-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Satyendra Dubey, Amit Jethwa, Ram Thakur, Shimbhu Bishnoi, Satish Shetty, Lalit Mehta, Lingaraju, Nandi Singh - some of the names ring a bell, others don't. Some became primetime news, others were buried in barely noticeable corners of newspapers. But they all belong to the select tribe of whistleblowers killed in line of duty for daring to expose corruption. On Monday, their friends and relatives came from...

-Outlook The Supreme Court today said it will hear on February 10 the issue raised by the Centre that reports of the Justice M B Shah Commission on illegal mining in Jharkhand and Odisha cannot be placed before the apex court without first tabling it in Parliament. A three-judge forest bench headed by justice A K Patnaik said it will examine whether placing of report first before it would amount to breach...

-The Hindu Journalism, which is often characterised by "superficiality and dilettantism," will benefit greatly from the contributions of scholars covering serious issues such as the agrarian crisis in India, according to N. Ram, Chairman, Kasturi and Sons, which publishes The Hindu. Delivering a lecture on ‘News Media and Agrarian Issues' at the Tenth Anniversary Conference of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) Mr. Ram urged scholars and specialists to conduct workshops for...

-The Hoot We can either spend another year discovering how much the old model is disintegrating or we can explore alternatives. But India has not developed a tradition as yet of not-for-profit journalism, says SEVANTI NINAN. Two recent developments at the New York Times and at Time Inc. which publishes Time magazine underscore the fact that financing has and will remain become the number one issue for the future of journalism as...

-Frontline A report by ActionAid and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences highlights the vulnerability and tragic living conditions of thousands of children who take shelter in Mumbai's streets. IN 1988, the acclaimed film-maker Mira Nair made Salaam Bombay!, a poignantly revealing film on street children in Mumbai. The plot revolves around the protagonist, Krishna or "Chaipau", who is kicked out of his home by his mother for having damaged his...