Ask a man who has just received the country's second-highest civilian honour what he would tell the next generation, and you expect a speech. P. Narayanan gave the opposite. "I'm not a big person to advise anyone," the 90-year-old told Influencing, with the flatness of someone who means it. Then, almost reluctantly, he allowed himself one line: journalists, he said, should try their best to bring the issues faced by ordinary people to light. That is the entire instruction. No talk of influence, access or legacy. Just the work, pointed outward, away from the journalist and toward the people the journalism is supposed to serve. For anyone who has watched Narayanan's six decades in Malayalam journalism, it is less a piece of advice than a description of what he has always done. Narayanan was conferred the Padma Vibhushan in the field of Literature and Education, one of only five recipients of the award this year. He was presented the honour at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delh

NDTV.com has retained the top position among English news websites in the latest Comscore MMX Multi-Platform rankings for May 2026, marking its fifth consecutive month at No. 1 since January.  According to the May 2026 Comscore rankings for desktop and mobile platforms, NDTV.com recorded 45.5 million unique visitors, maintaining its lead during a month dominated by intense news coverage, including state elections, geopolitical developments, conflict, and global events.  The rankings reflect the platform's sustained audience engagement across a wide range of news categories, including politics, business, international affairs, and breaking news.  Commenting on the achievement, Managing Editors Abhinav Bhatt and Padmaja Joshi said May was an exceptionally busy news month, with the newsroom closely tracking developments in India as well as major international events, particularly the conflict in West Asia. They said retaining the top position for the fifth consecut

Wednesday, 24 June 2026 #1  ·  Times City  ·  Breaking news / Investigative How Dad's Memory, Digital Trail Led Police To Suspect In 7 Hours By Abhay   ·   The Times of India  ·  Page 8 A 10-year-old homeless girl sleeping on a Delhi footpath with her family was abducted and murdered by cab driver Basu Kumar Singh, 29, who stalked her for 45 minutes before the assault. Police cracked the case in under seven hours by cross-referencing GPS latitude-longitude data from three cab aggregators with footage from 70 CCTV cameras to construct a digital trail of the suspect's vehicle. Singh was apprehended in west Delhi's Vikaspuri, confessed under interrogation, and was shot in the leg after attempting to snatch a police weapon during crime-scene reconstruction. The story deploys multiple layers of original reporting — father's firsthand account at the mortuary, granular reconstruction of the invest

Australian Skeptics has donated $5,000 to the Science Journalists Association of Australia (SJAA), funding two extra grants in the association's 2026 program, president Jackson Ryan told Influencing. “The grants are worth $2,500 each…We want those to help develop stories about evidence-based decision making, about being sceptical and championing scepticism,” he said.  The donation lifts the 2026 pool to $13,000 across six grants. The four existing $2,000 awards include a student/early-career grant, a travel grant and a professional development grant. “The two reporting grants are really structured around a project. What you need to do is send us a pitch, essentially, and say why you should have this money and budget for that money.  “The professional development grant is around this idea of allowing you to get some money to skill up in some way, whether that's with a course with The Economist, or maybe you need to go to a conference, for instance. Similarly, travel ca

Greens deal locks in Labor’s tax overhaul — with NDIS strings attached Labor has struck a parliamentary deal with the Greens to pass contentious negative gearing and capital gains tax changes, but the price includes concessions on the government’s NDIS overhaul—winding back ministerial powers and extending scrutiny via a longer Senate inquiry. The package sharpens the political fight over housing, superannuation settings and welfare sustainability, with Coalition and crossbench positioning now central to what happens next in the Senate and future budgets. Covered by: Daily Telegraph, The West Australian, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review, Australian Financial Review, Australian Financial Review, The Australian. NSW Budget bets on transport relief — while holding the line on spending The Minns government’s pre-election budget is pitched as cost-of-living help with a $100 rego rebate, Opal fare caps and othe

  The Telangana High Court has refused to quash an abetment to suicide case against a journalist and an advocate, ruling that the complaint prima facie disclosed a cognizable offence under Section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The case stems from allegations that defamatory statements about a woman were made during a Vedhan Media TV interview and later circulated on social media, causing her severe mental distress. The woman subsequently died by suicide, leaving behind a note and selfie video allegedly naming those responsible. Citing the ongoing investigation and established legal principles on police powers to probe cognizable offences, the court dismissed the petitions seeking to quash the case, Verdictum reported.