K.M Mathew, Chief Editor of the Malayala Manorama newspaper and a longtime friend of IPI, passed away at his residence in Kerala, India on Sunday. He was 93. IPI joins Mr. Mathew’s family, friends and colleagues in mourning his death. Mr. Mathew was laid to rest today, with full state honours. Thousands of people attended […]

The International Press Institute is concerned by reports that the media is facing harassment in India’s conflict-ridden northern and north-eastern states. In Manipur, where Indian security forces are locked in conflict with several armed separatist groups, local media have declared an indefinite cessation of publication on Friday in response to threats against S. Singlianmang Guite, […]

A journalist in Orissa, India was brutally beaten on 6 May, a day after his paper published an article he wrote alleging irregularities in a government-funded welfare scheme. Biranjan Mallick, who works for local vernacular newspaper Khabar in Suninda, a village in the Balanga district of the eastern Indian state of Orissa, was beaten after […]

24 November 2009 – Two Indian TV channels belonging to the CNN-IBN network were violently attacked by activists of the Shiv Sena political group on Friday, 20 November. In a series of three separate attacks, Shiv Sena activists vandalised the offices of television channels IBN Lokmat and IBN7 in Mumbai and Pune and beat up […]