Sri Lanka: Journalist shot at by three people Sri Lankan journalist Faraz Shaukatali has been shot at by unidentified gunmen in the national capital, police said on Saturday. Shaukatali, a columnist in The Sunday Leader newspaper, was fired at by three people at his guest house in the Colombo suburb of Mount Lavinia around midnight, they said. ...  
10:24 AM, Feb 16, 2013

Columnist booked for making casteist comments Mumbai: A special court on Thursday convicted Anish Trivedi, a columnist under the Prevention of Atrocities Act for making casteist comments in a write-up published in a local tabloid. Anish Trivedi had written on the bad state of affairs at government offices and attributed it to the reservation policy. The special court today convicted Trivedi and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on...  
05:52 PM, Jan 28, 2011

Buchwald, legendary columnist, dead Called the patron saint of political satire, Buchwald had a worldwide legion of fans who read his syndicated column ...  
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