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Monday, October 13, 2025
TopicPress Freedom

Topic: Press Freedom

‘Won’t be cowed by anti-press playbook,’ says NYT chief executive after Trump’s $15 bn lawsuit

The suit is the latest in Trump's flurry of legal attacks on media during his second term, including a $10-billion defamation case against the Wall Street Journal in July.

Hyderabad’s Urdu media matters. You can’t shut them out of Telangana assembly debate

Urdu is the language of about 12 per cent Muslim population of Hyderabad. By selectively restricting access to the regional press, the Congress government is denying information to minorities.

Private matter, public interest & the broken answer key

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

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.

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.