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What it means for you: The Supreme Court says internet access is a fundamental right for children too, with safeguards allowed; reports say it urged digital safety lessons in curricula.
Fundamental right
A basic right guaranteed by the Constitution that courts can enforce.
Safe-harbour protection
Legal shield that stops online platforms being held liable for users' content.
Hash database
A list of digital fingerprints used to automatically spot known illegal files.
Latest: Court also wants digital safety and sex education in core curriculum, with NCERT and SCERTs preparing material
What it means for you: Voter-roll revision in 17 states and Union Territories uses 1 January 2027 as its qualifying date, relevant to first-time voters.
Special Summary Revision
A periodic update of the voter list, adding, correcting or removing entries.
Electoral rolls
The official lists of people registered to vote in an area.
Qualifying date
The reference date used to decide who counts in a voter-list update.
Latest: Congress demands SIR be stopped and deleted voters restored; EC says its orders have full legal sanction
What it means for you: A UN expert said Indian youth faced retaliation for speaking on mental health and gender justice; India called it hearsay, citing constitutional protections.
Special Rapporteur
An independent expert appointed by the UN to report on a human rights issue.
Hearsay
Information passed on by others that has not been directly verified.
UNGA Third Committee
A UN General Assembly committee that handles human rights and social issues.
Latest: Romero alleged on X that 2,500-plus protesters were sent to remote detention centres; Swarup cited fast-track courts
What it means for you: Symbiosis put a Nagpur campus professor on leave and set up a committee over alleged messages to a former student; police report no complaint.
ABVP
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, a national student organisation linked to the RSS.
VHP
Vishva Hindu Parishad, a Hindu religious and social organisation.
What it means for you: ED alleges ₹85.79 crore in advance fees was laundered after 32 FIITJEE centres closed, affecting 14,411 students; the claims are untested in court.
Enforcement Directorate (ED)
A central agency that investigates financial crimes such as money laundering.
Money laundering
Hiding the illegal origin or use of money by passing it through other channels.
Prosecution complaint
A formal document filed in court to start a trial under the money-laundering law.
Latest: ED says probe into FIITJEE continues; HT could not reach company as listed number does not exist
What it means for you: Proposed exam reforms would generate papers just before tests and move more exams online; a critic warns rural, poor students could be left out.
Task force
A special group set up to study a problem and suggest solutions.
Question bank
A large stored collection of questions from which exam papers can be drawn.
NEET-UG
The national entrance test for undergraduate medical courses.
What it means for you: Hyundai's $15.5 billion India plan for 2026–2032 and its new Pune plant, which will grow output to 3.2 lakh cars a year by 2030, point to manufacturing activity.
Investment plan
A company's announced commitment to spend money on factories, products or operations over several years.
Export
Making goods in one country to sell in other countries.
What it means for you: The Madras High Court said children appearing in campaign videos urging parents to vote is poor parenting but not a legal ground to void an election.
Election petition
A court case challenging the result of an election.
What it means for you: Students in Odisha's colleges and universities voted in campus union elections on 15 October, the first in eight years, amid clashes and allegations of pressure.
Student union
An elected body that represents students of a college or university.
Unopposed
Winning a post without a contest because no other candidate stands.
ABVP
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, a student organisation linked to the BJP.
13 Oct – 19 Oct · 8 questions · answers stay in your browser
In Kolkata, what did preliminary autopsies point to as the main cause of death in the Chorbagan Durga Puja pandal crowd surge?
The summary says preliminary autopsies point to traumatic asphyxia as the main cause, with final reports still awaited. Read the story →
Who was ordered to conduct the magisterial inquiry into the truck accident near the Sheetla Mata temple in Gwalior, due within seven days?
Collector Ruchika Chauhan ordered a magisterial inquiry by ADM CB Prasad, due within seven days. Read the story →
Within how many hours must platforms report unknown-origin material under the Supreme Court's internet access ruling?
Platforms must report unknown-origin material within two hours and acknowledge complaints within 24 hours. Read the story →
What qualifying date has the Election Commission set for the Special Summary Revision of electoral rolls in 17 states and Union Territories?
The Election Commission directed the revision with 1 January 2027 as the qualifying date. Read the story →
Under which US law did President Trump waive sanctions and tariffs of up to 100% on buyers of Russian oil?
Trump signed an executive order waiving the measures under the Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act. Read the story →
By what percentage of MRP (excluding GST) has the NPPA capped trade margins on 137 non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs?
The NPPA capped trade margins at 30% of MRP, excluding GST, with revised prices from November 9. Read the story →
Which food regulator has begun legal proceedings against Surya Food & Agro, Dodla Dairy and UEIR Organic Foods?
The food regulator FSSAI said it has begun legal proceedings against the three firms over food-safety violations. Read the story →
Where is the Enforcement Directorate asking Pinarayi Vijayan to appear on October 23 in the CMRL-Exalogic money laundering case?
The ED summons asks him to appear at its Kochi office on October 23 at 11 am. Read the story →
How we score
Ideology score, −10 to +10
Left-leaning (−10 to −3)
Secular-pluralist framing, minority protection, caste justice and voter access, civil liberties, an active state.
Centre (−2 to +2)
Several positions represented fairly, neutral language, reporting kept apart from opinion.
Right-leaning (+3 to +10)
Cultural nationalism, national strength and security, scepticism of group-based policy, voter-roll integrity, market-led growth.
Stance toward the government
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.
The swap test
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.
Confidence
High, Medium or Low, based on how much of the article was read, how many clear signals it has, and whether they agree.
Limited coverage and blindspots
Stories with fewer than five articles are marked. A blindspot is a contested story where we found coverage from only one side.
Not ideological
Articles that touch none of the three dimensions, such as a car launch or a match report, carry no ideology score.
How often the feed refreshes
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
Updates are added, never rewritten
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.
Live, winding down, archived
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.
Large outlets missing
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.
Who is accountable
Editor and grievance officer
Editor-in-charge: [name to be added before launch]. Grievance officer under the IT Rules, 2021: [name and contact to be added before launch]. Complaints are acknowledged within 24 hours and resolved within 15 days.
Funding and ownership
[Who owns and funds Nazariya, to be published before launch]. Nazariya will list every funder and will not accept money from any political party.
Appeals
Anyone, including the outlet that published an article, can appeal a score: tap any score on a story page, then "Appeal this score" to write to the editor. Outlets can also dispute a summary. The editor reviews every appeal, and any change is recorded below. Appeals: [appeals email to be added before launch].
Rules we follow
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.
Corrections log
16 Oct · Goregaon toddler death: removed the building's name and an unverified claim about the 10-year-old's health, to protect the child's identity.
16 Oct · India–US trade deal: merged two duplicate story pages into one.
16 Oct · INS Mangrol: one report names the commissioning officer differently from three others; flagged in the story, not resolved.