-TheWire.in The campaign emphasised how the proposed NEP will result in budget cuts, elimination of reservations for the marginalised, fee hikes and a further rise of contractualisation and privatisation in higher education. New Delhi: More than 150 students, teachers and eminent public personalities on December 24 attended a nationwide 50-day campaign against the National Education Policy (NEP) at the Press Club of India (PCI) in the national capital. The PCI conference emphasised how...
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RS media panel secy quits to protest curbs on journalists’ access to House
-Newslaundry.com No meaningful purpose to serve on the committee anymore, Anant Bagaitkar wrote in a letter to the Rajya Sabha chairman. To register a protest against the curbs on media access to parliament, senior journalist Anant Bagaitkar on Tuesday resigned as the secretary of the Media Advisory Committee to the Rajya Sabha, the Press Club of India tweeted. The committee consists of representatives from media organisations accredited to the Press Gallery of the...
More »J&K: PCI sets up committee to address journalist complaints -Muzaffar Raina
-The Telegraph The decision follows Mehbooba Mufti's letter to the Council and the Editors Guild of India, asking them to take note of alleged harassment of scribes in Kashmir Srinagar: The Press Council of India has set up a three-member committee to look into the rising complaints of intimidation and harassment of journalists in Jammu and Kashmir at the hands of the establishment. The decision came after former chief minister and People’s Democratic...
More »'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”...
More »Official Panel Sees ‘Western Bias’ in India’s Low Press Freedom Rank But Wants Defamation Decriminalised -Sukanya Shantha
-TheWire.in ‘Index Monitoring Cell’ member P. Sainath distances himself from ‘draft’ report, submits separate note. Mumbai: A committee set up by the Narendra Modi government last year to suggest ways of India improving its ranking in the World Press Freedom Index has concluded that the media is doing well and that India’s poor score – which it says is “not in line with the ground situation” – is the product of “western...
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