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From news to real estate: P Sainath on how corporate power is undermining media freedom
The other day, P. Sainath was in Ahmedabad to deliver a lecture on the "Role of Media in Democracy: Prospects and Retrospect." An excellent speaker, he is not just...
Ex IPS Officer NC Asthana’s twitter account suspended for violating rules
Retired officer tweets against Muslim minorities and spews hate online
Hate Buster! Kolkata cop was not killed by mob protesting Nupur Sharma’s anti-Prophet comments
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Constable Choudup Lepcha died by suicide after opening fire on passersby and shooting dead a woman outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Park Circus
Weaponised Journalism: How many news publications really understand the gravity of illegal demolitions?
The selective coverage of the Prayagraj demolition also presents the state of journalism in India
Most troubling abuse of YouTube in India involves targeting of Muslims by backers of the BJP: NYU Stern Report
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India with 450 million users is the platform’s biggest market, and content creators have been fuelling Islamophobia, finds the report
Thane youth thrashed for using free speech?
A mob of around 125 people gathered outside Ansari’s house to demand an apology for his Instagram story
Now Navika Kumar booked by Maharashtra police!
Following Friday protest, Maharashtra police names TV anchor Navika Kumar in FIR
NBDSA acts on CJP’s complaint, directs Zee Hindustan to take down “Vaccine Jihad” video
Reporting was replete with fake news, misinformation and communal bias; even “correction” did not follow guidelines
Selectively targeted says journalist Saba Naqvi, named in Hate Speech FIR
"I am committed to the secular and liberal ethos of India and stand against any fundamentalism, hate speech and injustice," Saba Naqvi said
UP: Media adds communal tone to Kanpur Qazi’s words
In second statement, the Qazi clarifies that he was only speaking for those wrongly arrested by the police
Threat letter from Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent Issues after BJP Leaders’ Comments
The reported 'warning' statement calls for attacks in Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.
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Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra
A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.
Politics
Protests across Maharashtra denounce the Public Security Act as unconstitutional and anti-democratic
Opposition, rights groups, and people’s movements unite to call it an “anti-people, anti-democratic law”
Rule of Law
Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt
In the case of Wikimedia v. ANI Media Private Limited & Ors. the apex court reaffirmed free speech and restrained a Delhi High Court order that was held, on examination to be disproportionate