Madhya Pradesh HC seeks state’s reply on plea challenging police objection to university webinar

Among the speakers at the webinar were poet and scientist Gauhar Raza and Delhi University professor Apoorvanand.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 24, 2021 · 09:53 pm

MP Police object to speakers, including DU professor Apoorvanand, invited for university webinar

The police have warned that a case could be filed if the virtual event caused a law and order problem.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 30, 2021 · 12:49 pm

How Bangladesh uses its Digital Security Act to limit the right to free speech online

At least 433 people in the country were imprisoned under the law as of July, Amnesty International reported.

Faisal Mahmud

· Jul 27, 2021 · 07:30 am

Dissent is ‘anti-national’ in Modi’s India – no matter where it comes from

From rebuttals to industrialist Rahul Bajaj to a media advisory on the day of Assam protests, the government continues to clamp down on criticism.

Meenakshi Ganguly

· Dec 13, 2019 · 06:30 am

Priya Ramani: ‘I spoke because women before me spoke up. I spoke so people after me can speak up’

The journalist delivered the keynote address at the Goa Literature Festival on Thursday.

Priya Ramani

· Dec 07, 2019 · 07:30 am

How academics are sabotaging their right to freedom of expression

Universities need to protect people with different ideas.

Steven Greer, The Conversation

· Oct 21, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Anurag Kashyap quits Twitter after his parents and daughter receive threats

The filmmaker, a vocal critic of the Narendra Modi government, said he would not speak at all if he was not allowed to speak his mind without fear.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 11, 2019 · 11:22 am

Anil Ambani’s defamation blitz: 28 cases filed by Reliance Group in Ahmedabad courts this year

Twenty cases have been filed against journalists and media organisations. Not all of them are linked to Rafale.

Vijayta Lalwani

· Nov 25, 2018 · 09:00 am

Defence analyst arrested by Odisha Police days after he jokes about Konark temple

Abhijit Iyer Mitra was later granted bail and told to join the investigation in Bhubaneswar by September 28.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 20, 2018 · 03:24 pm

‘Is this a democracy?’: Kanpur traders ask why they were booked for posters comparing Modi with Kim

Hurt by demonetisation, businessmen said that the prime minister was destroying the economy.

Abhishek Dey

· Oct 15, 2017 · 08:01 pm

‘My gurus demand I make no calculations about what is acceptable and what is offensive when I write'

Jerry Pinto’s acceptance speech, read out in absentia, of the Sahitya Akademi award for Best Book in English.

Jerry Pinto

· Mar 19, 2017 · 07:30 am

Full text: Universities must be the bastions of free speech, says President Pranab Mukherjee

Educational institutions must be 'the arena where diverse and conflicting schools of thought contend', president says at Nalanda University convocation.

Pranab Mukherjee

· Aug 28, 2016 · 12:21 pm