Namrata Rao is very overwhelmed to win the National Award for the best editor for 'Kahaani'. ...
04:22 PM, Mar 18, 2013
A couple allegedly forced their teenage daughter to have sex with a person as repayment of a loan of Rs 50,000 they had availed, police said on Sunday. Three people, including the 16-year-old girl's parents, have been booked by the police after the incident came to light on a complaint by the school administration to a local NGO which took the girl's case to the police. ...
05:44 AM, Feb 25, 2013
A Thai magazine editor was jailed for 10 years on Wednesday for insulting the royal family under the country's draconian lese-majeste law, a sentence that drew condemnation from international rights groups and the European Union. Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, editor of "Voice of the Oppressed", a magazine devoted to self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was found guilty of publishing articles in 2010 defaming King Bhumibol Adulyadej. ...
05:15 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary, facing notice from police to join probe after the channel aired the interview of December 16 gangrape victim's male friend, on January 5 moved a Delhi court pleading that his statement to the police be video recorded. ...
07:01 PM, Jan 05, 2013
A previously unpublished photo of Princess Diana as a teenager is set to go under the hammer. This picture of the Princess of Wales was given to a newspaper a day after she and Prince Charles announced their engagement. ...
11:30 AM, Jan 05, 2013
Talking on the recent Delhi gang rape case Patekar said the society should be 'ashamed' of such ghastly incidents. ...
06:23 PM, Jan 02, 2013
New Delhi: Zee News chief Subhash Chandra on Wednesday appeared before Delhi Police in connection with the case of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid by his two editors, to "clarify" certain issues raised by investigators. After the 30-minute meeting, Chandra told reporters that he voluntarily came and police had not called him for questioning. "There were some doubts about my London number. They were of the view that I...
07:42 PM, Dec 19, 2012
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04:32 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest development in the Zee vs Jindal extortion case, the lie-detector tests will not be conducted on arrested Zee editors Sameer Ahluwalia and Sudhir Chaudhary. With regard to Zee chairman Subhash Chandra, the court asked him to consult his doctors and then arrive at a decision on the lie-detector test. The lie-detector tests of the two arrested Zee editors was rejected as they had not given...
05:39 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: Shiv Sena's executive president Uddhav Thackeray has been named editor of the party's mouthpieces Saamna and Dopahar Ka Saamna, newspapers that patriarch Bal Thackeray edited till his death on November 17. Bal Thackeray has now been named "founder-editor" of the dailies. Indicating his desire to keep a low profile, the name of Uddhav, the son of Bal Thackeray, appears only in the print-line of the last pages of...
10:45 AM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday dismissed the bail plea of two Zee News editors facing charges of extortion bid against Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal's Jindal Steel Power Limited (JSPL). The duo, Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia, was accused by Jindal of trying to extort Rs 100 crore from the company to not air negative stories over its alleged involvement in the coal blocks allocations controversy. Metropolitan...
08:21 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Zee editors Sudhir Chaudhry, Sameer Ahluwalia arrested in Jindal Group extortion case. UPA government on Tuesday furnished the outline of its ambitious direct cash transfer scheme. ...
11:55 PM, Nov 27, 2012
New Delhi: The crime branch of Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested Zee News editors Sudhir Chaudhry and Sameer Ahluwalia in connection with the Jindal Group extortion case. According to sources, the Zee News editors were arrested after the CFSL reports of the sting CD submitted by the Jindals came in. Sources further said that the forensic report said that the CD was genuine. The Zee editors are likely to be...
09:38 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Islamabad: The execution of Ajmal Amir Kasab has revived the memory of a senseless but well-planned act of mass murder that brought Pakistan and India to the brink of war, leading Pakistani daily Dawn said on Thursday. Four years after the Mumbai terror attack, many questions still remain unanswered, the Dawn said in an editorial. Pakistani national Kasab, the sole surviving member of a 10-member terrorist group that attacked Mumbai...
01:03 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Even though Indian economy's growth declined to 6.5 per cent in 2011-12 and further to 5.5 per cent in the first quarter of this fiscal, it is no cause for undue worry, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Monday. "These are challenging times for global economy. They are affecting market sentiments everywhere," the finance minister said in his opening remarks at the annual Economic Editors' Conference in New Delhi. "Our ...
01:04 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Chennai: G Kasturi, former editor of The Hindu group, passed away here on Friday, said a family member. He was 87. He was also the former managing director of Kasturi and Sons Ltd that owns the paper and other publications from the group. He passed away peacefully early morning, N Ram, a relative and former editor-in-chief of The Hindu and other group publications and a director in Kasturi and Sons,...
03:24 PM, Sep 21, 2012
London: The owner of the Irish Daily Star says the newspaper's editor has been suspended following his decision to publish topless photographs of Prince William's wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. Independent Star, the company which owns the newspaper, said on Monday that Michael O'Kane had been suspended and an internal inquiry had been launched. The newspaper printed some of the photographs on Saturday in editions available in Ireland, but...
04:42 AM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its judgement on the framing of media guidelines for reporting court proceedings of sub-judice matters on Tuesday. This issue was referred to the apex court after the leakage of certain documents to the media relating to dispute between Sahara group and market regulator SEBI. However, the court expanded its ambit to others who were hurt by the broadcast of sub-judice matter....
08:29 AM, Sep 11, 2012
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
