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As many as 80 percent of journalists who were laid off during the Covid-19 pandemic were forced to resign, opt for voluntary retirements, or be terminated from their positions by their news organisations, according to a report by the Press Council of India. Only 37 percent received severance pay.

“India Inc wants new govt to create jobs, control inflation.” 

Last Thursday, the union ministry of power’s Twitter account broke its pattern of updates – about meetings chaired by the minister, press releases, and inaugurations – to put out a series of unusual tweets tagging a journalist covering the energy sector.

Hardeep Singh Puri, union minister for housing and urban affairs, tweeted on Wednesday that the Indian government will provide housing and police protection to the Rohingya refugees in Delhi. Just a few hours later, the union home ministry denied there was such a plan. Instead of clarifying, however, that Puri…

India’s Adani’s group, its proximity to prime minister Narendra Modi, and its influence over the Sri Lanka government has been at the centre of a political controversy unfolding in Sri Lanka over the last five days.

Analjit Singh, founder and chairman of Max Group, has rejected media reports about a petition filed before the National Company Law Tribunal regarding an unlisted promoter entity. "While these allegations are mired in incorrect facts and misrepresentation, we will contest these allegations in the NCLT hearing,” he said in a…

As the Ukraine-Russia war rages on, video streaming platform YouTube has said that it is blocking Russian state-funded media channels on its platform “effective immediately”, Business Standard reported.