2005-2014

BHUBANESWAR: Development Commissioner Ajit Kumar Tripathy has filed a defamation case of Rs 30 lakh against vernacular daily ‘The Samaja’ in the court of Senior Civil Judge, Bhubaneswar over an article published in the paper. President and member of the Lok Sevak Mandal, printer, publisher and editor of the paper have been made parties in the case. Senior lawyer Prashant Routray and his associate...

The Madras High Court today quashed the chargesheet filed against columnist S Gurumurthy for refusing to divulge information and answer questions put to him by the Tamil Nadu police in connection with the September 2004 murder of temple official Sankararaman. He was also charged under section 14 of the Press and Registration of Books Act 1867 for his articles published in an English Daily on...

The Americans may call them surrender-monkeys, but the French can sometimes teach the world something about pluck -- or maybe foolhardiness. France Soir has just courted big trouble by printing across two pages all 12 of the Danish newspaper cartoons that have caused such a furore in the Muslim world. For good measure, they ran their own cartoon across the front page, featuring not just the...

A fatwa, or legal Islamic ruling, appears to have been issued against Danish soldiers stationed in Iraq, the Danish defence ministry said on Tuesday. "I can confirm that we've heard about the fatwa from a reliable source in Iraq ... so we believe it's true," Defence Minister Soeren Gade's spokesman Jacob Winther told AFP. The report came amid rising Muslim anger over 12 cartoons published in...

Kathmandu, Feb 1 (PTI) Three dozen journalists were arrested in Nepal today as they held demonstrations to protest against the curbs imposed on media after King Gyanendra's assumption of absolute power a year ago. Two dozen scribes were arrested from New Road, a restricted area in Kathmandu, as they demonstrated, marking the first anniversay of the royal takeover as 'Black Day' to protest against...

DOHA: The motion "This House believes that Arab media needs no lessons in journalism from the West" was defeated with a majority of 68.3 per cent votes at the Qatar Foundation's Doha Debates yesterday. A host of controversial issues in journalism ranging from the Al Qaeda tapes to the Danish cartoons on Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) were raised at the lively and enlightening debate. Speaking for the...

New Delhi: An Editors Guild of India committee, constituted in the wake of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent remarks about the lack of accountability in news reporting, has found that the race to increase circulation and a lack of transparency in acknowledging the news source are the primary causes of misreporting. While noting various cases of irresponsible reporting that led to serious...

A few days ago, the Uganda government "revised" the accreditation for Will Ross, the BBC’s correspondent in Kampala, from 12 months down to four. Freelance journalist Blake Lambert, who has reported from Uganda for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Economist, and other news outlets, has been checking the mailbox for his accreditation, but the authorities have not posted it. Information...

Denmark and Norway on Tuesday tried to curb the damage caused by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper, while Arab interior ministers called on Denmark to "firmly sanction" the authors of the caricatures. A Norwegian magazine which reprinted the caricatures said Tuesday it "regretted" offending Muslims but stopped short of issuing an apology, a day after the editor of...

Former In-Nazzjon editor Joseph Zahra and In-Nazzjon journalist Joe Mikallef were ordered to pay a total of Lm600, after a court upheld an appeal made by former Maltese High Commissioner Richard Matrenza with regard to a libel suit. Mr Matrenza had filed a libel suit regarding an article published on the 7 January 1999 edition of In-Nazzjon. He claimed the article, entitled £1,687 for sheets and...