The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) trashed a New York Times editorial that calls the recent raids on properties belonging to NDTV founder Prannoy Roy as “an alarming new level of intimidation of India’s news media under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” The CBI calls the editorial by NYT as a[Read More…]
Tag: Press Freedom
Solidarity protest against NDTV raid ongoing in Delhi
A large number of media persons, lawyers and supporters gathered at a protest meeting at Press Club in New Delhi on Friday, in the wake of the CBI raid on NDTV demanding press freedom. Eminent jurist Fali Nariman, author Kuldip Nayyar, former BJP leader Arun Shourie amongst others spoke in the[Read More…]
Press freedom in peril in Kashmir as government clamps down on media
As the tension in Kashmir shows no sign of abating, mobile and internet services continued to remain suspended for the eighth day on Sunday while trains were also off the tracks in the valley as a precautionary measure. What is more worrisome is that the state government seized newspapers and[Read More…]