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Last week, I spoke to some students at a Mumbai college. They were in their second-year of a three-year degree course in media studies. I asked them how many of them wanted to be journalists. In a class of around 35, only one young woman raised her hand. 

Satish Nandgaonkar, a senior journalist and chief of the Thane bureau at Hindustan Times, died of a massive heart attack outside his office at Lower Parel on February 28. 

Ramkumar, 38, has manoeuvred his rickshaw through the Sadar Bazar market in Delhi for almost 12 hours every day to earn a livelihood. But when night falls, he has nowhere to go. His meagre earnings and the increasing unaffordability of housing prevent him from renting even a single room.

Nineteen-year-old Sharmila from Chennai lost her husband Praveen to a caste killing on February 24. The 22-year-old man belonging to the Paraiyar caste, classified as Scheduled Caste, was murdered by Sharmila’s elder brother Dinesh (24) and four other men, most of them caste Hindus, in the Pallikaranai locality. 

दक्षिण भारत में रामनाथ गोयनका की विरासत की निरंतरता का नाम है न्यू इंडियन एक्सप्रेस. और इस तरह यह उस परंपरा की भी एक कड़ी है जिसकी शुरुआत 1932 में एक्सप्रेस के संस्थापक वरदराजुलु नायडू ने तमिलनाडु में इसका पहला संस्करण प्रकाशित करके की थी. बीजी वर्गीज़ की किताब वॉरियर…

Last week, The Times of India reported that advertisement flow to India’s print media is expected to show seven percent growth in 2024, a record level of rise that exceeds even pre-pandemic levels. As a market leader in print ad revenue, Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd, the media conglomerate that…

A Delhi court has asked news outlet Bloomberg to remove an article about alleged accounting issues at Zee Entertainment Enterprises within a week in a defamation case filed by the latter, Livelaw reported. 

It’s been 41 years since the Nellie massacre of February 18, 1983, seen as one of the most horrific events of collective violence in independent India. Official estimates put casualties anywhere between 1,800 and 2,000, while less conservative figures hover around 7,000. But do these numbers matter more than the…

पंजाब के किसानों के दिल्ली कूच के ऐलान को आज तीसरा दिन हो चला है. लेकिन दिल्ली तो दूर वे अभी पंजाब से हरियाणा की सीमा में भी दाखिल नहीं हो पाए हैं. शंभू, दाता सिंह वाला और खनौरी बॉर्डर समेत कई अन्य जगहों पर हरियाणा पुलिस  द्वारा की गई…