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Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis

On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective (FSC) assembles a powerful, deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing—centring the stories of jailed journalists Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj to expose the widening fault lines in India’s democratic promise

Tax raids unleashed on Dainik Bhaskar, Bharat Samachar media groups

Raids at Dainik Bhaskar premises in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat Maharashtra, Bharat Samachar at Lucknow

Over 1.4 crore children in Bihar don’t have access to digital devices: Centre in LS

The Minister of Education answered questions about how online education has been disrupted due to the Covid-19 lockdown

I did my duty as an Indian: Shyam Meera Singh on his removal from Aaj Tak

Despite the sudden termination notice due to Twitter comments against PM Modi, the journalist does not blame the India Today Group, but the government that forced ITG to take such a step

Why are so many people mourning Danish Siddiqui?

The photographs he took showed truth to power, and had empathy with the common man

Danish Siddiqui’s photojournalism captured the soul of the news

The Reuters photojournalist was killed while covering clashes between Afghan forces and Taliban in Kandahar

Manipur activist jailed under NSA for Facebook post criticising BJP

Erendro Leichombam and journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem have been booked under NSA for post against BJP leaders advocating cow dung as Covid cure

Maharashtra Adivasis still left in the dark!

Poor electricity supply adds to the digital divide by limiting internet access; work, finances and education interrupted

CJP Impact: Twitter suspends accounts posting sexually violent content against Muslim women

A total of 21 accounts have been suspended, and three accounts have been actioned for violating Twitter’s Media Policy after CJP’s complaint

How do casteism, bigotry continue to thrive in IITs?

A death allegedly by suicide, a resignation that exposes caste-based discrimination; happenings at IIT Madras are a sign of a deeper problem

The curious case of Twitter suspensions

Minister’s account suspended for an hour for copyright violations, activists accounts still suspend for flagging Islamophobia

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Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis

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