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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
Allahabad HC grants The Wire journalists protection from arrest
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The trolls bore both, Muslim and Hindu names and went at Khan with all kinds of vile comments
Dainik Jagran fails to get injunction against Alt News
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UP: Siddharthnagar SC students waiting for a functional hostel for 11 years!
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