A ground investigation across Rajasthan found children studying under trees, in municipal kiosks and unsafe buildings, with 611 schools lacking their own premises, 83,783 dilapidated classrooms and around 1.5 lakh vacant teacher posts. In Delhi, five major pieces of cancer-care equipment worth about ₹56.93 crore are unused or malfunctioning at a government cancer institute, forcing some patients towards costly private diagnostics.

Journalist Kundan Jadhav died by suicide at his residence in Vaturkar Layout in the Khadan area of Akola.

South India is seeing renewed interest in business journalism, with new financial dailies planned by Express Publications, Kumudam and Dinamalar. Journalists say the region’s economic strength, underreported companies and shrinking specialist business desks have created fresh opportunities for deeper, more locally rooted coverage.

The long-running efforts by media organisations to overturn a suppression order, which is protecting the identity of a high-profile individual involved in a black mail case, has failed.

The Telegraph Young Metro inducted a new batch of student reporters from around 50 schools at the YM Force Meet held at Vidya Mandir Auditorium, Kolkata, on August 21.

Students of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, IK Gujral Punjab Technical University (IKGPTU), Main Campus, secured the second prize in a regional radio feature competition at the Science Journalism Fest organised by Pushpa Gujral Science City (PGSC), Kapurthala.

The Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya organised its annual Raksha Bandhan celebrations with journalists at the Vizag Journalists Forum Press Club in Daba Gardens on Thursday, August 27.

Journalists in Rajasthan have come together to launch a YouTube channel aimed at highlighting issues faced by journalists in the state and bringing instances of pressure on the media to public attention.

As India gears up to observe National Sports Day on August 29, a group of journalists in Jammu and Kashmir has come together to form the Jammu Sports Journalists Association (JSJA), with the aim of promoting sports and working towards the welfare of the sporting fraternity in the Union Territory.

For decades, tea farmers in Tizit, eastern Nagaland, cultivated tea without seeing the kind of income they had hoped for. Tea farming began taking root in the area in the early 1990s, with families learning cultivation practices from neighbouring Assam. But farmers remained dependent on middlemen, had little access to government schemes and lacked direct links to tea factories.

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For nearly four years, the Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists Association has run an annual programme that puts journalists, villagers and officials in the same room, not to generate a story, but to resolve one. Nearly 60% of issues raised get fixed, including saving a government school from closure.

Web-channel journalist Deepak Bhandari allegedly died by suicide while in judicial custody at Amritsar Central Jail on Wednesday morning. He had been lodged in the jail for more than one-and-a-half years in connection with a case involving the alleged smuggling and peddling of banned medicines.

In an Insider conversation, Ojasvi Nath, founder of NervNow, told Influencing why AI journalism needs fewer announcements and more scrutiny, why young reporters cannot outsource critical thinking to machines, and what it takes to build an independent media publication without sacrificing editorial quality.