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.

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

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

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Plunder of the Aravallis

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Plunder of the Aravallis

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Media

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

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Ground Report

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

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

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

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Ayodhya: Whose Land Is It Anyway?

Ram temple trustees 'not consulted' on Ayodhya land deals

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Ayodhya: Whose Land Is It Anyway?

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

How Adityanath sold PR as Covid outreach in Moradabad

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Ground Report

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

How the 'system' killed Anjali Saini in UP

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

UP’s Meerut is reporting seven times fewer Covid deaths

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
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RSS mouthpiece resorts to copy-paste propaganda against farmers

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The journalist as neta: Inside the heady world of Press Club politics

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Investigating the Delhi Riots

Delhi carnage: How police made Sajid Khan an accused in his own case

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Report

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

Basant Kumar
Media

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

Basant KumarAshwine Kumar Singh
Plunder of the Aravallis

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Plunder of the Aravallis

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Media

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

Basant KumarAshwine Kumar Singh
Ground Report

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

Diksha MunjalBasant Kumar
Media

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

Basant Kumar
Report

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

Basant Kumar
Ayodhya: Whose Land Is It Anyway?

Ram temple trustees 'not consulted' on Ayodhya land deals

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Ayodhya: Whose Land Is It Anyway?

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

How Adityanath sold PR as Covid outreach in Moradabad

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Ground Report

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

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

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

How the 'system' killed Anjali Saini in UP

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
UP Covid Disaster

UP’s Meerut is reporting seven times fewer Covid deaths

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Report

RSS mouthpiece resorts to copy-paste propaganda against farmers

Basant Kumar
Subscriber Only

The journalist as neta: Inside the heady world of Press Club politics

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar
Investigating the Delhi Riots

Delhi carnage: How police made Sajid Khan an accused in his own case

Ayush TiwariBasant Kumar

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