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

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

Haryana wanted to make a list of news outlets covering it negatively. Why?

Ram temple trustees 'not consulted' on Ayodhya land deals

Exclusive: BJP mayor’s kin bought land for 20 lakh, sold to temple trust for 2.5 crore

How Adityanath sold PR as Covid outreach in Moradabad

In Bareilly village with zero Covid deaths, 20 die after Covid symptoms

Why are Unnao villagers burying their Covid dead by the Ganga?

Baba Ramdev’s Haridwar Covid centre is all talk and no trousers

‘I lost two brothers in one night’: How ‘useless system’ wrecked UP engineer’s family

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

Haryana wanted to make a list of news outlets covering it negatively. Why?

Ram temple trustees 'not consulted' on Ayodhya land deals

Exclusive: BJP mayor’s kin bought land for 20 lakh, sold to temple trust for 2.5 crore

How Adityanath sold PR as Covid outreach in Moradabad

In Bareilly village with zero Covid deaths, 20 die after Covid symptoms

Why are Unnao villagers burying their Covid dead by the Ganga?

Baba Ramdev’s Haridwar Covid centre is all talk and no trousers

‘I lost two brothers in one night’: How ‘useless system’ wrecked UP engineer’s family

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