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(The Quartz) While sensationalist TV news channels plastered Aryan’s face all over the screen, a government minister’s son who allegedly ploughed into a farmer’s protest, killing eight people, roamed scot-free for a week.

(Time) Although India is often called the world’s largest democracy, U.S.-based nonprofit Freedom House downgraded India from “free” to “partly free” in March 2021, citing a decline in civil liberties since Modi came to power in 2014, including the intimidation of journalists and activists.

(The Wire) 'It’s important to ignite the fire sometimes. I am telling you; anyone who comes into your house, street, neighbourhood, village, don’t forgive them,' Swami Parmatmanand said.

(The Kashmiriyat) Amid chaos, non-locals narrate stories of love they received from Kashmiris and they dismiss the narratives created by the mainstream media in India

(The Wire) In the video, Madhu Sharma is seen to be pulling the Muslim man by his hair and slapping him. The only sentence the Muslim man is heard saying is, "Maine to dekha bhi nahi. (I didn't even notice.)"

(The Wire) Detention, questioning and harassment continues to be the norm for journalists in the Valley, as the space for critical reporting shrinks.

On Thursday, Sepoy Deeraj Kumar of the Engineering Unit posted at Kralpora pointed the barrel of his service rifle towards him and died by suicide by fired himself with his service rifle in Kupwara – frontier district of Jammu and Kashmir.

(Scroll.in) The government encouraged private investments in PSA oxygen plants. But as Covid-19 cases fall, there are no takers for the oxygen produced in these units.

(The Wire) Social media propaganda, complete with hashtags, trends and concocted videos, seems to have one single aim: to boycott Muslim-owned and run businesses. Hindutva supporters on Facebook and Twitter have been exhorting social media users of the Hindu faith to destabilise what they call the ‘halal economy’ of Indian Muslims by transferring their business to Hindu-owned and run businesses instead.

(The Wire) Two students have said they were brutally manhandled, stripped and kicked in their private parts during a protest near Amit Shah's house a few days ago.