RSF urged Indian authorities to investigate cyber harassment campaigns linked to such publications and called on social media companies to act against abusive content. Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has accused the pro-Hindutva news website OpIndia of running an organised campaign of harassment against journalists in India, warning that its reporting has contributed...
The draft rolls place Tamil Nadu’s electorate at about 2.6 crore male and 2.7 crore female voters, while Gujarat’s voter base has shrunk to around 4.3 crore from 5 crore. Nearly 97.3 lakh names have been removed from Tamil Nadu’s draft electoral rolls as part of a special intensive revision, while about 73.7 lakh voters...
The incident comes amid wider unrest following the death of student leader Sharif Osman Hadi, who died from gunshot wounds at a hospital in Singapore on Thursday. A Hindu man was killed by a mob in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district on Thursday night after allegations of blasphemy, police said. The victim, identified by local media as...
Mehraj was arrested by National Investigation Agency on March 20, 2023, under the UAPA and is currently being held in a jail in New Delhi. As Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj has completed more than 1,000 days in jail, the Journalist Federation of Kashmir on Friday demanded for his immediate release. Mehraj, a Srinagar-based reporter known...
The court made the observation while rejecting the bail plea of an accused in connection with violence that broke out in Bareilly in September. The Allahabad High Court has said that raising the slogan “gustakh-e-nabi ki ek saza, sar tan se juda, sar tan se juda” amounts to a challenge to the authority of law...
The academics called on the Indian government to restore assured central funding, ensure timely wage payments and reaffirm the law’s original guarantee of the right to work A group of prominent international scholars, economists and policymakers has written an open letter to the Indian government urging it to halt any move to repeal or dilute...
Police in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir seized the mobile phone of senior journalist Jehangir Ali from his home in Chrar-i-Sharief on Wednesday evening, The Wire, for which he reports from the region, said in a statement on Thursday. According to news outlet, police officers arrived at Ali’s residence on December 17 and took...
The scheme, a flagship welfare programme of the Central government, provides cooked meals to children enrolled in government and government-aided schools. The number of schools covered under India’s central mid-day meal programme has fallen by more than 84,000 over the past five years, government data presented to Parliament showed on Wednesday. Coverage under the Pradhan...
While a Hindutva group claims that mosques have been built on state land, Local Muslim residents rejected the allegations, saying the claims had created fear and uncertainty in the area. A Hindu group has alleged that three mosques in Himachal Pradesh’s Nerwa tehsil were constructed on government land, intensifying communal tensions and prompting concerns among...
The court allowed the move with safeguards, barring Navlakha from leaving Delhi without trial court permission, ordering him to surrender his passport, and directing him to report weekly at the Kalkaji police station. The Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, who is on bail in the Bhima Koregaon case, to...