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Journalist Tej Bahadur Singh was allegedly manhandled by the Delhi police today while reporting from south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar. Singh works with Newsreel Asia, a digital news platform. He told Newslaundry the police “pushed” him so he “fell to the ground”.

Recognising the best journalistic works over the past year in the Asia-Pacific region, the Society of Publishers in Asia yesterday announced the winners of its annual awards across 20 categories. The Hong Kong-based not-for-profit organisation awarded 98 journalists and media outlets for their reportage on the key issues of the…

The death of BJP leader Jonali Nath in Assam sent shockwaves across the state. Her body was found near NH-17 in Goalpara district on June 11. A day later, the Assam police’s criminal investigation department arrested Congress politician Hasanur Islam, 28, as the prime accused in Jonali’s murder. 

“If people protest in Mumbai or Delhi, it becomes the talk of the nation,” said tribal rights activist and lawyer Lalsu Soma Nogoti. “But a protest over here will never become the news.”

The Kerala chapter of the Network of Women in Media, India has slammed the case against Asianet journalist Akhila Nandakumar as “a direct affront to media freedom and the freedom of speech and expression”.

Journalist Nilesh Sharma was arrested from Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district on Sunday for allegedly “spreading rumours on WhatsApp” about government and judiciary officers. Sharma is the editor of web portal and magazine India Writers.  

The Asianet journalist booked in a case filed by a Students’ Federation of India leader in Kerala has insisted she “adhered to the standard reporting practices for such incidents”.

Ten foreign journalists working with publications based in European and Western countries have given up their membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) South Asia, in wake of its president S Venkat Narayan’s three-day Myanmar visit. Narayan was in the Southeast Asian country from June 6 to June 9 to…

On April 1, Newslaundry and the Internet Freedom Foundation hosted FoE Con 2023, a forum that brought together media personalities and leading voices in the legal sphere to map the media and regulatory framework in contemporary India.

If you spent some time on Twitter last night, there’s a strong chance you saw the viral video of union minister Smriti Irani ticking off a journalist – one Vipin Yadav. 

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar, who went to Odisha to cover the horrific three-train accident of June 2. The official death toll is 288, but Basant says his experience on the ground suggests the toll might be much higher.