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PRASHANT BHUSHAN ACCUSES BJP OF SHAM AGUSTAWESTLAND DEAL
At a press conference yesterday, Swaraj Abhiyan leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan claimed that “commission” in the name of premiums were paid in another AgustaWestland helicopter deal that...
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INDIAN E-COMMERCE SECTOR TRIPLES ITS WORTH OVER FIVE YEARS, DESPITE LOW NET USE
Although India’s use of the Internet is lower than many poorer countries, the country’s e-commerce sector tripled–or grew by 209% over the last five years–from $4.4 billion (Rs 20,020 crore) in 2010...
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MEXICAN NEWSPAPER FACES HARASSMENT FROM AUTHORITIES
Mexico City, May 12, 2016 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the increasing harassment of the Mexican daily newspaper Vanguardia and its staff. In recent weeks, Vanguardia‘s website...
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NL HAFTA – EPISODE 67: FROM DEMONIC POSSESSIONS TO MODI IN KERALA
Since the first episode of Chase – Newslaundry’s documentary series in association with ScoopWhoop – has come out, Manisha Pande talks to us about her experience of exploring demonic possessions in...
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UGANDA BLOCKS ACCESS TO SOCIAL MEDIA AHEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION
Nairobi, May 12, 2016 – Ugandan authorities should immediately restore access to social media websites and refrain from censoring any websites in the future, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...
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A MAN KILLED HIMSELF TO CATCH THE MEDIA’S ATTENTION
On Thursday morning, India woke up to the disturbing image of a human body hanging by its neck from a tree. Given the minimal blurring, the image was perhaps a tad too graphic for news channels to...
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‘WE THINK 20 TIMES BEFORE PUBLISHING A NEWS ITEM’
The Supreme Court, on May 13, announced its decision to uphold criminal defamation laws. The constitutional validity of Sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code providing for criminal defamation...
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RUSSIA CENSORS CRIMEAN NEWS WEBSITE
New York, May 12, 2016 – Authorities in Russia should stop censoring the website of Krym.Realii, the Crimean service of the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Committee to...
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WHO GOT #HITLERKERJRIWAL AND #SAYSORRYKEJRIWAL TRENDING?
It was just a few days ago when Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was trending on Twitter in Delhi. The hashtag #SaySorryKejriwal had been tweeted out more than 100,000 times. The hashtag was in...
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TWO INDIAN JOURNALISTS FATALLY SHOT IN 24 HOURS
New York, May 13, 2016 -The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on investigators in the neighboring Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand to act quickly to bring the killers of journalists...
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WHO KILLED RAJDEV RANJAN AND INDRADEV YADAV?
Within 24 hours, two journalists were shot dead in Jharkhand and Bihar. While Hindi daily Hindustan bureau-chief Rajdev Ranjan was shot dead in Bihar’s Siwan, stringer Indradev Yadav was shot in the...
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HOW MANY TIMES HAS PRESIDENT’S RULE BEEN IMPOSED IN INDIA?
According to a RTI response from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), President’s rule was imposed 115 times till date including in Uttarakhand in March this year. The indiscriminate use of article 356...
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AFRICA HAS BETTER INFANT MORTALITY RATES THAN INDIA
Much criticism has been directed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim—wrong, as FactChecker reported—that the proportion of infants dying is lower in Somalia than Kerala’s tribal areas. But with...
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INDIANS PREFER PRIVATE EDUCATION OVER GOVERNMENT INSTITUTES
In a recent Mann Ki Baat address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed that every government should focus on quality learning and outcomes rather than the school enrolment. Was asked a pertinent...
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FROM KANUBHAI TO HEERABEN, INDIA’S COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AGED
Image credit: Kevin Frayer/ Getty Images News It seems to be the best of times and worst of times to be elderly in India. On one hand we have the ‘shocker’ of Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson being...
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25 YEARS AFTER LIBERALISATION, WHAT’S HAPPENED TO INDIAN MEDIA?
Arnab Goswami should be grateful to Saddam Hussain, as should Ekta Kapoor. The former Iraqi dictator’s rather swift annexation of oil-rich Kuwait in 1990 led to the Gulf War, which exacerbated an...
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WHY KANUBHAI GANDHI IS A SPECIAL SENIOR CITIZEN
For the past few days a maudlin and bizarre story has been doing the rounds in newspapers and on idiot box channels that cater to the endless craving for tamasha of the lowest common denominator....
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EXIT POLLS: BJP MAY FORM GOVT IN ASSAM, MAMATA TO RETAIN POWER IN BENGAL
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may soon form its first government in Assam, and Mamata Banerjee will retain power in West Bengal, if exit polls are to be believed. ABP-Ananda’s exit polls gave the...
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‘IT WAS LIKE DOOMSDAY IN HANDWARA.’
[Photo credit: Raja Nouman] A little more than a month after Handwara erupted in rage over the molestation bid on a schoolgirl, I walked into a different Handwara. After the incident on April 12, five...
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