RAJAVOLU: A reporter of a Telugu daily, Y Viswanatham, faced the wrath of a villager, for allegedly taking the pictures of his house renovated with the funds diverted from the Indiramma Housing scheme at Rajavolu under Rajahmundry Rural mandal on Monday. According to sources, Raju, a driver of former sarpanch of Rajavolu, and his followers attacked [...]

New Delhi: Some mediapersons were roughed up by police at the venue of the day-long AICC session here, prompting Congress president Sonia Gandhi to tender an apology. The unsavoury incident occurred when scribes were stopped from entering the Talkatora Stadium by the police in the morning hours, leading to heated exchange of words between them. Police [...]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The International Federation of Journalists deplores the intimidation of journalists in the Nandigram area of West Bengal state in India by armed vigilantes belonging to the principal constituent of the state’s ruling coalition. According to information received by the IFJ, heavily armed cadres of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) have been engaged over [...]

Bangalore: The Ashok Nagar police on Friday arrested two software engineers employed by an IT major on the charge of beating up a reporter of The Hindu on Convent Road on Monday. The arrested are Praveen Kumar of Hubli and Shank Deep Chakraborty of Kolkata. The two, both engineering graduates with a master’s degree in management, [...]

PATNA: Don-turned-MLA Anant Singh, known as Chhote Sarkar of Mokama, on Thursday embarrassed the “sushasan sarkar” of his JD (U) party in Bihar when he and his henchmen thrashed a TV reporter and his cameraman. Prakash Singh and Habib Ali, who work for a private news channel, had gone to Singh’s house seeking his reaction on [...]

BANGALORE: A young woman reporter with The Hindu was beaten up by two as-yet-unidentified men on a motorbike on Convent Road on Monday evening. Ayesha Matthan, reporter with MetroPlus, was walking down on Convent Road when the men illegally rode the motorbike on the footpath behind her. When they asked her to move out of the way, [...]

NEW DELHI: The Press Council of India on Friday urged the governments of Assam and Manipur to take steps to ensure that the media in the two States is able to function free of its fear of threats from militant organisations as well as the pressure of law enforcing agencies. The council said no restrictions or [...]

Imphal, Oct 13: All newspapers and electronic media houses in Manipur remained shut for the third day today since October 11 last after yet another attack on media freedom. On Wednesday last, the outlawed People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK)’s Central Committee sent out a press release regarding its Raising Day celebrations. Later in the night, [...]

New Delhi, October 09 The prosecution in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case today claimed before a Delhi court that the deceased journalist intended to expose prime accused RK Sharma of leaking classified documents to her in violation of the Official Secrets Act (OSA). Arguing before Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, Special Public Prosecutor S [...]

NEW DELHI: The prosecution in journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case on Monday told a city court that the deceased was a “personal friend” of key accused and former IPS officer R K Sharma. Special Public Prosecutor S K Saxena, in his arguments before Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, said Sharma had made a “false [...]

A senior journalist and noted industrialist of Aligarh was shot dead in front of his house here under the Banna Devi police station by unknown assailants on Monday night. City Superintendent of Police J.K. Shahi said Hari Om Aggarwal, a senior journalist with Punjab Kesri (Delhi), was shot dead as he was returning home from a [...]

NEW DELHI: The nearly eight-year-old Shivani Bhatnagar murder trial entered a crucial phase last week with the prosecution starting its final arguments. This phase of the trial is the penultimate step before a verdict is delivered in the case that involves suspended IPS officer R K Sharma and five others as accused. Shivani, a print journalist, [...]

NOIDA: The 38-year-old reporter, Mahesh Vats, who had gone into a coma after he was brutally attacked by some persons, allegedly at the instance of Prayag Hospital owner Dr B P Singh, is dead. He passed away at 6.55 pm on Saturday, at Noida’s Metro Hospital, where he had been placed on life support systems since [...]

NOIDA: After questioning orthopaedic surgeon Dr B P Singh, owner of Noida’s Prayag Hospital through the night, Noida police arrested him on Friday for “criminal conspiracy” to kill reporter Mahesh Vats. Vats had been abducted by three goons from his house and beaten up very badly. The goons had been allegedly sent by the doctor who [...]

A group of Shiv Sena activists yesterday ransacked the Mumbai office of weekly Outlook to protest an article in the magazine that featured party chief Bal Thackeray in a list of “villains”. The activists barged into the office located in Raheja Chambers in the business district of Nariman Point in the afternoon and asked for [...]