At the IPI India Award 2025 event, BV Nagarathna said media freedom suffers more from economic and regulatory pressures than censorship. She warned, “A press outlet may be legally free… yet economically constrained,” highlighting threats to independent journalism.
Today, On 22nd September, The Supreme Court, while hearing The Wire’s plea in a defamation case filed by ex-JNU professor Amita Singh, said, “Time has come to decriminalise all this,” tagging it with Rahul Gandhi’s pending matter.
Today, On 8th September, The Supreme Court has sought responses from the Gujarat government and the Enforcement Directorate on journalist Mahesh Langa’s bail plea in a money laundering case. The bench remarked, “Some claim to be ‘patrakar’ on scooter, everyone knows what they do.”
