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 […]
On February 19, 1990, Lassa Kaul, director of the government-owned Doordarshan television station, was shot dead by militants in Bemina area of Srinagar. The killing prompted the station’s closure for three-years. On March 1, 1990, P N. Handoo, Assistant Director of Information was shot dead inside his office at Balgarden, Srinagar. […]
“I uploaded a video of a song which was anti Modi and anti-BJP and within half an hour, I got a message that it was taken down. So fast, I just put it up and they took it down,” says Rajesh Shah, an advertising professional. Shah got a […]
The detention of individuals under the NSA are in contravention of the right to due process and a fair trial, says Elina Steinerte Vice-Chair of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of […]
