Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s offices and seized its journalists’ phones in a stunning — and apparently retaliatory — move on Tuesday (February 14), says The Washington Post. This Valentine Day move against the British broadcaster came weeks after it aired a polarizing documentary examining Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rise and his handling […]
A documentary produced in the Northeast has been selected for screening in a prestigious international film festival in France. ‘Mask Art of Majuli’, a documentary film featuring the Satriya mask-making culture of the famed river island in Assam, has been chosen for competition sections of the 29th Festival International des Cinemas d’Asie (FICA) in France […]
With the hostile takeover of NewDelhi Television, we have seen the last of the ‘independent’ mainstream television channels in India. In the latest in a series of resignations at the company after it was taken over by the Adani group, Journalists and anchosr Nidhi Razdan and Sreenivasan Jain have quit NDTV. Razdan had worked at […]
The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) is announced that the ‘ICPA Award for the Best Reportage on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes’, [sponsored by the CBCI Office for Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes], will be awarded to Father Irudhaya Jothi SJ for authentically and consistently being the voice of people’s rights, especially the poor Dalits […]
“In a redux of a bygone age, Buckingham Palace was at the apex of global power — if just for a day”was how one journalist with the Washington Post described the atmosphere in the United Kingdom on Monday, as the nation bid its final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II. And so it was. The world […]
The Central Government is to constitute a ‘national commission’ to study the social, economic and educational status of Scheduled Caste, or Dalit converts to ‘religions other than Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism’, it is learnt. The proposal is being actively discussed at the Centre, and a decision is likely to be taken soon, according to some […]
It is so disturbing to hear the news these days. People killing each other in the name of religion, protests and money. I literally do not understand. The journalist and fact checker, Mohammad Zubair, has been arrested on a tweet made in 2018, because somebody claimed that he had hurt his religious sentiments! In the […]
Watch out ! That plastic stirrer that you have in your plastic coffee cup may land you in more trouble than you bargained for. From tomorrow, people who use single use plastic in public places may have to cough up as much as a lakh of rupees! And we are not joking! From July 1, […]
The citizens who depended on factual news and accurate reporting all over the country have expressed shock and surprise at the arrest of Muhammad Zubair, one of India’s trusted journalists, being arrested for ‘hurting religious belief’ and ‘provoking people to cause riot’. A Delhi court today [Tuesday, 28 June] granted the police four-day custody of […]
Norm Macdonald was the funniest comedian in his time among those who stayed out of political controversies. His specialty was pointing out how uncomfortable we are facing the reality of our human limits, moral and intellectual, as opposed to the fantasies we embrace eagerly in our flight from mortality. He was never far from the […]
“The biggest issue we are facing is that we are quickly losing India’s fundamental character,” the Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Bishop Yuhanon Mar Meletius of the Thrissur diocese, has stated in an interview that has been picked up by several Indian newspapers. Bishop Yuhanon, also addressed as Metropolitan, has given the interview […]
Fans of all ages across India are stunned. Playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, better known as KK, died barely an hour after he had finished a command performance at South Calcutta’s Nazrul Mancha. He was 53. He suffered a massive heart attack and was immediately rushed to Calcutta Medical Research Institute at 10.30 pm. But unfortunately he’d […]
