“The Indian government’s recent decision to mandate by law the creation of an official state fact-checking body is not an unexpected move. The government had already set up a unit under its ...

Concern has been brewing in recent months over the Indian government’s increasingly restrictive stance towards the media. In February, Indian tax authorities searched the BBC’s offices in ...

The Indian federal government has passed an order that scraps ... The decision comes as a blow to filmmakers as the FCAT was a useful appeals body for them. In 2017, the CBFC banned feminist ...

Abhinandan Sekhri is the co-founder of Newslaundry, an independent Indian media outlet that published reports critical of the Modi government in 2021 and faced a similar tax search. A New Delhi ...