News Laundry 15 July 2020 By Chahak Gupta Is the storied movement against the citizenship law on pause or has the coronavirus crisis ended it? Last December, a group of Muslim women began occupying a patch of street at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, registering their protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register […]
The Wire 14 July 2020 By Avay Shukla It would be fair to say that not since 1947 has the standard of the media plumbed the depths it has today; it is, in fact, no longer the fourth pillar of democracy but its fifth column, hollowing out the republic from within. Move over, Arnab Goswami […]
The Citizen is Hopeful 13 July 2020 Move over, Arnab Goswami and Sambit Patra- the putrefying corpse of Indian journalism has a new poster boy! None other than our resident, apoplectic walrus, Major General G.D.Bakshi. The good general has ascended/ descended ( depending on whether you are a bhakt or a gentleman) to hitherto unplumbed […]
The Hill Post 12 July 2020 Move over, Arnab Goswami and Sambit Patra- the putrefying corpse of Indian journalism has a new poster boy! None other than our resident, apoplectic walrus, Major General G.D.Bakshi. The good general has ascended/ descended ( depending on whether you are a bhakt or a gentleman) to hitherto unplumbed heights/depths […]
Article 14 10 July 2020 By JAYPRAKASH S NAIDU UP police killing of ganglord VikasDubey and five aides follows a 20-year national pattern: 2,123 Indians died in police custody or a lockup, including those who may or may not have been produced before a court. Judicial inquiries made little difference. Mumbai: The deaths of a […]
The Telegraph 08 July 2020 Former civil servants say the coronavirus pandemic has been used as an excuse for curbing freedom of speech across states Nearly a hundred former civil servants — all of who have retired from top positions in the bureaucracy — have picked up cudgels for the citizens’ right to freedom of […]
The Hindustan Times 04 July 2020 By Mark Tully There is still critical coverage of the government in the media. But it is instructive to see the ways in which the government exerts pressures on the media in an effort to keep organisations and their journalists in line. Taking part in a Zoom discussion on […]
India Legal 04 July 2020 In a statement, 99 former senior bureaucrats have critised the consistent attack on the freedom of expression and the right to dissent by the central government led by Narendra Modi in its second regime from 2019 onwards. Those who have signed include Ravi Vira Gupta, Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank […]
The Sentinel 03 July 2020 GUWAHATI: The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) has urged the Governor of Assam Professor Jagdish Mukhi not to give assent to the Ordinance approved by the Assam State Cabinet to allow MSMEs to set up industries without any kind of permission or license for three years solely on the […]
KNN India 03 July 2020 Guwahati, Jul 3 (KNN) Assam government’s ordinance to allow conversion of land for MSMEs to set up industries on the basis of a self-declaration — without the requirement of any “permission, clearance or licence” for three years seems to have taken a political colour as after opposition, now the Rights and […]