Basant Kumar

Basant Kumar

Basant is a correspondent at Newslaundry. An avid reader, he reports on social and political issues. He previously worked at Zee, Gaon Connection and Amar Ujala.

Basant Kumar

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Hidden from Trump in 2020, this Ahmedabad slum is still waiting for development

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The thriving career of an AIIMS official accused of serial corruption

DD News show brings anti-Muslim and pro-BJP flavours of private TV channels to state broadcaster

Ramdev deceptively sold Coronil as a Covid cure. Guess who enabled him?

Monument for sale: Delhi’s land mafia is stealing Tughlaqabad fort

How Ramdev’s Patanjali took control of Dalit lands in Haridwar

From Ramkishan Yadav to Swami Ramdev, through enterprise and ‘nepotism’

Delhi spent Rs 68 lakh on stubble decomposer, Rs 23 crore to advertise it

The trouble with IIMC’s recent recruitment of professors

Slogans and the rare sensible take: We watched Kashmir Files at 3 NCR theatres

Told to keep discussion with PM ‘positive’: Students back from Ukraine

In ‘violation of rules’, Hindusthan Samachar ex-CEO stays Prasar Bharati news agency chief

DD election special on UP: How BJP affiliates were passed off as ‘common citizens’

Plunder of the Aravallis: Bandhwari village and its garbage mountain of maladies

In Haryana’s Aravallis, BJP and Congress netas bulldoze the law

Were two News Nation staffers made sacrificial lambs for Chaurasia’s prime time faux pas?

‘We don’t get in the Nihangs’ way’: Eyewitnesses detail a night of horror at Singhu

‘We’d be bonded labour’: Why Republic staffers refused to sign a new contract and quit

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