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TopicMedia censorship

Topic: media censorship

‘Release Jana Nayagan & ban Parasakthi’—Congress can’t decide if cinema should be censored

Billed as the DMK’s film for the election season, Parasakthi’s title is borrowed from another 1952 film written by former DMK president M Karunanidhi.

X says Indian govt issued blocking order for Reuters, 2,300+ accounts. IT ministry denies

X's statement counters govt's statement from Sunday that there was 'no requirement' from it to 'withhold Reuters handle'. The platform also expressed concerns over press censorship in India.

China’s cover-up of Covid and PLA deaths isn’t working. Neither are the social media bans

Despite tensions at the border, India-China trade grew, and social media users discovered what Indian food like seekh kebab and biryani looks like.

4 journalists ‘murdered’ in India for their work in 2021, most in world, says media watchdog

It’s been a ‘bleak year’ for press freedom worldwide, record 293 journalists jailed, 24 killed, says survey report by US-based Committee to Protect Journalists.

Advisory to media on foreign content came after govt sought legal opinion, says PCI chief 

Matter to be listed before the council in its next meeting after Editors Guild issued statement urging PCI to withdraw advisory. 

Pakistan sends back Asia head of Committee to Protect Journalists from Lahore airport

Steven Butler was travelling to Pakistan to participate in the Asma Jahangir Conference-Roadmap for Human Rights, according to Committee to Protect Journalists.

Kashmir lockdown ‘draconian for vibrant local media’, says Editors Guild

The Editors Guild of India, in a statement Saturday, said the government owes it to the people of India, including all in J&K, to allow the press to function freely.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.