‘Raiding’ an entire media organisation and snatching the electronic devices of journalists without due process is a bad omen for a free press but a worse signal for the continuation of democracy.

The Modi government’s attempts to censor the media and intimidate independent journalism pose a grave danger to Indian democracy.

India's democracy is dying in bright daylight because the media is under siege.

The Wire acknowledges that the internal editorial processes which preceded publication of its Meta stories did not meet the standards that we set for ourselves and our readers expect from us.

The Supreme Court chose to get involved in the Bilkis case in 2002 because it knew the Gujarat government was protecting the rapists and murderers. Twenty years later, nothing has changed.

The second surge of COVID-19 has caused a national calamity the likes of which India has not seen since independence, and there is growing evidence that it could have been countered – and appropriate steps taken – to minimise its deadly impact.

The new rules framed unfairly lump news sites with OTT platforms and social media and must be rolled back.

The real disappointment for citizens facing an unprecedented assault on their basic democratic rights is not that the Modi regime is behaving the way it is. The disappointment is with the Supreme Court.

Thanks to TV news channels, Rhea Chakraborty stands a condemned woman, with all manner of accusations hurled at her without a shred of evidence.

Today, no one expects ICMR to contradict the Centre’s COVID-19 response strategy on any count, irrespective of the enormity of a transgression.

As we said five years ago, we wanted to “reimagine the media as a joint venture in the public sphere between journalists, readers and a concerned citizenry.” We have stuck by that principle and it will continue to guide us going forward.

Nobody should be under any illusion that the Delhi communal riots of 2020 are not a product of deliberate attempts by the BJP to polarise the country on religious grounds.

It is no secret that many Kashmiris feel alienated from India; targeting innocent Kashmiris who have chosen to study and work in other parts of the country will only alienate them further.

There may be many – scores, if not hundreds – of radicals like the one who shot at students outside Jamia, all indoctrinated by the unending lies spread by the pro-government Hindutva-oriented ecosystem.

The NRC and NPR must be scrapped, and the CAA redrafted to make its provisions applicable not to a list of ‘acceptable religions’ but to all those facing persecution.

The arrest of Prashant Kanojia marks an escalation of the ongoing war in the country against the media and free speech.

If the Supreme Court does not set standards of minimal due process when inquiring into allegations of sexual harassment against its own highest and mightiest, what chance is there that others will?

As we move deeper into the elections, the rhetoric leveraged by the BJP throughout the country leaves little room to doubt what the party’s larger agenda is.

Imran Khan has an obligation to act against terrorist groups on Pakistan's soil and his offer of dialogue should be matched by evidence on the ground.