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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

Journalist beaten at Amit Shah’s rally in UP after recording women saying they were paid to attend rally

A Delhi based journalist; Raghav Trivedi was reportedly beaten by BJP workers at a rally for Amit Shah in Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli. The journalist was beaten after the workers reportedly thought he was a Muslim.

Press Club of India dismayed at the ECI, not holding a single press conference: urges release of all poll data

PCI, Delhi has demanded that the Election Commission of India (ECI) holds a press conference after every phase of voting and entire data, including absolute number of votes polled and final percentage of voting be released by the next day of polling, stressing citizen’s right to be informed

YouTube reinstates Bolta Hindustan account, cites no wrongdoing after government order

Bolta Hindustan YouTube account’s suspension by YouTube gets revoked one month after the government issued an order to Google to remove the platform’s account citing the country's IT Act 2000 and 2021.

When your past comes back to haunt you: Hindu Mahasabha & Muslim League

How Hindutva Parivar's 'ideological ancestors' supported the British & Muslim League against Indians

How free is free and can there be freedom without responsibility: Courts on media coverage of trials, erring conduct of anchors

From KM Nanavati case in 1962 to the Sushant Singh Rajput case in 2020, India’s constitutional courts, have time and again made strong observations on media trials especially when investigations are underway; reasoned Guidelines however have still not evolved. CJP looks at critical jurisprudence around media coverage on contentious issue, specifically the role and conduct of the anchor

Absent in Elections 2024: Dalits and the historic battle for land

Caste, big capital, entrenched political influence continues to determine access to to land. Violence is the means to quell  India’s Dalit communities as they struggle to reclaim land that is tilled by them.Punjab, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu have seen emergent movements around Dalit land rights but these are not reflected in manifestos of political formations, yet.

Meet Ambedkarite journalists using social media to bring us stories from the margins, foregrounding both their hurdles & achievements

Carving a space for themselves outside corporate media houses, independent Dalit journalists are making their voice heard, showcasing both successes and challenges of digital media; these conversations unveil an insidious and discriminatory censorship by platforms like YouTube on content that showcases caste discrimination

Media fraternity condemns government directed ban of independent media channels

After YouTube, notified by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, banned several independent media channels on its platform, including National Dastak and Bolta Hindustan, the Press Club of India and DIGIPUB have released statements condemning the issue.

After Bolta Hindustan, Centre tells YouTube to remove National Dastak channel

The move by the government, right before elections, is making many people, including the opposition, decry it as press censorship.

Bridging Faiths, Uniting Hearts: Innovating Interfaith Dialogue on Campus

An Inspiring Journey with Hindu Muslim Harmony Fellows Sharing Stories of Fostering Peace and Understanding

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Evicted, Accused, and Deleted: The shrinking space for Muslim citizenship

From migrant workers and small vendors to university classrooms and electoral rolls, the architecture of suspicion –for the Indian Muslim--now stretches across everyday life

Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!

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Allahabad High Court orders 24/7 armed protection for Bareilly Muslim man allegedly prevented from offering namaz at home

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35 civil society groups oppose Maharashtra’s proposed anti-conversion law, warn of threat to women’s autonomy and constitutional freedoms

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