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Be it the searches at NewsClick, BBC, the Wire, or at the homes of journalists in several states over the last few years, the seizures of journalist’s digital devices have often underlined two issues – pertaining to journalistic privilege and the fundamental right to privacy.

The Central Bureau of Communication, which is the nodal department under the union ministry of information and broadcasting for government advertising, is working on rates and preparing guidelines for government advertisements on websites and social media platforms, the Indian Express reported.

Tensions between a former bureaucrat and a secretary in Delhi’s vigilance department are back in the media glare with a series of letters and official notes referring to a CBI probe into a bank fraud case filed last year. 

Rajasthan’s cyber cell has booked a photojournalist following the BJP state unit’s IT team’s complaint over an alleged “edited” video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he posted on social media.  

On November 4, three days ahead of the assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, a dozen polling officials flew to the state’s highly sensitive polling stations in the Moaist-hit Bastar division from its headquarters in Narayanpur. 

This week, host Gurmehar Kaur is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit and Dainik Bhaskar’s Vaibhav Palnitkar.

In Mizoram’s capital Aizawl, thousands gathered in protest last month to question the eligibility of a Congress candidate from the Lunglei South constituency in Lunglei district. 

Wearing a white cotton kurta, Kiren Rijiju sat in the sitting-room area of Room 706 at Aizawl’s Regency Hotel, talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s keen interest in Northeast India.

Newslaundry and The News Minute are on the ground in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada, where Chhavindra Karma is contesting the election on a Congress ticket against BJP’s Chetram Arami. His father Mahendra Karma was among several Congress leaders who were killed by Maoists in 2013. Dantewada, which is an ST constituency, has…

Three weeks ago, a primetime anchor on Zee UP-Uttarakhand declared that students at Aligarh Muslim University had “sloganeered in support of the terrorist group Hamas”.

Among the political party offices in poll-bound Mizoram’s capital city Aizawl, the BJP state unit’s Atal Bhawan stands out. Located a stone’s throw away from Raj Bhavan, it’s an imposing building with a large office space and picturesque views, with a thick growth of purple flowers looming on one side…