-Newslaundry.com In 2019, the UP government had filed an FIR against Jaiswal for reporting on a school serving roti and salt as a mid day meal. Freelance journalist Pawan Jaiswal has died, less than a month after he had publicly appealed to Uttar Pradesh politicians to help him pay for his cancer treatment. Jaiswal was well-known for his work; in 2019, he had reported on how a government school in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur...
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India Has Max Covid Deaths, Says WHO; Incorrect, Says Government -Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV.com "India has consistently questioned WHO's own admission that data in respect of seventeen Indian states was obtained from some websites and media reports and was used in their mathematical model," the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. New Delhi: India has strongly refuted the World Health Organisation's use of mathematical model to calculate the number of Covid deaths, saying the "figure is totally removed from reality". Contending that the country...
More »With growth led by ‘news broadcasting and digital operations’, Network18 reports 58% spike in net profit
-Newslaundry.com According to Moneycontrol, digital news reported the most growth in terms of operating revenue. Network18 media & Investments Ltd reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 61.6 crore for the quarter ending March – a rise of 58.1 percent from last year, Moneycontrol reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the media company also saw a “14.6 percent on-year rise in consolidated revenue from operations to Rs 1,621.1 crore”. The surge was...
More »India’s rank on World Press Freedom Index falls to 150 out of 180 countries
-Scroll.in Reporters Without Borders reiterated its last year’s description of the country as one of the world’s most dangerous ones for the media. India’s ranking in the World Press Freedom Index fell from 142 in 2021 to 150 this year out of 180 countries, media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontières said on Tuesday. The organisation has been publishing the World Press Freedom Index since 2002. India’s rank has fallen to 150 in 2022 from...
More »Migrants’ livelihoods during the pandemic: Challenges and opportunities -Dr. Janvi Gandhi Kanakia and others
-Leaflet.in Informal migrant workers in metropolitan cities of India have faced multiple forms of vulnerabilities in the last two years of the pandemic. Linkages across schemes for such workers are absolutely critical to creating a social security net that protects them from falling into similar cycles of poverty and destitution during macro and micro economic distresses. ON the occasion of International Labour Day, or ‘May Day’, we explore the dimensions of vulnerabilities...
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