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Journalist Saba Naqvi, expelled BJP Delhi media head Naveen Jindal, and Hindu Mahasabha member Pooja Shakun Pandey are among those named in an FIR registered by the Delhi police on Wednesday, Indian Express reported. The police’s special cell also filed a separate FIR against suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma.

India has been forced into diplomatic firefighting as remarks made by two BJP leaders against Prophet Muhammad have sparked outrage in several Arab capitals. On Sunday, the governments of Qatar, Kuwait and Iran summoned India’s envoys and expressed their anger, even handing over diplomatic notes of protest and demanding a…

The district magistrate of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, Mussarat Islam, has asked the district police to identify “fake media groups” that are operating without registration, and to track their source of income, Indian Express reported.

Union minister of information and broadcasting, Anurag Thakur, said on Tuesday that “strict action” will be taken against those who are trying to spread “propaganda, fake news, myths and fear”, Indian Express reported.

The BCCI has found sports journalist Boria Majumdar guilty of intimidating Indian wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha over an interview, according to an Indian Express report. The board is likely to impose a two-year ban on the talk show host over the incident.

Three weeks after it claimed that it was the “number one financial news platform in India”, Moneycontrol – a business news website part of the Network 18 group – announced in newspaper ads that it “beat the Economic Times hands down in all traffic parameters”.

Houses belonging to a man and his Muslim relatives were set on fire in Agra by Hindutva footsoldiers, after he eloped with a Hindu girl, converted to Hinduism before tying the knot, and was accused by her family of abduction, as per media reports – with their own share of…

A Ballia lower court on Tuesday rejected the bail pleas of three journalists arrested for their alleged involvement in a paper leak case, Indian Express reported today.

The Odisha Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a case where an Odisha journalist was chained in handcuffs to a bed in a hospital in Balasore, after allegedly being assaulted by the police, the Indian Express reported.