Dhaka, Oct 8 (IANS) Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid on Monday signed the Digital Security Bill 2018 into law amid objections from several media and rights organisations. The President’s Press Secretary Md Joynal Adedin confirmed the…
Sofia, Oct 8 (IANS) Bulgarian authorities have launched a probe into the rape and murder of an investigative journalist in the city of Ruse, the third journalist to have been killed in the European Union…
Lahore, Oct 8 (IANS) Former Pakistan Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, along with a journalist, appeared before the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday for a hearing on a petition seeking treason…
Riyadh, Oct 7 (IANS) Saudi Arabia on Sunday denied reports that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing earlier this week, was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, as reported by several international media….
Los Angeles, Oct 7 (IANS) Rapper Kanye West has deleted his Twitter and Instagram accounts. It is the second time he is exiting from social media since 2017. The 41-year-old rapper deleted his accounts on…
Riyadh, Oct 7 (IANS) Saudi Arabia on Sunday denied reports that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing earlier this week, was killed at the country’s consulate in Istanbul, as reported by several international media….
Guwahati, Oct 6 (IANS) The rise of Islamist extremism in Bangladesh poses a serious threat not only to the religious minorities, secularists, intellectuals and other sects within the Muslim community, but also to India’s northeastern…
Kolkata, Oct 5 (IANS) Veteran journalist and former News Editor of Press Trust of India (PTI) Pradip Chowdhury has passed away at a private hospital here following a cardiac arrest, family sources said. He was…
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday acquitted former TV serial producer Suhaib Ilyasi, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court for murdering his wife in 2000. A…
San Francisco, Oct 5 (IANS) Twitter still remains a hotbed for accounts spreading fake news, suggests a new study that looked into how fake and conspiracy news flourished on the microblogging site both before and…
San Francisco, Oct 5 (IANS) Apple and Amazon have strongly denied a media report that claimed a massive “supply chain attack” by Chinese spies planted chips in motherboards in data servers bought by these two…
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday refused protection from arrest to journalist Abhijit Iyer-Mitra who is faced with the prospects of arrest for making alleged derogatory remarks against Odisha’s Konark Temple,…
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Indian viewers are now watching online video content for an average of eight hours 28 minutes each week, more than the time they spend viewing TV every week — eight…
Ankara, Oct 3 (IANS) A prominent Saudi journalist known as one of the country’s most outspoken critic has gone missing after visiting its consulate in Turkey, raising concerns about his safety. Jamal Khashoggi, a contributor…
Ankara, Oct 3 (IANS) Three Turkish journalists accused of being involved in the failed 2016 coup were sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday by a regional court in Istanbul. The well-known journalists — Ahmet Altan,…
New York, Oct 3 (IANS) The New York State Tax Department has confirmed it is investigating claims by the New York Times that US President Donald Trump helped his parents dodge millions of dollars in…
Agartala, Oct 2 (IANS) A 40-year-old CPI-M newspaper in Tripura, “Daily Deshar Katha”, has been ordered closed by the government on technical grounds, leading the Marxists to accuse the state’s BJP government of committing an…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The CPI-M on Tuesday denounced the Tripura government’s decision to cancel the registration of newspaper “Daily Desharkatha”. “Desharkatha” was a prominent newspaper of Tripura of 40 years standing and was…
Islamabad, Sep 30 (IANS) The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has called for a nationwide protest on October 9 against retrenchments in the media, non-payment of salaries, unannounced censorship and registration of treason cases against…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 28 (IANS) A house committee constituted by the Odisha Assembly on Friday decided to issue notice to journalist Abhijit Iyer Mitra for his alleged derogatory remarks against the state, its culture and the…