The police used teargas and smoke bombs as hundreds of protesters defied curfew clamped on Monday on the entire Manipur valley to demand arrest of a Naga militant who had allegedly molested a film actress and to protest the death of a photojournalist. The protesters took out rallies, blocked roads and burnt tyres in Imphal East, Imphal West, Bishenpur and Thoubal districts, official sources said. ...
04:54 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Nine persons, including a photo journalist, were injured during a clash between contract labourers and security guards at Tata Steel who opened fire at the agitated workers here on Monday. The trouble started when the security guards, in accordance with a new company circular, asked the labourers to board company buses instead of riding bicycles to the site, which the labourers resisted. ...
03:45 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Actress Kareena Kapoor says she misses the kind of relationship a celebrity and a journalist once used to share. ...
03:26 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Five police personnel have been placed under suspension after a 29-year-old journalist was killed in police firing in Manipur, official sources said on Monday. The sources said a three-member enquiry committee headed by Principal Secretary (Home) Suresh Babu has been constituted to probe Sunday's incident and the panel would submit its report to the government for further action within a week. ...
11:14 AM, Dec 24, 2012
Mediapersons, who were covering protests against the gangrape of a young girl, on Sunday faced the brunt of police action with cops spraying water cannons on scribes and their equipment and even beating up some of them. ...
09:00 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Curfew was imposed in Eastern and Western parts of Imphal till 6 am Monday following the death of a video journalist. TH Nanao was killed when police opened fire during violent protests against the alleged molestation of an actress in the city. The journalist took two bullets, including one in the chest. ...
02:11 AM, Dec 23, 2012
Delhi Union of Journalists on Tuesday expressed serious concern over reports of "octopus-like" grip of 'paid news' in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls and demanded inquiry as well as action to check the practice. "Paid news is a blot not only on the press but also to the democratic process," the DUJ said in a statement. ...
06:06 PM, Dec 18, 2012
As Pakistani politicians go, Rehman Malik certainly stands out. A policeman who has made it up the ranks of a feudal political system, he was ...
02:30 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Punjab police will approach court to seek the remand of 10 persons arrested for their involvement in the alleged assault on a television journalist here, a senior officer said on Tuesday. "Ten persons have been arrested and a case of attempt to murder registered against them," Police Commissioner Gaurav Yadav said. ...
11:21 PM, Dec 11, 2012
The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report Tuesday that a record-number 232 journalists are imprisoned worldwide and that Turkey has the highest number with 49 journalists behind bars. The total is 53 more than the tally last year and is the highest number since the New York-based organization began conducting worldwide surveys in 1990. ...
09:39 PM, Dec 11, 2012
In another case of molestation in Punjab, a man trying to protect the victim was beaten up. The man who intervened was a freelance journalist. Police say Ashwini Malhotra was shopping with his family members when some persons in an inebriated condition allegedly started harassing a girl. ...
08:27 AM, Dec 11, 2012
A television journalist was on Monday assaulted by some unidentified persons when he tried to protest the teasing of a girl at a market area here, police said. "Ashwini Malhotra, a journalist with a news channel, was shopping with his family members when some persons in an inebriated condition teased a girl," Deputy Commissioner of Police Sarabjit Singh said. ...
11:17 PM, Dec 10, 2012
CNN-IBN'S Citizen Journalist show wins Best Cross-Platform Content at the Asian TV Awards 2012 - this is the 3rd successive Asian TV Award for the Citizen Journalist Show. ...
06:07 PM, Dec 07, 2012
A state television presenter in Russia's volatile North Caucasus was shot dead late on Wednesday, a killing federal investigators said may have been meant as a warning to journalists reporting on an Islamist insurgency. Kazbek Gekkiyev, 28, who worked for a local channel of Russian state broadcaster VGTRK, was killed in Nalchik, capital of the internal republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the federal Investigative Committee said. ...
10:56 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Twenty years after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, CNN-IBN recalls one of the most tragic events in the history of the country, through the lens of a photographer. December 6, 1992 was a day that India will never forget as the Babri Masjid was demolished. ...
11:50 AM, Dec 06, 2012
'Bicycle Kick' will be the third sports film based on Nandi's writings after 'Striker' and 'Koni'. Koni had bagged a national award. ...
03:29 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Islamabad: A reporter of a TV news channel was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Sunday, police said. Rehmatullah Abid, a reporter for Dunya News, was sitting at a barber's shop in Washbood area of Panjgur district when two gunmen riding a motorcycle fired at him on Sunday afternoon. Abid succumbed to his injuries while being taken to hospital. Law enforcement...
09:20 PM, Nov 18, 2012
Islamabad: Unidentified gunmen on Friday attacked prominent rights activist Marvi Sirmed, who has received threats from extremist groups several times in the past, in the Pakistani capital though she escaped unharmed. The gunmen, who were in a black car, fired at Sirmed's vehicle at Murree Road near Bani Gala on the outskirts of Islamabad while she was returning home from work this evening. "They tried to target us twice and...
10:20 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) member Natwar Lal Goel in a dramatic reaction manner tore off his shirt at a press conference to demonstrate how the photo journalists were trying to malign him. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav sacked Goel on Tuesday for assaulting two mediapersons. "They had clicked this girl's picture. There was a misunderstanding and I tried to clear it. I called them in to solve the issue...
08:04 AM, Oct 24, 2012
