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DON’T RUSH TO BLAME MOLENBEEK FOR HARBOURING PARIS ATTACKER
After 120 days on the run, Salah Abdeslam, accused of being part of the group that carried out the brutal attacks in Paris in November 2015, has finally been arrested. He was found in the Molenbeek...
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES RISE BY 32% IN 5 YEARS
Spending on programmes to control India’s three main communicable diseases—malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy—increased 7% over five years while cases reported, taken together, increased 32%, according...
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ASSAM’S UPCOMING ELECTIONS
It has 14 MPs representing the country in the Indian Parliament (which is seven more than the state of Delhi) and a population of more than 26 million people. It’s also going to have assembly...
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INSIDE HYDERABAD CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: ‘IT’S LIKE BEING IN A GULAG’
Police talking to protesting students Events following the arrest of three students of Jawaharlal Nehru University were reported to the minutiae by Big Media for days on end. This can hardly be said...
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NL HAFTA – EPISODE 60
This week on NL Hafta, journalist and author Rahul Pandita talks about the condition of scribes in Bastar and the recent arrest of a reporter, Prabhat Singh. We talk about state intimidation in...
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THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T KEEP ITS PROMISE TO THE PARLIAMENT AS WELL
Citizens often complain that Political Parties fail to keep up the promises made during the election campaign. Data reveals that it’s not just promises made to citizens, Governments fail to implement...
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THE ‘TWO FACTOR’: HOW JOURNALISTS CAN PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM TWITTER HACKS
When The Associated Press’s verified @AP account was hacked three years ago, CPJ’s senior security adviser Frank Smyth and I noted that for individuals faced with that situation, the best course of...
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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SECTION 66A
In 2008, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government made an amendment to the Information Technology Act 2000 and added Section 66A to the Act. The amendment ostensibly targeted those who wrote...
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IS SECTION 66A COMING BACK?
On December 22, 2008, Section 66A was passed without any debate in the Lok Sabha. Bear with me. There’s a reason I’m taking you back to something that happened eight years ago. All political parties...
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NINE MLAS WHO ARE ROCKING THE UTTARAKHAND ASSEMBLY (NOT IN A GOOD WAY)
Uttarakhand is closely following on Arunachal Pradesh’s heels. The unfolding coup d’etat in the state has lead to the imposition of President’s rule and heavy deployment of security. It started on...
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LAHORE AND BRUSSELS: A STUDY IN CONTRASTS AND SIMILARITIES
The contrast could not have been clearer. The day after the Brussels attack, the front page of Kolkata-based The Telegraph had a banner headline:“TINTIN’S TEARS”. Below it was a picture of Hergé’s...
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SECOND INDIAN JOURNALIST IN CHHATTISGARH ARRESTED IN ONE WEEK
New York, March 28, 2016 – The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Indian authorities to release journalist Deepak Jaiswal, and to cease harassing and jailing journalists for their work....
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DJOKOVIC’S CASE FOR HIGHER MEN’S PAY IN TENNIS HARMS EQUALITY
In a controversial yet thought-provoking comment, world number one Novak Djokovic has questioned the equality of prize money in tennis, suggesting that men should be paid more as they have more...
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NUMBER OF MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS CROSSES THE 100 CRORE MARK
The number of mobile subscribers in the country crossed the 100 crore mark in late 2015. 57.27% of all the mobile subscribers are urban while the rest are rural. The overall tele-density stood at...
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HATE SPEECH ACCUSED CANDIDATES MORE SUCCESSFUL IN ELECTIONS
Candidates with hate-speech cases against them were three times more successful in elections compared to those without a criminal record, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of self-disclosed crime...
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HAVELLS AND THE HOT AIR DEBATE OF MERIT VERSUS QUOTA
If you have seen this advertisement of Havell’s fans and not felt a niggling sense of WTF, then you have been numbed by the false definitions perpetrated by the accepted lexicon of upwardly mobile...
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RIGHTSCON 2016 TO FOCUS ON GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN JOURNALISM
This week in San Francisco, CPJ’s Technology and Advocacy teams will participate in RightsCon 2016, an annual conference focusing on human rights and technology. Organized by digital rights group...
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CHICKEN AND BABE: THE TRIALS OF BEING A WOMAN IN INDIA
This week began with Michelle Obama making a speech worth listening to while on a trip to Argentina. Speaking at the Let Girls Live initiative on March 24, Obama shared an anecdote about the sexism...
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WHAT THE BRUSSELS ATTACK TELLS US ABOUT THE STATE OF ISIS AND EUROPE TODAY
The attack in Brussels is another sobering indicator of the emergent European front in the fight against the Islamic State. As I wrote in The New York Times on Wednesday, ISIS’ recent battlefield...
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