Reprinted from Mainstream Weekly By Amitava Mukherjee POLITICAL NOTEBOOK The ongoing 17th general elections in India have already proved two points conclusively. First, the quality of the political leadership in the country has abysmally gone down. Secondly, democracy in India is now under peril. For every right thinking […]
From Kashmir Reader: SRINAGAR: Kashmir Reader correspondent was assaulted by a mob while covering polling in Srinagar parliamentary constituency on Thursday at a polling booth -91 Sultan Mohalla, Mir Behri, Bud Dal. Correspondent Junaid Bazaz said the booth had been overtaken by polling agents and supporters of a […]
The Bombay High Court has quashed a case against Quint journalist Poonam Agarwal and Kargil war veteran Deepchand, charged with spying under the Official Secrets Act and abetment to suicide after her sting on the ‘sahayak’ system published in February 2017. The bench, comprising Justices Ranjit More and […]
Kishorechandra Wangkhem addressing the press after his release from jail, more than four months after being detained under the draconian National Security Act on orders of the Manipur government for making allegedly abusive posts on Facebook. Here he is seen with his lawyer, S.Chittaranjan, human rights activist Babloo […]
Justice L S Jamir of the Manipur High Court maintained that police had failed to furnish CDs of video clips and pictures with captions, because of which journalist Kishorechandra Wagkhem was unable to make an effective representation against the detention order slapped on him under the draconian National […]
By Lara Jesani Election fervor has gripped the country and political parties across the board are busy making election promises to lure voters. The latest to hit the news and become a campaign agenda, is the draconian colonial era sedition law under Section 124A of the Indian Penal […]
Facebook removed Pages, Groups and accounts for violating Facebook’s policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior or spam. In its blog, it has detailed four separate takedowns. Here’s what the post by Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, said: We removed 103 Pages, Groups and accounts on both Facebook and […]
Team that tried to stop event in Chennai taken off duty A few hours after an election flying squad in Chennai served a letter banning the release of a book on the Rafale fighter aircraft scam, the publishing house managed to launch the book by obtaining the nod […]
