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, [...]

Reporting conflict has become the greatest challenge for journalists in the northeastern part of India which has been reeling under the impact of insurgency for almost half a century. They are performing their duty in a condition of great stress and strain. There have been glaring instances of journalists being targeted by separatist outfits, and [...]

Tinsukia (Assam), June 21: A scribe of a popular local daily was arrested from upper Assam’s Tinsukia for allegedly selling sim cards to the ULFA and for being entrusted to prepare the groundwork for setting up a new frontal organisation. District Superintendent of Police Prasanta Kumar Bhuyan told reporters that Robin Dhekial Phukan, correspondent of ‘Asomiya [...]

Two employees and a security personnel of Tamil newspaper Dinakaran were killed Wednesday after supporters of DMK leader MK Azhagiri, elder son of Chief Minister K Karunanidhi, attacked the daily’s office in Madurai and set it afire. The supporters, who hurled petrol bombs and stones at the building, went on a rampage protesting against the [...]

Suddenly the media scene seems to be undergoing a dramatic metamorphosis in Agra, all to the advantage of the readers who have many more choices now. A new mid-day daily tabloid called DLA has finally entered Agra’s media ‘mandi’ with a bang, leading to intense competitive war with all kinds of innovative schemes and discounts. Local [...]

GUWAHATI, March 21 – North East Newspaper Society, an organization of the owners of the newspapers of the North East region has been formed today to promote and protect the interests of the newspaper industry in the region. An executive committee of the Society has also been formed with Kanaksen Deka of Agradoot as president, [...]

Pune, February 12: THE socio-cultural divide between the English and regional language press had given rise to ‘English elitism’ and a peculiar caste and class structure in the Indian media, said Loksatta editor Kumar Ketkar. He was speaking at a University Grants Commission-sponsored National Conference on ‘Regional Language Press: New Era, New Challenges’ organised by [...]

The Supreme Court has stayed an Assam government order cancelling accreditation to the North East Television (NETV) correspondents to cover the 33rd National Games in Guwahati which began Friday, news agencies reported. Soldiers use bomb detectors to check for explosives on a road in Guwahati, Monday, February 5, 2007. The rebel United Liberation Front of Asom [...]

Access to funds, shift in ad spends drives growth. Behind the mushrooming of new and parallel Hindi newspaper brands lies the story of a buoyant advertising market in the Hindi-speaking states. Publishers who are launching second titles in the same market see merit, therefore, in segmenting their readers and offering more focused audiences. It is obvious that [...]

The last decade of 20th century was a period of epochal upheaval in India. The Congress monolith fragmented under mounting pressure of religious, casteist and regional aspirations; tottering economy found remedy in liberalisation and, as a result, burgeoning politico-economic consciousness in the Hindi heartland ensured proliferation of Hindi newspapers. For the first time, Hindi press posed [...]

Media in Kashmir has come to stay as an instrument of shaping public opinion and as a potential influence on people’s precepts and practices. In the backdrop of the conflict that has dogged every aspect of life in Jammu and Kashmir in a muted way for the better part of the past century and significantly [...]

Lucknow, June 11: Now, this is a newspaper with a difference. Here, what bleeds doesn’t become a lead. Apna Shehar — this hand-written, free of cost, monthly Hindi newspaper is different, right from its content to the reporting and editing staff. Advertisement Published by an NGO, the content for this newspaper — government policies to uplift the status [...]

To give Kashmiri language the place it deserves is not the concern of the intelligentsia only but demand comes form almost every section of the society. Of late the majority of those who speak and understand Kashmiri but unfortunately cannot read and write it have given vent to their demand that their mother tongue be [...]

The problems confronting the small and medium newspapers with special focus on North East was deliberated upon at a seminar organised by the Indian Newspaper Society in Guwahati earlier this month. Initiated by Sunil Dang, Chairman, Small And Medium Newspapers Committee, the seminar turned out to be quite successful in identifying the difficulties and problems of [...]