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The 46-year-old Sikh separatist was found shot dead inside a car

In the wake of the horrific train accident in Odisha, multiple newspapers published editorials on lessons that need to be learned – and why the railways must prioritise safety.

“Kaha tha Imran Khan ko na chhedna.” If there’s a single slogan that captures the “profound crisis” of the Pakistani state, it is this, said Avinash Paliwal in The Indian Express (Delhi): “We told you, don’t touch Imran Khan.”

The horror happened on Sunday night in a coastal town in Kerala state’s Malappuram district, and most of the passengers were tourists - including seven children

The Indian Express has a very impactful front page this morning – perhaps one of its most impactful pages since the Emergency.

While legacy and independent news publishers look at the subscription model as the way forward in the post-pandemic years, an Indian probe agency suspects this revenue mechanism can be used by “unscrupulous elements” to pump money and foment trouble in Jammu and Kashmir.

Twenty-three years ago, Robin Jeffrey, a professor of politics at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, had described Ramnath Goenka’s “Indian Express empire” as the “grandest version of newspapers with some link to the ‘freedom struggle’” in his book. When Goenka died in 1991, Jeffrey wrote in India’s Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics…

“This is a newspaper to be studied, not read.” 

At The Media Rumble 2019, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Newslaundry Madhu Trehan is in conversation with author Prayaag Akbar, author and contributing writer Aatish Taseer, and Raj Kamal Jha, author and chief editor of The Indian Express. They discuss their craft and writing, and the role of identity, legacy and…

Nearly all media houses except The Indian Express blacked out the Cobrapost sting. What impact has that had on people? Do they know of the sting and the conversations around it? Do they trust the media? We ask a few people.

Each year, the Network of Women in Media (NWMI), India, holds a national meet for its members, who hail from a range of platforms in states across India. On January 4-6, Chennai’s Anna University hosted over 100 female journalists – early-career reporters, long-time veterans of print newsrooms, old friends, new…