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What happens when young people refuse to simply watch?Teesta Setalvad speaks with Saurav Das about youth activism, intergenerational solidarity, “School Thik Karo”, social audits of government schools, police accountability...

Religious conversion for marriage, disconcerting: Allahabad HC

The court referred to the Special Marriage Act as a solution to people professing different faiths

Vigil in memory of the victims of Sikh Genocide held in Surrey

The members of South Asian community came together to...

Rethink advertising on channels that spread discord: Constitutional Conduct Group

Former All India and Central Services officers write open letter to corporates to rethink advertising policy that may indirectly be funding hate speech

Plea in Delhi HC seeks regulating news channels from broadcasting content on communal disharmony 

Plea moved in the Delhi High court after right wing news channel Sudarshan TV's show Bindas Bol called Tanishq ad ‘advertisement jihad’

Right to free speech does not mean a licence to promote hate speech: Editors Guild of India

Guild tells Republic TV to behave responsibly, asks police to ensure investigation does not become a tool to suppress media rights

Centre to publish order against Sudarshan news complaints, informs SG

During a brief hearing on October 26, in the hate speech related case. the Solicitor General told the Supreme Court that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was ready to publish its order against the broadcast of Bindas Bol show of Sudarshan News TV that was held to be prima facie communal in nature.

NBSA finally cracking down on TV news channels airing insensitive, derogatory content

Times Now held guilty of violating principles of self-regulation, Aaj Tak, Zee News, News 24 and India TV told air public apologies for insensitive and sensationalised reporting  

Take urgent action, prevent using Sedition to threaten journalists: IFJ, IPI tell PM Modi

Harassment of journalists in India is making Global news, International Federation of Journalists and International Press Institute write to the Prime Minister 

Will Uttar Pradesh police leave Prashant Kanojia alone now?

After months in jail for sharing a tweet, journalist Prashant Kanojia will hopefully be a free man today, he was granted Bail on October 21

Stop harassment of Anuradha Bhasin and other independent voices in Kashmir: NWMI

Network of Women in Media, India, and Delhi Union of Journalists condemn the continued targeting of journalists

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