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Directions to remove news reports may go against democracy: SC

The Supreme Court stayed a Delhi high court order that permitted invocation of the “right to be forgotten” to demand takedown of online content relating to criminal proceedings. (Jitender Gupta)

Published 178 days ago

Summoning of journalists in Kashmir: Mehbooba asks CM Omar Abdullah to intervene, police to desist

Reflecting on the state of media freedom in Kashmir, People’s Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti said as many as 213 journalists had been called to police stations in the valley since 2019. (PTI)

Published 193 days ago

Pak journalists declare ‘black day’ after police raid on Islamabad press club

Members of Awami Action Committee chant slogans as they attend the funeral prayers of three victims, who were killed in Wednesday's clashes between police and protestors, in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025.

Updated 305 days ago

Not our duty to tell media what to delete, says Supreme Court

A bench of justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan reaffirmed media freedom and the principle of open justice.

Published 451 days ago

The death knell for myth of American Exceptionalism

Trump’s upending of policy, both foreign and domestic, is, by turns, wildly entertaining and often unstable and dangerous (via REUTERS)

Published 521 days ago

Zimbabwe journalist in court after interview with government critic

Zimbabwe journalist in court after interview with government critic

Published 524 days ago

CID document leak FIR: Sukhu govt has become directionless, chaotic and dictatorial: Jai Ram

Former chief minister of Himachal Jai Ram Thakur (File)

Published 527 days ago

BJP accuses Himachal CM of targeting media freedom over 'samosa' controversy

Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.

Updated 527 days ago

‘Disappointing’: US rejects BJP's allegations of backing anti-India agenda

The White House. (Photo from X)

Updated 600 days ago

Congress leader slams AAP after Avadh Ojha's interview stopped abruptly

Motivational speaker and educationist Avadh Ojha joins AAP in the presence of AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi on December 2, 2024.

Updated 605 days ago

‘Functioning as kangaroo courts’: Kerala HC's stinging remark on ‘media trials’

Kerala high court. (File Photo)

Published 633 days ago

SC lifts ban on Media One, slams use of national security bogey

Supreme Court of India (Representative Photo)

Updated 1216 days ago

Safeguarding media freedom

The court’s judgment is a watershed moment in shielding the media from State excesses. It is now up to the authorities, political class and society to ingest, imbibe and implement these tenets. (Sanjay Sharma/HT)

Updated 1216 days ago

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