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AMERICA’S FIRST ‘INDIAN’ TV STAR WAS A BLACK MAN FROM MISSOURI
Turning on the TV in Los Angeles in 1949, you might have come face-to-face with a young man in a jeweled turban with a dreamy gaze accentuated by dark eye shadow. Dressed in a fashionable coat and...
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DOES THE MEDIA NEED A WATCHDOG?
More than a month has passed since Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders were shown to receive what resemble bribes. The images appear in a sting operation conducted by Narada News and features TMC members...
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SCAMS ARE AN INDIAN TRADITION
We are back in scam season, or so it seems. The latest spate of revelations in the controversial but aborted deal to procure 12 VVIP helicopters from the now-defunct Italian company, AgustaWestland...
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INSIDE DELHI’S FIRE DEPARTMENT
“When you are on call, it can make you say ‘God help me’, even if you are an atheist,” said Station Officer Rajesh Kumar Shukla. He had just come back from a fire call at Shivaji Bridge, in central...
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AGEING INDIA: SOUTH INDIA OLDEST, NORTHEAST YOUNGEST
India has long been described as a nation of young people—and that is true—but the country’s elderly (60+ years) population grew 27 million between 2001 and 2011, the largest increase (about 35%) over...
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STOP ACID ATTACKS FROM INDIA WINS INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
Right on time for World Press Freedom Day, the winners of The Bobs, honouring the best of online activism, were announced in Berlin yesterday. Now in its 12th year, The Bobs is organized by the German...
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EVEN BEFORE TERROR STRUCK, BRUSSELS WAS UNDER ATTACK
I am not a citizen of Belgium; I carry a French passport. But I am a citizen of Brussels, the most international of European cities. This is first a matter of migration: Several waves of immigration...
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JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES IN BRAZIL ISSUE ORDER TO BLOCK WHATSAPP FOR 72 HOURS
New York, May 2, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by a judicial order to block WhatsApp in Brazil for 72 hours. A judge ordered telecommunications companies to block the...
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ONLY 3.81% OF INDIANS PAY INCOME TAX
On 29 April 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced–for the first time ever in India–the release of income-tax data, which follows economist Thomas Piketty’s call for income-tax data...
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‘RTI ACT PASSED UNDER US PRESSURE?’ ASKS A RAJYA SABHA MP
It is very rare to see Members of Parliament (MPs) from various parties agree on a specific issue. In the Rajya Sabha, on 28th April, 2016 MPs from various parties spoke about the ‘misuse’ of Right to...
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TWO REPORTERS AT SPANISH DAILY ABC FACE TRIAL FOR REVEALING INVESTIGATION...
Brussels, May 2, 2016–A Madrid court has ruled that Cruz Morcillo and Pablo Muñoz, two journalists at the Spanish daily ABC, should face trial for their reporting on a police wiretap investigation...
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WHAT BREXIT WOULD MEAN FOR RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIA AND THE UK
Much of the debate about Britain’s impending referendum on membership of the European Union so far has focused on external trade and the UK’s standing in the world. President Barack Obama intervened...
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POLICE RAID JOURNALISTS’ SYNDICATE IN CAIRO, ARREST TWO REPORTERS
New York, May 2, 2016–Egyptian authorities should immediately release Amr Badr, Mahmoud al-Sakka, and all journalists jailed for their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police on...
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POOJA TIWARI DIDN’T JUST FALL, SHE WAS PULLED DOWN
That 28-year-old journalist Pooja Tiwari wanted a drink on Sunday night wasn’t surprising. On April 1, 2016, her ‘sting operation’ on a doctor in Faridabad had been published in DNA. Her story claimed...
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IN THE NAME OF ‘HONOUR’
“Biradari main naak toh kat hi gayi thi…izzat bachane ke liye karna pada,” said Yasin Saifi, who works in the construction business, a wiry man, possibly in his forties. (“Our honour in the community...
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LESS THAN 5% OF FARMERS CONTROL 32% OF INDIA’S FARMLAND
Almost three decades ago in 1990, Radheshyam, 49, was given half an acre of farm land free, taken away from a landlord as part of what was then a 40-year-old state law that allows distribution of such...
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NIGERIAN JOURNALIST CHARGED WITH “INCITEMENT” FOR NEWS REPORT
New York, May 3, 2016 – Nigerian authorities should drop all criminal charges against journalist Jacob Onjewu Dickson and release him without delay, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
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“NEPALESE AUTHORITIES MUST LEARN TO TOLERATE CRITICISM AND PUBLIC DEBATE”
New York, May 3, 2016 — The Committee to Protect Journalists today said it is alarmed by Nepal’s decision to expel Canadian social media user Robert Penner. Immigration authorities revoked Penner’s...
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MANDAKINI KI AWAZ: FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
If you are in a remote village near Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, chances are that you’ll have bad electricity supply, rare phone network and a highly inconvenient public transport system. However, if you...
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NIRBHAYA HAS BECOME A CATCHPHRASE
They are calling her Kerala’s ‘Nirbhaya’ – the fearless one – the name, originally a pseudonym given to the victim of the gruesome Delhi gang-rape and murder of 2012. This time, the victim is a...
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