Melbourne: Australia's media watchdog on Thursday launched a rare fast-track probe into the broadcast of a prank call by a Sydney-based radio station to a UK hospital treating pregnant Princess Kate that led to the death of an Indian-origin nurse. The hoax sparked global condemnation and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said it was using its special powers to launch a rare "own motion" probe contrary to other...
09:20 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Washington: Facebook has removed a page set up by the Pakistan Taliban, after a US monitoring group reported of its existence as a fresh example of a social media being used by terror groups to recruit new fighters. Earlier, the US-based SITE Intelligence Group said the Umar Media TTP page used Facebook as "a recruitment" tool and called attention to the Facebook page that belonged to Umar Media TTP, the...
03:47 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Jacintha Saldanha, a 46-year-old nurse of Indian origin in the UK, reportedly committed suicide after falling victim to a prank by Australian radio jockeys Mel Greig and Michael Christian of 2Day FM. Greig and Christian impersonated the Queen and the Prince of Wales to extract information about the health of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. Should the media shut out such hoax calls or is it a stray case...
03:08 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI hit the 1 million Twitter follower mark on Wednesday as he sent his first tweet from his new account, blessing his online fans and urging them to listen to Christ. In perhaps the most drawn out Twitter launch ever, the 85-year-old Benedict tapped the screen of a tablet brought to him at the end of his general audience after the equivalent of a papal drum...
12:11 AM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: It's that time of the year again when CNN-IBN honours the contribution of some of the most iconic role models of brand India. The seventh edition of the Indian of the Year awards - one of the biggest and most credible awards in Indian media - will recognize those Indians whose contribution to the country in the calendar year 2012 strengthened the foundation of the Indian society. The...
10:15 AM, Dec 12, 2012
New York: 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. The census of journalists behind bars on December 1 found that anti-state...
09:39 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Bhubaneswar: India is likely to carry out a test of its home-developed, nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Agni-I missile from a military base in Odisha on Wednesday, defence sources have said. The intermediate-range ballistic missile, which can strike a target 700 km away, is likely to be tested from a facility on Wheeler Island near Dhamra in Bhadrak district, sources said. The test would be carried out by the Strategic Forces Command as...
08:36 PM, Dec 11, 2012
In this episode of The Last Word, Karan Thapar interviews ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair and gets him to speak on the crisis in the Middle East and the need for media regulation. ...
09:56 PM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: Giving an insight into privacy perceptions in India in the wake of huge development in the IT sector, one of the first studies on the subject says a majority of people are ignorant about various privacy issues related to the Internet and online social media, including Facebook. "About 75 per cent of the participants had never read the privacy policy on any website that they interact with and...
04:40 AM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: Three persons have been arrested for allegedly duping hundreds of investors of over Rs 50 crore in Delhi and Mumbai on the pretext of providing them call centre franchise, police said on Friday. Sandeep Shukla, a resident of Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, his brother Manoj Shukla and friend Surendra Batho were arrested following a complaint by a woman who had invested around Rs 20 lakh in their...
09:05 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Cairo: Several independent Egyptian newspapers suspended publication on Tuesday as protesters prepared for marches amid mounting anger over the hurried drafting of the country's new constitution adopted by an Islamist-led panel. The media protest involved at least eight influential dailies and was part of a planned campaign of civil disobedience that could bring in other industries and build on an ongoing strike by Egypt's judges. The country's privately owned TV...
04:16 PM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: 'The butler is the killer' - the classic clich of whodunit writing has plagued literature for decades. Let's face it, from the moment a gripping murder mystery opens to the house, we become obsessed with spotting the killer before anyone else. There's nothing more satisfying that a self pat on the back for correctly identifying the hand that held the knife. Writers Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle...
10:43 AM, Dec 01, 2012
New Delhi: Minister of State for Communication and IT, Milind Deora accepted misuse of the Information Technology (IT) Act and said that the government is open to making the law more objective to prevent further misuse. With pressure mounting from netizens, the government is under pressure to do a rethink and amend the Section 66(A) of the act. "As a minister of the department that has and will initiate this...
07:40 AM, Dec 01, 2012
Beijing: A Chinese man was on Friday sentenced to death for keeping six women in a dungeon as sex slaves and killing of two of them. The Luoyang Intermediate People's Court in Henan Province convicted 35-year-old Li Hao on charges of murder, rape, organised prostitution, illegal detention and spreading pornography for profit. The court said Li dug the dungeon himself under the basement he bought in Luoyang in August 2009...
09:32 PM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission on Friday registered a case on the death of dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died last month in Ireland after doctors refused to terminate her miscarriage pregnancy on the ground that Ireland was a Catholic country. "Acting on a complaint filed by Odisha-based organisation India Media Centre, the NHRC has a registered a case on the matter," a statement from the Commission said. The...
09:31 PM, Nov 30, 2012
In a major development, the Supreme Court has asked the Attorney General to respond to a petition challenging the controversial Section 66A in the Information Technology Act. ...
11:46 PM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: The arrest of two editors of Zee News Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia has ignited the debate over whether there is a need for regulation of the media. Talking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, editors called for regulation of the media. Press Council Chairman Justice Markandey Katju says Zee's licence should be suspended if charges are found true. "If there are 40 out of 48 representatives of the...
07:40 AM, Nov 29, 2012
The international news media has insisted that BCCI can resolve the dispute over the photo coverage of the India-England Test series. ...
11:52 AM, Nov 24, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistani media reported terrorist Ajmal Kasab's hanging Wednesday blandly, with some reports quoting him as saying that he had not received a fair trial in India. Kasab, the only one among 10 Pakistani terrorists caught after the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, was "quietly hanged" in Pune, about four years after he was caught during the killing spree, Geo News reported. It quoted Indian reports as saying that he...
12:55 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: Contending that press freedom is "not an absolute right", Press Council of India chief Markandey Katju on Friday said that freedom of press "must" be "crushed" if media's functioning leads to backwardness and "lowers the standard of living of people". The former Supreme Court judge, who is known for his candid and often controversial comments, also criticised media for giving more importance to Bollywood and cricket than vital...
02:36 AM, Nov 17, 2012
