London: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was among individuals whose personal data was clandestinely obtained by private investigators at the behest of a newspaper owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch. Nick Davies, a journalist writing for The Guardian who has doggedly exposed the dubious news-gathering practices in the British press, mentions that Zardari's credit-card statement was obtained by a private investigator for The Sunday Times. Davies, an award-winning journalist whose...
04:54 PM, Jul 21, 2011
New York: With executives from News Corp and some of its subsidiaries heading for the exits, legal bills from the phone-hacking scandal rocking the company are no doubt stacking up. But depending on the companies' directors and officers insurance coverage, News Corp and its divisions aren't likely to be responsible for paying the lawyers' fees. At least for now. The D&O insurance policies at companies like News Corp cover the...
09:12 AM, Jul 21, 2011
The News of the World controversy has stretched from the newspaper to Scotland Yard and into the British government, here's a look at the case a day after Rupert Murdoch's testimony and David Cameron's defence. ...
08:36 AM, Jul 21, 2011
London:Prime Minister David Cameron dragged his political foes into Britain's phone-hacking scandal on Wednesday, as he sought to distance himself from his former aide at the heart of the allegations and denied that his staff had tried to thwart police investigations. Cameron, who flew back from Africa early to address the emergency session of Parliament, defended his decision to hire former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his...
01:37 AM, Jul 21, 2011
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12:54 AM, Jul 21, 2011
On Whats Trending, we bring to you how the wife of Rupert Murdoch, became an instant hit on the internet after she quickly came to Murdoch aid when he was attacked with a foam pie. ...
12:30 AM, Jul 21, 2011
London: The number of Britons reading The Sunday Mirror tabloid rose 50 per cent last week as those who once bought News Corp's News of the World, closed 10 days ago in the grip of a phone-hacking scandal, looked elsewhere. A survey of over 1,000 people conducted by Kantar Media showed that readership for the Mail on Sunday was also up 38 per cent on the previous week, following an...
09:27 PM, Jul 20, 2011
London: Prime Minister David Cameron emphatically denied claims that his staff tried to stop an inquiry into a phone hacking and police bribery at the News of the World and defended his decision to hire one of the tabloid's editors as his communications chief. In a raucous emergency session on Wednesday in Parliament, Cameron admitted, however, that both the ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labour parties had failed to pursue...
04:24 PM, Jul 20, 2011
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron will be grilled by Parliament on Wednesday about a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British establishment. Cameron cut short his visit to Africa on Tuesday to join parliamentarians in debating the phone-hacking issue and answer lawmakers' scrutiny over his links to Rupert Murdoch's media empire in a special session of House of Commons. The scandal has forced the resignations of senior executives at...
11:37 AM, Jul 20, 2011
On Whats Trending, we bring to you the update on how hackers not only fake killed Rupert Murdoch but also managed to post the news on the Sun's website. ...
10:46 AM, Jul 20, 2011
New Delhi: King of the tabloids and hard-boiled businessman Rupert Murdoch, 80, heads the world's second largest media conglomerate that includes top brands like Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Television, the Sun, the Wall Street Journal, Harper Collins, and MySpace. But Murdoch's great love has always been the newspaper business. Rupert Murdoch said, "New times demand new journalism. Our challenge was to take the best of traditional journalism, competitive shoe leather...
09:00 AM, Jul 20, 2011
London: James Murdoch scaled the rungs of the global media empire that his father built. Now scandal taints the heir apparent, threatening to derail the expected succession and shaking the assumption that the Murdoch dynasty would preserve its tight grip over the multibillion-dollar business. Founder Rupert Murdoch, 80, has long expressed a wish to hand his publicly traded News Corp to his offspring, and he retains the voting power to...
08:02 AM, Jul 20, 2011
New Delhi: A lot of questions and lot of explanations were presented by Rupert Murdoch and his team at the hearing of the hacking scandal surrounding his media empire in front of the House of Commons on Tuesday. However not all of the explanations were convincing enough. Murdoch on Tuesday told the House that sitting in front of them explaining the entire hacking scandal was the most humble day of...
07:35 AM, Jul 20, 2011
New Delhi: Rupert Murdoch knows something about power and how to wield it. In Britain, the media magnate's backing was long seen as a prerequisite for anyone hoping to become prime minister; in the United States Murdoch's Fox News has helped drive debate and the growth of the right-wing Tea Party. In fast-growing Asia, though, Murdoch has considerably less clout. Take India, where the 80-year-old has made frequent, whirlwind visits...
01:21 AM, Jul 20, 2011
Catch the day's top stories on India at 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
11:41 PM, Jul 19, 2011
On 'Talking Point' Rajdeep Sardesai asks, 'Will our media ever match UK's standard of accountability'. ...
11:40 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: After nearly three hours of testimony from Rupert and James Murdoch, former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has taken her place at a hearing on phone hacking. Brooks, who resigned last week amid the widening scandal, began her testimony with an apology for what took place at the now-defunct News of the World. She told lawmakers she intends to answer their questions as openly as possible while remaining...
10:34 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Text of a prepared statement by Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp, for the hearing on Tuesday by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee. He was permitted to read the statement towards the end of his appearance. The text was released by News Corp. "Mr Chairman. Select Committee Members: "With your permission, I would like to read a short statement. "My son and I have...
10:13 PM, Jul 19, 2011
A protester rushed at Rupert Murdoch as the media baron gave testimony to British lawmakers. ...
09:48 PM, Jul 19, 2011
