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JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed

Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

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Gauri Lankesh honoured in Canada

The City of Burnaby proclaims September 5 as Gauri Lankesh Day

Censorship in learning tarnishes India’s international image: DTF member Dhusiya

AC, DTF and concerned experts heavily criticise the Oversight Committee’s call to remove three significant Dalit women writers from the English literature syllabus.

Indian Muslims and the Allure of Sharia

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Hate Watch: Muslim bangle seller thrashed, wares looted in Indore

Video showing men mercilessly beating him and warning him to never enter any Hindu locality again, goes viral

Gauri Lankesh was a martyr to the cause of secular ideas

Celebrated journalists came together at an event to honour the life and work of Lankesh, and to discuss the current era of surveillance

Oppressed but not beaten: Afghani accounts on social media

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Journalists are targeted by all hardliner regimes, this time in Afghanistan

International media groups and organisations are asking governments to come together and make an “Emergency Plan for Afghan Journalism”

Delhi: Women’s group calls upon media to cover the ire of Nangal villagers

As on-ground protests continue in wake of the Delhi minor girl’s gang rape, media attention has shifted to legal proceedings.

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