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'Govt Should Come Clean': Three Press Bodies Condemn Pegasus Surveillance on Journalists

-TheWire.in The Press Club of India, Mumbai Press Club and Indian Women’s Press Corps have all condemned the attempted and successful surveillance on journalists and others. New Delhi: Several journalists’ bodies have condemned the attempted and successful surveillance on phones linked to journalists, ministers and officials, among others, as revealed in reports under the Pegasus Project following investigation carried out by The Wire and several other global media organisations. Describing it as “unprecedented”...

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'Supreme Court Ordered to Kill the Poor': Thousands Now Homeless After Khori Gaon Demolition -Naomi Barton

-TheWire.in 'When I made this house myself brick by brick, where were they then?' New Delhi: A few weeks after the Supreme Court ordered the demolition of the residential properties in Khori Gaon, bulldozers began to destroy the settlement under police and Army presence.  Referred to by the Court as an encroachment, the settlement contains over 10,000 homes, with over 1 lakh residents (for scale, this is little under the population of the...

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IT Rules: No Relief To Digital News Portals As Delhi HC Refuses To Grant Interim Protection

-OutlookIndia.com The court then proceeded to adjourn the pleas by The Wire, Quint Digital Media Ltd and Pravda Media Foundation till August 20. The Delhi High Court has declined to grant protection from coercive action to digital media portals. It adjourned their challenge to the new IT Rules after being informed that a plea has been moved by the Centre to transfer them to the Supreme Court. The court then proceeded to adjourn...

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'Pushing Urban Poor to Take Loans is Wrong, Govt Needs to Give Income Support Instead' -Karan Thapar

-TheWire.in Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Jayati Ghosh, says over the last 16 months of the pandemic the government’s handling of the economic crisis has been cruel and incompetent. One of India’s well-known and highly regarded economists has said the government’s refusal to provide income support to the unemployed and poor and instead asking them to take government guaranteed loans which the Chief Economic Advisor has said...

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Delhi riots: Justice Lokur castigates cops for mishandling of activists -R Balaji

-The Telegraph The former SC judge said the manner in which multiple FIRs were lodged, and the way Devangana was arrested, were unheard of in Indian judicial history The former Supreme Court judge, Justice Madan B. Lokur, has castigated Delhi police for “violating every canon of natural justice and fair play” in dealing with student anti-CAA activists Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal and Asif Iqbal Tanha, who were recently freed on bail. Justice Lokur...

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