New York, August 11, 2016 – Indian authorities should shelve a criminal complaint against the weekly Indian magazine Outlook, its leadership, and freelance journalist Neha Dixit, and ensure the safety of the journalist and Outlook‘s staff, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
SURAT: A message hurting religious sentiments of minority community shared over social media around a month ago led to tension at a college in Athwalines on Wednesday. Two youth were arrested later in the day for posting the message on the chat group.
The latest Kashmir imbroglio has thrown up innumerable questions before all the stakeholders some of which are piercing enough to compel some pondering. One of the main questions pertains to media muzzle by the authorities. To an extent, it was reminiscent of dark days of emergency proclaimed by Indira Gandhi in late seventies. It won’t…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat high court has said that on the ground of religious freedom and sentiment, freedom of expression cannot be curtailed.
Brussels (PR): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU) has strongly condemned the ongoing media crackdown by the state in Jammu and Kashmir. The IFJ expresses its solidarity with journalists of Kashmir and urges the Indian authorities to immediately stop the crackdown on press freedom and allow the…
When Maneka Gandhi got trolled, it made headlines but online abuse is a nerve-racking daily reality for the city’s vocal women activists, bloggers and college students She has faced water cannons and a vicious police lathi charge. In the summer of 1994, the enemy seemed kosher -in this case the central government trying to push…
At a time when the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015 – popularly anti-atrocities Act – is winning high accolades from Dalit rights activists across India, one of the world’s top advocacy groups, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has criticized it for using “vague and over broad language, expanding restrictions…
New Delhi: A few days following the shocking gang rape of Ernakulam Law College student, Jisha, social media is going berserk about a statement given out by South Indian actress Priyamani – who appeared in an item song of Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Chennai Express’. Priyamani took to Twitter to share her feelings about the brutal…
As the ongoing hunger strike by JNU students entered the 13th day, VC M Jagadesh Kumar spoke to Manash Pratim Gohain and said free speech was intact in the university, but outsiders wouldn’t be allowed to meddle in JNU’s affairs. The excerpts: The condition of students on hunger strike has deteriorated. Is the university worried?…
The man is Kanhaiya Kumar, a 28-year-old PhD student at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi, who is loved and loathed in equal measure. The self-confessed Marxist first grabbed headlines in February after he was arrested and charged with sedition for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans at a campus meeting. The slogan in question?…