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Reporter attacked on DU Campus, DUJ condemns assault
The body of journalists has condemned the attack on a female reporter as also the fact that the police remained ‘mute spectators’
CJP files NBDSA complaint over Zee News’s ‘Kalicharan Maharaj vs 4 Maulanas’, alleging communal framing and hate tropes
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CJP moves NBDSA against Zee News for communal framing and editorial failure; seeks takedown, apology, and regulatory action
J & K: Attempt to muzzle FoE, Media? Police summons to media, journalists
The peremptory, even extra-legal summons to four journalists from national publications has drawn outrage; the repressive action, clearly an action of intimidation, is aimed at those who have reported on a controversial move by the J & K administration and police to collect information on Mosques etc in the union territory
Free Speech in India 2025: What the Free Speech Collective report reveals about a year of silencing
Based on data documenting 14,875 violations, the Free Speech Collective’s latest report traces how killings, arrests, mass censorship, corporate pressure and regulatory overreach combined to shrink India’s public sphere in 2025
Bangladesh: Assault and mob attack on journalists condemned by EGI
The Editors Guild of India has unequivocally condemned the physical assaults and incidents of mob attacks, vandalism and arson against prominent media persons and media establishments in Bangladesh.
Kerala’s LDF govt to defy Centre’s diktat, to screen all films as per schedule at IFFK
Senior politicians associated with the left government made it clear on social media within hours of news of the censorship of first 19, then 15 films by the Modi government, the films were slated to be screened at the prestigious International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK)
Interim bail to Gujarat journalist Mahesh Langa: SC
Langa has been in Sabarmati jail for over 14 months
NBDSA Raps Times Now Navbharat for communal, agenda-driven broadcast; orders removal of inflammatory segments
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In a win for Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), the broadcast regulator holds the channel responsible for stereotyping Muslims, manufacturing a false narrative, and linking unrelated crimes to an entire community
Pervasive fear, surveillance of media, spiral of anti-India sentiment in Kashmir: CCG
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Concerned Citizens’ Group (CCG) –a voluntary initiative set up in 2016--on its eleventh visit to Kashmir and Jammu, from October 28 to 31, 2025 and meetings with political actors, businessmen, teachers and other professionals apart from activists has released its report recently
Bihar & the Delusion of Independent Journalism: A Free Speech Record of Five Years
Free Speech Collective (FSC), has published a detailed report...
CJP flags casteist, anti-Dalit videos on YouTube targeting CJI Gavai; seeks urgent takedown
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CJP has filed a complaint highlighting two videos on YouTube carrying casteist and hateful commentary against Chief Justice B.R. Gavai. The organisation has demanded their prompt removal and action against the channel @AjeetBharti for violating the platform’s community guidelines
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Media
Reporter attacked on DU Campus, DUJ condemns assault
The body of journalists has condemned the attack on a female reporter as also the fact that the police remained ‘mute spectators’
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger
The author, a student in Bengaluru, asks why Dalit suffering is more readily received than Dalit anger in literature, cinema and public life. Is it because sorrow allows readers and viewers to remain sympathetic observers, while anger and refusal can challenge that comfortable distance?
Environment
Prioritise ecological security of country over “false narrative” of “highway development”: CCG to Govt & Courts
Former bureaucrats protest the “steady lowering of statutory safeguards for protecting India’s Environment and Forests” in an open letter to the government; both government and the judiciary need to prioritise the ecological security of our country and the health and life of its citizens over the false narrative of more roads, more buildings, more townships, more mines, more industries, more destruction of the natural world that is currently seen as progress.
Labour
Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces
The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.
Politics
After some dithering, Odisha government rejects premature release of Graham Staines murder convict Dara Singh
Odisha Chief Minister, Mohan Charan Majhi, had in 2022, when he was a BJP legislator supported demands for Dara Singh’s early release, a demand vocalised by Sudarshan TV’s editor, Suresh Chavhanke