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TopicPrashant Kanojia

Topic: Prashant Kanojia

1,000 scholars, activists back UP journalist Prashant Kanojia, say arrest ‘driven by vendetta’

The signatories include scholars from IIT, JNU, IIM and premier international institutions like the universities of Oxford and Columbia.

UP Police arrests journalist Prashant Kanojia in Delhi over ‘objectionable’ tweet on Hindu Army

The FIR alleges Kanojia had tweeted a morphed Facebook post of Hindu Army leader Sushil Tiwari, with the intent of defamation. His wife has denied that Kanojia posted such a tweet.

Two Supreme Court benches, two different takes on freedom of speech and expression

SC bench that heard bail pleas of journalist Prashant Kanojia & BJP worker Priyanka Sharma asked the latter to issue apology as a pre-condition for bail before waiving it.

Times Now got Yogi coverage right, but botched its breaking news on IAF’s AN-32 wreckage

Republic’s ‘Editor Live’ gave us a detailed weather report and description of the terrain where the IAF aircraft had fallen.

A tight slap on ‘Taliban-style’ Yogi govt, says UP opposition as Prashant Kanojia gets bail

BJP says ruling is ‘the decision of the Supreme Court’, but bureaucrats & police officers justify actions and pass blame for arrest from one official to another.

Girish Karnad’s ‘Tughlaq’ on a ‘bigger stage’ and Railways’ massage services

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Modi govt needs to fix not just economy but how economic data is calculated

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Do laws not matter as politicians like Yogi & Mamata go after ‘offensive’ online posts?

Five people have been arrested in two days for posting or sharing content on social media that angered Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath.

Now, Yogi govt arrests farmer & village head for social media posts on ‘CM wedding video’

Sharing the video of a woman proposing marriage to Yogi Adityanath had led to the arrest of journalists Prashant Kanojia, Anuj Shukla and Ishika Singh.

UP Police struggles to justify journo Prashant Kanojia arrest for Yogi tweet, law doesn’t

None of the IPC & other sections that the UP Police first filed in the FIR and later added are strictly applicable to Prashant Kanojia’s case.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.