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.

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.

Women’s rights activist and former Maharashtra Secretary of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) Sonya Gill died in Mumbai on Tuesday, August 25, at the age of 70. She was also a co-founder and trustee of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI).

The members of the Television Journalists Association (TVJA) Dahi Handi Pathak (group) showcased unity and sportsmanship by forming a four-tier human pyramid at Pro-Govinda League at Dome SVP Stadium in Worli, Mumbai

New permission rules at Jharkhand hospitals, following a journalist boycott over Secretariat entry curbs, have reopened a fight over press access, with similar restrictions now surfacing in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh schools.

The Global Journalist and Writers Association(GJWA) marked its second anniversary with the Media Mitra Award 2026 and a book release ceremony at the Press Club auditorium in Nagpur on Sunday.

Pushpa Gujral Science City organised a seminar on ‘Science Journalism: The Ethics, Impact and Reporting of Modern Science’, bringing together more than 150 young journalists, journalism students and teachers from colleges across Punjab.

A PIL in the Supreme Court has challenged restrictions on journalists and other outsiders entering government schools in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, arguing that child-safety safeguards should not become blanket barriers to public-interest scrutiny.

Journalists staged a sit‑in protest at the Hajipur Collectorate premises on Tuesday after being denied passes to cover Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary’s programme in Bidupur block.

Journalist Abhishek Upadhyay has welcomed the Supreme Court’s interim protection against coercive action by the Uttar Pradesh Police, saying the order would make it easier for journalists to report without fear and could bring greater transparency to police action.