-Newslaundry.com A Gujarat court has issued an arrest warrant for the seasoned journalist after suddenly reviving a Defamation case filed by the Adani Group over three years ago. On January 11, a court in Kutch, Gujarat, issued an arrest warrant for journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta in a Defamation suit filed by the Adani Group, one of India’s leading corporate houses. According to PTI, judicial magistrate Pradeep Soni pronounced that Thakurta was...
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How the Pawar’s Sakal Media and Pune police have been harassing Newslaundry reporter
-Newslaundry.com Prateek Goyal reported about layoffs at Sakal Times. He was slapped with an FIR and Newslaundry with a Rs 65 crore Defamation suit. Prateek obtained bail but now the police want to seize his laptop. On March 27, Newslaundry reported that the Sakal Media Group, one of Maharashtra’s leading media houses, had sacked 15 employees in violation of a government directive to not terminate workers, or cut their wages during the...
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-The Hindu Manifesto includes repealing AFSPA. Targeting the Narendra Modi government for a 45-year high in unemployment figures, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) in its manifesto, released on Thursday in Delhi, said the “right to work” should be enshrined in the Constitution and there should be a provision of allowance for those without jobs. The party’s campaign song too captures the party’s accusation with lyrics that say “Aab ki baar, Modi...
More »Spike in Govt requests to Facebook for information, user accounts -Karishma Mehrotra
-The Indian Express The request for information has consistently increased from just eight in the first six months of 2013 to 16,580 in the first half of 2018. While the Government has steadily decreased its requests for content to be taken off Facebook, there has been a surge in its requests for “information” and “user accounts”. Since 2015, there has been an estimated 63% increase in Facebook accounts in India and...
More »Press freedom down, 3 journalists killed in 2018: Report
-IANS New Delhi: Press freedom in India has deteriorated in 2018 and three journalists have been killed in the first four months, media watchdog The Hoot said, stating that "journalists continue to be vulnerable". The number of killings documented by the Hoot report for the first four months was the same as in the whole of 2017. "They were killed in connection with their reporting, judging by what initial investigations show," it said. India...
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