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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...

Khargone: Why is the administration ignoring the proliferation of hate on social media?

Given how incendiary forwards and inflammatory speeches incite Communal hate and targeted violence, administrative inaction is worrisome

Kashmir: Journalist Aasif Sultan jailed under PSA, after getting bail 

He has already been imprisoned for four years; under the PSA an individual can be detained without trial for up to six months

Teesta Setalvad is NOT making any movie titled “The Gujarat Files”: CJP to YouTube news channels

Two YouTube news channels had aired baseless, inflammatory and defamatory rumours about the Human rights defender’s involvement with a movie based on the 2002 Gujarat violence

Does news of assaults on journalists not reach any minister’s reading list?

Journalists have allegedly been arrested, stripped, assaulted and intimidated in different states across the country, all for speaking truth to power

DUJ announces Committee for Communal Harmony to battle hate

The Union demands immediate arrest of the hate mongers who assaulted seven journalists who were covering the Hindu Mahapanchayat

Adani group defamation case: Guj HC turns down Newsclick’s plea against interim injunction

The Rs 100 crore defamation case involves two articles about former Justice Arun Mishra’s alleged “gift” to the conglomerate

Uttar Pradesh: Journalists who reported on leaked question papers arrested

Ballia edition of Amar Ujala had published the leaked paper in the morning of the day when examination was to be held from 2 P.M

Stop asking such questions… else it won’t be good for you: Ramdev to reporter

Journalist had reminded Ramdev who had once famously asked people to vote for a government that will give petrol at Rs 40 per litre

Kashmir: Journalist Fahad Shah faces fourth FIR now under J&K PSA!

Are security laws in the Union Territory an excuse to stifle the Kashmir media?

Silence is not an option: Journalists to India’s Constitutional institutions

Senior journalists appeal for action against hate speech and open calls for genocide

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