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Press club flags another passport case after govt adviser tries to shift focus to old headlines

The Press Club of India has waded into the growing controversy over journalists being denied passports on Monday, revealing that it isn’t just R Rajagopal, former editor of The Telegraph, who has faced passport-related hurdles due to an adverse police report.

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PCI passes resolution that attacks ‘infrastructure of censorship’ built by Modi govt

Following a joint public meeting of six press bodies at the Press Club of India (PCI), a resolution was passed opposing the recent and proposed changes to India’s digital regulations – specifically the draft IT Amendment Rules of 2026 – and outlining eight demands to protect digital creators, ensure due…

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Himalayan trout, ‘lack of transparency’, cheaper booze: The campaign and characters of the PCI polls

A bastion of press freedom on the right-wing’s radar. A low-budget watering hole. Or a carrom room for banter. The Press Club of India’s building in the heart of Lutyens Delhi means different things to different people. But an election this week may mean it’s at the cusp of change.

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‘Adhere to process in FIRs’: 3 press associations slam police action against Bihar journalists

Three press associations have expressed concern over the detention of several journalists in recent months in Bihar’s Vaishali and Muzaffarpur districts. It has also called on Bihar CM Nitish Kumar “to educate the administration and the police about the proper functioning of the media”.

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‘Unconstitutional’: Press Club of India raises concerns about UP digital policy

The Press Club of India has raised concerns about the Uttar Pradesh government’s proposed new digital media policy aimed at regulating “anti-national, indecent, or hurtful” content on social media.

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‘Restore full media access to parliament’: Press Club seeks meeting with Birla, Dhankar

To demand restoration of full parliamentary access to journalists and photojournalists, the Press Club of India has requested meetings with Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar.

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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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Reporter shot dead, another assaulted at BJP rally, CPJ urges ‘thorough probe’

After Sudarshan News’s Ashutosh Srivastava was shot dead by unidentified assailants while riding a bike and digital outlet Molitics reporter Raghav Trivedi was assaulted at home minister Amit Shah’s rally in Uttar Pradesh, the Committee to Protect Journalists has called on authorities to “thoroughly investigate the incidents and bring those…

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Prabhat Khabar editor, 3 others booked, get ‘threat calls’ over report on jailed liquor baron

Hindi news daily Prabhat Khabar’s Ranchi-based chief editor Ashutosh Chaturvedi and three others have been booked for defamation over the newspaper’s report on jailed businessman Yogendra Tiwari. The liquor, land and sand baron is currently lodged in Ranchi jail in a money laundering case.

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प्रभात ख़बर के संपादक आशुतोष चतुर्वेदी के खिलाफ मामला दर्ज, मिली थी जेल से धमकी

हिंदी के प्रमुख अखबार प्रभात ख़बर के संपादक आशुतोष चतुर्वेदी और अन्य लोगों के खिलाफ जेल में बंद शराब कारोबारी जोगेंद्र तिवारी की शिकायत पर मामला दर्ज हो गया है. जोगेंद्र तिवारी फिलहाल रांची जेल में बंद है. वह शराब, जमीन और बालू कारोबारी है. उस पर मनी लॉन्ड्रिंग के…

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Press freedom concerns as India editors’ body charged over Manipur report

Manipur police file cases against Editors Guild of India members, accusing them of promoting enmity between groups.

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Alleging ‘fake news’, SFI members barge into Asianet office in Kochi

Last night, around 30 members of the Student Federation India barged into the Asianet News office in Kochi, shouting slogans and allegedly disrupting news operations.

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'Publications now carry government's pictures': Press Club event looks at what ails photojournalism

On the first floor of the Press Club of India, in the corridor outside the conference room, a group of photojournalists were smoking cigarettes on Friday afternoon. “These men are stuck in a world that has long passed,” said one of them, carefully balancing a filter and tobacco on a…

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Press meet on Zubair’s arrest: Why journalists need more than just shows of solidarity

The conference hall of the Press Club of India was packed on Monday afternoon. It contained more than 70 journalists who had gathered to discuss, as PCI put it, the “creeping infringement of media freedom and assault on personal liberty of journalists”.

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‘We have to save our club’: Clean sweep for ‘leftist’ panel in Press Club polls

On May 21, voting took place to elect a new crop of office bearers at the Press Club of India in Delhi. A day later, the results were declared – the panel led by outgoing president Umakant Lakhera had won all the seats.

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Some hits, some misses: How have Press Club of India’s outgoing officials fared?

It’s that time of year again.

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वादा तेरा वादा: एक साल में प्रेस क्लब के मौजूदा प्रबंधन का कामकाज कहां पहुंचा?

21 मई को प्रेस क्लब ऑफ इंडिया (पीसीआई) के चुनावों को लेकर एक बार फिर से सेंट्रल दिल्ली और पत्रकारिता के महकमों में गहमागहमी है. चुनाव के लिए उम्मीदवारों की घोषणा हो चुकी है. अमूमन हर शाम प्रेस क्लब के लॉन में पत्रकारों की टोलियां जमती हैं, मयनोशी की महफिलें…

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Press Club of India condemns assault on journalist in Bhopal

A journalist named Govind Gurjar was allegedly assaulted by a hospital’s staff in Bhopal

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Thwarted by two press clubs, Vivek Agnihotri will now hold press conference at hotel

In a week marked by conversations about press freedom, communal violence in Jodhpur, Modi’s visit to Europe, and a worrying power crisis across the country, social media was abuzz with something quite different.

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Press Club slams silence of AAP CMs, seeks action against cops over 'assault' on journalist

Two days after journalist Naresh Vats alleged that he was barred from attending a joint press conference – by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann – and assaulted by Punjab police, the Press Club of India said the “silence” of the CMs “is an ominous pointer…

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3 Ballia journalists held in paper leak case granted bail

More than three weeks after they were arrested in connection with the class 12 paper leak case, three journalists from Ballia have been granted bail, Navbharat Times reported.

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Eviction notice, polarisation, and a poll unlike another: Is all well within IWPC's sisterhood?

In 1994, when 18 women journalists decided to set up a space exclusively for their ilk, then prime minister P V Narasima Rao appreciated the idea and offered them a quaint, white bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi’s Ashoka Road – 900 metres away from a building housing the male-dominated Press Club…

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UP paper leak: Ballia court rejects bail pleas of three arrested journalists

A Ballia lower court on Tuesday rejected the bail pleas of three journalists arrested for their alleged involvement in a paper leak case, Indian Express reported today.

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‘Will resist’: Journalists’ meet condemns ‘systematic sense’ of harassment from Ballia to Delhi

“From Burari to Ballia, they are two different incidents but their nature is the same because they are both unprecedented. Journalists who are messengers, providing news, are targeted,” said Press Club of India president Umakant Lakhera, in his opening remarks at a gathering of journalists at the club on Wednesday…

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Press Council condemns attack on journalists

It demanded the immediate release of arrested journalists.

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