In the Delhi Riots case, media reports on police’s ‘Hindu resentment’ order are against its spirit, says the Delhi HC The Delhi High Court today observed that reports by “electronic/ print media” on an order issued by the special commissioner of police (crime) Praveer Ranjan, dated July 8, was against the order’s “letter and spirit”. […]

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In the US, the authorities feel compelled to investigate and even apologise for an assault on mediapersons. Here, such complaints go nowhere After a black man named George Floyd, 46, was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, thousands of Americans poured into the streets to protest against racial injustice. The […]

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FICCI and a Hindi news channel have objected to new draft guidelines that empower the union home ministry to revoke a channel’s security clearance On April 30 this year, during the third phase of the nationwide lockdown, the information and broadcasting ministry released new draft guidelines for uplinking and downlinking TV channels. In an attached […]

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Uttar Pradesh has booked, arrested and assaulted eight media persons during the lockdown. Around the country, 18 others are facing legal trouble Journalists are being booked under IPC Section 188, which criminalises disobeying a public servant’s order, and Section 505(1)(b), which punishes causing fear and alarm to the public “whereby any person may be induced […]

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Muslim fruits suppliers in Noida speak of discrimination, hostility and being driven away from residential societies as well as cramped urban villages In the aftermath of the Tablighi Jamaat cluster case, Muslims in India have been earmarked as vectors of the novel coronavirus. One specific form this prejudice takes is the coronavirus-positive Muslim fruit vendor. WhatsApp forwards, […]

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Amid oppressive patriarchy in Haryana’s Mewat, a young Dalit woman is fighting to keep her dream alive and striving to get justice for her 12-year-old niece As one travels southwards in Haryana, the green of the Jat belt gives way to the arid landscape of Mewat region. The lower Aravallis begin to ascend in the […]

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