''Qaumi Awaz'' () is an

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newspaper published in India by Associated Journals Limited, which was started by

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in November 1937. It was shut in 2008 company was incurring losses. Its sister publications are the ''National Herald'' newspaper in English and '' Navjivan'' in

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. On 21 January 2016 the AJL in its meeting in

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decided to relaunch the three dailies. In August ''Qaumi Awaz'' Digital Edition was launched. Zafar Agha is the chief editor of Qaumi Awaz.

Lawsuits

In 2021, many journalists and politicians who reported about the

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during the 2021 Farmers' Republic Day parade were charged with

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by the Delhi police and 3 state police. The police cases were filed across three BJP-ruled states against journalists including Qaumi Awaz editor Zafar Agha. Varadarajan has called the police FIR "malicious prosecution". Press Club of India (PCI), the Editors’ Guild of India, the Press Association, the Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC), the Delhi Union of Journalists and the Indian Journalists Union in a joint press conference asked the sedition law to be scrapped. Editors Guild of India spoke against invoking of the sedition charge on journalists. The guild termed the FIRs as an "attempt to intimidate, harass, browbeat and stifle the media".

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