New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) Senior journalists and former colleagues of Vinod Verma on Saturday expressed solidarity with the arrested journalist and demanded his immediate release. The journalists held a protest meeting at the Press…
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) Attacking the Congress indirectly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said it is in the interest of democracy and the country that political parties develop with true democratic spirit. Participating…
Raipur, Oct 27 (IANS) Chhattisgarh’s ruling BJP came under attack on Friday after the arrest of a senior journalist in Ghaziabad who claimed he had a “sex tape” involving PWD Minister Rajesh Munat. The minister…
Ghaziabad, Oct 27 (IANS) A senior journalist, Vinod Verma, was arrested here early on Friday on charges of extortion after claiming to have a “sex CD” of a BJP leader in Chhattisgarh. A court granted…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Slamming the BJP for the arrest of senior journalist Vinod Verma, the Congress on Friday demanded his immediate release and a probe against the “Chhattisgarh Minister being investigated by the…
Ghaziabad, Oct 27 (IANS) A senior journalist, Vinod Verma, was arrested here early on Friday on charges of allegedly blackmailing a BJP leader in Chhattisgarh, police said. Verma denied the charge and said he was…
Ghaziabad, Oct 27 (IANS) A senior journalist, Vinod Verma, was arrested here early on Friday on charges of allegedly blackmailing a BJP leader in Chhattisgarh, police said. Verma denied the charge and said he was…
Ghaziabad, Oct 27 (IANS) A senior journalist was picked up by a team of the Chhattisgarh Police early on Friday from his house here in Uttar Pradesh. While there is no clarity on why journalist…
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) One of the biggest services a broadcaster can render to the democracy is to present news sans the “element of drama”, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani said on…
Beijing, Oct 26 (IANS) Swedish furniture giant IKEA on Thursday issued an apology and pulled out a controversial TV ad in China after receiving backlash from viewers who said it was perpetuating negative images of…
Washington, Oct 26 (IANS) Veteran US journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed women while he was in a powerful position at ABC News, a media report said. “During this period, I did pursue relationships with women…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Oct 26 (IANS) A UN monitor for cultural rights has hailed writer Nayantara Sahgal returning her Sahitya Akademi award two years ago as an example of women artistes “calling out…
New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) Leading journalist organisations, including the Press Club of India and the Indian Women’s Press Corps, on Tuesday slammed the “draconian” Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2017 tabled by the Rajasthan…
By Frank F. Islam As an Indian American, I have had the privilege of living in the two largest democracies in the world. One of those, the United States of America, came into being in…
Islamabad, Oct 21 (IANS) Human rights activists and media persons have welcomed the return of Zeenat Shahzadi, a Pakistani woman journalist who went missing two years ago while following the case of the alleged enforced…
New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) With Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi gaining more than one million followers on Twitter in the past three months, the party on Friday said that his tweets laced with satire…
Washington, Oct 20 (IANS) The President of the US on Thursday accused the mainstream media of ignoring fresh details about the controversial 2010 approval of a deal that gave Russia control over a large chunk…
San Francisco, Oct 19 (IANS) The fake news advertising problem has now spread to fact-checking websites as Google put fake news advertisements on pages such as Snopes and PolitiFact, the New York Times reported. “The…
Kolkata, Oct 18 (IANS) Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) continued to be on boil on Wednesday as students’ protests against authorities over “moral policing” and “gender-based segregation” rocked the campus for a second…
Kolkata, Oct 18 (IANS) Reiterating their commitment to help the victims of sexual harassment, Kolkata Police said they are perturbed by the number of women joining the international #metoo campaign that has taken the social…