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After recording the highest number of internet shutdowns globally for six consecutive years, India was replaced by Myanmar last year. It was also the worst year on record for internet shutdowns. 

The government had advertised the Maha Kumbh as “divine, grand, digital” with arrangements for cyber security, land digitalisation, and enhanced devotee security. Among such measures were 10 lost and found centres, but relatives of the missing have now filed complaints against the poor functioning of these facilities.

Days after 18 people were killed in a stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station, the railway ministry has directed social media platform X to remove 285 links of videos depicting deaths during the mishap, Hindustan Times reported. 

When US President Donald Trump alleged a “conspiracy” by the Joe Biden administration to influence the 2024 Lok Sabha elections by spending $21 million on voter turnout in India, sections of the mainstream media were quick to amplify the BJP’s claims about the opposition indulging a foreign hand.

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday quashed the detention order against independent journalist Majid Hyderi, who has been lodged in jail for over 17 months under the Public Safety Act, The Hindu reported. 

The Delhi High Court has ordered Kerala-based digital outlet Karma News to take down an article it published last year about Cutting South, a 2023 media event organised in Kochi. 

The blocking of Tamil magazine Vikatan’s website is a “brazen instance of overreach” that “does no good to India’s democratic traditions”, the Editors Guild said in a statement yesterday.

Despite National Green Tribunal’s strict guidelines prohibiting construction on the Yamuna floodplain, the Delhi Development Authority has been increasingly concretising several areas adjacent to the river, as reported previously by Newslaundry. 

Just days after a Delhi-NCR based woman journalist had complained to the police about allegedly receiving threats from former councillors, including one from the BJP, dozens of traders on Monday staged a protest demanding quashing of the FIR outside a police station in Ghaziabad, Hindustan Times reported.