Sumedha Mittal

Mar 24, 2025 | thenewsminute.com | Sumedha Mittal |Anand Mangnale |Nikita Saxena

The spring of 2003 should have been a season of triumph for Kiran Bedi. The first woman to have joined the Indian Police Service and a recipient of the Ramon Magsasay award added to her achievements that January. She was appointed the civilian police advisor to the United Nations’ peacekeeping department. No woman or Indian had held this job before. The daredevil cop’s three-decade-long career was fast becoming the stuff of lore.

Mar 24, 2025 | newslaundry.com | Sumedha Mittal |Anand Mangnale

We sifted through hundreds of emails and nearly 30 hours of tapes. Bedi told NL-TNM she requested the police to ‘save an innocent life’ and ‘the police did its duty’. lllustration of Kiran Bedi with a policeman with phone tapping equipment and documents.|Shambhavi ThakurEditor: Nikita SaxenaThe spring of 2003 should have been a season of triumph for Kiran Bedi.

Mar 24, 2025 | thenewsminute.com | Sumedha Mittal |Anand Mangnale |Nikita Saxena

The spring of 2003 should have been a season of triumph for Kiran Bedi. The first woman to have joined the Indian Police Service and a recipient of the Ramon Magsasay award added to her achievements that January. She was appointed the civilian police advisor to the United Nations’ peacekeeping department. No woman or Indian had held this job before. The daredevil cop’s three-decade-long career was fast becoming the stuff of lore.

Jan 16, 2025 | newslaundry.com | Sumedha Mittal |Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

Saxena has the distinction of being the first person with a corporate background to be selected for a gubernatorial post. Sahasrabuddhe’s interview with the LG of Delhi landed on YouTube on January 13, three weeks before Delhi’s assembly elections, which are scheduled to be held on February 5.

Jan 7, 2025 | newslaundry.com | Sumedha Mittal

Assemblies with a significant share of Muslim and backward caste voters saw a higher rate of deletion. BLOs admit to wrong deletions, say they found many homes locked. This is the final part of an investigative series tracing discrepancies in voter rolls. Read all of them here. Three generations of Amjad’s family live in the dense cluster of houses known as Haveli Azam Khan in the Chandni Chowk constituency.