Kuala Lumpur, March 13 (IANS) Two Australian reporters were arrested in Malaysia for crossing the security line during an event attended by Prime Minister Najib Razak, police said on Sunday. The reporters aggressively tried to…
Cairo, March 13 (IANS) An Egyptian man has been sentenced to three years in jail for “insulting the women of Upper Egypt” and spreading false news on Facebook that threatened public peace. According to dailynewsegypt.com,…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) A local court here on Thursday refused to grant anticipatory bail to a journalist who was facing rape charges. Additional Sessions Judge Smita Garg dismissed the anticipatory bail application of…
Seoul, March 9 (IANS) A South Korean cable channel news anchor was summoned on Wednesday over unauthorised use of exit polls during the 2014 local election, prosecutors said. Sohn Suk-hee, who heads JTBC’s news reporting…
Panaji, March 9 (IANS) The anti-corruption branch of the Goa Police has arrested two freelance journalists for allegedly trying to extort money from a businessman in Margao town in South Goa, posing as vigilance department…
Jammu, March 8 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir’s criminal investigation department (CID) late Monday evening registered a first information report (FIR) against a journalist for posting inflammatory content on his Facebook social networking account. Sources in…
Jammu, March 8 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir’s criminal investigation department (CID) late Tuesday evening registered an FIR against a journalist for posting inflammatory content on his Facebook social networking account. Sources in the state police…
London, March 7 (IANS) If you are bogged down by notifications sent by the known but deceased people in your timeline on Facebook, do not get surprised by this news. According to researchers, the social…
New York, March 7 (IANS) A new browser extension makes reactions expressed on social networking site Facebook a little more fun by allowing users to react to news through a wide range of emojis featuring…
Ankara, March 5 (IANS) The US has described Turkey’s decision to seize control of the country’s largest newspaper as “troubling”. “We see this as the latest in a series of troubling judicial and law enforcement…
Ankara, March 5 (IANS) Turkish police have raided the offices of Zaman, the country’s biggest newspaper, hours after a court ruling placed it under state control. Police entered the building in Istanbul late on Friday,…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Men think women are weaker, but that is not true, especially in the context of surviving in or reporting from conflict zones, say women from such areas or women correspondents…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Men think women are weaker, but that is not true, especially in the context of surviving in or reporting from conflict zones, say women from such areas or women correspondents…
New York, March 4 (IANS) Longer campaign cycles, filled with numerous televised debates and constant news reporting and social media coverage, are to blame for the rise of extremist politicians, says a new study. Longer…
New York, March 4 (IANS) A researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a Donald Trump Twitterbot that tweets out remarkably Trump-like statements such as “Im what IS (Islamic State) doesnt need.” Dubbed…
Hong Kong, March 3 (IANS) Three of the five Hong Kong booksellers, detained in China, will be freed in a few days shortly after they confessed on television, the media reported on Thursday. A statement…
Kuala Lumpur, March 3 (IANS) The illegal trade in iconic and threatened animal species in Asia is growing unabated on social media platforms like Facebook, a leading wildlife trade monitoring network claimed on Thursday. “The…
Beijing, March 3 (IANS) An editor of one of China’s most prestigious newspaper, the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily, was sacked over an allegedly veiled critique of media censorship by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Liu Yuxia,…
Lucknow, March 3 (IANS) The Allahabad High Court (HC) has stayed for a period of three months the installation of television set top boxes (STB) in the state, an official said on Thursday. The government…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 1 (IANS) After arresting five suspects, police in Kerala say that more arrests are likely on charges of abusing and threatening a leading woman anchor of a popular TV channel. The telephone of…