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 […]
by Geeta Seshu The disposal of the case against Avadhnama editor Shirin Dalvi, accused of hurting religious sentiments after the publication of a cover of the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, underlies, yet again, how the process itself becomes the punishment. The case marks the end of a tortuous […]
A video of Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah sharing candid moments with his granddaughter went viral on social media. To the amusement of social media users, Amit Shah was seen trying to make his granddaughter wear a BJP cap while she kept removing it from her head. […]
Tejasvi Surya named 49 media houses as defendants in his suit filed before the civil judge. The publications named include The Times of India, The Hindu and Deccan Herald, among English publications, and Kannada newspapers like Prajavani, Kannada Prabha, Vijaya Karnataka and Udayavani and social media platforms like […]
Kailash Pandey, Nainital’s CPI (M-L) candidate for the Lok Sabha polls has complained to the Chief Electoral Officer that the nodal officer of the Model Code Monitoring Committee (MCMC) has disallowed pamphlets criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The latter actually says the pamphlets must not have words like ‘Modi […]
A once-professionally managed journalists’ agency is slowly but surely being nailed to the ground. Read this account from Hardev Sanotra: In many ways, the agency is now being used regularly to further the narrow agenda of an industrialist and there is no one to draw any lines. If […]
