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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...

BERLIN -- An apology by Denmark's largest newspaper for depicting the Prophet Mohammed in political cartoons failed yesterday to calm a controversy that has ignited fiery protests across the Islamic world and provoked death threats against Scandinavians by Muslim radical groups. Muslim political and religious leaders and jihadists added their voices to the fury already thundering from mosques and...

THE Danish editor who brought the fury of the Muslim world on his country by printing pictures of the Prophet Muhammad defiantly declared yesterday: "We do not apologise for printing the cartoons. It was our right to do so." As protests continued for a second day in Gaza with shouts of "Death to Denmark", Flemming Rose, the culture editor of the centre-right daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sat in...

A French newspaper has reproduced a controversial set of caricatures, originally published in Denmark and decried in the Muslim world as blasphemous to the prophet Mohammed. The Paris daily France Soir, on Wednesday, printed the dozen cartoons, explaining that it chose to do so to illustrate the polemic sparked by their original publication, in the Danish Jyllands-Posten paper last September...

A leading Danish newspaper has apologised for the offence caused by its controversial publication of a series of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that provoked protests across the Middle East, while defending its right to commission and print them in the first place. Carsten Juste, editor-in-chief of the daily Jyllands-Posten admitted that the 12 cartoons, one of which depicted the Prophet...