Wired

India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet

Akash Banerjee isn’t sure whether he’s allowed to talk about the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question on his YouTube channel. The documentary examines Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role ...

CBFC to stay away from streaming content; what the government is doing to prevent another India’s Got Latent misfire

While the government has clarified that OTT platforms, including YouTube, don't fall under the purview of the CBFC, there's a ...
IJNet

How India's government uses Pegasus to spy on journalists

When a joint investigation published in December 2023 by Amnesty International and The Washington Post revealed that journalists in India were being targeted by the hacking spyware, Pegasus, Siddharth ...
Jurist

India registers 13 percent increase in rape in 2021, reveals government report

India’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Monday released its Crime in India 2021 Report. The report registered 31,677 cases of rape in 2021 for a daily average of 87 cases. The findings suggest a ...
The Wire on MSN

BJP collected ‘party funds’ in the name of government schemes in 2021-22, finds RTI

RTI responses to questions by journalist B.R. Aravindakshan shows that the BJP did not have any special permission or any ...
Pew Research Center

1. Number of countries with ‘very high’ government restrictions stays level in 2021

All 198 countries and territories in our study had at least some level of government restrictions or regulations related to religious activity reported in 2021. However, the severity of the ...
Pew Research Center

3. Median scores for government restrictions peak, social hostilities involving religion tick down in 2021

The global median score on the Government Restrictions Index (GRI) rose from 2.8 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2021, the highest it’s been since Pew Research Center created the index in 2007. Both Europe and the ...