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The inside story of Zee News becoming a Covid-19 hotspot

By Atul ChaurasiaMay 20, 2020 On the morning of May 18, a press bulletin issued by the Gautam Buddh Nagar administration created mayhem at Film City in Noida’s Sector 16A. According to the bulletin, 28 Zee News employees had tested positive for… Continue Reading →

Betrayed? Migrants walking towards Rajasthan ‘don’t count’ in design of New India

Migrants resting along the Gujarat-Rajasthan highway By Gagan Sethi*The other day some of us decided to go along the ghostlike highway that connects Ahmedabad with Rajasthan border. It was less than four hours ride from the Chiloda Circle to Shamlaji… Continue Reading →

Rizwana Tabassum (1992-2020): Free, fearless, young feminist journalist gone too soon

Her reports from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh shone light on acts of injustice. Meera Jatav & Priyanka Kotamraju On the morning of May 4, we received the news of our dear colleague and saathi Rizwana Tabassum’s death with utter shock. Reports say the cause… Continue Reading →

Ahmedabad: Indian journalist Dhaval Patel arrested, charged with sedition

News portal editor charged with sedition Ahmedabad Mirror | News portal editor charged with sedition May 13, 2020 1:46 PM ET New Delhi, May 13, 2020 — Authorities in Gujarat must immediately release journalist Dhaval Patel and drop all charges… Continue Reading →

South Asia Press Freedom Report – States of Control: Covid, cuts and impunity

Pandemic and the press: As Covid-19 made a deadly sweep across the globe from the beginning of 2020, governments in South Asia have also tightened an iron grip over the media and democratic institutions. Media violations continued under the pandemic with an increase in digital… Continue Reading →

Facebook apologises for role in 2018 Sri Lanka unrest

AFPMay 13, 2020, 1:42 PM Facebook has apologised for its role in the deadly communal unrest that shook Sri Lanka two years ago after an investigation found that hate speech and rumours spread on the platform may have led to… Continue Reading →

3 J&K photojournalists win Pulitzer Prize for photography

. | YUSUF JAMEEL Mukhtar Khan, Dar Yasin and Channi Anand cited for excellence in news photography under trying circumstances  Kashmiri Muslim devotees offer prayer outside the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Srinagar in December 2019…. Continue Reading →

No Data Of Stranded Migrant Workers: Union Labour Ministry Reveals In RTI Query

Chief Labour Commissioner had on April 8 directed its regional office to count within three days every labourer who was stranded after the lockdown imposed to combat Coronavirus. Migrants arrive from Surat by a special train at Praygraj railway station,… Continue Reading →

Bois Locker Room scandal: Delhi Student taken into custody over insta chat group discussing gangraping schoolgirls

KEY HIGHLIGHTS The cyber cell of Delhi Police has seized the mobile phone of the students and the investigation is underway. The cyber cell has also reportedly written to Instagram to share details of the group. Members of the Instagram… Continue Reading →

Raising Generation C: New Motherhood in the year of a Covid- 19 Pandemic

Urvashi Sarkar APRIL 25, 2020 Bringing a child into the world in 2020, when parenting is paranoia and the shape of the future is hard to imagine The paediatrician’s waiting room was unusually crowded. Parents and grandparents sat on narrow… Continue Reading →

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