Times Now, with headlines announcing that the new laws now had US backing.
In fact, the US State Department statement, while cautiously welcoming “steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets”, called for dialogue with the farmers and underlined that peaceful protests and freedom of expression are the “hallmark” of a democracy.
That it is the foreign media doing investigative journalism in and about India should raise some difficult questions, said Ayyub, the
Washington Post columnist. “Why have we not been able to do a single damning expose in Indian publications in the last five years?” she said. “…This is the time to take a stand and take an aggressive stand. Journalism is not even in danger, they have managed to intimidate us into silence, that process has happened.”
Caught between insurgents & govt, say Manipur scribes after attack at newspaper office
A hand grenade was lobbed inside the office of Manipur daily Poknapham Saturday evening, days after the the police booked the editor of The Frontier Manipur for sedition.
Sravasti Dasgupta 14 February, 2021 7:51 pm IST
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New Delhi: No newspapers were published in Manipur Sunday after a day-long strike called by the Editors Guild of Manipur and the All Manipur Working Journalists Union (AMWJU), in protest against the hurling of a hand grenade inside the office of Imphal-based daily
Poknapham Saturday evening.
No one was hurt in the grenade attack, allegedly carried out by underground insurgent groups, but journalists in the state warned that they were increasingly being caught in a pincer-like attack between insurgents and a hardline government that did not think twice about harsh action, including jail, if they didn’t like what journalists published.
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6 Assam migrant workers die in Meghalaya In a tragic accident, six migrant workers from Assam, reportedly, died in a forest area in Meghalaya after falling into a pit. The NDTV has reported that the accident occured in East Jayantia Hills.
Meanwhile, in a facebook post senior journalist Patricia Mukhim has said that the mortal remains of the miners are kept in the morgue at Khliehriat. In the post Mukhim lamented saying, “ Just out: 6 miners have died due to an accident inside an abandoned coal mine in East Jaintia Hills..All 6 are from Assam. Bodies lying in the morgue at Khliehriat..And we say there s no mining???””
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SC issues notice to Meghalaya govt on Shillong Times journalist s plea to quash FIR against her ANI | Updated: Jan 14, 2021 15:39 IST
New Delhi [India], January 14 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a response from the Meghalaya government on a plea challenging the state High Court order dismissing request to quash an FIR against Shillong Times EditorPatricia Mukhim.
Mukhim has challenged the Meghalaya High Court s order which had dismissed her plea to quash an FIR against her for a Facebook post condemning violence against minorities in the state.
The Bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao issued notice to the Meghalaya government on Mukhim s plea and sought response by February 5.