Kuala Lumpur, March 28 (IANS) A group of parliamentarians from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) said on Wednesday that a proposed bill regulating fake news in Malaysia violates freedom of expression and called…
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) Veteran journalist Veturi Sriharsha passed away here on Tuesday after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 62. He is survived by his wife and son. He was the younger brother…
Islamabad, March 27 (IANS) A Pakistani news channel has hired the country’s first transgender TV newsreader. Marvia Malik, a journalism graduate who has also worked as a model, told the BBC Urdu she was moved…
Bhopal, March 27 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday recommended a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the death of a Bhind-based television channel journalist who was run…
Brasilia, March 27 (IANS) Female Brazilian sports reporters have come together to speak out about the sexual harassment they suffer in the course of their work, the media reported on Tuesday. A campaign video with…
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Delhi Police on Monday registered an FIR against the Station House Officer (SHO) of Delhi Cantt for molesting a woman journalist and sent him to district line, a senior officer…
New Delhi March 26 (IANS) Rights organisation Amnesty International India on Monday sought an independent probe into “mowing down” of a journalistin Madhya Pradesh and demanded the state government bring the guilty to book and…
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) A news website on Monday alleged that a sting operation on some media houses has revealed that they were ready to peddle Hindutva agenda to polarize voters on communal lines…
Cairo, March 25 (IANS) To curb fake news, Egypt has announced a new hotline for citizens that will run on WhatsApp and will allow them to report news that aims to “to endanger the nations…
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Over 100 journalists protested here on Saturday, as the Delhi Police failed to register an FIR into an alleged molestation of a woman reporter of an English national daily by…
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Journalist associations on Saturday demanded strict action against Delhi Police personal involved in assault and molestation of journalists covering a protest by students and teachers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University…
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Delhi Police on Saturday tendered their “deepest apologies” for the attack on two media personnel in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Friday when police undertook a baton charge on protesting…
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, in the INX Media corruption case. The bail was granted by Justice…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) In a breather for RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s son Tej Pratap Yadav, the CBI on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it did not find anything against him in the…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Several journalists organisations on Thursday protested the reconstitution of the Central Press Accreditation Committee (CPAC), saying the nominees of the representative organisations have not been included. The organisations demanded that…
Vatican City, March 21 (IANS) The head of the Vatican’s Communications Department resigned on Wednesday after coming under fire for doctoring a letter sent by retired Pope Benedict XVI. A brief Vatican statement, cited by…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) Do you let your toddler watch YouTube videos? It may not help them to learn new things, a study suggests. The study results indicate that toddlers up to two years…
San Francisco, March 21 (IANS) Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, late on Tuesday asked users to “delete” the social media platform, Facebook, amid alleged data leakage of its users for political purposes. “It is time….
By Jaideep Sarin Dakhla (Morocco), March 19 (IANS) The stereotype of an African-Arab Muslim nation, where women are expected to be seen covered from head to toe and not given prominence in public and social…
By Vikas Datta News is rather ephemeral. Since it has most effect — in these times — when on TV, we may paraphase Shakespeare’s Macbeth to term it something “full of sound and fury” but…