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Times Now, with headlines announcing that the new laws now had US backing. In fact, the US State Department statement, while cautiously welcoming “steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets”, called for dialogue with the farmers and underlined that peaceful protests and freedom of expression are the “hallmark” of a democracy. That it is the foreign media doing investigative journalism in and about India should raise some difficult questions, said Ayyub, the Washington Post columnist. “Why have we not been able to do a single damning expose in Indian publications i...

1984, 1989, 2002: Three Narratives of Injustice, and the Lessons for Democracy Why is it that mass injustice in the face of mass communal crimes has become such an established pattern of state practice in modern India? Representative image of a rioting mob. Photo: Reuters February 8 is the birth anniversary of Zakir Husain The following is a speech delivered by Siddharth Varadarajan at the  XXVII Zakir Husain Memorial Lecture on February 24, 2015. The man whom we are honouring today was not just the president of India, nor was he merely a politician of deep distinction and rare integrity. ...

: Thursday, January 28, 2021, 11:56 PM IST UP: FIR lodged against Rajdeep Sardesai, Shashi Tharoor, Zafar Agha, Mrinal Pande for allegedly spreading misinformation Facebook/Rajdeep Sardesai Noida: In a fresh development the Uttar Pradesh police has lodged an FIR against journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor, journalist Zafar Agha, journalist Mrinal Pande and 4 others at Gautam Buddh Nagar. The accused have been booked for offences under sections 153(A), 153(B), 295(A), 298 IPC and other relevant provisions for allegedly spreading misinformation. According to the F...

Following the paper trail Updated: Updated: Documents, unlike people, will never betray reporters or withdraw comments Share Article AAA Documents, unlike people, will never betray reporters or withdraw comments In a scene in the 2017 movie The Post, a group of journalists peer into a cardboard box holding the Pentagon Papers. It is an exciting and equally stressful moment: the team has a mere 10 hours to sift through 4,000 pages, make sense of them, and hammer out a report for the city edition. As all of them start complaining about the seemingly impossible task, Tom Hanks, who plays The...

Nigeria –The magistrate court sitting in Makurdi, Benue state has remanded 17-year-old Esther Alex, who burnt her boyfriend, in Correctional Centre, Makurdi. Recall that Chidinma Ikechukwu Omah, a patent medicine dealer, died after he was set ablaze by the accused in Wadata suburb of Makurdi. The case which came for mention, on Tuesday, January 19, has the First Information Report read to the accused. The FIR, titled,’ Mischief by Fire and Culpable Homicide’ read in parts; “That one Esther Alex ‘F’ of no 1, Zaki Biam street, Wadata Makurdi went to the house of Mr Chidi...