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Newspaper reading now a must for students in UP government schools | India News

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government has made newspaper reading compulsory for students of all state-run secondary and basic schools to cultivate reading habits, reduce screen time and develop critical, and logical thinking skills among them.An order issued by additional chief secretary (basic and secondary education) Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma, on December 23 says newspapers, both English…

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‘Journalists were scared to death’: Bangladesh newspaper Prothom Alo goes unpublished for first time in 27 years; editor recounts ‘darkest night’ of media attack

A mob of protesters set the offices of Bangladeshi newspapers Prothom Alo and The Daily Star on fire after Sharif Osman Hadi, Bangladesh’s youth leader, was killed after being shot in the head on December 12.According to witnesses, hundreds of Hadi’s supporters chanted slogans before setting the building in Dhaka on fire around midnight. Bangladesh…

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Bangladesh on edge: Massive protests erupt after Sharif Osman Hadi’s death; newspaper offices gutted in fire

Massive protests erupted in Bangladesh following the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi on late Thursday, with demonstrators torching newspaper offices and clashing with authorities, deepening fears of a further deterioration in law and order.Videos showed demonstrators vandalising the country’s largest newspaper, Daily Prothom Alo, along with another newspaper office Daily Star . The…

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‘Silent emergency’: Punjab cops hold up newspaper delivery vehicles, draw oppn fire; press club condemns police action | India News

CHANDIGARH/LUDHIANA: The AAP-run govt in Punjab is facing severe flak from opposition parties and the media fraternity after a shocking move by Punjab Police to hold up newspaper delivery vehicles in several parts of the state in the early hours of Sunday.Leaders of opposition parties linked the searches to the recent ‘Sheesh Mahal reports’ and…

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‘Degenerate newspaper’: Donald Trump files $15 billion lawsuit against NYT; calls it mouthpiece of ‘radical left’

US President Donald Trump launched a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, accusing the paper of being a “mouthpiece” for Democrats and of waging a decades-long “campaign of lies” against him.In a post on Truth Social, the US president wrote: “Today, I have the Great Honor of bringing a $15 Billion Dollar…

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