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Brut Hindi employees had convened for their usual editorial meeting, geared with story ideas, on Friday, when Brut vice president and editor-in-chief Mehak Kasbekar announced its management’s decision to shut the channel’s Hindi vertical. She said the unit, which was started two years ago, did not turn a profit.

During their ongoing negotiations with the union home ministry, Kuki-Zo militant groups demanded a union territory similar to the administrative setup of Puducherry.

A month after he wrote a news story about real estate agents “illegally acquiring” 12 acres of tribal land in Kerala, a journalist with media house Madhyamam was booked by the police in Palakkad.

After the Maharashtra BJP chief urged party workers to “take journalists out for tea” to make sure they only filed “positive” stories, journalists across the state have demanded that he apologise.