Amrita Dutta
National Editor at Scroll.in
National Editor @scroll I Previously: @IndianExpress, Mint I Email: [email protected] & [email protected]
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1 month ago |
scroll.in | Amrita Dutta
September 6, 2017. On Bangalore’s streets, wave upon wave of people, all of whom had turned up to grieve a journalist shot at her doorstep the night before. Having moved to the city three months ago, I watched with incredulity. Who was Gauri Lankesh? How did her journalism end up touching the lives of so many people? Three years into the first term of the Narendra Modi government, when journalists were being regularly taunted as “presstitutes”, how had an editor’s death led to this outpouring?
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Dec 31, 2024 |
scroll.in | Amrita Dutta
As a news editor, I have to eyeroll at the decision of the well-meaning folks at Oxford University Press to declare “brain rot” as the word of the year.
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Oct 21, 2024 |
indianexpress.com | Amrita Dutta
Making significant headway in efforts to resolve the military standoff along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, India and China have agreed to restore patrolling rights to each in the Depsang Plains and Demchok region — these are areas where the problems are called legacy issues, predating the 2020 Chinese incursions.
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Oct 14, 2024 |
indianexpress.com | Amrita Dutta
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Army has entered into a contract with civil aviation service providers to procure helicopter support to meet the logistics needs for its winter cut-off posts along the northern and western borders, defence sources said Monday. The one-year contract will ensure that 16 remote posts in the Jammu region are sustained throughout the year, while 28 posts in Kashmir and Ladakh will benefit from this support for 150 days next year.
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Oct 13, 2024 |
indianexpress.com | Amrita Dutta
The Ministry of Defence is seeking to expand the scope of its flagship Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) scheme and has sought additional funds from the Finance Ministry to keep it going, The Indian Express has learnt. As per senior government officials, the Department of Defence Production (DDP) under the Ministry of Defence has already exhausted around 90% of the total `498.78 crore approved for the scheme for a period of five years—from 2021-22 to 2025-26.
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