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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicIndian journalists

Topic: Indian journalists

Gauri Lankesh’s story reveals India’s anxieties & ruptures, says US journalist Rollo Romig

Rollo Romig, in conversation with journalist and author Neha Dixit at Jawahar Bhawan in New Delhi, revealed that there was actually a hit list with Gauri Lankesh's name.

Firestorm in South Asian media persons’ WhatsApp group after Pahalgam, some Pakistani journalists exit

Pakistani journalist’s condolence message—critical of India's reaction to the attack—ended with ‘Allah o Akbar’, leading to a fiery debate in a WhatsApp group of South Asian Women in Media.

Urdu daily ‘Pratap’ was shut in just 12 days of launch. It taught us real journalism

At the launch of Chander Mohan & Jyotsna Mohan’s book, ‘Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper’, a panel traced the Urdu daily’s journey back to 1919, when it raised voice against British rule.

ED arrests senior Gujarat-based journalist Mahesh Langa in money laundering case

Langa was accused of alleged 'extortion', 'manipulation', and 'use of media influence' in a GST Input Tax Credit scam, which is under investigation by the federal probe agency.

Ahmedabad police arrest senior journalist Mahesh Langa in GST scam case

DCP Ajit Rajian said central GST agency found some suspicious transactions in bogus firms floated in the name of Mahesh Langa's wife and father using forged documents.

Numbers Protocol to Help India Media Fight Disinformation and Deep Fakes During General Election

Numbers Protocol utilizes blockchain technology to preserve the provenance of digital media, ensuring transparency and trust.

Headlines say it all—NewsClick coverage shows a deeply divided Indian media

Politicians strike us and we watch the flames engulf journalism—we don’t douse them.

China evicting last Indian journalist a new low in ties. A bridge has been burnt for now

China has asked Press Trust of India reporter KJM Varma to leave Beijing by the end of the month. The latest expulsion has left Indian media organisations in a blind state.

‘Draconian rule’: Editors Guild of India ‘deeply disturbed’ by govt’s move to police online news

The amendments to IT rules make it obligatory on platforms ‘not to publish, share or host fake, false or misleading information’ about the government.

China hopes India will show goodwill, facilitate journalists, says foreign ministry spokesperson

China barred 2 Indian journalists from returning to Beijing, weeks after India asked a Chinese journalist to leave country, according to Hindustan Times report.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.