The Hindu 21 October 2020 Letter to PM Modi says that in past few months, a number of journalists have been charged under Section 124A of IPC. The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, along with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), in a letter to Prime Minister […]
Los Angeles Times 04 October 2020 By NEHA THIRANI BAGRI MUMBAI, India — Four days after India locked down in late March to fight the spread of the coronavirus, Jagat Bains got a call from a group of migrant working families in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. With construction work having ground to a halt, the […]
Mirror Now 29 September 2020 EP1253 – Is the move to freeze Amnesty’s account, a witch hunt or valid crackdown? | The Urban Debate29 SEPTEMBER 2020 | MIRROR NOW TV | 39 MIN 39 SEC On the Urban Debate today, Tanvi Shukla takes up the latest topic of the day which has gathered attention from […]
The Kashmir Monitor 17 September 2020 By Ajaz Ashraf The Muslim community has been infantilised by the Delhi Police in the controversial chargesheet that it recently filed in the February riot cases. The charge sheet will make a reader believe that Muslims live in a cocoon, completely disconnected from debates raging in the country. Their […]
UCA News 02 September 2020 By Nirendra Dev Media silenced as India is accused of underreporting its Covid-19 deaths The cat is finally out of the bag: The Indian economy is indeed in the doldrums. None other than Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman admitted last week that the Covid19 pandemic was “an act of God,” meaning […]
YKA 27 August 2020 By Priyanshu Singh in Politics, Staff Picks Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) are the perfect avenues that the government of the day has found to ostracise a particular section of the society it not only includes large a Muslim population but also other minorities such […]
Kashmir Times 13 August 2020 NEW DELHI, Aug 12: The Network of Women in Media (NWMI), India condemns the attack on three Caravan journalists- Shahid Tantray, Prabhjit Singh, and a woman journalist. The physical attack on all the three journalists and the sexual harassment of the woman journalist, while reporting, are serious assaults and set […]
The Caravan 12 August 2020 On 11 August 2020, three journalists working with The Caravan—Shahid Tantray, Prabhjit Singh and a woman journalist—were beaten, subjected to communal slurs, threatened with murder, and sexually harassed, while reporting in Subhash Mohalla, in northeast Delhi. The Network of Women in Media, a national collective for women in the media, released […]
Youth Ki Awaaz 09 August 2020 By Kalyani Singh in Media, Politics “Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”- Thomas Jefferson Media plays a pivotal role in democracy. It is considered the fourth pillar in democracy because it works as a messenger between government and unheard voices. The press […]
Mainstream Weekly 17 July 2020 by Sevanti Ninan For some years now, the growing challenge to journalism has come from the increasing use of predictable laws. These are the Sections relating to sedition and criminal defamation in the Indian Penal Code and, until it was struck down in 2015, Section 66A of the Information and […]