-TheWire.in * On May 5, 2022, the WHO estimated that 100.51 lakh people died in India in 2020. Of this, it estimated 8.30 lakh were COVID-linked deaths. * In its May 5 press release rejecting the WHO figures, the Union health ministry claimed that 81.20 lakh people died in 2020 – even lower than the number estimated to have died in 2019. * But the health ministry was wrong by a long margin...
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Punjab Chief Minister Calls Farmers' Protest "Unwarranted"
-PTI/ NDTV.com Punjab farmers sat on a protest near the Chandigarh-Mohali border on Tuesday after being stopped from heading to the state capital to press the government for a bonus on wheat crop and allow paddy sowing from June 10. Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday called the agitation by state farmers as unwarranted and undesirable but said he is ready for talks. He also asked farmer unions to join the...
More »‘Star reporter with no income’: What Pawan Jaiswal’s death tells us about the state of rural Reporters -Tanishka Sodhi
-Newslaundry.com Journalism doesn’t pay their bills, they have little or no institutional support and rely on commissions from ‘finding ads’ for papers. In his final news report, Pawan Jaiswal visited Rampur Dhabahi village in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur in August 2021, where he asked a young woman about her dreams. The woman, Pinki, had been the subject of an Academy Award winning documentary 13 years ago, on how corrective surgery for her cleft lip...
More »Nobody should cross ‘Lakshman Rekha’, says Law Minister after Supreme Court freezes sedition law
-The Hindu Congress, Left parties urge court to quash law Nobody should cross the ‘Lakshman Rekha’ and the court should respect the government and the legislature just as the government respects the court, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Wednesday after the Supreme Court stayed the sedition law, while the Opposition parties welcomed the order. Several parties including the Congress, the CPI and the CPI(M) urged the Supreme Court to quash the sedition...
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...
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