Journalist Farhan Khan, 30, died late Sunday evening following a road accident on the Bulbulpur–Sithauli road in Patranga, Jagran reported. According to Jagran, the accident occurred while Khan was returning from Khajuri village in Tikaitnagar. It is suspected that his motorcycle lost balance, struck a tree and overturned into a ditch, leaving him critically injured.

Image credit: e4m The media fraternity is mourning the deaths of three veteran journalists — Amit Mitra, Prabha Jagannathan and Baquer Mirza — all in their 60s, e4m reported. Amit Mitra, 62, a former Business Line journalist, passed away in Visakhapatnam on December 18. He began his career with The Indian Express in the mid‑1980s and joined Business Line in 1994, retiring in 2015. On the same day, Prabha Jagannathan, 60, died in New Delhi. She started her career in 1984 with Newstime and went on to work for The Telegraph and The Economic Times over three decades. Baquer Mirza, 67, passed away in Hyderabad on December 20. He began as a sub‑editor with The Siasat Urdu daily before joining the Indian Information Service, serving with the Press Information Bureau, All India Radio and Doordarshan until his retirement in 2018.

Prose Integrated, along with Digital Tribe, has been reappointed as the communications and outreach partner for ANMI StockTech 2026, extending its association with the platform to eight consecutive years. Curated by ANMI WIRC, ANMI StockTech 2026 will bring together brokers, investors, fintech innovators, exchanges, regulators, and cybersecurity experts to explore how technologies such as AI, automation, APIs, and algorithmic trading are transforming India’s capital markets. 

Despite official claims of 86 per cent tap water coverage by the PIB, villages in Tripura continue to depend on natural springs for their daily water needs. During her reporting in Dhalai district, independent journalist Nidhi Jamwal found taps installed without pipelines and water networks that existed largely on paper. In reality, residents relied entirely on springs, with women bearing the brunt as sources dried up and distances to fetch water increased.  Jamwal says empowering and supporting rural journalists is critical to exposing the gap between policy and lived reality, allowing neglected communities to raise concerns before crises deepen.  Journalists reporting from rural areas say many such stories remain invisible. Rural journalism extends far beyond agriculture, encompassing classrooms without teachers, clinics without medicines, caste-based exclusion, and villages waiting years for basic services. These reports may rarely trend online, but they point to long-

Image source: EGI, Business Standard; Edited by Pragadish Kirubakaran   The torching of Bangladesh’s leading media houses last week drew a rare and blunt response from the Editors Guild of India, which called the violence a “serious and deadly escalation” against press freedom in South Asia. In a December 23 statement from New Delhi, the Guild condemned mob attacks, vandalism, and arson targeting journalists and newsrooms, including the burning of Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, and the assault on Nurul Kabir, editor of New Age and president of the Editors’ Council. It urged the Muhammad Yunus–led interim government to act immediately to protect journalists, punish attackers, and stop what it warned was a fast-normalising cycle of intimidation and violence. The violence followed the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a radical youth leader linked to the Inqilab Mancha platform, who died in Singapore after being shot in Dhaka. Protests quickly turn

The Tripura Journalists’ Union staged a silent protest at the Agartala Press Club on December 22, condemning recent attacks on journalists, media offices and minority communities in Bangladesh. As a symbolic gesture, participants covered their mouths with black cloth. The union demanded the release of detained journalists, reconstruction of damaged media offices and assurances of safety for press workers to operate freely, Tripura Chronicles reported.  

WPP has secured Jaguar Land Rover’s integrated global agency mandate following a nine‑month review, in one of the year’s most closely contested pitches, Campaign reported. The automaker has entered a period of exclusivity with WPP for marketing services across its four core brands — Defender, Discovery, Jaguar and Range Rover. Incumbent agency Accenture Song will remain on the account until mid‑2026, allowing time for transition and negotiations ahead of a first‑quarter deadline. In a significant expansion, WPP’s remit also includes media planning and buying, which was not part of the original creative and marketing review.