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TV Newsance 261: UPSC aspirants’ deaths bring Godi media anchors to ground zero

This week started off with a tragedy as three UPSC aspirants drowned in the basement library of a coaching institute due to rainwater flooding in Delhi’s Karol Bagh. It soon triggered the usual blame game between the BJP and AAP.

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Journalists to boycott Manipur police for 48 hours after TV reporter ‘assaulted’ by cop

Journalists in the valley region of Manipur have decided not to cover the state police for the next 48 hours in protest against an alleged assault on a TV journalist by a sub-inspector on Thursday afternoon.

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Scrutiny level, space ‘squeezed’: What’s changed for journalists in new parliament

Despite several protests and requests over the last four years, the demand for full parliamentary access for journalists is yet to be met.

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Before Delhi coaching hub deaths, plea in HC pointed to 18 buildings ‘intact’ despite MCD ‘demolition’

Three months before the three coaching centre deaths in Delhi’s Karol Bagh zone and an official crackdown against illegal constructions, the Delhi High Court had disposed of a petition which accused the Municipal Corporation of Delhi of inaction over 18 unauthorised constructions in the same municipal zone.

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‘Restore full media access to parliament’: Press Club seeks meeting with Birla, Dhankar

To demand restoration of full parliamentary access to journalists and photojournalists, the Press Club of India has requested meetings with Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar.

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Two Al Jazeera journalists killed in ‘targeted Israeli air strike’ on Gaza

Al Jazeera Arabic reporter Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami al-Rifi were killed on Wednesday as an Israeli air strike hit their car in the Shati refugee camp on Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported. The media outlet called it a “targeted assassination”.

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Sansad TV staff fear more job cuts: Lack of long-term contract, one-month extensions

Employees at Sansad TV are fearing a downsizing exercise in the absence of a long-term contract and repeated messages to extend their service by a month.

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‘Tool for harassment’: Editors’ Guild urges Shah to review new laws, bring ‘journalistic exceptions’

Pointing to the “dramatically expanding reach” of the new criminal laws, the Editors’ Guild of India has written to home minister Amit Shah, urging a review of the newly-passed Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and the Bharatiya Nagarik Sanhita Suraksha.

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Middle-class rage, TRPs: Why legacy media is sliding off the govt’s ‘godi’

India’s middle class is a bit like me. When unhappy we both simmer for a while, get more and more resentful and then explode suddenly. Once our rage is out in the open, we start looking for random reasons to fuel our fury.This is precisely what we are seeing with…

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‘No biometric lock, a rescue without rescue equipment’: Eyewitnesses recall Delhi coaching centre horror

On July 27, as water filled the basement of Rao IAS Study Circle coaching institute in Delhi’s Old Rajendra Nagar, about 35 students in its “illegal” library were caught off guard. Some of them waded back into the dirty water to rescue their trapped peers until the NDRF arrived over…

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Patanjali case: SC tells Modi govt to publicise complaints against misleading ads of medicines

The Supreme Court has suggested that the Ayush ministry should create a centralised dashboard to publicise and track the progress of complaints filed against misleading advertisements on medicinal or allied healthcare products, Bar and Bench reported.

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‘They could’ve been saved’: 3 days before coaching hub deaths, student’s complaint flagged waterlogging

Two days after the Delhi coaching centre deaths, student protests continue while a war of words rages on between the AAP government, the BJP and the Lieutenant Governor’s administration.

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A boycott, Rahul’s speech: How media unity forced Om Birla to budge on press curbs

When journalists arrived at the new parliament building at 10 am on Monday, they were prepared for a packed day, expecting to take bytes from MPs on a range of issues – from the new budget to the controversy surrounding the Delhi coaching centre deaths.

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‘Lame excuse’ to ‘waking up late’: Letters show L-G, AAP govt tussle’s shadow on Delhi flood control

Delhi’s coaching centre deaths have once again spotlighted not just the problem of waterlogging but also the impact on civic governance due to a power tussle between the elected government of Delhi and the Lieutenant Governor’s administration.

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‘War-like situation’: Meet the journalist who was shot at in the Bangladesh job quota protests

What started as a mass student protest against job quotas escalated into a deadly uprising in Bangladesh, with over 150 people killed so far.

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Mamata walkout: Hindu points to NITI’s ‘structural issues’, Jansatta slams CM’s ‘uncertain position’

At the first NITI Aayog meeting of the NDA government last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the need for combined efforts of all states for a ‘Viksit Bharat 2047’.

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2 arrests after 3 deaths, but tragedies waiting to happen in Delhi’s IAS coaching hub

Three civil services aspirants died due to sudden flooding at a basement library in Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar, which houses many coaching centres for candidates preparing for UPSC exams. Amid student protests seeking accountability, there has been a war of words between the AAP government in Delhi and the BJP, a…

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‘We pleaded but they kept assaulting’: The full story of attacks during Kanwar Yatra in UP

A spate of violence has marked the Kanwar Yatra in Uttar Pradesh, with incidents of assault flaring up along the route, and no arrests in most cases.

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‘Clamp down’: HT deletes report on Goa land conversion as minister threatens ‘breach of privilege’

On July 23, a report on Hindustan Times website titled “21.29 lakh sq m green zones in Goa converted for construction in 15 months: Data” by reporter Gerard de Souza detailed how two changes in rules reportedly made way for the spurt in land conversion. The report was based on…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 330: Casteism in Indian prisons

This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by the Wire’s Sukanya Shantha.

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TV Newsance 260: Modi govt’s ‘underwhelming’ budget polarises anchors

It’s that time of the year again when the finance minister announces the budget, leaving us all reevaluating our finances. But this year’s budget left the middle class underwhelmed, with no tax reliefs, and polarised TV news coverage.

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Hafta letters: Hindu liberals, Ambani wedding, Karnataka politics

Last week’s letters:

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‘Don’t blame quota’: Disability activist on Puja Khedkar case, inclusivity

After the spate of allegations against IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, last week the UPSC said she had misused the disability quota and filed a case against her. But this changed the course of the conversation, with several bureaucrats raising questions on the need for the quota.

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NTA releases revised NEET results after physics question reassessment

The National Testing Agency has released the revised NEET-UG results and final answer key, after revising the assessment for a physics question that had two answers.

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‘Disproportionate representation’: Ahead of Maharashtra polls, signs of Muslim anger against MVA

Mujahid Khan may be a backroom man in Maharashtra’s high-stakes political battle. But his role in rallying the Muslim vote behind the Maha Vikas Aghadi in certain areas – as a 52-year-old secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee – was recognised during the Lok Sabha poll campaign.

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