Autumn 2010 has been a season of political storms in India, and the media finds itself in the midst of a controversy, with its role and ethics under public scrutiny. In the centre of it all is a massive corruption scandal over the allocation of radio frequency spectrum to mobile telephone operators at 2001 prices […]

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 […]