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Biodiversity crisis: Where’s the funding to protect the planet?

Four of the world’s 36 recognised biodiversity hotspots are in India, while the World Wildlife Fund’s latest Living Planet report shows a decline of up to 73 percent in wild animal populations across the world. At a time when the earth is facing its worst biodiversity crisis, the issue of…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 343: Assam citizenship test, Delhi air pollution

This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Scroll’s Rokibuz Zaman and Newslaundry’s Drishti Choudhary.

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‘Investigative reporting will be extinct’: The Hindu editor, N Ram condemn FIR against Gujarat journo

Over four days after a second FIR was lodged against The Hindu journalist Mahesh Langa, his colleagues took to X to condemn the police action and uphold “a journalist’s right to obtain and process a confidential or ‘sensitive’ official document in line with their work”.

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Yamuna is choking in Delhi. Is floodplain encroachment to blame?

A thick layer of white foam has taken over the Yamuna river in Delhi yet again. The toxic foam, a result of untreated sewage waste, has raised concerns months after a report pointed to increasing encroachment and concretisation on the floodplains of the river.

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TV Newsance 271: Zee’s new ‘jihad’, Sudhir’s India vs China, Aaditya Thackeray on Hindutva

It’s the festive season, and both our air and our airwaves are filled with poison. This week we saw our usual suspects celebrate in their favourite ways — fear mongering and endorsing our supreme leader.

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Hafta letters: Google and data, legacy of CJI Chandrachud, Punjab in 1980s

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‘One-sided, incomplete’: PCI chief dismisses draft report with 4 recommendations to protect journalists

A draft report by a Press Council of India member suggesting several measures for journalists has been rejected by the council’s chairperson Ranjana Prakash Desai, saying that she is recording her “dissent” as she is “unable to concur with all observations and recommendations”.

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‘Dangerous’: Delhi HC on Wikipedia model

The Delhi High Court on Friday said that it is “dangerous” how Wikipedia functions, considering how anyone can edit pages on the platform, Bar and Bench reported.

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Pothole-free Delhi by Diwali? Data offers no flicker of hope

Last month, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi Singh unveiled an ambitious initiative aimed at creating a pothole-free Delhi, with the government’s public works department told to repair roads spanning nearly 1,400 km with this year’s Diwali as the deadline.

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‘Ambiguous communication’: Study points to IT Rules ‘chilling impact’ on audiovisual industry

The IT Rules introduced by the Narendra Modi government are cultivating a climate of self-censorship for the audiovisual industry and legal and economic threats, a recent study has suggested.

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How OpIndia got caught spreading misinformation about LiveLaw

A story on a “Christian conversion racket”, another on Washington Post’s “collusion” with Canada, and restaurants “deceiving customers” over paneer.

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Fraud network, mastermind in Assam: Inside Oswal cyber fraud case

In the two months since textile baron SP Oswal lost Rs 7 crore to scammers posing as CBI sleuths, the Ludhiana police have identified the “mastermind”, arrested 15 suspects, recovered Rs 4 crore, and claimed to have uncovered a network of scammers spread across Assam, West Bengal, and the Delhi-NCR.

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Gujarat journalist arrested in ‘GST scam’ case now booked for ‘possession of confidential files’

Mahesh Langa, a senior assistant editor at The Hindu, who has been in judicial custody in a case of alleged GST evasion since October 8, has now been booked for possession of documents related to the Gujarat Maritime Board, Indian Express reported.

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‘Govt weakening RTI, our fight not over yet’: Activists in Beawar on 19 years of RTI law

About two decades ago, a grassroots movement in the backward area of Beawar in Rajasthan led to the formation of the Right to Information Act in 2005. In the lead-up to the landmark legislation aimed at countering corruption, activists Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, and Shankar Singh led a sit-in protest…

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‘Democracy khatre main hai’: The Donald Trump Edition

The US election – a high-stakes battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump – is being perceived as critical for the future of democracy in America.

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Under new J&K govt, journalists uncertain about press freedom hope, ‘change in policy’

The oath ceremony last week in Jammu and Kashmir was a crucial moment for the region’s press. It had come after a poll campaign featuring promises on press freedom, increased restrictions on the media, and after a decade of political turmoil.

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Private buses in Corbett’s core: Controversial ex-director didn’t have ‘any powers’ to permit it

A committee has filed a report in the Supreme Court that says a former director of Uttarakhand’s Corbett Tiger Reserve permitted private buses to operate within the park’s core reserve area even without “having any powers to do so”.

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‘It’s time for a homecoming’: Why Kamaal Farooqui is returning to the Congress

The Maharashtra polls are a month away and defections are already in full swing.

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Let Me Explain: UAPA’s weaponisation of literature and witnesses

From 2014 to 2022, 8,719 people were charged under the draconian UAPA. A majority are languishing in jail, with trials delayed and bail denied, as in the case of GN Saibaba.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 342: Bahraich violence, influence of money in Pune car crash case

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Prateek Goyal.

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Indian Express relaunches film magazine SCREEN after 11 years

The Indian Express relaunched its film magazine SCREEN in an event in Mumbai on Friday, after a hiatus of 11 years. It’s first digital cover was also launched at the event.

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TV Newsance 270: Anchors celebrate rise of gangster Bishnoi, India-Canada all-out tussle

Kalyug has arrived on our TV screens with news anchors and right-wing commentators celebrating the rise of a new national hero — gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Move over Dawood Ibrahim; the new sheriff in town has got a Sanatani twist. And our anchors glorified the criminal, tossing journalistic integrity out the…

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Working mothers struggle, quit jobs as govt shuts down 22 crèches across Delhi

The Delhi government has closed 22 of the 44 standalone crèches operated by NGOs under the PALNA scheme, affecting families and working women across the national capital. The decision was first detailed in an order by Delhi’s Women and Child Department on March 5, followed by a June 20 order…

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Absence of survey, local resistance: Assam limestone mining auction in limbo

In December last year, the Assam government issued a tender for the auction of seven limestone mines in Dima Hasao district, which operates under the sixth schedule of the Constitution, and is governed by an autonomous council that represents its tribal communities.

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No guarantee of protection or change: What the stories of 3 journalists tell us this month

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