Media

Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

Ismat versus the World

  BJP Government Purging Plurality and Diversity from Textbooks   My grandmother...

Where is the news? Peaceful students protest faces police brutality in Delhi

If it bleeds, it doesn’t lead! For those of us...

To Ban or Not to Ban ?

 Congressman and Rajya Sabha member of parliament (MP), PC...

The Mob within Indian Democracy

  When the editors of Communalism Combat asked us to...

Freedom of the Press Under Attack ?

  The following is the text of a public statement...

Destroyed records resurface

Excerpt from CJP’s letter to SIT investigating officer AK...

Media as collaborators

The dubious role of the fourth estate   The Kannada daily,...

Style and prejudice

The profound irony of Aamir is that it depicts...

Phantasms of the living

No one strives for truth in cinema because reality...

Building a character

On Shaurya and the weakening secular fabric of India’s...

Trending

Related VIDEOS

ALL STORIES

ALL STORIES

Delhi: Ayaan Saifi, a 19-year old, stabbed to death in nation’s capital on April 30

Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”