New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday reportedly sacked one of his ministers, who had been arrested for allegedly assaulting two photo journalists. The sacked minister, Natwar Lal Goel, was the Chairman of the UP Khadi Gram Udyog, having status of minister of state. Akhilesh also expelled Goel from the Samajwadi Party. More details on the incident are awaited. ...
11:30 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Bangalore: Journalists out to cover President Pranab Mukherjee's inauguration of the Suvarna Vidhan Soudha - a Rs 400 crore second legislature complex in Belgaum - were detained ahead of the event on Thursday. A few political parties in Maharashtra have opposed the inauguration citing the border dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra. An IBN Lokmat journalists, too, was detained ahead of the event and stopped from reporting live. The construction of...
12:18 PM, Oct 11, 2012
On this week's episode, we bring to you stories of courage, goodwill and strong determination despite all odds. ...
07:05 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Kolkata: The police claim to have cracked the parcel bomb case in Howrah, in which a woman journalist was killed. The police have arrested three men, identified as Abhishek Roy, Bishwajit Majhi, and Shubhankar Das. The alleged mastermind, identified as Debashish Dey is still at large. Two police teams have been dispatched to Bangalore and Mumbai to search for Debashish. The police say the motive was revenge since the target,...
12:12 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Islamabad: A reporter of a TV news channel was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. Abdul Haq Baloch, a correspondent for ARY News in Khuzdar city, was attacked by two gunmen riding a motorcycle near the local press club at Chakar Khan Road at 7.30 pm (local time). Officials said the motive for the killing had not been ascertained....
10:44 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Kolkata: In a shocking incident, a woman journalist living in the Howrah district of West Bengal, was killed as a parcel bomb that had been couriered to her exploded. According to the police, the woman died on the spot while her husband received critical injuries. The woman worked as a freelancer and, said her daughter, had received several threats in the past. The police is trying to trace the sender....
03:05 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Piya's case is the first such case where a student is being compensated for corporal punishment. ...
08:21 PM, Sep 07, 2012
The school has also apologised to Piya, who has lost vision in one eye due to punishment, and her mother Omawati Chaudhary. ...
08:05 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka crime branch on Saturday set up a special team to investigate the terror links of a dozen youths arrested this week and unravel their plans to carry deadly attacks in the state with support from banned outfits LeT and HuJi. "We have formed a special investigation team to crack the case registered against the 12 suspects arrested and unravel their plans to carry terror attacks in the...
08:11 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Bangalore: The families of 11 terror suspects apprehended in Karnataka on Friday expressed shock and disbelief over their arrests on charges of links with banned terror outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islam (Huji) and plotting terror attacks in the state. "We are at a loss to understand why my third son, Zafar Iqbal, was whisked away from our house at Hubli without intimation or warrant though he is innocent and has...
09:44 PM, Aug 31, 2012
A journalist and a DRDO engineer are among the 11 people arrested by Bangalore Police with alleged LeT and HuJI links. Police said they were planning to kill a prominent columnist with a Kannada daily. ...
10:44 PM, Aug 30, 2012
The father of DRDO engineer Ajaz, who is one of the 11 people arrested by Bangalore Police on Thursday for suspected terror links, claims that the police haven't informed them about their son's arrest. ...
09:39 PM, Aug 30, 2012
The 11 people arrested have links with Lashkar-e-Toiba and HuJI, said Karnataka DGP Lalrokhuma Pachau. They had plotted to kill the columnist as he had written an anti-Islam article. ...
06:59 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Bangalore: Bangalore Police on Wednesday arrested 11 people, including a journalist with a popular English daily, for having terror links. Sources said the arrests were made as they were planning to kill a prominent columnist with a Kannada newspaper. The 11 people arrested have links with Lashkar-e-Toiba and HuJI, said Karnataka DGP Lalrokhuma Pachau. They had plotted to kill the columnist on Wednesday as he had written an anti-Islam article....
04:35 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Washington: After a long association with the Yale University, noted Indian American writer and journalist Fareed Zakaria has resigned from its governing body to focus on journalistic career. Zakaria, who received his bachelor's degree from the university, was associated with the Yale Corporation for past six years. The decision of Zakaria to shed some of his non-journalistic responsibilities has come close on the heels of accusations of plagiarism against him....
08:11 AM, Aug 21, 2012
New York: Noted Indian-American writer and journalist Fareed Zakaria, who was briefly suspended by Time magazine and CNN after he was accused of plagiarism, described the episode as "tough" and "clarifying" and said he now realises the focus of what he wants to do ahead. Forty-eight-year-old Zakaria's suspension was revoked by Time and CNN last week, days after he had issued an apology for lifting a passage for an article...
08:26 PM, Aug 20, 2012
CJ Bhagwan Bhairwani, a shopkeeper, takes on authorities who have turned a blind eye to the lack of upkeep of a busy commercial centre in the capital. ...
01:54 PM, Aug 18, 2012
New York: Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by both the magazine and the network for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for his use in a recent Time column. Zakaria apologised on Friday, declaring in a statement he made "a terrible mistake," adding, "It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault." In a separate statement, Time spokesman Ali Zelenko said the...
08:59 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Imphal: All Manipur Working Journalists' Union (AMWJU) and prominent editors on Tuesday condemned the 'threat' from some militants that their press statement should be published in local dailies without editing. A spokesman of AMWJU said the executive members of the union and prominent editors held an emergency meeting to discuss the militants' threat to scribes and strongly condemned it. He said there were so many militant factions in the state...
10:36 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna's indefinite fast against the UPA government entered the third day on Friday with crowds still keeping away from the protest site where some people misbehaved with women media persons. The crowd count was around 300 at 11 am when Anna Hazare took the dais along with his close aides at Jantar Mantar. The protest site wore a deserted look with people seen only near the stage....
12:28 PM, Jul 27, 2012
