Shillong: A Congress MLA in Meghalaya allegedly brutally assaulted a journalist in the state Assembly on Monday. The photo journalist Walton Lytan is reportedly seriously injured, after he was beaten up by the MLA Founder Strong Cajee in the Assembly corridor. Cajee was upset after a local newspaper published a photo taken by Lytan showing him sleeping while the Assembly proceedings were on. Opposition leader Conrad Sangma visited him at...
09:23 AM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed support to the demand of mediapersons for implementation of Majithia Wage Boards report and decided to join the nationwide agitation on Tuesday in this regard. She told reporters that she has asked her party MPs to raise the issue of wage boards for journalists and non-journalists in both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday. Mamata, who is in the national capital,...
06:56 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Chennai: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present the Budget on March 16. Citizen journalists Mariam Nasreen and Thomas Geevarghese want the finance minister to increase medical reimbursement limit. Health services have become more expensive since the medical reimbursement limit of Rs 15,000 was set back in 2001. Nasreen and Geevarghese want the finance minister to increase the limit to Rs 50,000. Nasreen is blind and has spent the last 18...
09:21 AM, Mar 11, 2012
New Delhi: The police say that they have evidence in the Israel car bomb blast probe in the capital that journalist Mohammed Syed Qazmi was conspiring with the bombers but his family maintains that he is innocent and is being framed. Qazmi's son claims that his father is a celebrated journalist and not a terror suspect. For over two decades, Qazmi has worked with the country's top newsmakers. Today, he...
06:17 AM, Mar 10, 2012
Sitapur: Violence broke out on Wednesday night outside an independent candidate's house in Sitapur area of Uttar Pradesh, after alleged Samajwadi Party workers tried to set his and 13 other houses on fire. Two people have been arrested in connection with the incident. They are allegedly supporters of SP MLA Jeena Babu. Reports claim that the men also opened fire on supporters of the independent candidate. Nearly 4 people were...
08:38 AM, Mar 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday made the first arrest in the bombing of an Israeli embassy car in the capital earlier last month. The police arrested a freelance journalist, accusing him of being part of the conspiracy. The arrest comes just over three weeks after the dramatic bombing of the Israeli embassy car that critically injured a diplomat and two others near the Prime Minister's residence. The freelance...
07:59 AM, Mar 08, 2012
When a school student in Anantnag asked his principal for his certificates, he was in turn asked to pay a bribe. The student, Zubair, simply turned on his cell phone camera and turned Citizen Journalist. ...
10:17 AM, Mar 05, 2012
Bangalore: Facing heat from the media over its 'inaction', police on Saturday arrested four advocates in connection with attack on media personnel by a section of lawyers during the mayhem that rocked the city civil court. The arrests came after the media in the state rejected the judicial probe into Friday's attack as "eyewash" and demanded that the guilty advocates be brought to book immediately. Special police squads set up...
09:55 PM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: Press Council of India (PCI) Chairperson Justice Markandey Katju on Friday told delegates from International Press Institute (IPI), a Vienna-based media watchdog, that he had taken up with state governments issues of protection of journalists and safeguarding them from undue pressure. During the meeting, Justice Katju told the delegation that he was committed to preserve the freedom of the media. The delegation comprised IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel...
04:21 AM, Mar 03, 2012
A video journalist for a Kannada channel was injured in the head while several others suffered blows. ...
10:35 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: High drama was witnessed outside the civil court in Bangalore when unruly lawyers attacked mediapersons and pelted stones damaging OB vans, leaving at least 20 scribes and police personnel injured. A judicial probe was ordered by the state government after vehement media protests over the incident. The court complex turned into a battle zone as the rampaging advocates targeted journalists, particularly electronic media crew, who had gathered to cover...
09:24 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: A huge ruckus was created outside a court complex in Bangalore on Friday as lawyers and mediapersons gathered there engaged in a scuffle. The lawyers reportedly barred the entry of journalists to the City Civil Court complex saying the media portrayed them in bad light. The incident happened just after former BJP leader Janardhan Reddy was produced in court in connection with the illegal mining case. Witnesses said that...
12:52 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: Amid tight security, former Karnataka Tourism Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy was on Friday produced before a special CBI court in Bangalore which remanded him to CBI custody till March 12 in connection with an illegal mining case. Reddy and 20 others are facing charges for their alleged involvement in illegal mining, over which the CBI had filed an FIR against them in October last. Reddy was...
12:13 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Special Task Force (STF) of Madhya Pradesh claimed to have cracked the murder case of a free-lance journalist and his family members, with the arrest of five persons. What's interesting is that all five have been accused in the kidnapping of a boy, a case that may have involved the murdered journalist Chandrika Rai too. Police suspect that a possible dispute over sharing of ransom between the...
10:26 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Umaria: The Special Task Force (STF) on Thursday arrested four people in the murder case of journalist Chandrika Rai and his family in Madhya Pradesh. Freelance journalist Chandrika Rai, his wife, son and a daughter were found brutally murdered inside their house on Saturday in Umaria. Chandrika Rai, his wife Durga Rai, son Jalaj and daughter Nisha were found lying in pools of blood in different rooms of the family's...
09:19 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju has sent a showcause notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over the recent attacks on journalists. Katju has threatened to recommend the dismissal of the government to the President. Katju has asked Chavan to reply to his letter within three weeks, after which he said he would take action. In the letter Katju said, "It seems to me that...
08:35 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Marie Colvin of Britain's Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik, both veteran war correspondents, were killed in Syria. ...
08:04 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai police are likely to file a charge sheet against woman journalist Jigna Vora on Tuesday in the murder of senior scribe J Dey who was shot dead in June last year, an official said. "We are likely to file a supplementary charge sheet against Vora on Tuesday. We have gathered enough evidence against her to make a case," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Devendra Bharti told. Vora,...
01:34 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Umaria: A day after a local journalist, along with his family members, was found allegedly murdered in his house; the Madhya Pradesh government on Monday announced an STF-level probe into the incident. Madhya Pradesh Police's Special Task Force (STF) will probe the gruesome murder of Chandrika Rai and his family members, DGP SK Raut said after visiting the town on Monday. Chandrika Rai, his wife Durga Rai, son Jalaj and...
04:05 PM, Feb 20, 2012
From a man in Kashmir who fought for opening a dispensary in his village to a woman who fought for the full payment of her wages under the NREGA scheme, 2011 saw citizens taking up the nation's corrupt by its jugular and fighting for their rights. ...
08:31 PM, Feb 19, 2012
