About Us | NWS uncovers overlooked global stories.

In German, Grenze means border. In Arabic, it is Al Hudud. In Japanese, Kyōkai. In Hindi, Seema. Words, it seems, know how to draw lines. At NWS, we prefer to believe that stories know how to cross them.

NWS is an exclusive, cross-border platform devoted to unearthing the untold, the uncharted and the quietly forgotten — the stories exiled to the far edge of the map. For our team, the world itself is the storyboard, and no frontier is reason enough to look away.

Our media venture was forged in 2026, in the thick of global conflicts, at a moment when geopolitics was writing the terms of ordinary lives, whether they willed it or not. In an age of globalisation, the international finds its echo in the local. We choose our stories accordingly — only those with a genuinely global bearing, whether they touch on climate change, conflict, culture, politics, crime, economics, migration, foreign policy, the environment or simply the human condition. Originality of reporting is our compass.

Founded by a team of investigative journalists, NWS is built, wholly and unapologetically, on exclusivity. Through our World and India sections, we tell stories in which two or more nations share the stage as protagonists. Our dedicated OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) desk turns to the digital trail — piecing together evidence and verifying fact from the fragments the internet leaves behind. Our Commentary section, meanwhile, draws its depth from veteran experts and respected voices across their fields.

Spanning continents and regions alike, the NWS network gathers together a formidable company of reporters, researchers, analysts, video journalists and photojournalists — a fellowship for whom no story is ever too far away to matter.

True to our tagline, News without Exaggeration, NWS filters out noise and sensationalism. Every story we publish is investigated with rigour and passed through layer upon layer of scrutiny before it ever reaches you.

NWS exists to remain independent — bringing the world's stories home through storytelling that can be trusted, and holding fast, always, to the best practices of journalism and highest editorial standards.

Governance

Murali Challa

Non-Executive Chairman

Murali Challa is a technology entrepreneur, investor and business leader whose career, spanning nearly three decades, has been built at the intersection of enterprise technology, digital transformation and entrepreneurial vision.

He has held leadership roles at IBM and Deloitte Consulting, helped steer a federal technology consulting firm through growth to a successful acquisition, and lent his hand — as founder, investor and adviser — to ventures across technology, AI, digital media, real estate, manufacturing and other sectors of promise.

Murali is the Founder of F3 Media and serves as Non-Executive Chairman of NWS, offering governance, steady leadership and business oversight in support of the platform's growth. He steps back entirely from editorial decisions and publishing, so the NWS newsroom's independence remains intact.

Editorial Team

Sanjaya Baru

Editorial Advisor

Sanjaya Baru’s four-decade career has traversed the worlds of journalism, statecraft and scholarship alike. He edited The Financial Express and Business Standard, before serving as Media Advisor, spokesperson and speechwriter to former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from 2004 to 2009.

He is currently Founder-Trustee of the Forum for National Security Studies, India, and Distinguished Fellow at both the United Service Institution of India and the Centre for Aerospace Power & Strategic Studies.

Between 2011 and 2016, he was director of geo-economics and strategy at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London, having earlier sat on India’s National Security Advisory Board (1999–2001). He has also served on the Governing Board of the Centre for Policy Research, and held visiting professorships at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Indian School of Public Policy, and taught economics at the University of Hyderabad and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.

A prolific author, his body of work spans economic history, biography and geopolitics—from The Accidental Prime Minister (2014) and 1991: How PV Narasimha Rao Made History (2016) to his most recent volume, Secession of the Successful: The Flight Out of New India (2025), tracing India’s evolving fortunes across decades of change.

Rahul Devulapalli

Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Rahul Devulapalli carries with him over fifteen years of experience in the profession. His career has taken him through the ranks of several news organisations, at the helm of newsrooms in varying capacities, each posting sharpening a distinct facet of the craft. He has reported stories that went beyond borders, turned to OSINT techniques to chase down evidence others might have missed, and lent his hand to shaping editorial strategy from the ground up.

Geopolitics, conflict and the wider theatre of international affairs remain, as ever, the ground on which his work is built.

Balakrishna Medabayani

Co-Founder and Executive Editor

Balakrishna has drawn together journalists from over fifty countries in a shared endeavour: to give voice to stories the world too often looks past — on governance, human rights, development and international affairs.

Fourteen years spent in Indian television and digital media have shaped his craft, built in equal measure by field investigation, documentary research and open-source intelligence.

Among his notable assignments, he was among the first Indian journalists to report from Sabarimala following the Supreme Court's 2018 verdict, coverage that soon drew the gaze of national and international media alike. Across every assignment, his compass has held steady: hard questions, unyielding facts, and stories that deserve the light.

Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

Managing Editor

Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta has spent nearly two decades chronicling the fault lines of Indian democracy — federal politics, the communal cauldron, and the shifting tides of caste and community in India's electoral landscape. Rising from reporter to editor, he led politics coverage as Political Editor at the Wire until recently, steering teams and shaping story packages.

His reporting has taken him across the length and breadth of India, where he has filed long-form investigative stories on rural distress, religion, human rights and culture — always bringing a historian's instinct for context to his journalism.

His work has often ventured where few dared: he was part of the Pegasus spyware investigation, broke the story on sexual harassment allegations against a sitting Chief Justice of India, and pursued inquiries into communal riots and financial scandals still under investigation. A 2024 Asia Journalism Fellow in Singapore, he continues to write with the rigour of an archivist and the instincts of a reporter who has seen the country up close.