The counter argument to narrow mindedness is missing From the Grand Mufti's fatwa against the all-girl band in Kashmir, to the now lifted ban ...
09:56 AM, Feb 13, 2013
At a time when freedom of expression is being challenged at many forums in India, Adobe Youth Voices is trying to do just the opposite. The Delhi NGO is empowering students to tell their own stories using films and pictures. ...
09:40 AM, Feb 11, 2013
Shah Rukh Khan was in Delhi on February 7 to launch a new collection of ladies' watches by Tag Heuer. ...
06:37 PM, Feb 08, 2013
The VHP's women wing on Wednesday continued to disrupt an exhibition at Delhi Art Gallery saying it portrayed women in a bad way. ...
11:05 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari has said the government will take media and advertising industry into confidence before formulating policies relating to the sector. ...
03:06 PM, Feb 03, 2013
India has dropped nine places to 140th rank in the list of 179 countries in the latest World Press Freedom Index, which its authors said is the lowest for the "world's biggest democracy" since 2002. ...
05:59 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Support has started pouring in for Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku, has been forced to live outside India as he fears an arrest back home. He has been accused of hurting religious sentiments and an FIR has been registered against him in Mumbai. Edamaruku spoke to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose via Skype and said he had to leave India or else he would've been arrested without bail. ...
09:52 AM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: Now that Kanpur-based cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been charged with sedition for his cartoons that 'mocked' the country's political class, Parliament and the national emblem, one has to bear in mind that the word "sedition" does not actually figure anywhere in the Indian Constitution. It is an offence against the state as enumerated in the Indian Penal Code which is an 1860 Act ratified by the British to...
12:07 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Yangon: Myanmar's government said on Monday it was abolishing the harsh practice of directly censoring the country's media, the most dramatic move yet toward allowing freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation. Under the new rules, journalists will no longer have to submit their work to state censors before publication as they for almost half a century. However, deep concerns remain about restrictive press laws remaining on the books, which...
02:19 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Udaipur: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday expressed concern over frequent disruption of Parliamentary proceedings. He said while everybody had the right to freedom of expression, it should not impinge upon the right of others to speak. Delivering a lecture at the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Mohan Lal Sukhadia University in Udipur, he voiced concern over loss of time in Parliament due to "unnecessary chaos" created by some members....
09:06 PM, May 19, 2012
What has happened to the nation? The Parliament is scared of cartoons while the government resents freedom of press. News broke on Friday that the ...
04:37 PM, May 15, 2012
Sri Aurobindo scholar may be asked to leave India: Tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, are historians losing their Freedom of Expression?
12:26 PM, Apr 05, 2012
In the ongoing Rushdie row at the Jaipur Literature Festival, actor Rahul Bose drew attention to the limitations in the Constitution concerning freedom of expression in the country. "We need to take a look at 'Freedom of Speech' under the Constitution of India. We need to campaign for change," he said. ...
08:52 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Mohamed Nabbousi, a technical wizard, managed to stream protests-related videos despite the ban on internet. ...
09:40 AM, Feb 28, 2011
Publishing house K&B Editions said humor is part of freedom of expression. ...
05:20 PM, Oct 30, 2008
Have Taslima and the Government surrendered to minority voices? ...
07:51 AM, Dec 01, 2007
The Government has seldom backed controversial authors and artists. ...
04:47 PM, Nov 25, 2007
The Supreme Court has ruled that the government has the power to ban or forfeit any publication that endangers public order. ...
10:32 PM, May 06, 2007
