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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
Editors Guild condemns UP for hindering reportage in Hathras case
Some journalists’ phones had also been allegedly tapped illegally
Fake video of Union Health Minister being ‘beaten up’ resurfaces
The minister Dr Harshvardhan himself had called the video fake in 2016, but who is trending it again today, and why?
Godse trends on Gandhi Jayanti! Twitter becomes a platform for Us vs Them narrative
Twitteratis served a severe blow to Bapu’s memory as #नाथूराम_गोडसे_जिंदाबाद started trending on October 2 – Gandhi Jayanti!
HRDA condemns attack on Kanker journalists, calls it breach of Constitutional rights
Days after a group of journalists were physically assaulted outside Kotwali police station, the Human Rights organisations released a statement condemning the failings of the police in the incident.
2 youths arrested for sharing “objectionable” photos of PM Modi and Shah
Two youths were arrested on Monday on charges under the IT Act for sharing photos that included Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Amit Shah.
Will advertisers consider punishing TV channels for unethical TRP strategies?
In light of recent insensitive coverage of issues of TV news channels, some of the top brands of India have raised concern about the impact of such toxic content on their brand.
I am not scared, this attack on me will resonate in society: Kamal Shukla
With a bandaged head injury, in pain when talking, the Bastar-based senior journalist says goons want to kill him for exposing sand mafia
We are with Sudarshan News: Absurd slogans of NRIs in NY
Video of an NRI group supporting Sudarshan News surfaces.The channel’s deeply communal show ‘Bindas Bol’ appears to have attracted sympathisers.
Twitterati bat for Farmers’ Rights, even as news media attempts distractions
Even as troll armies, IT Cells and news media continue to spread propaganda or divert attention, civil society, some journalists and ordinary Indians came together to bat for ‘kisan-mazdoor’ rights
Advocate-activist Babar Qadri shot dead by militants in Srinagar
Second political-social activist killed by in 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir
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