Arms of the government see journalism (of all kinds) not as a useful source of feedback at a time when the population is in distress but as a nuisance to be squashed. Fake news is no longer seen only as an electronic menace but as reporting with malign intent, whether in Kashmir or elsewhere.
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A case for truth: Media oppression is a shifting landscape | Sevanti Ninan
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Report of the Delhi Minorities Commission Fact-finding Committee on the North-East Delhi Riots of February 2020
17 July 2020Excerpt from the preface: ". . . The report is fairly comprehensive and even-handed but due to the non-cooperation of Delhi Police, the fact-finding committee could not present a more comprehensive and incisive report. The committee has also (...) -
Violence Against Christians Spreads to 50% of Indian States - 95 incidents of mob violence so far in 2020
17 July 2020DOCUMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New Delhi – July 13, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown does not appear to have brought much relief to Indian citizens following the Christian faith. The first half of this year has so far (...) -
On 51st Anniversary of Bank Nationalisation on 19th July 2020 - Demands of All India Bank Employees Association
17 July 202019th July is a very significant day in the chronicles of banking sector in our country. It was on this day, on the 19th July in the year 1969, 14 major private Banks were nationalised by the Government of India, from when these Banks started chartering a new path with social orientation. AIBEA played a leading role in championing the cause and demand for nationalisation of private Banks. There were continuous struggles for more than 20 years including strikes by bank employees demanding nationalisation of banks.
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COVID-19 outbreak in Nagpur Prison: The worsening health situation of Prof G.N. Saibaba | Press Release from Committee for His Defence and Family Members | 15 July 2020
17 July 2020Dr. G. N. Saibaba in his most recent call to his family and advocate informed despite the preventive measures taken by the jail administration many prisoners were affected by COVID-19 including jail guards in Nagpur Central Prison. One of the prisoners near to his anda cell got tested positive for COVID-19. The disease has reached very close to me", Saibaba said, and that it was only a "matter of time" since it reaches his cell as he is highly vulnerable due to existing co-morbidities
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Why Kashmiris missed a heartbeat on July 13 | Mohammad Sayeed Malik
17 July 2020by Mohammad Sayeed Malik
[Editor’s note: Mohammed Syed Malik may well be the most senior journalist in Kashmir today. A long serving Special Correspondent in Srinagar of the now defunct Delhi-based national daily newspaper Patriot and Link (...) -
The curious case of Davinder Singh | Faraz Ahmad
17 July 2020, by Faraz AhmadSeven months after catching Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) police Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy SP) Davinder Singh escorting two alleged terrorists belonging reportedly to Hizbul Mujahideen group of Pakistan, in his Hyundai i10 car on the (...) -
Animal Farm Politics of the Left | Sukumaran C.V.
17 July 2020, by Sukumaran C.V.It was more than 25 years ago, in 1994, I bought my own copy of Taslima Nasreen’s Lajja and virtually devoured it. No other contemporary work of literature has shaken me as Lajja has. The following lines she wrote in the Preface of Lajja reveal (...) -
Jolly Kaul’s Quest For A Better World | Bhanudeb Dutta
17 July 2020by Bhanudeb Dutta
As soon as the death-news of Jolly Mohan Kaul reached me, though not a bolt from the blue, immediately a thought flashed on me on a group photograph put up at the office of the Indian Society for Cultural Cooperation and (...) -
Video: Fake encounters are being valorised to delegitimise rule of law and the courts -BBC interview with Lawyer Vrinda Grover
17 July 2020Fake encounters are being valourised to delegitimise rule of law and the courts. There is an urgent need to raise sharp questions and work towards judicial reforms within the ambit of Indian constitutionalism.
Fake encounters and cold blooded murders by the police are no answer to the ordinary, poor and vulnerable citizens anguished cry against injustices. For whom do fake encounters pay rich dividends?
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