scorecardresearch
Sunday, August 10, 2025
TopicPress Freedom

Topic: Press Freedom

Three weeks after assault, Pune journalist Sneha Barve gets fresh threats. ‘No real action taken’

Scribe was attacked by a group of men on 4 July while reporting on land grab activity in Nighotwadi village. Accused out on bail & allegedly threatening her with death.

Press bodies demand action against MDMK secretary for verbally abusing journalists

According to Chennai Press Club statement, Vaiyapuri Gopalsamy was speaking when some party cadres began to disperse. He started abusing the media personnel present who were recording the incident.

Delhi HC turns down proposal to allow public access to CIC meetings, cites infra issues

Hearing a petition filed by a group of journalists, the court clarified that it supports the idea of open or virtual hearings in principle, implementation is 'not straightforward'.

Newspapers were strangled during Emergency, but stayed alive. Now, they’re not even breathing

The government cut off electricity to newspaper offices on 26 June 1975, the day after the Emergency was proclaimed, in order to buy time to set up the apparatus of censorship.

Self-censorship on demand & botched experiments in the history lab

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

No appetite for war among Pakistan’s citizens while India ‘quietly lobbies’ for support at UN

Global media also reports on worsening press freedom in India and Gautam Adani’s tactics to ‘sway’ the Trump administration in US.

Bangladeshi journalist Sumi Khan says Yunus govt killed free press. So she’s in exile in US

‘I have credible information that some foreign journalists have been approached to publish positive stories of post-Hasina Bangladesh,' Khan alleged.

Pakistan journalist says brothers abducted, tortured after his ‘nepotism’ report on army chief

According to Ahmad Noorani’s investigative report, relatives of Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir were given key federal positions due to their familial ties.

Why Washington-based Reuters journalist took Indian govt to court over OCI status revocation

Raphael Satter, based in US with family in India, received MHA notice accusing him of producing work that ‘maliciously’ damaged India’s reputation. He calls it a ‘misunderstanding’.

BJP is learning from DMK with Vikatan website block. It’s a self-goal

With mainstream media in Tamil Nadu being largely subservient and even pliant, real journalism has come from social media. And the DMK-led govt has cracked down on them.

On Camera

There’s a method in Trump’s Pakistan romance. It’s all about Gulf security

Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s America draws down its military presence.

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...

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

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.