New Delhi: Media bodies on Friday strongly condemned the filing of FIRs against senior editors and journalists for their reporting on the farmers’ tractor rally and the ensuing violence in Delhi on Republic Day, saying it was an attempt to “browbeat” and “intimidate” the media. The Editors Guild demanded that such FIRs be withdrawn immediately. PTI

Comedian Kamra defends tweets in apex court

New Delhi: Comedian Kunal Kamra, who is facing criminal contempt of court proceedings for “scandalising the judiciary”, has defended his controversial tweets, saying if powerful people and institutions continued to show the inability to face rebukes and criticism, “we would be reduced to a country of incarcerated artists”. TNS