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This report was first published on April 8, 2023. It was republished after a US military plane landed in Amritsar on February 6, 2025 carrying deported Indian migrants. Read the original piece here.

दिल्ली विधानसभा की 70 सीटों के लिए मतदान संपन्न हो चुका है. चुनाव आयोग के मुताबिक, शाम 5 बजे तक दिल्ली में 57.07 प्रतिशत मतदान हुआ. चुनाव के नतीजे 8 फरवरी को घोषित होंगे.

About 57 percent of Delhi’s voters turned out to exercise their franchise today. While results are still three days away, muted celebrations seem to have started as exit polls predicted a clean sweep for the Bharatiya Janata Party. 

Acting on a complaint forwarded by the Election Commission of India, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority issued a warning to News18 India for giving a communal colour to a programme on comments made by various political leaders on the occasion of Ram Navami last year. 

Taking note of the changes the media landscape has undergone over the last two two decades, the Editors’ Guild of India on Tuesday released a revised ethics code for journalists. 

The Uttar Pradesh government has officially claimed 30 deaths during the stampede at the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj last week. The Adityanath-led administration was already under fire for the curious delay in announcing the death toll, and for mismanagement that allegedly precipitated the stampede. 

प्रयागराज में एक दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण हादसा हुआ. भगदड़ में बहुत से लोगों की मौत हो गई है. मरने वालों की तादाद पर अभी भी संदेह बना हुआ है. जो नेता आगे बढ़-चढ़ कर लोगों को कुंभ में आने के लिए उकसा रहे थे, वो इस हादसे की जिम्मेदारी लेने में सबसे पीछे…

The Madras High Court on Tuesday, February 4, criticised the nature of a questionnaire given to four journalists by a Special Investigation Team investigating the Anna University sexual assault case. Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan questioned why the personal details of the journalists were being collected when it was the police who…

Over the last decade we have read many an obituary about the Right to Information Act. Let me add to that long list of obituaries by narrating how I lost eight out of nine cases before one Information Commissioner – Heeralal Samariya, a former IAS officer who was first appointed…

When you hear people complain about Delhi’s air, and you don’t live there yourself, you give yourself a little pat on the back. Well done, you think, for not living in a shroud of toxic air. How clever of you to have unwittingly made choices that led you away.

Two editorials in the last two days spotlighted growing concerns about the media.