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251 migrants died during lockdown; ‘Singapore Syndrome’ behind spike: Study, ETV Bharat

ETV Bharat01 June 2020 A study by RRAG has revealed that as many as 251 migrants workers died while on their way back home — 81 on Shramik special trains, and the rest on other modes of transport. The group also drew a parallel between the reasons behind the rise in cases in Singapore and […]

Indian Journalists Are Being Targeted for Questioning Governments’ Handling of the Pandemic, Vice

Vice 19 June 2020 The country’s media persons are facing criminal charges and intimidation for exposing lack of transparency around the crisis. On June 13, a journalist was charged with various offences by the police of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) for a story filed from within Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary […]

A case for truth: Media oppression is a shifting landscape | Sevanti Ninan, Mainstream Weekly

Mainstream Weekly 17 July 2020 by Sevanti Ninan For some years now, the growing challenge to journalism has come from the increasing use of predictable laws. These are the Sections relating to sedition and criminal defamation in the Indian Penal Code and, until it was struck down in 2015, Section 66A of the Information and […]