SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN MEDIA - South Asian Women in Media

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…

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…

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,…

Government's response to the coronavirus pandemic is seen by many to mirror its post-2015 earthquake measures.

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…

The post-pandemic media scene is grim, with fewer jobs and shrinking spaces to report without fear.

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…

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…

As the COVID-19 pandemic grinds more and more countries to a halt, journalists around the world are doing just the opposite.

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…