December 6, 2025 – India Headlines

Story gist: IndiGo airline cancelled hundreds of flights. CEO stated less than 1,000 cancellations expected today.

Bias summary: Left-leaning NDTV uses critical tone, emphasizing hundreds of cancellations and questioning IndiGo’s ticket sales practices. Center Indian Express provides neutral live updates, quoting CEO’s forecast of under 1,000 cancellations. Right-leaning coverage absent, omitting pro-business defenses or focus on operational challenges.

Story gist: Calcutta High Court refused to intervene in a dispute over a mosque foundation event in Murshidabad, West Bengal, organized by a Trinamool Congress MLA. Security was heightened ahead of the event.

Bias summary: Left-leaning NDTV emphasizes event details like Saudi clerics and biryani for 40,000, framing it as a grand community gathering tied to Trinamool. Center Hindustan Times stresses ‘Babri Masjid’ row, court refusal to intervene, and heightened security, highlighting controversy and tensions. Right-leaning coverage absent, missing potential critique of TMC government or event scale.

Story gist: The Centre informed the Rajya Sabha it is reworking procedures to resume MGNREGS in West Bengal. This follows a Zero Hour mention by Lok Sabha MP Asit Kumar Mal demanding restart and protests by TMC MPs in Parliament over central dues.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets (AITC) emphasize their MP’s Zero Hour demand for MGNREGS restart, framing it as advocacy against Centre’s delay. Center outlets (Times of India) neutrally highlight TMC MPs’ protests over unpaid dues, focusing on parliamentary action. Right-leaning coverage absent, omitting potential emphasis on Centre’s procedural fixes or state government lapses.

Story gist: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks in Delhi. They agreed on uninterrupted oil shipments from Russia to India and a trade target exceeding $100 billion by 2030.

Bias summary: Left-leaning Al Jazeera emphasizes ‘uninterrupted oil shipments’ as a key takeaway from Putin-Modi talks, highlighting energy ties. Center-leaning Hindustan Times focuses on Modi’s announcement of surpassing $100-billion trade target by 2030, stressing economic growth. Right-leaning coverage is absent, omitting potential emphasis on geopolitical risks or criticism of Russia-India relations.

Story gist: Madras High Court reprimanded personal comments against a judge during proceedings on Thiruparankundram temple dispute. DMK and BJP members clashed in Lok Sabha over Karthigai Deepam ritual at the temple.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like The Hindu emphasize the Lok Sabha face-off between DMK and BJP over the temple ritual, focusing on political confrontation. Center outlets like Live Law highlight the court’s stern warning with the quote ‘Don’t Test Our Patience,’ stressing judicial rebuke of personal attacks. Right-leaning coverage is absent, omitting pro-BJP framing of the dispute.