Washington: Pakistan has expelled the Islamabad bureau chief for The New York Times on the eve of national elections, according to the influential US daily. The Times has strongly protested the orders of Pakistan's Interior Ministry and is seeking his reinstatement of Declan Walsh, 39, a veteran correspondent who has lived and worked in Pakistan for nine years, most of it for The Guardian newspaper of Britain, the newspaper said on Friday.
The ministry did not give any detailed explanation for the expulsion order, which was delivered by police officers in the form of a two-sentence letter to Walsh, at 12:30 am (local time) on Thursday at his home, it said. "It is informed that your visa is hereby cancelled in view of your undesirable activities," the order stated. "You are therefore advised to leave the country within 72 hours."
Walsh was hired by The Times in January 2012 and has written extensively about the country's violent political convulsions, Islamist insurgency and sometimes tense relations with the United States, the newspaper said. Jill Abramson, the newspaper's executive editor, expressed concern about the order in a letter of protest to Pakistan's interior minister, Malik Muhammad Habib Khan, describing Walsh as a "reporter of integrity who has at all times offered balanced, nuanced and factual reporting on Pakistan."
Asking the minister to reinstate Walsh's visa, she wrote, the accusation of undesirable activities "is vague and unsupported, and Mr Walsh has received no further explanation of any alleged wrongdoing." ...
09:28 AM, May 11, 2013
2008 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind and Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed says he roams freely as his fate is in the hands of god and not America, in an interview to the New York Times. Saeed one of India's most wanted terrorists and a key accused in the 26/11 attacks has claimed that he is free to move around Pakistan as an ordinary person. ...
09:14 AM, Feb 08, 2013
As the American media kept up prominent coverage of the tragic saga of an Indian gang-rape victim, a leading US daily said the rising economic power "can never reach its full potential if half its population lives in fear of unspeakable violence". ...
12:40 AM, Dec 30, 2012
The large-scale protests in India over the gangrape of a girl in a moving bus has attracted the attention of American media which blamed the incident on poor law and order and a lacklustre criminal justice system. At a time when the mainstream American media itself is battling over the issue of fiscal cliff, debating the relevance of gun-control laws in the aftermath of shootout inside a school that killed...
01:24 PM, Dec 23, 2012
New York: A popular energy drink, produced by a company founded by an Indian-American billionaire, has come under the scanner in the US after reports of 13 deaths possibly linked to the energy shots. However, Lucknow-born CEO of '5-Hour Energy', Manoj Bhargava dismissed the allegations against his firm as "false" and "ridiculous". The popular energy drink is being investigated by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) after 13 deaths...
10:17 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Beijing: A lengthy New York Times expose published on Friday claimed the family of Premier Wen Jiabao has amassed assets worth $2.7 billion through a web of investments, most of it accumulated after he rose to high office in 2002. Chinese censors swiftly blocked the Times' Chinese-language site that carried a translated version of the story, although Internet users with the technical knowledge could still access it by penetrating China's...
02:48 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New York: Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who led the newspaper to new levels of influence and profit while standing up for press freedom and editorial independence during some of the most significant moments in 20th-century journalism, died on Saturday. He was 86. Sulzberger, who went by the nickname "Punch" and served with the Marine Corps before joining the Times staff as a reporter, and then following...
11:03 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New York: Today, August 27, 2012, IAC announced that Ask.com has agreed to acquire 100 per cent of The About Group from The New York Times Company for $ 300 million in cash. "The About.com acquisition is completely in line with IAC's M&A strategy of acquiring, at disciplined valuations, companies that are complementary and synergistic with both our existing businesses and our areas of expertise," said Greg Blatt, CEO of...
09:59 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New York: BlackBerry users can no longer use the official New York Times app to read news stories over their devices, in a fresh blow to Research In Motion, the maker of the smartphone once considered an essential tool for business professionals. New York Times Co, which publishes the prestigious newspaper, said it stopped supporting its applications for BlackBerry and the Palm Pre as of Monday, meaning the apps will...
10:30 AM, Jul 26, 2012
Los Angeles: Jim Parsons has skipped the 'I'M GAY!' magazine cover approach to coming out: Far down in a New York Times profile Wednesday was the subtle mention that the two-time Emmy winner has been in a same-sex relationship for a decade. The blink-and-you'll miss it aside appeared in a story about Parsons' starring stint in the Broadway production of 'Harvey.' Discussing Parsons' small role in the play 'The Normal...
02:44 PM, May 24, 2012
New York: Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo's idea to spend her days in a Mumbai slum originated one night while she was lying on the floor of her Washington, DC area home with a punctured lung and three broken ribs after tripping over a dictionary. The former Washington Post editor and reporter and current New Yorker staff writer figured that if she couldn't escape calamity in her own home, she...
11:09 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New York Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who strove to capture untold stories in Middle East conflicts from Libya to Iraq, has died in eastern Syria after slipping into the country to report on the uprising against its president. Shadid, shot in the West Bank in 2002 and kidnapped for six days in Libya in 2011, apparently died of an asthma attack on Thursday, the Times said. Times...
11:10 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Washington, The United States is considering to apologise to Pakistan for the November 26 incident that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO cross-border fire, a media report said on Tuesday. The report in the New York Times also said that Pentagon is sending a top general to Islamabad for talks with the Pakistani Army leadership in an effort to mend ties. "The State Department is supporting a proposal circulating...
02:28 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New York: Some 8 million people received emails from the New York Times on Thursday offering a special discount if they would reconsider their decision to cancel their subscriptions. The trouble is, the offer was supposed to go to only about 300 people who had decided to stop taking home delivery of the newspaper - it was erroneously sent by a New York Times employee to more than 8 million...
11:06 AM, Dec 29, 2011
Washington: The New York Times Co has sued AOL Inc to force its Huffington Post online news website to rename a parenting blog with a similar name to its own. In a lawsuit filed late Friday in the US District Court in Manhattan, the Times said Huffington Post's "Parentlode" blog had caused reader confusion with the newspaper's 3-year-old "Motherlode" blog. Both blogs have been overseen by Lisa Belkin, who worked...
01:00 PM, Nov 08, 2011
New York: The Wall Street Journal has an agreement with Nielsen BookScan to publish best-seller lists that include both physical books and e-sales. Since 2009, Nielsen has provided the journal with lists based solely on hardcover and paperbacks. The Journal and Nielsen announced on Friday that four charts will debut this weekend: combined e-book and physical sales for fiction and nonfiction, and e-sales only for fiction and nonfiction. Eligible releases...
01:55 PM, Oct 31, 2011
London: WikiLeaks disclosed its entire archive of US State Department cables on Friday, much if not all of it uncensored, a move that drew stinging condemnation from major newspapers which in the past collaborated with the anti-secrecy group's efforts to expose corruption and double-dealing. Many media outlets, previously had access to all or part of the uncensored tome. But WikiLeaks' decision to post the 251,287 cables on its website makes...
08:32 AM, Sep 03, 2011
New York: Former investigative reporter Jill Abramson will become the first female executive editor in the nearly 160-year history of The New York Times in September, the newspaper announced on Thursday. Abramson, 57, is to succeed Bill Keller, who will continue to write for the daily as a columnist. The Times' Washington bureau chief, Dean Baquet, will replace Abramson as managing editor, a post she has held since 2003. "In...
11:16 AM, Jun 03, 2011
Washington: It's just been a couple of days since he won the Pulitzer, but Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee has no time to celebrate. He is already back at work, seeing patients and even doing some writing - though he says it will be a while before he gets a topic for another book."You know, I have gone back to work really - full clinic, clinical responsibilities, back to...
06:50 PM, Apr 22, 2011
Siddhartha Mukherjee's monumental 'The Emperor of All Maladies' meticulously outlines the trajectory of cancer (derived from the Greek word "karkinos," meaning crab) over thousands of years, starting in ancient Egypt. In 2010, seven million people around the world died of cancer. Many have experienced the horrors of this disease through personal experience. The author provides us with a global view of this "shape-shifting entity [that is] imbued with such metaphorical...
11:51 AM, Apr 20, 2011
