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Chandigarh, August 29: Buckling under mounting pressure, Punjab police on Monday released The Indian Express correspondent Gautam Dheer on bail, a day after he was arrested from his residence in connection with a case. The scribe was released on bail on furnishing a personal and surety bond of Rs 10,000 each, Ropar police chief S.P. Singh said. Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh...

Chandigarh, August 29: Hours ahead of his production in a local court, Punjab government on Monday ordered an inquiry into the arrest of a correspondent of The Indian Express by police allegedly in connection with a rape case. "An inquiry by Home Secretary A.K. Dubey has been ordered into the case and the prosecution will not oppose the bail plea of the correspondent in the court," Chief Minister...

New Delhi, August 29: Strongly condemning the arrest of Gautam Dheer, correspondent for The Indian Express in Chandigarh, the Editors' Guild today termed the Punjab police action as "arbitrary" and violative of principle of a free press and demanded his immediate release. "This arbitrary arrest is a clear violation of Dheer's rights as a citizen and media professional. It is also violative of the...

CHANDIGARH: A report by The Indian Express this morning on a complaint against Inspector General of Police Sumedh Singh Saini to the state human rights commission brought the might of the Punjab cops to the reporter’s door. Throwing all legal norms out of the window, a police team, reporting directly to IGP Saini, stormed into the residence of The Indian Express Principal Correspondent Gautam...

Brussels, 29 August - The death of a Reuters soundman brings the total of journalists and support staff known to have been killed by US forces in the Iraq war to 13. Eighty-one members of the news media have died since the war began in March 2003, according to figures compiled by the International News Safety Institute. More than half - 50 - were murdered by insurgents and other unidentified...

Panos South Asia is offering fellowships to print journalists from India to research Dalit women's rights and health issues. The Fellowship will run from October 2005- May 2006. Selected Fellows will be provided editorial support by a panel of health and communication experts. Additionally, they will be awarded a grant of 1000 USD each, plus a modest budget for travel expenses. Based on their...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, has growing concerns over press freedom and human rights violations in Nepal. The IFJ is concerned that the latest incidents have seen a number of journalists harassed and threatened by government forces and the suspected abduction of three other journalists...

NEW DELHI, August 29: The sports sections of America’s newspapers are a passive and reactive space, one dominated by game previews and recaps with little room for enterprise reportage, a new study of the sports section fronts has found. The definition of "sports" on the section fronts of America’s newspapers is a narrow one, focused less on breaking new ground and seeking new topics than on mining...

NEW DELHI, August 29: Despite rising numbers of women in the workforce and in journalism schools, the news of the day still largely comes from a male perspective even in a country like the United States, according to a new study of press coverage in that country. A broad look across the American news media over the course of nine months revealed that men are relied on as sources in the news more...

NEW DELHI, August 29: There are different ways in that different people ask journalists to behave themselves. The last fortnight saw a surfeit of that. The first was a salvo – from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Since the recalcitrant Maoists stopped smoking the peace pipe with him, Reddy has been one beleaguered man. And having come a cropper to make the agrarian Naxalite...