┐рдпрд╕ рдлрд╝реНрд░реАрдбрдо рдЬрд░реНрдирд▓рд┐рдЬрд╝реНрдо рдЕрд╡реЙрд░реНрдб 2025'' рдореЗрдВ 'рдмреЗрд╕реНрдЯ рд░рд┐рдкреЛрд░реНрдЯрд┐рдВрдЧ- рд╣рд┐рдиреНрджреА' рд╢реНрд░реЗрдгреА рдореЗрдВ рдЕрд╡реЙрд░реНрдб рдорд┐рд▓рд╛ рд╣реИ. @UmangPod рдиреЗ рдлрд░рд╡рд░реА 2025 рдореЗрдВ рджрд┐рд▓реНрд▓реА рджрдВрдЧреЛрдВ рдХреЗ рдкрд╛рдВрдЪ рд╕рд╛рд▓ рдкреВрд░реЗ рд╣реЛрдиреЗ рдкрд░ рджреЛ рд░рд┐рдкреЛрд░реНрдЯреНрд╕ рдХреА рдереАрдВ. рдЙрдордВрдЧ рдХреЛ рдпреЗ рдЕрд╡реЙрд░реНрдб рдЗрди рджреЛ рд░рд┐рдкреЛрд░реНрдЯреНрд╕
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a very high percentage of cases where acquittals/discharges happened. What was even more concerning was the numerous instances in which the court pulled up the Delhi police for shoddy investigation and fabricated statements. Links can be found here:
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IAMC announced the winners of the annual Human Rights and Religious Freedom Journalism Awards at the IAMC National Convention 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.
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I'm pleased to announce that two of my stories for @BBCHindi on the Delhi riots have won the Best Reporting on Human Rights & Religious Freedom (Hindi) award at the HRRFJ Awards this year. I looked at more than 130 orders that have come relating to Delhi Riots and found.. (1/2)
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Is anyone coming from Lucknow to Delhi tomorrow (Saturday) morning/noon by chance? Needed an urgent document. Thanks.
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рд╕реБрдкреНрд░реАрдо рдХреЛрд░реНрдЯ рдореЗрдВ рдХреБрдЫ рдорд╛рдорд▓реЗ рд╕рд╛рд▓реЛрдВ рддрдХ рдЕрдЯрдХреЗ рд░рд╣рддреЗ рд╣реИрдВ рд▓реЗрдХрд┐рди рдХреБрдЫ рдорд╛рдорд▓реЛрдВ рдкрд░ рдЗрддрдиреА рдЬрд▓реНрджреА рдлрд╝реИрд╕рд▓рд╛ рдЖрддрд╛ рд╣реИ рдХрд┐ рдЙрд╕рд╕реЗ рд╣реИрд░рд╛рдиреА рд╣реЛрддреА рд╣реИ. рдХреБрдЫ рдРрд╕рд╛ рд╣реА рдлрд╝реИрд╕рд▓рд╛ рд░рд┐рд▓рд╛рдпрдВрд╕ рдлрд╛рдЙрдВрдбреЗрд╢рди рдХреЗ рд╡рдирддрд╛рд░рд╛ рд╕реЗрдВрдЯрд░ рдХреЛ рд▓реЗрдХрд░ рдЖрдпрд╛ рд╣реИ. 15 рд╕рд┐рддрдВрдмрд░ рдХреЛ рд╕реБрдкреНрд░реАрдо рдХреЛрд░реНрдЯ рдиреЗ рдПрд╕рдЖрдИрдЯреА рдХреА рдЬрд╛рдВрдЪ рд░рд┐рдкреЛрд░реНрдЯ рджреЗрдЦрдиреЗ рдХреЗ рдмрд╛рдж рд╡рдирддрд╛рд░рд╛ рдХреЛ рдХреНрд▓реАрди рдЪрд┐рдЯ рджреЗ рджреА.
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New blog post: A Very Strange Presidential Reference; or, the Supreme Court Goes Golfing. [Link in tweet below ЁЯСЗЁЯП╝].
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