The Latest Breaking News from Pahalgam

INTERVIEW: As fear spreads through the Himalayan valley and beyond in the wake of the 22 April attack on tourists, a Kashmiri man who risked his life to help the victims tells Namita Singh what the country needs now is compassion and solidarity

Hopes that last year’s vote would lead to their release crushed since April 22 killings and crackdown by Indian forces.

In a special episode for Press Freedom Day, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by historian and author Ramachandra Guha. The panel begins with a discussion on the history of press freedom in India. Ram reflects on the similarities and differences between 1975’s Emergency…

After the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, the country needed calm, clarity, and accountability. Instead, Indian TV news launched its favourite counter-offensive – ballistic anchors. Gaurav Arya, Navika Kumar, Arnab Goswami and others suited up for war… not against terrorists, but against basic decency, logic, and journalism.

As tensions soar between India and Pakistan, Kashmiris are caught between fear and uncertainty.

The roots of this decades-long conflict between India and Pakistan go back to the turbulent partition of 1947.

The Network of Women in Media, India has demanded the Indian government to drop criminal cases against satirists and political commentators Neha Singh Rathore, Madri Kakoti, and Shamita Yadav.

SPECIAL REPORT: Mass expulsion underlines deepening human cost of the Pahalgam terror attack and the tensions between India and Pakistan that have followed. Namita Singh reports from the Attari-Wagah border

While the horror of the Pahalgam attack was unambiguous, the words used to describe it have become a flashpoint between one of the world’s oldest broadcasters and Asia’s largest democracy.