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Editors Guild voices concern on Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill

August 06, 2023 8:55 pm

The Guild is concerned about the expansion of powers of the Press Registrar, the new restrictions on citizens to bring out periodicals, the continuation of power to enter premises of news publications, the vagueness inherent in many of the provisions, and the ambiguity surrounding power to frame rules that can have adverse implications on press freedom, a statement by the Guild said.

‘Deeply concerned’: Editors Guild urges Centre to expunge amendment to IT Act rules

January 25, 2023 3:48 pm

Determination of fake news cannot be in the sole hands of the government and will result in the censorship of the press, the Editors Guild of India has said in a letter to Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

Editor’s Guild condemns Alt-News co-founder Zubair’s arrest, demands immediate release

June 28, 2022 2:56 pm

Mohammed Zubair was called to Delhi Police’s Cyber Crime Unit office on Monday for questioning in a 2020 POCSO case but was soon arrested for a tweet that he had posted in 2018

Pune traffic cop who saved 8-year-old girl’s life gets bravery award

Manipur media continues boycott against govt related news over unpaid bills

May 02, 2022 8:25 pm

The protest was a fallout of the failure of the state to clear the pending bills even after a series of assurances given by Chief Minister N Biren Singh and chief secretary Rajesh Kumar.

Editors Guild asks PIB to revoke new journalist accreditation norms

February 21, 2022 8:36 am

Editors Guild demanded that the new accreditation guidelines be withdrawn and urged the PIB to undertake "a meaningful consultation" with all the stakeholders to come up with revised guidelines.

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Manipur journos continue cease-work over grenade attack, demand security

February 14, 2021 10:32 pm

Local journalists on Sunday converged at Keishampat, Imphal and staged a sit-in demonstration demanding that those behind the dastardly attack on press freedom issue an unconditional apology for the same.