In her speech for the International Press Institute India Award for Excellence in Journalism, Justice Nagarathna emphasised how precarious press freedom is in an era of corporate consolidation that makes media legally free but economically constrained

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  Air India confirmed that it is in the process of returning personal belongings of the AI171 crash victims; over 22.000 items are listed, to be given back to the relatives of the 260 victims of the worst air disaster in three decades

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  The 2nd world laboratory for testing and calibration of air pollution measuring equipment was inaugurated in India to curb dependance on foreign certification systems, promote environmental governance and foster local production of monitoring equipment

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