Journalists critical of the regime are being arrested in an arbitrary manner, intimidated through the filing of first information reports, prevented from attending international events, and so on...

Readers write in from Calcutta, Chennai, Navi Mumbai and Kozhikode...

Findings coincide with the Indian prime minister refusing to take questions at any news conference on a tour of Europe...

Big plunge from the 142nd slot last year, marking the sharpest drop in the downward trajectory the country has been on for some years now...

The conferring of the Nobel Peace Prize on two courageous, proficient scribes – Maria Ressa oand Dmitry Muratov – shows that journalism can, indeed, be resurrected...

Complete political domination can only be predicated upon the distrust of critics and citizens alike...

Those opposed to the policies of the Modi govt - Opposition leaders , media organizations, activists - seem to be particularly vulnerable to I-T raids...

The international media watchdog's 'gallery of grim portraits' includes North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, Pakistan’s Imran Khan and China’s Xi Jinping...

India has performed quite poorly on democracy and press-freedom indices in several studies...

The Indian State is making the media crawl...