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Delhi tree-felling case: DDA changed road alignment to ‘favour’ farmhouses

The Delhi Development Authority, which is facing contempt proceedings in the Supreme Court over the “illegal” felling of around 1,100 trees in South Delhi’s Satbari area, has now to contend with a new allegation.

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‘Vicious culture’: BJP condemns TDP workers’ attack on Deccan Chronicle’s office

After TDP workers reportedly vandalised the Deccan Chronicle’s Visakhapatnam office in Andhra Pradesh over its report on the governing TDP-Jana Sangh-BJP alliance’s “U-turn on VSP privatisation”, leaders of the BJP and YSRCP have condemned the alleged attack.

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Covid curbs continue to restrict press access to parliament. What’s at stake?

Over the last four years, several journalist bodies and opposition parties have been demanding that media persons be allowed to cover parliamentary proceedings.

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‘Untraceable’: Gurugram police loses original complaint in 2013 POCSO case against journalists

An original police complaint against journalists of three TV news channels over airing alleged edited videos of a minor linking it to a rape case is “untraceable”, the Gurugram police informed a special POCSO court. The complaint by a relative of the 10-year-old at a Gurugram police station was filed…

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TISS alumni, 1,200 others demand reinstatement of 100 contractual staff under UGC

More than 1,200 persons from organisations across the world and TISS women’s studies alumni have demanded the reinstatement of over 100 terminated UGC faculty members on the institute’s four campuses, calling their dismissal “highly unethical and unprofessional”.

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‘Jailor instigating influential criminals against us for speaking up on graft’: Bhima Koregaon accused

Bhima Koregaon violence case accused and Kabir Kala Manch activist Sagar Gorkhe has written to the Navi Mumbai police commissioner alleging that officials at the Taloja prison have directed other prisoners to silence them for trying to raise the issue of alleged corruption within the jail.

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Love at first fight: Kill and the subtlety of extreme violence

Warning: This piece contains graphic descriptions of violence.

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‘Breach of privilege’: Questions loom over ‘unauthorised’ parliament videos shared by Navika Kumar

On July 3, Times Now chief Navika Kumar tweeted four videos of Lok Sabha proceedings on her X account. But the source of her videos has come under cloud with Congress MP R Sudha writing to Speaker Om Birla seeking a probe.

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‘Filing cross-FIR like protecting accused’: 2 journalists booked for ‘lynching’ post, press bodies slam FIR

Several journalist associations have hit out at the police action against two Delhi-based independent journalists, who were booked under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for sharing “malicious” posts claiming an incident of mob lynching in Shamli district.

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Years before NEET row, NTA contracted 2 exam firms with murky record

Imagine spending years preparing for a job exam, only to discover that the process was flawed from the start. India has seen many such cases over the years, including those where assessment agencies were granted exam contracts despite their murky record.

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‘Not allowed to speak in parliament’: Manickam Tagore on Modi govt, INDIA bloc, media access

Manickam Tagore, a three-time Congress MP from Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar, is one of the fierce opposition voices in the Parliament. In the 18th session of the Lok Sabha, Tagore raised the issue of the restricted media access to the parliament.

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In Haryana hall of shame, NTA’s different yardsticks for test and retest

There was a difference between the National Testing Agency’s yardsticks for the NEET-UG retest last month and the original test in May in Haryana’s Jhajjar.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 327: A shift in Zee Media, gender gap in digital ownership

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Tanishka Sodhi and the Hindu’s Ashna Butani.

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Hafta letters: Delhi, Khalistan, competitive exams

Following the media stories from Delhi, it seems every year is Groundhog Day. May-June bring stories of water shortages; July will bring stories of flooding and waterlogging, soon followed by dengue. Then, after a brief respite, we will get pollution from farm fires and Diwali in the winter months, and…

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Dainik Bhaskar MD, journalists booked under POCSO for ‘revealing minor victim’s identity’

The final report in a POCSO Act case against Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar’s managing editor Sudhir Agarwal, national editor LP Pant, and its four other journalists has termed the charges false. The case pertains to the paper’s coverage of a case in which it reportedly included identifiers related to the…

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Awful and Awesome Ep 357: Federer: Twelve Final Days, A Family Affair, Sharmajee Ki Beti

While discussing A Family Affair:

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‘Responsible for content’: HC refuses to quash defamation case against TOI editorial director

Karnataka High Court quashed the defamation proceedings against the news daily Times of India but refused to nix the case against Bennett Coleman editorial director Jaideep Bose in connection with a report on an artwork auction, Livelaw reported.

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‘Baba dhongi, no help from govt’: Families search for the missing, ‘dead or alive’, after Hathras tragedy

As a religious event turned into a site of chaos at Hathras in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, families of hundreds of dead and injured scrambled to locate their loved ones – searching hospitals across the region “without much help” from the administration.

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‘Harassment’: Indian journalists’ videos hit due to South African firm’s YouTube ‘bug’

As independent journalists decoded the general election results on YouTube last month, at least a dozen of them received copyright claims on older videos, rendering those videos ineligible for monetisation.

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At least 50 dead, over 100 injured after stampede at Hathras religious event

More than 50 people died and over a 100 are estimated to be injured in a stampede at a satsang, or religious event, in Hathras of Uttar Pradesh, as per the Indian Express. The number of those dead, a majority of whom are women, is likely to increase.

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In Bengal, ‘medical negligence victims’ have a slim chance of justice against private entities

This report is the third instalment of a series on medical negligence. Read the previous parts here.

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Assam ministers return to hate politics

In sharp contrast to the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll campaign, communal remarks have returned to the state’s politics with ministers trying to portray the Congress’s victory in three seats as a boost to criminal elements within the minority community.

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Journalist issues notice to OpIndia over ‘threats’ due to ‘malicious articles’

Independent journalist Meer Faisal has issued a cease and desist notice to right-wing platform OpIndia, demanding the removal of allegedly defamatory articles from its website, Maktoob Media reported.

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SAD turmoil spotlights newspaper editor’s ‘influence’ in Punjab politics

The rebellion within the Shiromani Akali Dal has spotlighted the influence of regional papers in Punjab, especially Barjinder Singh Hamdard, the owner and editor-in-chief of the Jalandhar-based daily Ajit.

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Overhaul laws, protect sources: 10 recommendations by RSF, 3 Indian organisations for NDA govt

Reporters Without Borders, the Network of Women in Media, India, Free Speech Collective, and the Internet Freedom Foundation, have “10 urgent recommendations” for the NDA government to protect journalists, guarantee media independence, amend laws that restrict the right to information, and safeguard access to the Internet and digital media.

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