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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

Covid-19: UP shuts schools for students up to class 8 till March 31 

Superspreader events such as weddings, and public’s laxity with Covid-19 prevention guidelines to blame for fresh surge

Ashoka University and India’s dwindling academic freedom

The resignation of renowned intellectuals as faculty members of the University has invoked responses from not just Indian, but also international academicians, and academic freedom is now being debated

Assamese made a compulsory subject for non-Assamese school students

Decision taken by state government with eye on the upcoming polls, hopes to consolidate Assamese nationalist vote

Mahad Satyagraha: After 94 years, do we have Equality, Dignity & Access?

Ninety-four years ago, to the date, Babasaheb Ambedkar walked to the public water tank/pond – Chavdar tale – with fellow satyagrahis (protesters) and drank water from a common property resource denied to the Dalit Untouchables on March 20, 1927

Delhi court issues notice to Arnab Goswami for PFI ‘sting operation’

Popular Front of India’s PR Director has filed a civil defamation suit against Republic TV for showing a doctored video that allegedly defames him

Over 42,000 schools lack drinking water facilities: Centre in RS

The Centre also informed the Rajya Sabha that around 15,000 government schools don’t have toilets

FIR against Rajasthan Textbook Board for claiming Islamic terrorism as a strand of Islam

Objections were raised by the Rajasthan Muslim Forum, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and Muslim Parishad Sansthan

Was the ‘BHU Professor Nita Ambani’ controversy a diversion from other issues?

A protest was held by BHU students against the proposal to make Nita Ambani a visiting professor, followed by RIL denial

AISA and other student organisations demand reopening of Jamia Campus!

According to student activists, the closure of the campus area is affecting the education of many students especially those studying in non-English languages

Nita Ambani may soon be teaching Women Studies at BHU

The University’s Women studies and Development center has invited Ambani, to be a visiting professor at the university

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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

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