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From drum waali Muskaan to ‘beauty parlour jihad’, while mainstream news channels have dedicated hours and hours of airtime to amplify sensationalist stories and communal rhetoric, how seriously have they taken up the issue of increasing air pollution? 

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the right to digital access is a fundamental right and that digital access is an intrinsic component of the right to life under Article 21, reported Bar and Bench. 

While the Indian government has banned 16 Pakistani YouTube channels for “provocative content” and “misinformation” following the Pahalgam terror attack, Indian television news has been doing what it does best: rolling out the red carpet for such content, in studio lighting, with a splash of nationalistic graphics.

For eight-year-old twins from Kerala’s Kochi, the words “let’s play” are no longer an invitation to joy but a paralysing reminder of gore. These are the words their grandfather N Ramachandran had said, moments before he was shot dead in front of them last week at Baisaran valley of Pahalgam.

University of Lucknow assistant professor Madri Kakoti, known as satirist Dr Medusa online, has been booked for her social media posts on the Pahalgam attack.

The appraisal season has triggered alarm bells within NDTV this year, with the management putting at least 100 employees on performance improvement plans while grading each of them as an “inconsistent performer”.

Amid a political controversy over air monitoring stations, Newslaundry visited the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises at Udyog Bhawan in Delhi. The air monitor pegged PM2.5 levels at 100, while PM10 was estimated to be over 110 on Monday. 

In a now-deleted YouTube video of journalist Sushant Sinha’s interview with former Border Security Force (BSF) officer NN Dubey, the two discuss Ghazi Baba, a blacklisted terrorist linked to the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Harkat-ul-Ansar. Involved in several terrorist attacks, including the 2001 Indian Parliament attack, Baba was killed during a BSF…

Check out the previous instalments published under this series here.

Days after the tragic terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) issued a stern advisory on Saturday to all media outlets, digital platforms, and social media users, urging them to refrain from providing live coverage of defence operations or movement of security forces.

This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by The News Minute’s Anjana Meenakshi and Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.