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“If the Indian media had done its job properly, we would’ve had an easier time talking about what we are facing,” said Bipra Prasun Das, a 21-year-old Hindu student from North South University in Dhaka, whose ancestral home was burnt down in violence in Bangladesh this week.

BJP spokesperson Shazia Ilmi has lodged a defamation case against India Today anchor Rajdeep Sardesai over a video posted by him on social media, accusing Ilmi of “abusing” the channel’s video journalist, Bar and Bench reported.  

When Rekha Sharma joined the National Commission for Women as a member in 2015, she was winding up a political role as the BJP’s state media in-charge in Haryana. As she wraps up her tenure at the commission this month, she is leaving behind a similar legacy. 

Nearly 18 months after the CBI arrested him, Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia was reportedly released from Tihar jail after the Supreme Court granted him bail in the liquor policy case.  

“Self-censorship is not good for any democratic country. If an atmosphere of fear is created, and you’re constantly in fear that your channel can be shut if the government doesn’t like what you say, it’s going to lead to that,” said Ravish Kumar, former editor of NDTV India.

The Bombay High Court has reserved its judgment in petitions challenging the IT Amendment Rules, 2023, which empowers the central government to establish fact-check units to identify “fake news” about itself on social media and order its take down, Livelaw reported.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Punjab DGP to submit data on the criminal cases registered after gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s interview with ABP News was broadcast last year, Bar and Bench reported.

The Kerala High Court has reserved its verdict on a petition challenging the State Information Commission’s order which asked the state government to put the Justice K Hema Committee report in the public domain with limited redactions, LiveLaw reported.

At 55, Sharif D Rangnekar stands at the intersection of several worlds – a journalist turned corporate professional, activist, and author of two books. Yet, it is his identity as a gay man and his role as a “facilitator” for the queer community that have defined his life narrative.  

A new interim government headed by Nobel laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus, 84, is taking shape in Bangladesh following Sheikh Hasina’s ouster. Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh since 2008, resigned and fled the country this week to escape a student-led mass revolt against her rule, plunging the nation of 174 million…

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