“We should have a strategy to neutralise the people who are writing against the Government without facts and set false narratives / spread fake news,” says Law & Justice Minister Ravi ...

Laws are pivotal to society. They are necessary instruments to establish order and authority. But in the hands of authoritarian governments, legislations are often misused to deny people their rights....

Silence has not yet overtaken the country. The communication blackout in the former state of Jammu and Kashmir prompted the Editors Guild of India to issue a statement five days after the Centre annou...

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to pass any gag order on the media and declined to entertain a plea that had alleged that a religious congregation in the capital was being linked to the rise in Co...

Journalists and activists marched here on Monday protesting the arrest of a journalist, an editor and a TV channel head for telecasting and publicising the statement of a woman who claims to have sent...

The Indian State was never quite in love with journalists, but press freedom has been rather obviously endangered since 2014. One of the most difficult places in the country for journalists and newspa...

Asserting that the media enjoys absolute freedom in India, Information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said 'we will expose' those surveys that tend to portray a 'bad picture' ab...

Reputable international media organisations are reporting instances of alleged torture and detention through home intrusion in Kashmir since the August 5 lockdown that has also impeded newsgathering.T...

India’s list of dubious distinctions is growing, especially with regard to the fourth estate. If it were not bad enough that the country has steadily been sliding downward each year on the World Pre...

The Press Council of India (PCI), a statutory authority whose visualised objectives include safeguarding the freedom of the press, on Tuesday declared that it would speak up for freedom of the press i...