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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...

Hijab ban: News media loses interest but student protests continue

Experts have time and again pointed out that students are fighting for their rights in a controversy created for political benefit

20 years after Godhra – Some reflections

Silence is not an option; we must continue to speak truth to power

South Delhi municipal school says no “religious attire” but okays turbans

The hijab row sparked by right-wing elements in Karnataka has now reached all the way to national capital Delhi

Centre excludes overseas humanities and social science courses from SC/ST scholarship

Concerned citizens write an open letter pointing out the new provision will rob several candidates of financial assistance

Whatsapp group Admin not vicariously liable for posts by members: Kerala HC

Judgment has far-reaching implications for Whatsapp groups run by activists and dissenters

No interfaith nikah sans parents’ consent: MP’s Ulama Board’s latest diktat

Madhya Pradesh Ulama Board has “decided” that Muslim parents will have to take a call if their consenting adult children or daughters can marry a non Muslim partner or not

CJP asks News18 to take down Fake News based show on bombs hurled in West Bengal school

The show was heavily misinformed where the host gave the narrative a communal spin

Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow based journalist alleges target harassment by state gov’t

Sanjay Sharma Editor of 4PM, Lucknow’s only evening newspaper says he is being ‘targeted’ by the Adityanath government for his critical coverage

39 Years and the Ghosts of Nellie Massacre Haunt Assam

India’s first genocidal pogrom on February 18, 1983 preceded the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi and other cities and has vanished from public acknowledgment and memory

New Delhi: Journalists unions protest targeting, harassment

Unions called for wider mobilisation, pledged solidarity with Central Trade Union protest against Labour Codes on March 28-29

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