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The Editors Guild of India is concerned by the reports that Chennai police has seized the mobile phones and electronic devices of several journalists, as part of investigations into a sexual assault of a student in the city. As per reports, the First Information Report (FIR) was available on a government website, and some journalists had downloaded the report in pursuit of professional work.
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India: EGI Statement on seizure of mobile phones of journalists by Chennai police | Jan 31, 2025
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Tapan K Bose (1946 - 2025) | Tribute from PIPFPD
30 JanuaryTapan Kumar Bose, renowned documentary filmmaker, human rights and peace activist known across South Asia, is no more. Tapan breathed his last at his home in New Delhi 30th January 2025
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India: Jan 2025 Police seizure of M F Husain’s paintings following a complaint of ’hurt sentiments’ / Full text of statement by DAG Gallery Delhi
25 Januarynews report on Jan 2025 police seizure of M F Husain’s paintings following complaint of hurt sentiments and statement by the exhibitor
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Radical Socialist statement on India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh | dec 2024
by , 31 December 202427 December 2024
That the overwhelming majority of the Indian intelligentsia, the middle class and the ‘Commentariat’, given their general political-moral make-up, should now be singing the praises of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after his demise, is not at all surprising. But the proper evaluation of his record can only come from the progressive Left and this has to be strongly negative.
The only half-way positive aspects of the UPA-I period of governance such as the establishment of (...) -
Sri Lanka: “Their bodies had to be thrown into the sea”: The heart-wrenching plight of Rohingya Refugees
30 December 202428 December 2024
A collective of 47 civil society organisations have issued a letter to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake requesting humanitarian asylum for Rohingya asylum seekers from Mynamar who recently arrived in Sri Lanka.
Allowing asylum seekers to land in Sri Lanka and provision of assistance by the Navy, Government officials, citizens and NGOs in Mullaitivu and Trincomalee is commendable
These refugees have fled violence, persecution and human rights abuses in (...)
