The Latest Breaking News from the Indian Express

The editor of a local Hindi newspaper has been arrested in Ghaziabad after BJP MP Atul Garg accused him of defamation through a report that was published over six months ago.

The Indian Express relaunched its film magazine SCREEN in an event in Mumbai on Friday, after a hiatus of 11 years. It’s first digital cover was also launched at the event. 

More than 50 people died and over a 100 are estimated to be injured in a stampede at a satsang, or religious event, in Hathras of Uttar Pradesh, as per the Indian Express. The number of those dead, a majority of whom are women, is likely to increase.  

Telugu news channels TV9, Sakshi TV, NTV and 10TV have been taken off the air by some cable TV operators in Andhra Pradesh since Friday night, The Indian Express reported. They were first taken off air for a day on June 6, days after the assembly and Lok Sabha poll…

The death toll from a batch of toxic illegal alcohol in India has risen to 53, media reported Sunday, as more victims in hospital succumbed to the poisonous brew.

The Delhi High Court has restrained a political satirist from using an identical India TV logo and the phrase “Baap Ki Adalat” in social media posts after the channel’s editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma filed a lawsuit for violation of “trademark and personality rights”, the Indian Express reported.

Yesterday, The Indian Express reported that CPIM general secretary Sitaram Yechury and All India Forward Bloc leader G Devarajan were asked by public broadcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio to drop the phrases “communal authoritarian regime”, “Muslim”, and “draconian laws” from their speeches during broadcast time allotted to them.

From the mainstream media to BJP leaders, the knives are out for the Aam Aadmi Party and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal ahead of the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls, with his party colleague making serious allegations about an assault on her at his residence.

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Raman Kirpal are joined by journalists Girish Kuber, Sunita Aron, and Sudipto Mondal.