Police in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Saturday stopped hundreds of journalists from symbolically moving towards the Line Of Control in the state. The journalists riding in several vehicles were stopped about seven kilometres from the LoC. The journalists said they carried two truckloads of medicines and food for Kashmiris.
The march organised by the Central Union of Journalists (CUJ), a regional body, was for the ongoing Kashmir issue that arose after the Indian government scrapped Article 370 of the Constitution that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and also divided the state into two Union Territories.
Basheer, the Thiruvananthapuram bureau chief of Siraj, was killed after being hit by Venkitaraman's speeding car early this month. The IAS officer was returning from a late-night party with his friend Waha Firoz, who owns the car.
The state will bear the entire premium under the scheme and nearly 400 private hospitals have been empanelled. Beneficiaries are provided secondary and tertiary care treatment under the scheme, for which all public hospitals above the Community Health Centre level are also empanelled to provide secondary and tertiary care treatment.
The body of a journalist was recovered from a canal at Dhela Majra village near Ambala City on Saturday, police said. The body was fished out from the Narwana branch canal and the deceased was identified as Rajesh Sharma, a reporter of Doordarshan (Hisar).
IAS officer Sriram Venkitaraman was arrested in Kerala on Saturday for causing the death of a journalist by allegedly driving in an inebriated state, police said. The 33-year-old IAS officer was charged under Section 279 (Rash driving on a public way) and 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
A car driven by an IAS officer killed a 35-year-old journalist in Kerala on early Saturday, police said. Survey Director Sreeram Venkitaraman was driving the car which rammed into K Muhammed Basheer's motorcycle, killing him on the spot. The incident happened around 1 am, police said.
At the commencement of the hearing on the Bongaon matter, Justice Chattopadhyay orally directed that reporters would not be allowed to be present in her courtroom, during a hearing of cases, till further orders.
The victim who works as reporter with a Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran, was travelling to Hati village from Pandaul when the incident took place. As per initial information, Pradeep's health remains critical as of now.
Post in-charge Rajendra Singh, sub-inspector Yashpal Singh, and constables Dharmendra Kumar and Rohit Kumar were suspended after they assaulted journalist Shyam Joshi on Tuesday when he had asked the policemen on duty not to park their vehicle in the middle of the road as people were already facing traffic congestion on Goverdhan road.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's office has already clarified there is "no ban" on the entry of media persons in the Ministry and that just a procedure has been brought in for "streamlining and facilitating" the entry of media persons.
A delegation of journalists called on Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Sunday and shared with him their perceptions of the ground situation in the state.
A reporter of a local Tamil news channel was found dead on Thursday along with his wife and mother at their house
A female journalist was reportedly shot at by a group of masked men on Saturday night. The attack took place while she was driving in East Delhi's Ashok Nagar.
E. Jean Carroll, 75, a television show host and magazine columnist, made the accusation in an essay published on Friday in NY Magazine, the local media reported.
Rutberg, 73, relishes his role as newspaper owner, publisher and president. He hosts intimate gatherings with readers called “Coffee with the President,” promoting the newspaper’s triumphs, including award-winning investigative coverage of the Berkshire Museum’s controversial sale of artworks, the decaying state of the region’s bridges and the struggle to bring broadband internet to rural communities.
Sami Ibrahim, an anchor and executive with the private Bol News TV channel, filed the complaint on Monday against Fawad Chaudhry alleging that the minister slapped him, used abusive language, and threatened him with dire consequences at a wedding function last week in Faisalabad.
Muhammad Bilal Khan, having over 16,000 followers on Twitter, 48,000 on his YouTube channel and 22,000 on Facebook, was with a friend when he received a phone call after which a man took him to the nearby forest on Sunday night, Dawn news quoted police as saying.
Apart from media personalities, a social activist was also presented the Bharat Mata shield at the 44th Matri Shree media award ceremony organised
Dilip Sharma, who runs an online news portal, was arrested based on a complaint lodged by Executive Engineer (EE) of electricity department, Mahasamund, S K Sahu, a police officer said.
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