Leaders of the powerful G7 grouping and its five partner countries, including India, have said that they are committed to open public debate and the free flow of information online and offline while g...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that her government had received an offer to purchase the Pegasus spyware three years ago but she declined it because of her commitment to the right to...

A man interrupted Pope Francis’s general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday, shouting, “This is not the Church of God!”, in English and waving a medical mask he had removed from hi...

Joni Mitchell said on Friday that she would remove her music from Spotify,  joining Neil Young in his protest against the streaming service over its role in giving a platform to Covid-19 vaccine ...

The contest between freedom of speech and ‘reasonable restrictions’ on it is a mature one. The dilemma of liberal democratic societies lies in their ambition to strike a balance between fr...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it will examine the interpretation of sedition law, particularly in the light of media rights and free speech, as it gave protection to Telugu news channels -- TV5 and...

The assault against free speech is now a global phenomenon. India, in spite of its democratic roots, is, unfortunately, not an exception to this regression. The causes of this assault vary among count...

When Simon & Schuster cancelled its plans this week to publish Senator Josh Hawley’s book, he called the action “a direct assault” on the First Amendment to the US Constitution t...

The Kerala government on Wednesday repealed a new penal provision against “publishing or disseminating” offensive content, bowing to widespread criticism of a four-day-old law that had bee...

The Kerala government on Monday put on hold a new penal provision against “publishing or disseminating” offensive content after it provoked a backlash, with even Left supporters condemning...