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Communal violence erupts in Yavat, Pune over social media post; 17 arrested, multiple FIRs registered
A post alleging a temple rape in Madhya Pradesh sparked riots in Pune’s Yavat, a village already tense after a Shivaji statue desecration. As mobs torched vehicles and attacked property, police imposed curfew orders, fired tear gas, and launched a crackdown with multiple FIRs and mass detentions
Editors’ Guild urges government to remove COVID-19 era restrictions on journalists covering parliamentary proceedings
The Editors Guild of India has written to the speaker and has urged for the restoration of ‘complete’ access to the journalists to the parliamentary proceedings that had earlier been removed due to COVID-19 related protocols.
India’s Telecommunications Act notified, ushers in “modernisation”with privacy concerns
Sections 1, 2, 10 to 30, 42 to 44, 46, 47, 50 to 58, 61 and 62 of the Telecommunications Act, 2023 notified
Australian channel’s satirical YouTube video directed to be blocked by union government
A satirical takedown of the ruling government in India by an Australian channel has prompted the government to direct YouTube to take down the video.
Free And Fearless Journalism In A Fight For Survival
“The top ten countries to jail journalists were China, Myanmar, Belarus, Russia, Vietnam, Iran and Israel (tied for the sixth position), Eritrea, Egypt and Turkey.”
Kerala: BJP activists attack MediaOne TV headquarters during victory celebrations
Reports have risen of BJP workers attacking Media One office in Calicut after their sole victory in Kerala’s Thrissur. This is not the first time the media organisation has been targeted, in 2022 the central government had decided to ban the channel.
Elections Stories I missed in the newspapers that I buy
In his priceless ruminations throughout the 18th Lok Sabha polls the senior journalist brings us to us the shadows and silences by the “commercial” (“mainstream”) media during the coverage of the recent elections
2015 FTII protest headliner Payal Kapadia wins the Grand Prix award for her directorial debut in ‘All We Imagine as Light’
While there is an outpouring of congratulations for Kapadia on her win, many are reminding her of the disciplinary action taken against her by the FTII after the protest, which resulted in her losing a scholarship of 22,000 and a foreign exchange opportunity. Additionally, there was a smear campaign labelling her as "anti-national."
NAJ, DUJ, APWJF Welcome Bail to Journalists
Three journalists’ unions have welcomed the bail given to...
Asif Sultan, Kashmiri Journalist, gets bail in yet another UAPA case!
Even though the Court found no reason to doubt Sultan’s conduct as well as no chances of him fleeing justice, stringent restrictions on Sultan's communication methods and movements were imposed as bail conditions
After spending 7 months behind bars, Supreme Court declares the arrest and remand of NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha illegal!
By holding the arrest invalid and quashing the impugned remand application, the bench ordered the release of Prabir subject to satisfaction of the bails and bonds set by the trial Court since chargesheet has been filed
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