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Bihar & the Delusion of Independent Journalism: A Free Speech Record of Five Years

Free Speech Collective (FSC), has published a detailed report of Bihar’s Free Speech Record, November ‘20-’25 which it released on November 5 and may be accessed hereFree Speech CollectiveWith...

2 youths arrested for sharing “objectionable” photos of PM Modi and Shah

Two youths were arrested on Monday on charges under the IT Act for sharing photos that included Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Amit Shah.

Will advertisers consider punishing TV channels for unethical TRP strategies?

In light of recent insensitive coverage of issues of TV news channels, some of the top brands of India have raised concern about the impact of such toxic content on their brand.

Babri Masjid demolition case: The long road to justice

Tracing the course of the criminal case that is distinct from the civil suit in the Ayodhya dispute

If police are our friends, why are they beating us: University students

Students from AMU, JNU and JMI respond to the sweeping statements made by university administration officials during a webinar on university discipline.

I am not scared, this attack on me will resonate in society: Kamal Shukla

With a bandaged head injury, in pain when talking, the Bastar-based senior journalist says goons want to kill him for exposing sand mafia

What Bhagat Singh would have fought (for) in 2020 India

Romila Thapar on Bhagat Singh’s 112th Birth Anniversary, September 28, 2019. We are re- publishing this today, on the 113th Birth Anniversary

We are with Sudarshan News: Absurd slogans of NRIs in NY

Video of an NRI group supporting Sudarshan News surfaces.The channel’s deeply communal show ‘Bindas Bol’ appears to have attracted sympathisers.

Why Are gay Muslims held to standards that not even prophets fulfil?

There is no dearth of online YouTube videos and...

Twitterati bat for Farmers’ Rights, even as news media attempts distractions

Even as troll armies, IT Cells and news media continue to spread propaganda or divert attention, civil society, some journalists and ordinary Indians came together to bat for ‘kisan-mazdoor’ rights

Advocate-activist Babar Qadri shot dead by militants in Srinagar

Second political-social activist killed by in 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir

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