Editors Guild of India webinar disrupted by hackers
The EGI noted that the webinar was subjected to relentless disruption by cyber attackers, who clearly did not want the speakers voices to be heard.
India Today Tech | February 12, 2021 | Updated 17:41 IST
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Editors Guild of India (EGI) on Friday confirmed that one of the webinars on Reporting from Red Zones was disrupted by hackers. In a series of tweets, the Editors Guild of India has talked about how multiple intrusions forced the webinar to be called off within 10 minutes. The EGI said that the speakers in the webinar included Malini Subramaniam, PV Kondal Rao, Milind Umare, Tameshwar Sinha, Faisal Anurag and Purnima Tripathi who have worked at the forefront of chronicling the conflict and the human rights abuses over the last few decades. The webinar was scheduled for 3PM on Zoom and the topic of discussion was reporting experiences from Naxal areas, when the cyber attack took place.
Editors Guild seeks probe into disruptions of webinar on Naxal areas
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“It’s an attack on the freedom of speech”
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“It’s an attack on the freedom of speech”
The Editors Guild of India on Friday said the repeated disruptions of its webinar on reporting in Naxal areas by unknown persons was an attack on the freedom of speech and demanded police investigation.
The guild had organised a webinar via Zoom on challenges of reporting from Naxal areas as a part of its series “Unheard Voices: Reporting from Conflict Zones”, it said in a statement. The webinar was to start at 3 p.m. on Friday and speakers included journalists Malini Subramaniam, P.V. Kondal Rao, Milid Umare, Tameshwar Sinha, Faisal Anurag Purnima Tripathi.
A riot of colour at MRC Nagar
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January 24, 2021 10:18 IST
Residents’ groups from Rani Meyyammai Towers (RMT) and Jains Saagarika revive the traditional art form of kolam-drawing as part of their Margazhi celebrations
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Residents’ groups from Rani Meyyammai Towers (RMT) and Jains Saagarika revive the traditional art form of kolam-drawing as part of their Margazhi celebrations MRC Nagar was a riot of colour during Margazhi, as residents of two gated communities Rani Meyyammai Towers (RMT) and Jains Saagarika came together to celebrate the month, with rangolis.
On each of the days in the month of Margazhi, residents from both the apartments create beautiful rangolis that highlighted the significance of the month.