Reporters Without Orders Ep 155: Farmer protests and Priya Ramani case
A reportersâ podcast about what made news and what shouldnât have.
Newslaundryâs Akanksha Kumar and Anna Priyadarshini.
The conversation starts with the reporters sharing the bizarre news stories of the week, from an Indonesian woman claiming a gust of wind made her pregnant to the Indian higher education regulator UGC asking universities to encourage students to write a âcow scienceâ examination.
The discussion begins with Annaâs report on the verdict in BJP leader MJ Akbarâs defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani. Akanksha then talks about her experience covering the ongoing farmer protest at Singhu on Delhiâs border. On how the farmers plan to adjust their protest to the approaching summer and their apprehensions about the new agriculture laws, she says, âAnother fear they have is that with the entry of private players contract farming may result in some
Lawyers urge Chief Justice of India to restrain MHA from imposing further internet shutdown at Delhi borders
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February 03, 2021 18:57 IST
A letter written by lawyers Sitwat Nabi and Abhisht Hela, purportedly contained signatures of 140 advocates
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Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde. | Photo Credit:
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A letter written by lawyers Sitwat Nabi and Abhisht Hela, purportedly contained signatures of 140 advocates A group of 140 lawyers has written a letter to Chief Justice of India (CJI) S.A. Bobde urging him to take cognizance of a Centre s direction to impose internet shutdowns at Delhi’ borders where farmers are protesting against the three farm laws.
Delhi Police Arrest Journalist at Singhu Protest Site, Detain and Release Another
Mandeep Punia, a freelance journalist, was arrested and will be produced in court. Dharmender Singh, who works for Online News India, was detained and let go at 5 am on Sunday.
Mandeep Punia. Photo: Twitter/mandeeppunia1
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New Delhi: The Delhi police on Saturday detained two journalists covering the ongoing farmersâ agitation at Delhi’s Singhu border. While one of them, Mandeep Punia is a freelance journalist and contributor to the
Caravan magazine, another journalist, Dharmender Singh, is a Delhi-based journalist who works for
Online News India.
Punia, according to the editors of the