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Topic: Journalists

‘Risked their lives, now fighting for survival’. Al Jazeera, AFP say journalists in Gaza are starving

Al Jazeera network's director-general Dr Mostefa Squag says stakeholders owed it to reporters on the ground to 'amplify their voices and put an end to their suffering'.

Delhi’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club elects new governing panel after prolonged power tussle

Waiel Awwad, senior journalist from Syria, and Prakash Nanda of EurAsian Times were picked as president & secretary after polls on 25 May.

Govt’s priority seems to be arresting journalists rather than nabbing Pahalgam terrorists—Congress

Oppn party questions arrest of Bahubali Shah, one of the owners of newspaper Gujarat Samachar. Congress leader Jignesh Mewani says Gujarat govt should clarify its position on the case.

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.

Chennai’s media unions have sought ‘democratisation’ for yrs. Press Club polls after 25 yrs ‘encouraging’

Chennai Press Club elected its managing committee members last month after a long period of protests & legal battle, leading to discussions about pushing for elections in other unions.

Mumbai Press Club slams Rahul Gandhi’s ‘slave’ remark about journalists

The club advised him to redirect his critique towards media owners, and highlight structural issues within the industry.

After month-long power tussle with tit-for-tat ‘expulsions’, Delhi’s FCC reconstitutes governing panel

Drama at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia saw the 'ousting' of its core committee over budgetary concerns & 'expulsions' of members of its interim body.

Slugfest continues at Delhi’s FCC. Now interim president & general secretary ‘expelled’

'Ousted' Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia president S Venkat Narayan has written to them saying 2 members had admitted they were forced to sign resolution for his removal.

Power tussle continues at Delhi’s FCC, interim office-bearers get show cause notice for ‘anti-club’ acts

Eight FCC members called an ‘emergency meet’ on 4 Oct and unanimously passed a no-confidence vote ousting president, V-P & gen secy alleging lack of transparency in running club.

High drama at Delhi’s FCC ahead of big convention. Club president, V-P ‘voted out in emergency meet’

Certain members of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia, who were not at the meeting, have called the removal of the president, vice president & general secretary ‘illegal’.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

We were given free hand, no restrictions placed on us: IAF chief on Op Sindoor

New Delhi: Indian Air Force chief Air Marshal A.P. Singh Saturday made it clear that there were no restrictions imposed by the political class...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.