Panaji, May 12 (IANS) A child welfare committee (CWC) on Thursday warned the media against publishing anything that will reveal the identity of a minor girl who has accused Goa legislator Atanasio Monserrate of sexually…
New York, May 12 (IANS) Excess use of social media such as Facebook, Instagram or YouTube may lead to disordered eating and body image concerns among young adults, suggests new research. Eating disorders include anorexia…
United Nations, May 12 (IANS) Propaganda over social media that is contributing to the global spread of terrorism has to be monitored and countered, India has appealed to the international community while expressing concern that…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) A fire broke out at the Times of India building in central Delhi’s ITO area on Wednesday, and 21 fire tenders were sent to douse the flames, fire officials said….
Gurgaon, April May 10 (IANS) Shivani Sharma is angry and she is mincing no words about it. After her three-year-old daughter Myra lost her thumb on April 28 at a daycare centre here, Sharma has…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Rajya Sabha members on Tuesday expressed concern over ‘paid news’ and decided to take up the issue for a structured debate. The issue was raised in the zero hour by…
Pyongyang, May 10 (IANS) A BBC crew was expelled from North Korea after being detained over what the states leadership called distorted reporting that spoke ill of the system. Correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, his producer and…
Lucknow, May 9 (IANS) Photo-journalist Ravi Kanaujia was on Monday electrocuted at the Jhansi railway station while clicking photos during a professional assignment, police said. Kanaujia, principal photographer of English daily The Indian Express, was…
London, May 9 (IANS) BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been detained in North Korea and will be expelled over his reporting. He was one of three BBC staff, along with producer Maria Byrne and cameraman…
London, May 9 (IANS) BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been detained in North Korea and is to be expelled from the country over reporting. The country’s National Peace Committee told a press conference Monday in…
Islamabad, May 8 (IANS) Unidentified assailants gunned down social media campaigner and civil society activist Khurram Zaki on Saturday night in Pakistan’s Karachi city. Central District SSP, Muqadas Haider told Dawn online that four suspects…
Cairo, May 7 (IANS) An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced to death six people, including two Al Jazeera journalists, who were accused of leaking state secrets to Qatar. The case of jailed former president Mohamed…
Panama City, May 7 (IANS) The anonymous whistleblower who revealed millions of documents belonging to Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, causing a worldwide stir, has denied working for any government or intelligence agency, and said…
Imphal, May 7 (IANS) She had lost all hope and was living a life of despair. Bed-ridden since 2011, R.K. Tamphasana felt abandoned by the world, with no money and no land to bank upon….
Istanbul, May 7 (IANS) Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, journalists from Turkeys Cumhuriyet newspaper, have been convicted on charges of “revealing state secrets” and sentenced to over five years in prison by an Istanbul court….
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Surajit Sen, the former chief newsreader at the All India Radio, passed away here on Friday after a brief illness, the broadcaster said. He was 89. Sen first joined the…
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday alleged that some media houses were asked “not to touch” the controversy over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s degree. In a series of tweets,…
Ankara, May 5 (IANS) The Turkish government is shutting down Zaman newspaper, previously a strong critic of President Erdogan, of which it seized control in March, according to CNN Turk. Zaman was taken over by…
Beijing, May 5 (IANS) Chinese and Indian academics and media professionals discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in counter-terrorism and new media at a conference held in Inner Mongolia region. The Third China-India Media Exchange Programme,…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Several legal luminaries and media personalities on Wednesday advocated an end to the defamation law in India. They insisted that criminal defamation suites were preventing journalists, researchers and social and…