BANGALORE: Its seldom that elections to the Press Club of Bangalore (PCB) - the abode of journalists - has hit headlines. Newspapers generally devote one paragraph, listing the names of office-bearers and committee members, the day after the results are declared. Anything beyond this, should be seen as an extra-effort by an insider. Well, this piece, however, is written ahead of the polls and hence, no eye-brows, should go up...
08:30 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed support to the demand of mediapersons for implementation of Majithia Wage Boards report and decided to join the nationwide agitation on Tuesday in this regard. She told reporters that she has asked her party MPs to raise the issue of wage boards for journalists and non-journalists in both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday. Mamata, who is in the national capital,...
06:56 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Sitapur: Violence broke out on Wednesday night outside an independent candidate's house in Sitapur area of Uttar Pradesh, after alleged Samajwadi Party workers tried to set his and 13 other houses on fire. Two people have been arrested in connection with the incident. They are allegedly supporters of SP MLA Jeena Babu. Reports claim that the men also opened fire on supporters of the independent candidate. Nearly 4 people were...
08:38 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Bangalore: Facing heat from the media over its 'inaction', police on Saturday arrested four advocates in connection with attack on media personnel by a section of lawyers during the mayhem that rocked the city civil court. The arrests came after the media in the state rejected the judicial probe into Friday's attack as "eyewash" and demanded that the guilty advocates be brought to book immediately. Special police squads set up...
09:55 PM, Mar 03, 2012
A video journalist for a Kannada channel was injured in the head while several others suffered blows. ...
10:35 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: High drama was witnessed outside the civil court in Bangalore when unruly lawyers attacked mediapersons and pelted stones damaging OB vans, leaving at least 20 scribes and police personnel injured. A judicial probe was ordered by the state government after vehement media protests over the incident. The court complex turned into a battle zone as the rampaging advocates targeted journalists, particularly electronic media crew, who had gathered to cover...
09:24 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: A huge ruckus was created outside a court complex in Bangalore on Friday as lawyers and mediapersons gathered there engaged in a scuffle. The lawyers reportedly barred the entry of journalists to the City Civil Court complex saying the media portrayed them in bad light. The incident happened just after former BJP leader Janardhan Reddy was produced in court in connection with the illegal mining case. Witnesses said that...
12:52 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: Amid tight security, former Karnataka Tourism Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy was on Friday produced before a special CBI court in Bangalore which remanded him to CBI custody till March 12 in connection with an illegal mining case. Reddy and 20 others are facing charges for their alleged involvement in illegal mining, over which the CBI had filed an FIR against them in October last. Reddy was...
12:13 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju has sent a showcause notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over the recent attacks on journalists. Katju has threatened to recommend the dismissal of the government to the President. Katju has asked Chavan to reply to his letter within three weeks, after which he said he would take action. In the letter Katju said, "It seems to me that...
08:35 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Marie Colvin of Britain's Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik, both veteran war correspondents, were killed in Syria. ...
08:04 AM, Feb 23, 2012
London: British police on Saturday arrested five senior members of staff at News Corporation's flagship newspaper The Sun, the company said, as part of investigations into alleged payments to police by journalists for information. The payments investigation, dubbed Operation Elveden, is part of a wider probe into illegal news gathering practices that have rocked Britain's political, media and police establishments and last year prompted the closure of News Corp's Sunday...
11:44 PM, Feb 11, 2012
New York: Pakistan remained the deadliest country for journalists for the second year in a row, while coverage of political unrest around the world was "unusually dangerous," a press advocacy group said on Tuesday. The Committee to Protect Journalists said in its year-end report that 43 journalists died around the world in 2011. Seven journalists were killed in Pakistan, where 29 journalists have been killed in the past five years....
07:47 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Mumbai: Expressing concern over over-commercialisation of media, President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday asked it to exercise freedom with "honesty, objectivity and conviction" to promote national goal and build public opinion. Patil also advised journalists to verify and double-check facts before airing a story. "The media is a powerful tool in a democracy and more so in India, which is the world's largest democracy. It can be a catalyst for positive...
01:49 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Amman: Syrian authorities arrested a blogger on Sunday who was travelling to Jordan to attend a conference on freedom of the press in the region, her friends said. Razan Ghazzawi, 30, is the latest among scores of bloggers and journalists arrested since the break out of street protests against President Bashar al-Assad. "She was arrested as she presented her passport to immigration at the Syrian border post of Nassib to...
09:29 AM, Dec 05, 2011
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