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Poonch Court orders FIR against Zee News, News18 for falsely labelling deceased teacher as “Pakistani terrorist” during Operation Sindoor coverage

While court orders FIR for defamation and public mischief, CJP had earlier filed complaint with broadcaster highlighting defamatory, Islamophobic coverage

Will the gov’t continue to restrict journalists’ access to Parliament?

A protest march was held on December 2, against the various restrictions on media’s entry into Parliament and the Press Gallery

Why are Parliament proceedings still restricted for most journalists?

Citing Covid protocol the regime grants access to only select media personnel, restricting access to others; journalists to hold a protest march

Editors Guild of India sends fact-finding team to Agartala

Team to investigate reports of draconian laws being used to prevent media from reporting communal violence in Tripura

Minor technicality allows Zee News to avoid answering for its communal “Zameen Jihad” show

CJP had moved NBDSA over the Islamophobic, inflammatory and hateful content of the show, but a minor delay of six days allowed Zee News to dodge the inquiry citing statute of limitations

Tripura: Journalists still make headlines for surviving attacks, rather than reporting them

Various journalists covering the aftermath of Tripura’s communal violence have been questioned, detained, arrested, allegedly even beaten up , for doing their jobs

NBDSA finds Zee News violated Code of Ethics in coverage of Farmers’ Protest

Use of provocative captions condemned, Zee news ordered to take down videos

UAE Princess pushes for Sudheer Chaudhary’s name to be dropped from Abu Dhabi event

He is all set to speak at an even by ICAI, but pressure is mounting to drop his name from the list of speakers

Videos of News Nation’s “Conversion Jihad” show to be taken down: NBDSA

CJP had complained about blatant vilification of the minority community in the programme where the anchor constantly used terms and phrases that incited hate against Muslims

NBDSA deems Times Now’s show on Teesta Setalvad ‘devoid of objectivity’

The channel has been issued a warning and ordered to take down the video from its website, Youtube, and any other links

Journalists Samriddhi Sakunia and Swarna Jha granted bail

They were detained in Assam on Sunday after a case was filed against them by the Tripura police for "spreading communal disharmony"

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