The 12 most important stories, each read across outlets and scored for ideology and stance toward the government. Editions come out at 07:00 and 19:00 IST; stories keep updating in between.
New since the last edition: 6 stories have updates, marked “New”.
Latest: Gwalior temple crash toll reaches 16 as magisterial inquiry into checkpoint lapse begins
Latest: Affidavit says cap would cut cancer drug prices 20-70%, industry reportedly fears job and supply hit
Latest: Indian Embassy says all 14 Indians from yacht are safe near Hodeidah; attacker unconfirmed
Latest: Punjab Pharmacy Council cancels accused chemist's registration as Sukhbir Badal accuses AAP government of harassing Jhota's family
Latest: Announcer Kushal Majumdar arrested, taking total to nine, as SIT chief flags narrow exits
Latest: Congress alleges roll manipulation in Pilibhit and says it will seek legal opinion and approach court
Latest: Nagaland MP Jamir to raise Arunachal border reports in Parliament, citing claims of missing jawan
Latest: Analysis notes ruling departs from religion-neutral OBC classification, though non-Hindu groups can still be classed as OBC
Latest: Home Minister says searches continue, three held, as valley protesters add NRC and SoO demands
Latest: SBI says affected customers informed by email or WhatsApp, funds safe, source still under examination
Latest: Rubio says he sees no obstacle to India-US trade deal; Gor says Trump-Modi meeting being arranged
Latest: Delhi calls Saudi attacks unacceptable as Shaybah drone debris reportedly kills two foreign workers
A paddy-laden, Punjab-registered truck hit devotees near the Sheetla Mata temple in Gwalior around 1.30 am on 18 October, during Navratri.
Latest: Gwalior temple crash toll reaches 16 as magisterial inquiry into checkpoint lapse begins
21 outlets, no real disagreement
The Centre has capped trade margins at 30% of MRP (excluding GST) on 137 non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs, with revised prices from November 9, and says prices could fall by up to 70%, though drugs already below a 30% margin will not get cheaper.
Latest: Affidavit says cap would cut cancer drug prices 20-70%, industry reportedly fears job and supply hit
Left-leaning 5Centre 10Right-leaning 0
The Indian Embassy in Yemen said on Friday that all 14 Indian nationals on a yacht off Yemen are safe and located around Hodeidah.
Latest: Indian Embassy says all 14 Indians from yacht are safe near Hodeidah; attacker unconfirmed
9 outlets, no real disagreement
The CBI re-registered the case on 21 October after Punjab's Home department consented on 20 October and the DoPT notified the extension of CBI jurisdiction.
Latest: Punjab Pharmacy Council cancels accused chemist's registration as Sukhbir Badal accuses AAP government of harassing Jhota's family
Left-leaning 0Centre 4Right-leaning 1
Nineteen people died and about 25 were injured in a crowd surge at the Chorbagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja pandal in north Kolkata on Saptami (17 October) amid rain, and preliminary autopsies point to traumatic asphyxia.
Latest: Announcer Kushal Majumdar arrested, taking total to nine, as SIT chief flags narrow exits
Left-leaning 0Centre 9Right-leaning 0
The Election Commission has directed 17 states and Union Territories to carry out a Special Summary Revision of electoral rolls with 1 January 2027 as the qualifying date, and will give recognised parties readable versions of the rolls at draft and final stages.
Latest: Congress alleges roll manipulation in Pilibhit and says it will seek legal opinion and approach court
Left-leaning 10Centre 13Right-leaning 1
ITBP chief Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor said at an Alwar event on 22 October that face-offs with Chinese troops continue at several Arunachal locations since July, and that the force is adding commandos, drones and shelters.
Latest: Nagaland MP Jamir to raise Arunachal border reports in Parliament, citing claims of missing jawan
Left-leaning 0Centre 18Right-leaning 11
The Supreme Court, in a ruling dated 15 October, dismissed Tamil Nadu's appeal and upheld a Madras High Court decision striking down a March 2024 state order that let converts to Islam be certified as Backward Class Muslims.
Latest: Analysis notes ruling departs from religion-neutral OBC classification, though non-Hindu groups can still be classed as OBC
6 outlets, no real disagreement
Suspected militants fired on about 14 to 16 firewood collectors near the Imphal East-Kangpokpi border on Monday.
Latest: Home Minister says searches continue, three held, as valley protesters add NRC and SoO demands
Left-leaning 5Centre 41Right-leaning 1
SBI told the stock exchanges it found 3,897 customer records with personal information within about 3.75 lakh records on the dark web.
Latest: SBI says affected customers informed by email or WhatsApp, funds safe, source still under examination
Left-leaning 0Centre 2Right-leaning 0
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Mumbai on Tuesday after laying a wreath at the Taj memorial for 26/11 victims, where the hotel's security chief briefed him.
Latest: Rubio says he sees no obstacle to India-US trade deal; Gor says Trump-Modi meeting being arranged
Left-leaning 0Centre 57Right-leaning 4
One Indian and a Saudi citizen were killed in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam on 21 October, and eight people were injured, including two Indians.
Latest: Delhi calls Saudi attacks unacceptable as Shaybah drone debris reportedly kills two foreign workers
12 outlets, no real disagreement
Critical, Neutral or Supportive, scored separately. It refers to the Union government unless the story is about a state. On the spectrum strip, each dot is an article: its position is the ideology score and its colour is the stance.
If an article would score differently with the parties' roles reversed, that signal is partisanship. It goes into the stance tag, not the ideology score.
High, Medium or Low, based on how much of the article was read, how many clear signals it has, and whether they agree.
Stories with fewer than five articles are marked. A blindspot is a contested story where we found coverage from only one side.
Articles that touch none of the three dimensions, such as a car launch or a match report, carry no ideology score.
This prototype is refreshed by hand (last on 17 Oct, 03:00 IST). At launch:
| Wires and the top 20 outlets | checked every 5 minutes |
| All other outlets | checked every 15 minutes |
| New story | goes up at 3 articles from 2 or more outlets, marked Limited coverage |
| Live stories | new articles added every 15 minutes; summary rewritten at most hourly |
| Home page order | every 15 minutes |
New facts go into a dated update log at the top of the story. New articles carry an “Added” tag. If a note or list changes, the earlier version stays viewable.
A story is Live while coverage arrives, Winding down after about 2 days without new coverage, and Archived after about 7. Nothing is deleted: links never change, archived scores are frozen, and stories stay on their issue pages and in search.
NDTV, India Today, Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Indian Express, News18, ABP, Times Now and Mint block the reader used for this prototype, so their articles are missing. Each story shows how many of India’s 15 largest outlets we read. The launch pipeline will read outlets’ public feeds, TV transcripts and Hindi articles.
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No detail that could identify a child or a survivor of sexual violence (Juvenile Justice Act, POCSO, BNS section 72). Court cases are reported as what was said and alleged. No analysis of a poll in the 48 hours before voting there (Representation of the People Act, section 126). Press Council and NBDSA norms on communal incidents.