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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Several top environmental experts have opposed the proposals by the Govt of India, to amend environment, forest and biodiversity protection laws, as also laws regulating pollution control, under the “influence and financing by foreign governments and international financial institutions”.
It is indisputable that the Modi government has turbocharged the use of the money laundering law. In the decade between 2004-’14, the ED carried out 112 searches in the course of investigating money laundering cases. In the next eight years, this number shot up by 26 times to 2,974 searches.
India’s democracy is dying in bright daylight because the media is under siege.
On World Press Freedom Day, an examination of irksome new regulations being enforced on the Indian media, and the challenges and opportunities arising especially in the digital domain.
On April 2, the police in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh had arrested, stripped and humiliated a local journalist and some members of the civil society, in retaliation to their reporting on BJP MLA and his son; “Arrest Communal Hooligans; Release Jailed Scribes,” Says Press Club of India.
The newspapers associated with Ambedkar are repositories of vast information on the history of Dalit political activism, which is why it’s a pity that Ambedkar’s role as a journalist and editor has been largely ignored.
Bhagat Singh is widely venerated as a radical thinker and political revolutionary. However, he is seldom celebrated as a journalist; an identity that was quite intrinsic to his critical thinking, individuality and revolutionary integrity.
Alas, the consequences these days for journalists doing such stories can be serious. Even for those doing straight reporting. Siddique Kappan, arrested en route to Hathras to meet the family of the gang-rape victim, has languished in jail for over a year now, unable to get bail.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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