Privacy is a free speech issue and the media needs to get it right,more so if they report on minor victims of sexual violence. Moazum Mohammad reports on the order by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. Ordering YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to remove content which might reveal […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed bail to Priyanka Sharma, the BJP youth wing worker who had circulated a morphed photograph of Priyanka Chopra with Mamata Banerjee’s head on it, but asked her to apologise in writing after her release. The vacation bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and […]
With the last phase of polling, tempers are at their highest. A quick snapshot of the worst of the verbal diarrhoea unleashed on voters, rival candidates and of course…the media! I will hit you: Furious Mani Shankar Aiyar threatens journalist Stirring up a fresh controversy, senior Congress leader […]
Joint press statement by IWPC, Press Association, SAWM on violence on media persons in West Bengal The Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC), Press Association and South Asian Women in the Media (SAWM), India, condemn the several incidents of violence perpetrated on journalists, both men and women, in West […]
Janta kaReporter has been following up on a shocking story: 20 lakh missing EVMs. Based on RTI replies obtained by a Mumbai-based activist, Manoranjan Roy, the website said that the Bengaluru-based BEL and Hyderabad-based ECIL had admitted supplying nearly 40 lakh EVMs to the Election Commission, the national […]
This season has generated a fair share of poll violence in West Bengal, but in Gujarat ? And that too, for a temple trust election! On Sunday, May 12,2019 , police roughed up cameraperson Vipul Boricha of Sandesh TV when journalists went to cover elections to the Swami […]
In a trenchant order, Justices Ranjit V. More and Bharati H. Dangre, quashed the charges against Quint journalist Poonam Agarwal of abetment to suicide and of violating provisions of the Official Secrets Act (OSA). The case followed the sting operation the journalist had conducted to exposed the pernicious […]
The hullabaloo caused by the leaked ‘Pentagon Papers’ revealing uncomfortable truths about US’s role in the Vietnam war five decades ago, resonates with the attempts to gag the media from publishing documents related to the Rafale case in India. M.Sridhar Acharyulu shines a spotlight on the RTI which […]
