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Hafta letters: Subscribers on Satluj debate, KPS Gill, and the World Cup

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Newslaundry · Jul 18

Delhi police ignores Caravan journos’ complaint, probes them instead in a 2020 case

Nearly four years after a case of molestation and assault was registered against three journalists from The Caravan magazine, Prabhjit Singh, one of the three journalists, was questioned by the Delhi police on Friday.

Newslaundry · Jun 8, 2024

Hafta 487: Final phase of polls, mining issues, heatwave in cities

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by The Caravan’s editor-in-chief Hartosh Singh Bal and investigative journalist Aruna Chandrashekhar.

Newslaundry · Jun 1, 2024

Narendra Modi mixes politics and sport at India-Australia fourth Test with Anthony Albanese chariot ride

Narendra Modi's cricket diplomacy is on full display as he takes a chariot ride with Anthony Albanese at the India-Australia fourth Test.

ABC News · Mar 8, 2023

TMR 2022: How can journalists deal with online abuse and threats?

The “occupational hazard” of being a journalist is facing a barrage of online abuse, threats and intimidation. In India, the situation is worse for Muslim journalists. How did things get so bad, and are editors today glorifying the need for journalists to grow a thick skin?

Newslaundry · Dec 16, 2022

Impolite Conversations: Negotiations with security laws

On September 10, Newslaundry and the Internet Freedom Foundation hosted FoE Con 2022, a forum that brought together media personalities and leading voices in the legal sphere to map the media and regulatory framework in contemporary India.

Newslaundry · Oct 25, 2022

Press meet on Zubair’s arrest: Why journalists need more than just shows of solidarity

The conference hall of the Press Club of India was packed on Monday afternoon. It contained more than 70 journalists who had gathered to discuss, as PCI put it, the “creeping infringement of media freedom and assault on personal liberty of journalists”.

Newslaundry · Jul 4, 2022

‘Orwellian India’: How Kashmir police are going after a Caravan journalist for doing his job

“I am not a criminal…I have simply done my job,” said the Caravan journalist Shahid Tantray, who went off social media on the day the magazine put out a detailed statement alleging that he and his family were being harassed and threatened by the police after his reports on the…

Newslaundry · Jun 10, 2022

Caravan journalist says police threatened him with false cases, harassed his family for reports on Kashmir

A statement by The Caravan’s multimedia reporter, Shahid Tantray (@shahidtantray), on facing police harassment. For immediate attention: @pressfreedom@RSF_inter@IndEditorsGuild@PressCouncil_IN pic.twitter.com/3AGPYFgGNw— The Caravan (@thecaravanindia) June 8, 2022 src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8">

Newslaundry · Jun 8, 2022

‘Will resist’: Journalists’ meet condemns ‘systematic sense’ of harassment from Ballia to Delhi

“From Burari to Ballia, they are two different incidents but their nature is the same because they are both unprecedented. Journalists who are messengers, providing news, are targeted,” said Press Club of India president Umakant Lakhera, in his opening remarks at a gathering of journalists at the club on Wednesday…

Newslaundry · Apr 6, 2022