Matthew Arnold once said, “Journalism is literature in a hurry.” But tensions have always run rife between the two pursuits. The line separating the two can be fluid as Daniel Defoe — novelist a...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused the Congress of destroying institutions, including the “free press”, a charge that appeared ironical in the backdrop of some television channels e...

In the run-up to the bolt-from-the-blue move to amend Article 370, scrapping Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, both the government and the Bharatiya Janata Party machinery led by the Union home mi...

Kashmiri journalists on Tuesday said the government was denying the media an enabling atmosphere to operate in the Valley, regretting that the communications blockade that has been in place for over 5...

Journalist Prashant Kanojia, who was arrested for posting 'objectionable comments' on Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Twitter, was granted bail on Tuesday.The vacation bench of Justice...

A guild that speaks up for the rights of journalists is a heartening institution. Or should be. It is bewildering to find the Editors Guild of India training its heavy guns on Rahul Gandhi’s critici...

‘Do nahin, aik Pakistan (not two but one Pakistan)’ is a slogan of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. This slogan is meant to be inclusive, and basically means that there would be no discriminat...

In 2014, media issues did not figure in the election manifestos of the Congress, the BJP or the CPI(M). But today the media and internet so overwhelm the public sphere that they have actually begin to...

Sir — Within days of having claimed that Hindi should be accepted as a common language by all Indians, the home minister, Amit Shah, has now said that he does not mean to impose the language on anyo...

A report on the state of global media freedom compiled by the British House of Commons’s Foreign Affairs Committee came out recently. The committee chair, Tom Tugendhat, said, “When journalists lo...