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Nagpur, Oct 6: Sahara Samay journalist Shanker Arnimesh was today apprehended when he was trying to cover an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) programme here, Sahara Samay sources said. Animesh, an PIB card holder journalist, was taken into custody for an hour. The Sahara Samay journalist produced his identity cards and other relevant documents before the police officials but the cops did not pay...

LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to announce that Iraqi interpreters working for the British army will be given the opportunity of asylum here, newspapers reported on Saturday. The offer to interpreters and their families, who face threats because of their work with the British, will apply to those who have worked with them for a year. Brown is due to make a statement on Iraq to...

Much of the news about Yahoo! recently has involved missed earnings, missing executives and missed opportunities. But there is good news--the Internet company’s news service itself. Over the past two years, Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) has quietly solidified its position as the No. 1 provider of general, financial and sports news on the Internet. Two out of every five people who use...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Luring new readers means connecting with them on the Internet through blogs, live online chats and interactive databases, industry leaders told newspapers editors Thursday. Amid a steady decline in newspaper advertising and circulation, building communities of readers through the online experience is essential, said Jim Brady, vice president and executive editor of...

The Allahabad High Court has stayed the arrest of a senior journalist of a Delhi-based news channel Roy Tapan Bharati in connection with FIRs lodged against him and another senior journalist for their alleged involvement in suicide by a junior reporter in Noida. In a suicide note, deceased Priya Singh, a reporter in a Noida based news channel, had claimed that her promotion as an anchor from...

Oct 05: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is now planning to bring online news portals and web editions of newspapers under the umbrella of the Press and Registration of Books Act that was 140 years old and carrying the old British law of that time till today without major amendment. For this reason the government will have to amend the PRB Act, which was originally enacted in 1867 and can...

FORT COLLINS, Colorado (CNN) -- The editor-in-chief of Colorado State University's newspaper will keep his job after he published a four-word column that said, "Taser this: F**k Bush." The CSU Board of Student Communications met Thursday for nearly four hours in a closed hearing before deciding to admonish instead of fire Rocky Mountain Collegian editor-in-chief David McSwane. Speaking for the...

CHICAGO: Gonzalo Guillen, a reporter for The Miami Herald's Spanish-language daily El Nuevo Herald, has fled Colombia after President Alvaro Uribe accused him of ghost-writing a book linking the president to the notorious drug dealer Pablo Escobar, a Colombian free-press group said Friday. The Bogota-based Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP for its initials in Spanish) said Guillen had left the...

(M&C) - The BBC journalist who was abducted and held by militants in Gaza City earlier this year is to reveal details of his ordeal in an hour-long Panorama special. Alan Johnston spent 113 days in captivity before being released in on July 4. The documentary, to be shown on October 25, will include questions put to Mr Johnston and interviews with some of those involved in the campaign for his...

A detective sergeant has been charged with leaking information to a journalist in the first case of its kind. Detective Sergeant Robert McNulty, 48, was brought before Dublin District Court this afternoon charged with disclosing details of a Commission of Investigation report into the charging of Dean Lyons, a homeless heroin addict, with two murders he did not commit. Gardaí said that on a date...