Even as there was jubilation in the Nawaz Sharif camp in Pakistan, there was gloom and angst in the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf party. Foreign Affairs Editor Suhasini Haider, who has been tracking the latest from Pakistan, tell us what newspapers there are saying. ...
01:24 PM, May 13, 2013
Four private dailies hit the newsstands for the first time in almost 50 years in Myanmar on Monday, but many others failed to appear, hamstrung by poor financing, archaic equipment and a dearth of reporters. ...
06:45 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Four private daily newspapers started temporary publication on Monday, signifying the re-introduction of private daily newspapers in the Southeast Asian nation after a gap of five decades. ...
02:50 PM, Apr 01, 2013
For the fourth consecutive day, no newspapers in Kashmir are being printed as the media gag is in force in the wake of hanging of Azfal Guru. ...
11:46 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Hitting out at governments for allegedly stopping advertisements to publications over "critical" articles, Press Council chairperson Markandey Katju on Monday said it will not tolerate such behaviour and shall take suitable legal action. ...
08:40 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Mumbai: The late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's favourite newspapers Saamna (in Marathi) and Dopahar Ka Saamna (in Hindi) sported black front pages as a mark of mourning for the second consecutive day on Monday. Thackeray, 86, who passed away Saturday, was founder-editor of both newspapers though day-to-day affairs were managed by his hand-picked and trusted executive editors. This is the first time in Saamna's history since its launch Jan...
11:42 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's favourite newspapers Saamna (in Marathi) and Dopahar Ka Saamna (in Hindi) were Sunday published with a full black cover jackets and full black cover pages. Thackeray, who passed away Saturday afternoon, was the founder-editor of both the newspapers, though the day-to-day affairs were managed by hand-picked and trusted executive editors. This is the first time in Saamna's history -- since it was launched Jan...
02:56 PM, Nov 18, 2012
Mumbai: A 46-year-old woman was brutally murdered in her sixth-floor flat at Malwani in Malad (West) on Monday evening and the killers attempted to burn the victim by placing newspapers on her body and setting it ablaze. The victim identified as Suzanna Alwin Rodrigues suffered two stab injuries, was strangulated and her face was partially burnt. The victim, who is the mother of two girls, was alone in the flat...
01:48 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Kolkata: Dubbing the West Bengal government's order asking state-run and state-funded libraries to stock only specific newspapers as "most partial and undemocratic", the Congress on Sunday urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to immediately withdraw the order. "West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee is deeply concerned over the recent controversy and turmoil surrounding the issuance of a circular by the Directorate of Library Services, Government of West Bengal. The content of the...
01:47 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Kolkata: A West Bengal minister on Sunday defended the government's order to its libraries to stock only specific newspapers for promoting "free thinking" and said only pro-government dailies will be given preference. "We are running the government and whoever writes about us will get preference. Only pro-government newspapers will be promoted. Where is the harm in it," Minister of State for Rural Development Sisir Adhikari asked while speaking to reporters....
08:26 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have mastered the art of making unforced errors, to use a sports terminology, to hand down potent ammunition to her opponents. She regularly generates controversies without fail through her actions and utterances, the latest being the government's decision to ban most leading dailies from state-run and state funded libraries. Earlier, during her consistent opposition to the Left rule before she became...
12:20 PM, Apr 01, 2012
Kolkata: English dailies or high circulation Bengali ones will no longer be available in state-sponsored and aided libraries in West Bengal, according to an official circular. The circular specified eight newspapers which it said would significantly contribute to the development and spread of free thinking among the library users. Listing the eight newspapers published in Bengali Hindi and Urdu, the Department of Mass Education, Extension and Library Services, in a...
02:53 PM, Mar 28, 2012
London: The newspaper coverage was troubling: London's huge international showcase was beset by planning problems, local opposition and labor woes - and the transportation was a mess. It sounds like the 2012 Olympics, but this was the Great Exhibition of 1851 generating stories of late trains, unscrupulous landlords and dangerous overcrowding. Coverage of the event is found in 4 million pages of newspapers from the 18th and 19th centuries being...
11:10 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Brussels: Google blocked several Belgian newspapers from its web search results Friday in what the papers called retaliation over a copyright infringement lawsuit. Google said an order issued in the case required it to exclude the newspapers' websites. The newspapers filed a lawsuit against Google in 2006 claiming the web giant had no right to post links to their articles on Google News without payment or permission. They won, and...
01:32 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Washington: Smart phones aren't taking people away from traditional media sources like newspapers or television. Instead, mobile media are filling the spaces in people's daily routine in which other sources are either unavailable or inconvenient to use. That suggests mobile media use is taking a different path to popularity than did technologies like TV, said John Dimmick, who led the study as professor of communication at Ohio State University, the...
04:58 PM, Mar 18, 2011
New Delhi: At a time when the US newspaper industry is struggling with dipping circulation and ad revenues, News Corp. has ventured into the emerging world of tablets with a daily 'newspaper' for the Apple iPad in a bid to revive fortunes. The Daily isn't the newspaper I was expecting, rather it looks, reads and feels like a news magazine that is published every day. It is not for the...
03:02 PM, Feb 03, 2011
New York: News Corp will launch its long anticipated digital newspaper for tablet devices on January 19 at a joint news event attended by Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, according to a person with knowledge of the plan. News Corp, which generates almost 30 percent of its first quarter revenue annually from publishing, is a making a big bet that starting a newspaper from scratch...
11:57 AM, Jan 11, 2011
Islamabad: Several leading Pakistani newspapers reproduced an elaborate Internet hoax based on purported diplomatic cables from the US embassy in India that spoke of alleged rifts between top Indian Army generals and a "Bosnia-like genocide" in Jammu and Kashmir. The Nation and The News dailies put the report on their front pages while The Express Tribune, a partner of the International Herald Tribune, carried it on an inside page. The...
01:26 PM, Dec 10, 2010
