New Delhi: The "threats" issued by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray against Hindi news channels were an "assault on roots of democracy", a body of editors of electronic news channels said on Sunday. The Broadcast Editors' Association in a release asked the Maharashtra Government to ensure protection to media personnel in Mumbai against "lumpen elements". "We take serious note of threats given by the MNS Chief against Hindi news...
08:24 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Islamabad: An editor of one of Pakistan's leading English dailies was beaten up by four men outside his home in the port city of Karachi for watching TV and listening to music. Though the incident occurred on August 27 and Zainul Abedin, op-ed editor of The News daily, reported the matter to police, no action has been taken by authorities so far, journalists in Karachi said. The men who attacked...
06:59 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Sunday told the Hindi news channels, operating in the state, that they do not need to be scared of Raj Thackeray. The MNS chief, earlier in the day, said that he would shut down all the Hindi news channels if they do not stop misquoting his speeches. Patil, however, assured the Hindi news of full protection. "Hindi media should not be fear Raj...
08:47 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Bangalore: Amidst high drama in the Legislative Assembly, Kiran Thakur, editor of Marathi daily Tarun Bharat, who had been summoned by the House for a reprimand, said he was sorry for publishing fictitious and malicious reports against MLAs from Belgaum district Abhay Patil and Shyam Ghatge. It is said that the government chose to underplay the incident, following a phone call made by BJP national president Nitin Gadkari to Chief...
01:16 PM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: It's Team Anna versus the media now after senior member Shanti Bhushan accused media houses of bias in their coverage of their ongoing fast a Jantar Mantar. Supporters of the movement even heckled media persons at Jantar Mantar on Monday. The Broadcast Editors' Association has demanded an apology. Delhi Police has issued a notice to Kumar Vishwas for provocative speeches against policemen. It's not just the politicians, but...
07:43 AM, Jul 31, 2012
Guwahati: Atanu Bhuyan, the Editor-in-Chief of News Live, the channel that filmed the Guwahati molestation incident, resigned on Tuesday afternoon. He stuck to his defence of filming the incident and thanked the cameraperson for doing so. Hitting back at the Tarun Gogoi government in Assam for blaming the channel, Bhuyan said, "I am resigning as I think there will not be proper investigations into the matter." He said that News...
01:45 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: Following the brutal molestation of a minor girl in front of a bar on the Guwahati-Shillong Road on the night of July 9 that led to a public outcry, the editor of the channel that filmed the crime defended the decision of the cameramen to not intervene saying that had they not shot the incident, the molesters would have been roaming scot-free. Atanu Bhuyan, the Guwahati-based editor-in-chief of...
12:19 PM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India on Thursday opposed in the Supreme Court the idea of putting temporary restraint on reporting of court proceedings saying enforcing guidelines in this regard would lead to "infringement" of right to free speech. The Guild said there was no power under the common law for the courts to "postpone" the publication of judicial proceedings and if there was any "vacuum" in law, restrictions...
07:21 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Suspense prevails over who will be the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Clamour within the Samajwadi Party has been growing for Mulayam Singh Yadav's son Akhilesh Yadav to take over, but Akhilesh claims that his father will be the chief minister. IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai's take on whether Akhilesh and not Mulayam should be the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh: A 38-year-old chief minister who is not...
10:44 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi put everything at stake in Uttar Pradesh as the first phase of campaigning ended on Monday. Addressing a press conference in Varanasi, Rahul said that UP was not an election, but a mission for him. Ruling out any alliance, he also said that he will stay on in UP irrespective of the result. IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai's take on whether Rahul Gandhi has...
10:49 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Amit Saigal, founder and editor of music magazine the Rock Street Journal, drowned while swimming off a Goa beach on Thursday, officials said. Saigal was swimming with his friends near their anchored sail boat off Bogmalo beach, 35 km from Panaji in Goa. "Saigal's friends who were present there said that he was asthmatic and could have had an asthma attack when he was swimming, while the entourage...
03:24 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief of CNN IBN calls for your questions and comments on www.ibncj.com ...
08:31 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Media have been accused of playing a negative role by even the Chief of the Press Council Of India. ...
11:38 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Tonight at 10, Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts if the Independent Editor an endangered species?
05:06 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Tonight at 10, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if Justice Katju should apologise to journalists for calling them uneducated.
12:25 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: In an obvious reference to Team Anna, Congress condemned 'unnecessary statements' on Lokpal issue by 'some groups' despite repeated assertions by UPA leaders including Sonia Gandhi about their resolve to carry out all reforms to put an end to corruption. "After strong statements by Congress President Sonia Gandhi again and again about the commitment of UPA to carry out all necessary reforms to bring an end to corruption,...
07:30 AM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India has severely criticised comments made by Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju on the media. The Guild said that Justice Katju's words had touched a new low in the discourse over the functioning of the media and it totally opposed the attempt being made by him to assume draconian powers to control the media, which are a violation of the very...
10:07 PM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India has condemned the scathing remarks of the new chairman of Press Council of India, Justice Markandey Katju, on the media. The Guild has also strongly opposed powers sought by Justice Katju to impose fines, withdraw ads and to suspend the licence to publish or broadcast. It noted that the council was led by someone who seemed like he wanted to invoke "fear" in...
07:23 PM, Nov 01, 2011
The cabinet has approved an Information and Broadcasting proposal which fixes the criteria for granting licences to TV channels. According to the new guidelines approved by the Cabinet on Friday, a channel can renew its broadcast licence only if it has less than five violations of the programming and advertisements code to its name. The minimum net worth for TV news channels has increased from Rs 3 crore to Rs...
06:01 PM, Oct 12, 2011
The cabinet has approved an Information and Broadcasting proposal which fixes the criteria for granting licences to TV channels. According to the new guidelines approved by the Cabinet on Friday, a channel can renew its broadcast licence only if it has less than five violations of the programming and advertisements code to its name. The minimum net worth for TV news channels has increased from Rs 3 crore to Rs...
06:01 PM, Oct 12, 2011
