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Newspapers in Manipur have decided to suspend publication from Saturday after unidentified gunmen shot at and critically injured a senior journalist in state capital Imphal Thursday morning. The incident took place at the Uripok Bachaspati Leikai area shortly after 8 am when three armed men came on a two-wheeler and pumped in three bullets on Ratan Luwangcha, bureau chief of Manipuri daily...

New York, February 10, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists praises the Indonesian Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to overturn the September 2004 criminal libel conviction of Tempo magazine's top editor, Bambang Harymurti. The three-judge panel ruled unanimously that civil, and not criminal, laws should apply. Lower courts had applied criminal law to convict and sentence Harymurti to a...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The Muslim Students Association at the University of North Carolina on Friday asked the campus' student newspaper to apologize for publishing an original cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. "The intention of bigotry was clear," the association wrote in a letter to The Daily Tar Heel. "One must question the DTH's ethics in advancing a widely protested issue to cause a riot...

A trip to the newsstand these days can be a dizzying descent into a blizzard of numbers. The March issue of Elle Girl promises readers "375 excuses to shop." Harper's Bazaar offers "783 new ideas to flatter you." Marie Claire trumpets not only "71 easy hair and makeup how-tos" but a mind-blowing "1,157 hot looks (all shapes, all sizes, all prices)." Magazines, particularly the "service"...

Expanding a test of its print advertising program, Google is now allowing advertisers to bid for space in 28 magazines, including high-profile publications such as Martha Stewart Living and Motor Trend. The move is part of a continuing effort to diversify its advertising business beyond the Internet, which now produces the bulk of its revenue. The company also recently required a company that will...

The Delhi High Court has granted interim bail for four weeks to former inspector general of Haryana Police R.K. Sharma, the key accused in the murder of Indian Express reporter Shivani Bhatnagar, according to an Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) report in the Times of India. Details: Granting bail, judge S.K. Aggarwal Friday directed that Sharma should not move out of his residence at Panchkula in...

The Guwahati Press Club (GPC) is inviting applications from working journalists of Northeast India for the 2nd GNRC Media Fellowship. The fellowship programme was launched last year when three journalists were selected. The number of fellowships has been increased to four this year. The fellows, selected for the three-month-long programme, will receive a stipend of Rs 10,000 per month each. A...

The clash over the Muhammad cartoons isn't just between "the West" and Islam. It's more between Muslims. Protests over the derogatory cartoons were purposely fanned by Arab leaders who need to look like mightier defenders of Islam than the jihadists who want to overthrow them and unite all Muslims. Many actions by the West serve as merely a foil in a long intra-Muslim struggle over whether to...

Moroccan weekly TelQuel continues to bear the brunt of courts. A Casablanca court Wednesday ruled on appeal that it must pay 500,000 dirhams (50,000 euros) in damages in a libel suit brought by the director of a child aid association, Touria Bouabid. THE CRUSADER: When TelQuel editor Ahmed Benchemsi was in the US on a fellowship in August 2005, the Moroccan authorities used a novel technique to it

A Zimbabwe court has set aside a decision by country's media commission not to license the Daily News newspaper. The newspaper was ordered to stop publishing in 2003 for criticising the government. In March 2005, the country's supreme court overturned the original ban, but the media commission twice denied its application for a license, Reuters has reported. YESTERDAY'S HEADLINE, TODAY'S NEWS: A