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Content termed ‘fake’ by PIB’s fact check must be taken down, suggests proposed change to IT Rules

All intermediaries, including social media platforms, will need to ensure that any news article identified as “fake or false” by the Press Information Bureau’s Fact Check Unit is not allowed on their platform, according to a newly proposed amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code)…

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No caste certificate, no admission: Why Chhattisgarh’s displaced Adivasi children can’t go to school

This is Part III in the NL Sena series on Adivasis displaced from Chhattisgarh who now live in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Read Parts I and II here.

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No problem renting, but don’t sell to Muslims: Meet the lawyer named in Brahmpuri posters

Early last week, a set of posters mysteriously appeared in Delhi’s Brahmpuri, a locality in northeast Delhi that was the scene of the communal riots that ravaged the capital in February 2020.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 254: Sextortion stigma, Assam delimitation fears

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Pratyush Deep and freelance journalist Devendra Pratap Singh Shekhawat.

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NTPC faces local ire in Joshimath, authorities probe its ‘role’

Forced to leave damaged houses, residents in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath are now expressing their anger against the National Thermal Power Corporation Limited – a state-owned energy giant facing allegations that one of its projects contributed to subsidence in the area.

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Chhattisgarh’s displaced Adivasis: Can they even ‘go home’ after 17 years?

This is Part II in the NL Sena series on Adivasis displaced from Chhattisgarh who now live in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Read Part I here.

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Cartoon: Long walk to 2024

Cartoon is one of the oldest and boldest artistic genres for speaking truth to power. In India, however, cartoonists, in the news media and outside, are under pressure to curtail their free speech and not annoy the powerful as the finest of them are wont to do. They are being…

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Concerns on child safety, KYC, cyber-bullying: IT ministry’s public consultation on online gaming

Concerns around protecting children online, combating harassment, and implementing KYC norms were top issues discussed during a consultation held yesterday in Delhi by the ministry of electronics and information technology.

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17 years of exile: Chhattisgarh’s displaced Adivasis lack basic rights in AP and Telangana

Madkam Sambhu* was 18 years old when the Salwa Judum’s reign of terror began in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar. Sambhu was in Class 12, staying in a government hostel for Adivasi students in Bijapur since his village, Sawnad, was located far away, 15 km deep within the forest.

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‘Bid to wage civil war’: Why a former BBC journalist moved SC over hate speech

It was 1978. Kuldip Nayar, then an editor at the Indian Express, had written an editorial on the army regime in Pakistan after a trip to the neighbouring country. A boy based in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh shot him a critical letter.

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Four years, Rs 6,900 crore, and a ‘marginal’ improvement in India’s air pollution: New study

After four years and spending nearly Rs 6,900 crore, there’s been a “marginal” improvement in India’s top 10 most polluted cities – but pollution continues to breach “safe limits”.

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After party media cell’s ‘dalal journalists’ tweets, SP leader arrested by UP police

The Uttar Pradesh police yesterday arrested Manish Jagan Agrawal, a Samajwadi Party leader, following a complaint filed by Richa Rajput, head of social media for the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha – the BJP’s youth wing. Agrawal is alleged to be the person behind “offensive” tweets posted by his party’s media…

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Manipur editor ‘detained’ after TV debate, SP says his adverse views can demoralise police

Two days after the editor of a local daily was allegedly detained in Manipur over his remarks on the state government’s war on drugs, a human rights body has now written to the National Human Rights Commission seeking an impartial probe.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 253: FIR over Iqbal poem, Koregaon Bhima

This week, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel as Basant Kumar is joined by Avdhesh Kumar and Prateek Goyal.

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Assault, exile, exhumation of loved ones: A pattern of violence against Chhattisgarh’s Adivasi Christians

A wave of violence has been unleashed on Adivasi Christians in Chhattisgarh.

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‘Why teach Urdu to children studying Sanskrit?’: On the ground in Bareilly over Iqbal poem row

Two weeks after he filed a police complaint against a school for trying to “convert” students because they recited a poem by a Muslim poet, Sompal Rathore is pleased with how events unfolded.

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Why Assam delimitation has sparked fears amid politics of the ‘indigenous’

The Election Commission’s delimitation exercise, and the Assam government’s decision to merge four districts and redraw administrative boundaries in 14 areas, have sparked fresh concerns among Bengali-origin Muslims. The fear is that these decisions will have an adverse impact on the electoral influence of the community in around 35 assembly…

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‘Local nuisance’, Gramin Sewa driver, barber: Meet the 5 suspects in the Delhi hit-and-run case

There is a lock on Deepak Khanna’s house in Mangolpuri since a 20-year-old woman died – after a car allegedly driven by him dragged her for several kilometres – in Delhi’s Sultanpuri on the first day of the new year. The 26-year-old’s neighbours don’t know much about him, except that…

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At NDTV meet after Adani takeover, staff queries on editorial freedom, BJP leaders on shows

In a town hall meeting held days after the Adani takeover of NDTV, the network’s new leadership on Wednesday addressed questions by staff about the news organisation’s editorial freedom, salaries, expansion, and BJP spokespersons on shows.

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Could India’s new data protection bill force journalists to reveal their sources?

Before the Panama Papers were published in 2016, what if the Indian Express had been hauled before a data protection board for violating the privacy of those who held accounts in tax havens?

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Rs 2,500 crore scheme approved for ‘infrastructure development’ at Doordarshan, All India Radio

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the information and broadcasting ministry’s proposal to spend over Rs 2,500 crore on “infrastructure development” at Prasar Bharati – specifically All India Radio and Doordarshan. A press release, which called it a “major boost for public broadcasting”, detailed an outlay of Rs…

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Among media outlets, Times Group, Zee shared most misinformation in 2022: Alt News

The Times Group topped Alt News’s list of media outlets that shared misinformation in 2022, followed by Zee Media, the India Today Group, right-wing blog OpIndia and NDTV.

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Sultanpuri death protests: 3 journalists ‘manhandled’ by Delhi cops

Three journalists – from Mirror Now, Times Now and Republic TV – have alleged that they were manhandled by the police at the Sultanpuri police station in Delhi. The media was present on the spot on Monday to cover protests over a horrific incident, in which a woman riding a…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 252: The key reports, challenges in 2022

It’s a full-house this week as Ayush Tiwari and Basant Kumar host all the other Newslaundry reporters.

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