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
Guwahati: A Guwahati court on Saturday remanded Gaurav Jyoti Neog, the TV channel reporter arrested on the charge of instigating an attack on a teenaged girl who was molested in the capital city of Assam, to three days of police custody. Neog, the reporter of city-based Live News channel, was remanded to custody by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Kamrup Siddhartha Pratim Moitra. He was arrested on Friday...
07:43 PM, Jul 21, 2012
Jaipur: Film actor Om Puri waded into fresh trouble on Tuesday as he allegedly made an "insulting" remark against journalists prompting the Pink City Press Club to seek an apology from him. The actor made the remark while talking about the manner in which a journalist presented his views when he was in Delhi in August 2011 to attend Anna Hazare's strike. Recalling the incident, Puri said he was conversing...
11:50 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Washington: Deeply concerned about Arunachal Pradesh journalist Tongam Rina's well-being, a US-based media watchdog has asked authorities to investigate the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice. "We are deeply concerned about Tongam Rina's well-being and wish her a swift recovery," said Bob Dietz, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Asia program coordinator. "Journalists working in the northeast states of India are vulnerable to attacks that too often go unpunished. We...
09:29 AM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: A journalist was shot at by unknown assailants in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday evening. The journalist was identified as Tongam Rina, an Associate Editor with the Arunachal Times. The incident took place as the victim was entering her office in capital Itanagar. No arrests have been made so far in the case while the victim is said to be recuperating at a hospital. Chief Minister Nabam Tuki said...
07:42 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Tongam Rina, Associate Editor of the Arunachal Times is now in hospital undergoing a surgery. ...
11:22 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Itanagar: A woman journalist was shot at by unknown gunmen and critically injured on Sunday when she was entering her office in Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh. Gunmen shot journalist Tongam Rina of the Arunachal Times from close range when she was entering her office at about 6:15 pm, police said. Thirty-four-year-old Rina is the associate editor of Arunachal Times, a popular daily and the first English newspaper of the state...
08:30 PM, Jul 15, 2012
New Delhi: A court on Saturday adjourned till July 17 its order on journalist Jigna Vora's bail plea in the Jyotirmoy Dey murder case. Vora was arrested on November 25, 2011, on charges of criminal conspiracy in the murder case. J Dey, a senior crime journalist with MiD Day, was shot dead in Mumbai on June 11, 2011, by four bike-borne assailants. The police believe the murder may be related...
01:13 PM, Jul 07, 2012
London: Actor Brad Pitt's younger brother showed his simple lifestyle in a new advertisement for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile company in Australia. Photojournalist Doug Pitt, who is three years younger than Brad, invites viewers into his modest suburban home to give them an insight into how the "second most famous Pitt" lives, reports contactmusic.com. The voiceover says, "While his brother lives the life of a Hollywood A-lister, Doug's life...
04:15 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New York: Anderson Cooper revealed on Monday that he is gay, ending years of reluctance to talk about his personal life in public. The CNN journalist wrote in an online letter that he had kept his sexual orientation private for personal and professional reasons, but came to think that remaining silent had given some people a mistaken impression that he was ashamed. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been,...
10:35 AM, Jul 03, 2012
Sunita Kasera from Rajasthan reports on how children of the ironsmith's community have been denied their right to education. ...
12:11 PM, Jun 18, 2012
On Anti-Child Labour Week, a young CJ talks about his life as a former child labourer. ...
12:08 PM, Jun 18, 2012
Video of an empty RTO office in Pune during work hours. Picture of an official car with no number plate. Share your clicks. ...
12:05 PM, Jun 18, 2012
CJ Dhimant Badhia fights to save the bridge in Ahmedabad that Mahatma Gandhi crossed during the famous Dandi march. ...
11:58 AM, Jun 18, 2012
15 years after the Uphaar fire tragedy, families of the victims are still fighting for justice. ...
11:55 AM, Jun 18, 2012
Citizen Journalist Rakesh Chopra fights for justice after his sister was killed in a road accident. ...
11:52 AM, Jun 18, 2012
A brother's fight for justice. CJ Dhimant fights to save Bapu's Dandi bridge in Ahmedabad. CJ videos, pictures and lots more. ...
11:37 AM, Jun 18, 2012
Mumbai: It was near the Hiranandani chowk in Mumbai that MiD DAY crime investigations editor J Dey was gunned down exactly a year ago. In a gesture that will hopefully expunge some of the trauma of the memory and supplant it with respect for the triumphant life that preceded it, Niranjan Hiranandani, MD of Hiranandani Group, has announced that he will name the square outside DMart after Dey. The square...
12:46 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Why did the police believe Chhota Rajans story that journalist Jigna Vora instigated him? Rajan repented his actions in TV interviews. It is our job to lay the evidence we gather before the court. Now the Court will decide whether to believe him or not. How does carrying conflicting stories amount to a rivalry between J Dey and Jigna Vora? Sources are valuable to journalists. There is resentment when a...
02:39 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Mumbai: Investigations into the murder case of MiD DAY journalist J Dey began just a few hours after his killing, when sleuths began combing the scene of crime in Powai for clues. In the days that followed the murder, they scoured Deys email account, his phone records, interrogated hundreds of acquaintances, eyewitnesses, informants and operators. They gathered CCTV footage from the store outside which Dey had been slain, and obtained...
02:26 PM, Jun 11, 2012
