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COVID-19 has no borders, international cooperation key: French envoy
Emmanuel Lenain, the Ambassador of France in New Delhi has lauded India’s initiatives for providing regional leadership to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Senior journalist Smita Sharma speaks to the French envoy on issues including…
Measures to tackle coronavirus will be effective: Italian envoy
In an email interview with senior journalist Smita Sharma, Italian Ambassador Vincenzo De Luca underlined the coronavirus pandemic as a global challenge where Italy is doing its part to deal with the outbreak. He also claimed that Itlay has…
Free speech, hate speech, and COVID-19: Why are we silent?
In responding to epidemics, states are compelled to resort to restrictive measures to contain the spread of infection, including quarantine and isolation procedures, travel bans, lockdowns, and curfews. With such restrictions on movement,…
From quake to coronavirus, knee-jerk response from Nepal leadership
Government's response to the coronavirus pandemic is seen by many to mirror its post-2015 earthquake measures.
Attitude Towards Those Who Died of Covid-19 Shows Fear Has Taken Over. Is Humanity Losing This War?
They say, don’t disrespect the dead. But in the biggest crisis facing this generation in India, we have done exactly that. For 36 hours, Dr Sailo could not be given a resting place in Meghalaya, the administration had to intervene to find a…
Stalked by coronavirus, hounded by the state, losing jobs: Is nobody looking out for Indian…
The post-pandemic media scene is grim, with fewer jobs and shrinking spaces to report without fear.
Statement by South Asian Women in Media (SAWM) India on detention of journalists in Kashmir
We are aghast at the filing of criminal cases against three Kashmiri journalists, Masarat Zahra, Ashiq Peerzada and Gowhar Geelani, and condemn such harsh steps to intimidate and harass media-persons, particularly at a time when the country…
Chronicle of an arrest foretold
On March 12, Pakistan’s anti-corruption agency, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), arrested Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman (in picture) the editor-in-chief of Jang Group, the largest media group in the country. The group owns the largest Urdu…
Everyone’s a health reporter now: Covering COVID-19 on other beats
As the COVID-19 pandemic grinds more and more countries to a halt, journalists around the world are doing just the opposite.
Political manipulations in Kashmir – Part II begins
Apni Party or Unki Party? What's in a name? But the strange christening of new Jammu and Kashmir based political formation as 'Apni Party' meaning 'Ours/ My Party' evokes curiosity. Whose party is it, anyway? What does it stand for in the…