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Social media can support or undermine democracy – it comes down to how it’s designed

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states.It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified...

Prasar Bharati suspends DD official for not live telecasting Modi’s speech: Chennai

PM Modi’s address at the hackathon event aired only...

Indians ‘need to place themselves’ in position of Kashmiris to understand their travails

When the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir...

Ravish Kumar wins the inaugural Gauri Lankesh Memorial Award for Journalism

Eminent journalist, author and news anchor Ravish Kumar has...

News Behind the Barbed Wire – Voices From Behind Kashmir’s Information Blockade

A two-member team from the Network of Women in...

NWMI-FCS Report paints a “grim and despairing” picture of media in Kashmir

It has been a month since Kashmir went dark...

Citizens in Support of Journalist Pawan Jaiswal

Not a one-man’s fight, it’s the struggle for children’s...

Foreign Journalists asked to “leave” Assam, post NRC, state declared “protected area”

Assam has suddenly been placed under the “protected area...

Journalists Condemn Press Council of India’s support to Media Gag in Kashmir

Over 80 individual journalists and media organisations, have expressed...

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In the name of industrial progress, the Assam government has unleashed bulldozers across Dhubri and Goalpara, displacing thousands, mainly flood-hit, landless, Bengali-origin Muslims. With no meaningful rehabilitation. As land is cleared for a Rs 40,000 crore Adani power project, what’s being erased is more than just homes: it’s the fragile stability of lives long on the edge

Indian Muslims need to be protected as much from the communalism of their co-religionists as majoritarian communalism: In remembrance of CM Naim

An intrepid critique of entrenched and entitled Muslim elites, CM Naim, a historian and essayist, recently passed away at 85. Here his work is remembered for its out of the box thinking and commitment to both the culture and language around Urdu; an essay that recalls his works

Delhi Court sentences riots accused for promoting hatred against Muslims, sentences him to 3 years in custody

Lokesh Kumar Solanki convicted for inciting violence during 2020 Delhi riots; court calls his conduct “fuel to already simmering tensions” but releases him citing maximum sentence already served

Harassment by Delhi Police, blatant extortion & human rights’ violation in process of identification of “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants”: Brinda Karat to HM Amit Shah

Brinda Karat, former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-CPIM), has in a letter to the union home minister, Amit Shah highlighted the blatant violation of human rights, harassment and extortion, in the ongoing process of "identification of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants" by the Delhi police and other agencies.

Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states

Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer

Thane School Horror: Principal, attendant arrested for forcing girls to strip in menstruation check, case registered under POCSO

Girls as young as 10 were allegedly stripped and subjected to invasive checks by school staff in Thane’s Shahapur after bloodstains were found in a washroom, prompting arrests, protests, and charges under POCSO and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

Bihar:  SC signals that ECI should consider Aadhaar, EPIC (Voter ID card) & Ration card for electoral roll revision 

Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the sudden “special intensive revision” being conducted in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court (SC) pressed ECI to include Aadhaar, Voter ID Card, and Ration cards in Bihar's electoral roll revision process, since the only concern for the constitutional body was establishing accurate identity not citizenship