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1 week ago | newslaundry.com | Vivek Kaul

Late last week multiple news outletsreported that in 2024-25, gross foreign direct investment (FDI) into India hit $81 billion, up nearly 14 percent from the previous year – a stat that made headlines. But scratch the surface, and the story isn’t so rosy. When adjusted for the size of the Indian economy, actual FDI inflows have been largely showing a downward trend. Repatriations – money pulled out by foreign direct investors – have surged, and net FDI has crashed to its lowest level in 25 years.

1 week ago | newslaundry.com | Anmol Pritam |NIDHI SURESH

Saeed Ahmad Habib, the former sarpanch of Mandhar, told us, “Our village has a population of about 4,500, but there are only 45 bunkers – 36 individual and nine community bunkers. That means there is just one bunker for every 100 people.

1 week ago | newslaundry.com | Dhanya Rajendran |Pooja Prasanna |Shabbir Ahmed |Nidheesh MK

Inside TrackExclusive stories, for your eyes onlyWhere does Shashi Tharoor see himself next? Shashi Tharoor is never far from the news cycle. As he makes headlines for remarks during his ongoing visits abroad—this time as part of a parliamentary delegation—the question on many minds is: what happens when he returns to India? Speculation is swirling, and even those close to him offer differing theories. We sifted through the noise, and here’s what we gathered.

2 weeks ago | newslaundry.com | Kalpana Sharma

Free thought has been choked. But TV news can spring surprises. The arrest and subsequent release on interim bail of Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, and the discussions in and out of court that have followed, ought to concern journalists, or rather those who believe that in a democracy, journalists should question the powerful. Prof Khan was arrested by the Haryana police in the early hours of May 18 based on two complaints relating to hisposts on Facebook a week earlier.

2 weeks ago | newslaundry.com | Dhanya Rajendran |Pooja Prasanna |Shabbir Ahmed

In Tamil Nadu, the ED is raising the heat against the first family of the DMK, particularly Ratheesh, a close friend of Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, in the alleged TASMAC scam. Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, Pooja Prasanna, and Nidheesh MK.