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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

Muslim journalist, 3 others arrested near Hathras, booked under sedition law 

The four were arrested on Monday when they were driving down from Delhi to Hathras

UP Police arrest Muslim journalist, 3 others near Hathras for carrying ‘suspicious literature’

Police claim the men are linked to Campus Front of India, and its parent outfit the Popular Front of India

SC: Sudarshan TV case adjourned as Centre seeks time

At the last hearing, the Centre had informed the court that a show cause notice had been issued and during yesterday’s hearing, the court was informed that another notice has been issued

Intercepted, questioned, harassed: A typical day for Kashmiri journalists

Fahad Shah, editor-in-chief, of the news portal The Kashmir Walla, recalls his experience of being intercepted, and interrogated as he was returning home after covering farmer protests in Punjab. He shared the following statement on social media. 

Decoding the hate campaign unleashed by propaganda channel Best Hindi News

The channel has been sharing videos of self-proclaimed guardian of Hindu dharma, Deepak Sharma, in which he backs the 4 upper caste accused in the Hathras gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman.

Editors Guild condemns UP for hindering reportage in Hathras case

Some journalists’ phones had also been allegedly tapped illegally

Fake video of Union Health Minister being ‘beaten up’ resurfaces

The minister Dr Harshvardhan himself had called the video fake in 2016, but who is trending it again today, and why?

Godse trends on Gandhi Jayanti! Twitter becomes a platform for Us vs Them narrative

Twitteratis served a severe blow to Bapu’s memory as #नाथूराम_गोडसे_जिंदाबाद started trending on October 2 – Gandhi Jayanti!

Was Mughal Rule the period of India’s Slavery?

Communal ideology regards Islam as alien religion and Muslims as foreigners

HRDA condemns attack on Kanker journalists, calls it breach of Constitutional rights

Days after a group of journalists were physically assaulted outside Kotwali police station, the Human Rights organisations released a statement condemning the failings of the police in the incident.

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