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Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis

On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective (FSC) assembles a powerful, deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing—centring the stories of jailed journalists Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj to expose the widening fault lines in India’s democratic promise

Rajasthan HC endorses police order to bar worship areas on gov’t premises

Bench dismisses a PIL saying police are abiding by the state’s secular laws

Editors Guild of India sends fact-finding team to Agartala

Team to investigate reports of draconian laws being used to prevent media from reporting communal violence in Tripura

Secular Muslims oppose the demand for an anti-blasphemy law

Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) strongly opposes the...

How RSS denigrated the Constitution

A peep into its archives on Constitution Day

Minor technicality allows Zee News to avoid answering for its communal “Zameen Jihad” show

CJP had moved NBDSA over the Islamophobic, inflammatory and hateful content of the show, but a minor delay of six days allowed Zee News to dodge the inquiry citing statute of limitations

Tripura: Journalists still make headlines for surviving attacks, rather than reporting them

Various journalists covering the aftermath of Tripura’s communal violence have been questioned, detained, arrested, allegedly even beaten up , for doing their jobs

NBDSA finds Zee News violated Code of Ethics in coverage of Farmers’ Protest

Use of provocative captions condemned, Zee news ordered to take down videos

UAE Princess pushes for Sudheer Chaudhary’s name to be dropped from Abu Dhabi event

He is all set to speak at an even by ICAI, but pressure is mounting to drop his name from the list of speakers

BOOK REVIEW – Bhil Vidroh: Sangharsh ke sawa sau saal

Chronicling the historic events of Bhil revolts in India

Conversion approval not required for interfaith marriage registration: Allahabad HC

Court bats for interfaith unions; reiterates consent from family, clan State, not required before marriage between consenting adults of different faiths

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Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis

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