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DEVELOPING · 9 OCT → 21 OCT 2026 · 13 EDITIONS · 32 OUTLETS

Thousands detained during protests demanding Indian election chief’s resignation

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 16 32 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 11 Oct 00:23 UTC · Hundreds detained as police block anti-CEC protest in Delhi 11 Oct 06:15 UTC · Court orders release of three CJP activists after mass detentions at anti-CEC protest 11 Oct 12:14 UTC · CJP Leaders Released as Detentions Continue During Election Chief Protests 12 Oct 00:15 UTC · CJP protests continue as leaders are released and Supreme Court limits detentions 12 Oct 12:20 UTC · CJP leaders released as protests against election chief continue 13 Oct 00:22 UTC · Thousands detained during protests demanding Indian election chief’s resignation

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 6 HEADLINES

  1. 11 Oct, 00:23 UTC

    Hundreds detained as police block anti-CEC protest in Delhi

  2. 11 Oct, 06:15 UTC

    Court orders release of three CJP activists after mass detentions at anti-CEC protest

  3. 11 Oct, 12:14 UTC

    CJP Leaders Released as Detentions Continue During Election Chief Protests

  4. 12 Oct, 00:15 UTC

    CJP protests continue as leaders are released and Supreme Court limits detentions

  5. 12 Oct, 12:20 UTC

    CJP leaders released as protests against election chief continue

  6. 13 Oct, 00:22 UTC

    Thousands detained during protests demanding Indian election chief’s resignation

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Jantar Mantar · 4 outlets
  • Abhijeet Dipke · 4 outlets
  • Gyanesh Kumar · 3 outlets
  • Connaught Place · 3 outlets
  • Election Commission · 3 outlets
  • Ratna Singh · 3 outlets
  • Rahul Gandhi · 3 outlets
  • Indira Gandhi · 3 outlets

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • people detained: 1,200 (1 from 10 Oct 03:52) → 4,800 (1 from 10 Oct 06:01) → 70 (1 from 10 Oct 06:01) → 1,000 (1 from 10 Oct 06:01) → 200 (1 from 11 Oct 20:44)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.