Narendra Modi

New Indian social media rules threaten freedom of expression

The new rules will undeniably harm freedom of expression, privacy and security and could be subject to legal challenges, said Mozilla Corporation public policy advisor Udbhav Tiwari. Some activists warn the regulations could be challenged in court.

Will Shabnam Ali be the first Muslim woman to be hanged in India?

No woman has been hanged in India by the justice system since 1955.

Indian farmers vow to amass more supporters outside capital Delhi

A massive crowd of farmers and farm workers gathered in India's northern Punjab state in a show of strength against new farm laws.

Twitter: India’s request to ban accounts over farmer protests against law

Under fire by Indian government, Twitter is facing high stakes in a country of 1.3 billion where it has millions of users and is ardently used by PM Modi, his cabinet ministers and other leaders to communicate with the public.

The farmers’ protests are the biggest political threat Modi has seen

The protests are arguably the biggest challenge to the authority of the ruling BJP government to date, and they are going nowhere.

Several dead, 140 missing as glacier breaks in northern India

Search continues for missing after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam in Uttarakhand state, as calls grow against dam-building spree in the eco-sensitive region.

India allows high-speed internet in Kashmir after 550 days of annexation

A blanket internet ban, the world's longest in a democracy which rights activists dubbed "digital apartheid" and "collective punishment", came into effect on August 5, 2019, when New Delhi unilaterally annexed the disputed Himalayan region.

Twitter's India snub provokes debate on compliance, free speech

Amid ongoing farmer protests and global focus on them, Twitter's refusal to comply with the Modi government's order to block hundreds of accounts puts the social media giant at the centre of a political firestorm.

Rihanna’s episode is a sign of growing social decomposition in India

The right-wing troll backlash against the star for supporting the farmers' protests reveals how the ruling political class stokes, rather than discourages deep fissures in society.

India files case after Greta Thunberg tweets toolkit to support farmers

Although several Indian news outlets claimed the case was directly against the Swedish climate activist, a Reuters journalist has said “nobody has been named in the FIR,” which mentions unidentified authors of the toolkit.

The republic of sedition: Modi’s India is a graveyard for dissent

An independent database has documented the staggering rise of sedition cases against Indian citizens since the BJP came to power.

Twitter deletes Bollywood star Ranaut’s tweets on farmers protests

Kangana Ranaut, a staunch Bharatiya Janata Party supporter, called farmers protesting controversial agriculture laws terrorists in a tweet, which was one of two that the platform had removed.