A Journalist who attended former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath press conference on March 20 has been found coronavirus positive. It is being learned that his daughter has also tested positive for COVID-19.
Veteran journalist and former Rajya Sabha member Patil Puttappa passed away due to age-related ailments at a hospital in Karnataka's Hubballi on Monday night, officials sources said.
The Association said attack on journalists on their line of duty in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka and Punjab is an assault on media freedom. It urged authorities concerned to ensure full security to the media in the discharge of their duties as the Fourth Estate.
The police has registered a case against two persons for allegedly assaulting a local journalist for publishing a news report on illegal sale of gutka in Maharashtra's Jalna district, police said on Saturday.
A Delhi-based journalist went missing from a hotel in Uttarakhand's Haridwar on Saturday. His body was found in Gangnahar canal on Monday.
Renowned Marathi journalist Nilkanth Khadilkar -- the father of India's formidable Chess prodigies called 'Khadilkar sisters' -- passed away following a brief illness here early on Friday morning, a family member said. He was 86.
An assistant commandant of the Tripura State Rifles (TSR), who was arrested by CBI in connection with the murder of a journalist in 2017, was on Thursday remanded to four days in the investigating agency's custody.
Farmers topped the list, followed by architects and hairdressers.
According to the report, the Arab States constituted the deadliest part of the world for journalists (30 per cent of global killings), followed by Latin America and the Caribbean region (26 per cent) and the Asia and Pacific States (24 per cent)
The above statistics include the cases of seven journalists murdered in Pakistan in the past one year (between November 2018 and October 2019). According to the report, FIRs were registered in all seven cases, but chargesheet was filed by the police in only four cases (57 per cent).
Indian journalists and human rights activists were among those globally spied upon by unnamed entitites using an Israeli spyware Peagasus, Facebook-owned WhatsApp said on Thursday. WhatsApp said it was suing NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance firm that is reportedly behind the technology that helped unnamed entities' spies hack into phones of roughly 1,400 users spanning across four continents.
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The victim, Radheyshyam Sharma, was associated with a local Hindi newspaper, they said.
The journalist was attacked on September 22 by two men on a bike and was dragged out of a moving auto-rickshaw and robbed. She had to be taken to a hospital as she was seriously injured in the attack.
The journalist was arrested on false charges of extortion and obstructing public servants from discharging their duty, alleged a fellow journalist Sudhir Singh, who, along with other journalists met District magistrate N P Singh to apprise him of the alleged illegal arrest.
The government on Wednesday rebuffed reports claiming that foreign journalists in Assam have been asked to leave the state. In a statement, the Ministry of Home Affairs termed the reports "misleading and incorrect."
Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi condemned the filing of FIR against a journalist who made a video of serving 'namak-roti' (salt and bread) to children as mid-day meal and said that he would initiate a probe in this regard.
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.
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