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New Delhi, Sept 8, 2020: The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) says the freedom of press faces external threats from the state and its storm troopers and from the owners of private media within. This was highlighted in a PUCL report on how the news media has functioned inContinue Reading

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India slipped three places in the 2017 world press freedom rankings to 136th among 180 countries, the dismal performance blamed on “government’s nationalism” and growing “self-censorship” in the mainstream media. In the index released on Wednesday, India was ranked just three places above Pakistan and was one notch below violence-tornContinue Reading