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Ronak Chhabra
Protection for Journalists Under Threat Under New Labour Code
22 Sep 2020
Certain legal safeguards in the previous legislations have been diluted, making working conditions more difficult working journalists.
PTI/NewsClick Report
Delhi HC asks Police to not Take Coercive Against Alt News Co-Founder for Allegedly Threatening Minor
09 Sep 2020
Zubair approached the high court seeking the quashing of the FIR against him, refuting the allegation levelled in the FIR as “an absolutely frivolous complaint”.
Newsclick Report
COVID-19: SC Admits Journalists’ Bodies Prayer Seeking Action Against Employers Sacking Scribes
29 Aug 2020
Given the spate of layoffs across newspapers, TV channels, magazines and digital outlets, the bodies have asked the court to issue directions for action against employers who have not complied by the…
Saurabh Sharma
UP: Journalists Protest, Hold Jal-Satyagraha, After FIR Registered Against them Following Exposé
08 Jun 2020
The scribes who resorted to Jal Satyagraha, were protesting against the district administration, which had registered an FIR against one of the journalists under sections of the IPC and the Epidemic…
Sandipan Talukdar
Did Home Ministry Instruct Action Against Assamese Journalists Based On Former RSS Pracharak’s Complaint?
19 Apr 2019
RSS-linked Legal Rights Observatory posted on 17 April on its Facebook page that Home Ministry had asked the Assam government to begin an investigation against the media outfits and journalists based…
Malvika Singh
Social Media, Messaging Apps Flooded with Fake News After Pulwama Attack
19 Feb 2019
Meanwhile, journalists are being threatened by right wing elements.
Kashif Kakvi
Dainik Bhaskar Shuts English Newspaper, Asks Over 35 Journalists to Leave
10 Jan 2019
Since 1986, the Bhaskar Group has opened and shut four English newspapers after running those 2/3 years.
Vivan Eyben
Manipur: Wangkhem Kishorchandra’s Arrest Points Towards a Larger Issue
01 Dec 2018
Kishorchandra, an outspoken critic of the BJP government, has been booked under the National Security Act for a video criticising the Manipur Chief Minister.
Peoples Dispatch
Activists and Academicians Condemn Violence Against Students and Journalists in Bangladesh
10 Aug 2018
The statement demanded an investigation into the “unlawful arrest and torture” and an end to the government repression.
Newsclick Report
Save Working Journalists Act, Announce New Wage Board: DUJ
17 Jul 2018
“Anarchy, in fact, has already set in with contracts, voucher payments and what not being the norm.”