Visiting Professor, National Law University Delhi and National Secretary, Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties I have been informed that Republic TV aired a programme on 4 July 2018, presented by anchor and MD Arnab Goswami as “Super Exclusive Breaking News”.…
gulfnews.com A single WhatsApp message, distributed over 10 to 15 days could get a person killed in India today. This statement is a not the result of a single case, but of around 27 killings, in different states across the…
theprint.in New Delhi: The Modi government’s ambitious plan to set up a social media monitoring hub seems to have found few takers with the tender inviting bids for the project being extended for the fourth time. Originally, the Broadcast Engineering…
Shamsul Islam An internal Emergency was imposed on the country by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on June 25-26, 1975, and it lasted for 19 months. This period is considered as ''dark times' for Indian democratic polity. Indira Gandhi claimed…
Murad Ali Baig The Brahmins were the priests of the tribe of the Aryas (not Aryans) who mainly shaped India’s religion that evolved to become Hinduism. There is however no unanimity about where these Aryas came from. There was also…
The Global After 18 months of Trump in the White House, American politics finds itself at a crossroads. The United States has moved unmistakably toward a novel form of fascism that serves corporate interests and the military, while promoting at…
He fears for his life and safety of his family, admits the activist from Mumbai, Manoranjan S Roy. Life for him had changed ever since his RTI applications revealed discrepancies between the supply and deployment of Electronic Voting Machines in…
News websites including Firstpost, New Indian Express, Times Now and News18 took down an Indo-Asian News Service-sourced story about a bank in which BJP president Amit Shah is a director Hours after it was published, a story about Bharatiya Janata…
The Scam In third week of June a story that had been circulated by the IANS newswire was first published and then either altered or taken down by several news organisations with no explanation given. That alone would be enough…
Raman Swamy BJP chief ministers are viewing the Kisan Andolan as an agitation aimed at undermining the authority of elected governments and posing a law and order problem. That is why more than 20,000 policemen have been deployed in rural…