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
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday slammed Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju for his 'unsubstantiated' remarks on curbs on press freedom in the state and trashed the PCI fact finding report. ...
03:37 AM, Feb 21, 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
India has dropped nine places to 140th rank in the list of 179 countries in the latest World Press Freedom Index, which its authors said is the lowest for the "world's biggest democracy" since 2002. ...
05:59 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Prime Minister David Cameron rejected the idea of a law to regulate the British press on Thursday, risking a split in his government after an inquiry advised legal backing for a watchdog to police the sometimes outrageous conduct of newspapers. ...
06:32 AM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: Press Council Chairman Markandeya Katju on Wednesday issued a show cause notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over attacks on journalists in the state and threatened to recommend to the President dismissal of the state government. "It is the duty of the state government to maintain law and order in the state but it seems to me that your government is neither able to maintain law and...
11:24 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Bridgetown (Barbados): The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) says significant progress has been made in talks with the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) on the controversial Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), following nearly three days of meetings here last week. The WICB and WIPA sat down with a three-man mediation team from the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Federation of International Cricketers Association (WICB) to hammer out a solution to...
09:39 PM, Jun 02, 2008
Adelaide: In a vicious attack on Indian culture and Indian team, of which he was the coach, Greg Chappell has said that the side lacked leaders because parents, school teachers and coaches made all the decisions in the Indian system. The (Indian) culture is very different; it's not a team culture. They lack leaders in the team because they are not trained to be leaders. From an early age, their...
01:45 PM, May 01, 2008
Bangalore: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday said they will badly miss street-smart Praveen Kumar in the upcoming World Cup as the pacer has been ruled out of cricket's showpiece event due to an elbow injury. Praveen, who has been a vital cog in India's ODI scheme of things for a little over three years and was certain in India's seam attack in the World Cup, was ruled out...
09:14 AM, Dec 12, 2007
