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FIR on Operation Sindoor article, SC grants Siddharth Varadarajan protection from arrest

The Supreme Court has granted protection from arrest to the Wire’s founding editor Siddarth Varadarajan in an FIR lodged against him under section 152 of the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita in Assam, LiveLaw reported.

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Operation Sindoor debate: Credit for Modi, blame for Nehru

The long-awaited debate on Operation Sindoor and the Pahalgam attack finally took place in Parliament. But did the government actually answer the opposition’s questions?

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Vaishnaw: Blocked over 1,400 URLs on digital media during Op Sindoor

The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had blocked over 1,400 URLs on digital media during Operation Sindoor, union minister for railways, IB, and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday.

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Why did India lose jets to Pakistani fire in May fight?

Navy Captain Shiv Kumar’s comments suggesting the government stopped the military from hitting back spark furore.

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Teacher, not ‘terrorist’: J&K court orders FIR against Zee News, News18 India for Op Sindoor reports

A court in Jammu and Kashmir has ordered the registration of an FIR against Zee News and News18 India for allegedly broadcasting false and defamatory content during Operation Sindoor.

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From Trump’s ceasefire claim to Modi’s G-7 optics, media didn’t ask the right questions

Did he, or didn’t he? That is a question that remains unanswered. US President Donald Trump continues to claim that he stopped the clash between India and Pakistan after India launched Operation Sindoor in May. At the same time, we are told officially that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a…

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Full volume on Op Sindoor, silence on the stateless

While the Indian mainstream media remained obsessed about Operation Sindoor and reported uncritically even as the Prime Minister and members of his party made political capital from the recent Indo-Pak armed clash, a quiet, more insidious episode unfolded, largely unnoticed.

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Despite media retractions, politics marches on over Operation Sindoor

The Times of India issued a front-page apology on Monday for reporting that Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh will be “faces” of a women-centric BJP campaign launching June 9 to mark the completion of 11 years of the Narendra Modi government.

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One month on, Pahalgam terrorists remain missing. So do answers to J&K security challenge

One month after the Pahalgam attack claimed 26 lives and brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war, the manhunt for the perpetrators remains frustratingly inconclusive. Operation Sindoor may have delivered tactical victories elsewhere, but in the scenic valleys where tourists usually felt safe, a different reality seems to…

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‘Trump inflates his involvement’: Foreign Policy editor on India-Pak ceasefire

To Delhi’s chagrin, US president Donald Trump announced a ceasefire and claimed it was brokered by him after the conflict between India and Pakistan flared up following Operation Sindoor.

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‘Diminishes India’s credibility’: NWMI protests MJ Akbar’s inclusion in all-party delegation to Europe

The Network of Women in Media, India has expressed strong opposition to the inclusion of former Union Minister MJ Akbar in an all-party delegation visiting Europe. The delegation is part of India’s international outreach following Operation Sindoor, launched on May 7, in response to the Pahalgam terror attack.

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SC may hear Mahmudabad plea on May 21, arrest draws sharp criticism against BJP

A day after his arrest, Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad has approached the Supreme Court seeking interim relief. The court is likely to hear the matter on Wednesday, according to LiveLaw.

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‘No evidence of deterrence’: Counter-terror expert on Op Sindoor, govt claims

In an exclusive interview with Sreenivasan Jain, founding member and executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management Ajai Sahni discusses Operation Sindoor and its impact, India’s military strategy and geopolitical stance following the military clash with Pakistan, and the discrepancies in the government’s narrative.

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South Central 27: India-Pakistan tensions, and the theatre of TV news

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath discuss the India-Pakistan ceasefire following Operation Sindoor and examine the role of the media during moments of military escalation. The panel is joined by defence expert Sushant Singh and senior journalist Prem Panicker.

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‘Total destruction of Pakistan’: Tiranga Yatra kicks off in Delhi

“Pakistan ka poorn sanhaar, poorn desh ki ab ek pukar.”

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New doctrine, old dangers: Op Sindoor as India’s new normal

In his first address to the nation after Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the operation as the new normal in India’s fight against terrorism, firmly stating that the military campaign against Pakistani terror infrastructure and military sites would continue into the foreseeable future.

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‘Potency’ with ‘instinctive pacifism’: Indian dailies underscore PM Modi’s message to Pak

A muscular new doctrine, a paused military operation – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first address after Operation Sindoor marked a pivot in India’s terror response. On Tuesday morning, that pivot echoed across the front pages of India’s biggest English dailies.

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Hafta 536: War drums and fake news with India-Pakistan tensions

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by retired Brigadier Kuldip Singh. In this tense news week, we begin by dissecting India’s Operation Sindoor and strikes on terror camps in Pakistan on May 7. “Neither side, particularly India, wants…

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TV Newsance 298: Operation Sindoor and how TV made a joke of war

Early Wednesday morning, India launched Operation Sindoor, targeting terror camps in Pakistan. As Pakistan responded with cross-border shelling and drone attacks – intercepted by the military – Indian TV channels gave a whole new meaning to the "fog of war".

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India’s fog of war: Print media treads cautiously, TV media loses the plot

India today is enveloped in a fog, the fog of war. It is so thick that we can neither see nor hear what is going on. We must wait patiently for someone in “authority” to tell us what is happening.

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Godi media is having its worst time: Confused by caste census, stunned by Col Qureshi

It is not easy being a legacy media TV journalist today. One day you are upping the ante on traitors within the nation, along with baying for Pakistan’s blood. The next day, you have to say that starving Pakistan of water is a much better form of revenge than any…

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Killed by Pak shelling, branded Pak terrorist on TV: Godi media kills an Indian twice

In its usual sprint to serve up high-decibel patriotism and prime-time body counts, India’s legacy TV media has outdone itself – again. This time, several channels declared Qari Mohammad Iqbal, a madrassa teacher, as a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist killed during Operation Sindoor. The only problem? Iqbal wasn’t a terrorist. He wasn’t…

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Indian dailies hail Operation Sindoor, ET puts Pak toll at 70

“Justice Served”, “Payback for Pahalgam”, “Indian Forces Hit Pakistan Terror Bases”, “Sindoor Serves Justice” and “India Strikes Deep”, and Sin-Demolished.

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Operation Sindoor is India’s third warning in 9 years. But will Pakistan learn?

Operation Sindoor represents India’s biggest, forceful and most ambitious response yet to a terrorist attack on Indian soil. For the third time in nine years, a military response to a terror attack has shifted both the paradigm and perception of how an Indian government deals with terrorism.

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Zubair vs the fake news machine: A day of digital warfare after Operation Sindoor

The aftermath of Operation Sindoor saw a barrage of misinformation – from claims that Rafale jets were downed to doctored images of casualties. As this online battlefield intensified, one man emerged as the key face of the counter-propaganda effort in India: Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair.

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