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Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

While Modi plays the OBC card, backward castes & Adivasis remain excluded from Central University

The premier educational institutes of the country continue to exclude marginalised communities. According to the latest figures, the constitutionally-mandated reservation policies are not fully implemented in 45 central universities. 

Blocking of Kashmir Walla condemned: NWMI

The Network of Women in Media (NWMI) has condemned the latent censorship in the act of blocking the Kashmir Walla

UP: Scribe Faces FIR for Highlighting School Textbooks Meant for Poor Kids Being Sold as Scrap

An education department official, whose comments were sought by the journalist, claimed the purported video sent to him was an attempt to “tarnish” the image of the government and department.

DUJ Protests freezing of media accounts

The Delhi Union of Journalists has registered its strong protest at the repeated moves to muffle media voices in several parts of the country.

A historic discomfort: RSS & Ambedkar’s Constitution

When the country was celebrating its 77th Independence Day,...

Massive minority scholarship (Ministry of Minority Affairs) scam raises questions about actual beneficaries

Fake institutions, exaggerated numbers who have claimed scholarship funds all point to a huge corruption snag in funds disbursal in a ministry of the union government

One more case of centralisation & executive overreach: Press & Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023

From powers of search and seizure, a plethora of provisions threatens media freedoms

Is Ashoka univ “falling short of its Declared Vision? 300 + academics stand up for Sabyasachi Das

"It is clear from this sequence of events that what was at stake was not the academic merit of his paper, but the threat it posed to the ruling party. There has been no detailed academic counter to this paper, only ad hominem attacks in the public."

RSS weekly Organiser ordered to take down article claiming principal of Christian school is exploiting nuns, students: Delhi HC

The Court observed that the reports were published in a reckless manner without any factual verification and were tarnishing the image and reputation of the school principal.

CJP escalates complaint against Times Now Navbharat show on Gyanvapi Mosque to NBDSA

The show made contentious, one-sided and misinformed statements regarding the Supreme Court and the ASI Survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque

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Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

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As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

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Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

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