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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

Punjabi Press Club of British Columbia condemns attack on Indian photo journalist  

PTI photographer Ravi Choudhary, who took the now viral picture of a Sikh farmer being beaten, was attacked recently in Uttar Pradesh

Why SC refuses to quash FIR’s against Amish Devgan for his ‘Lootera Chishti’ remark

The top court in an important judgment elaborated on the concept of ‘Hate Speech’ as the news anchor was charged with the same offence

Uttar Pradesh: Photographer who clicked farmer being hit by police ‘attacked, beaten’

PTI photojournalist, Ravi Choudhary, alleged he was attacked by unidentified men in Muradnagar area, police refused to file FIR

Kerala Science Centre to be named after Golwalkar

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BUJ expresses shock at Times Group’s decision to shut down Mirror editions

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MP High Court puts counselling as bail condition for accused for anti CAA WhatsApp status

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Guess what Donald Trump and Amit Malviya have in common?

Both have a ‘Manipulated Media’ tag from Twitter.  However BJP's IT Cell boss Malviya is unlikely to lose his job, even though he is perhaps the first Indian political figure to be called out officially

Activists, intellectuals discuss the threat of NEP 2020 on Constitution Day

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What do right wing trolls earn by insulting India’s farmers?

Right Wing affiliated actor Kangana Ranaut, BJP’s Amit Malviya, etc lead troll army in amplifying fake news, and anti farmer propaganda

All it took was a WhatsApp ‘threat’ for UP police to take a 15-year-old away

The class 10 student is accused of allegedly threatening to 'blow up' CM Adityanath, family says he meant no harm

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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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