Sr. No. Headline Name Publication /Network 1 BUSINESS Print Shortlist 1 She who broke two glass ceilings Madhavankutty Pillai Open Magazine 2 It's not just rocket science Dummy! NS Ramnath Founding Fuel 3 Speak Uneasy M G Arun & Shweta Punj India Today 4 Behind the Glittering Facade, India’s Retail Workers Face Poor Pay Menaka Rao The Wire 5 The Tempest : Have Radhika and undermined NDTV? Krishn Kaushik The Caravan 2 HUMAN RIGHTS Print Shortlist 1 An Uncertain Refuge: The Fate of the Rohingyas in India Meher Ali The Caravan Magazine 2 Uncertainities of the Half Lives Nileena Atholi Grist Media & Yahoo Originals 3 Marathvada Series Mridula Chari Mid Day 4 Blinded by the state, ignored by society Majid Maqbool Open Magazine 5 The Grey side of the moon Priyadarshini Sen Television Shortlist 1 ArdhSatya-BundelKhand Rana Yashwant India News 2 License to rape Seemi Pasha India Today Television 3 Barbed wire Moumita Sen & Inderjit Kundu India Today Television 4 Blood in the forest Sreenivasan Jain NDTV 5 Harda, Madhya Pradesh Siddharth Ranjan Das NDTV 3 POLITICS Print Shortlist Vivekananda Nemana & Suresh 1 Is Capital Fever Making Vijayawada Ill? Grist Media Ghattamaneni 2 Operation Black rain broadcast K Ashish Cobrapost.com Nagaland conundrum: Are separatist groups collecting taxes or running 3 Ipsita Chakravarty Scroll.in extortion rackets? Sohini Chattopadhyay Catch News 4 EXCLUSIVE: Inside a Hindutva hostel: how RSS is rewiring the tribal mind Television Shortlist 1 Young and Restless in Bihar Seemi Pasha India Today 2 When Women Vote (Bihar Elections) Shreya Dhoundial & Marya Shakil CNN-IBN 3 Abhigyan Prakash NDTV Arvind Kejriwal's AAP Blaming Arun Jaitelt with 14 Yrs of tenure with DDCA 4 Prime time- Kiran Bedi interview NDTV 5 Dadri, Vigilantes and political patronage Sreenivasan Jain NDTV 4 ENVIRONMENT Print Shortlist Seven Year ago, everyone saw Delhi's air take a deadly U-turn but no one 1 Aniruddha Ghoshal & Pritha Chatterjee The Indian Express did a thing Why are we pretending that there isn't a growing mountain of menstrual 2 Nidhi Jamwal Scroll.in waste we need to deal with? 3 Atul Dev Vantage The Unending Fallout Of Unilever’s Thermometer Factory In Kodaikanal 4 Rock Quarrying Varughese C Thomas Malayala Manorama Daily 5 A farmer's wake up call to India Parth Meena Nikhil Catch News 5 SPORTS Print Shortlist 1 Who wants to fight this girl? Jonathan Selvaraj The Indian Express 2 The curious case of an indian arab cricketer Lhendup Gyatso Bhutia Open Magazine 3 Man of the series in the england, but no job at home Subodh Mayure Mid-day Multimedia Ltd. 4 No Horses for courses in SAI'S world Saurabh Duggal Hindustan Times 5 Stolen cows lead Kipruto into the world of marathons Rohit Bhardwaj TOI Television Shortlist 1 Aamir Rafiq Peerzada NDTV Television Operation Everest- Summiteers to saviours Dangerous sports 2 Suprita Das NDTV Out of corner-Indian women hockey teams qualification for Olympics 3 Curious case of Blind Commentator Mahavir Rawat NDTV 4 India Maange cup Rajeev Mishra India News 5 Sania Mirza interview Rajeev Mishra India News 6 THE BIG PICTURE Shortlist 1 Thank you for your hands. B Muralikrishnan Mathurbhumi Daily Elephant became violent while the hindu religious procession was going 2 Sibu K B Malayala Manorama Daily was going on in Palakad Prime Minister at the event of "Golden Jubilee of 1965 Indo Pak war' at 3 Kamal Kishore Kamboj The 4 Shashruti Makade waits for her turn to swimming competition Satyajit Sadanand Desai Mirror The seats have been converted into benches so childern can keep their 5 SL Shanth Kumar TOI books and write there 7 HEALTH & WELLNESS Print Shortlist 1 The Antibiotic Nation Lhendup Gyatso Bhutia Open Magazine Leprosy may not be as stigmatised as it used to be in the ancient world but 2 Roshni P Nair DNA selevel hurdles still remain

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