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The Editors Guild of India has in a resolution expressed deep concern at the way the basic question of woman’s honour and dignity has been affected in the Imrana case. "As a citizen of India, Imrana’s basic constitutional rights to justice and equal treatment are at stake. We have to ensure that a woman’s self respect is not sacrificed at the altar of parochial and regressive interests. We must...

Deccan Chronicle Holdings has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that in its forthcoming board meeting on July 27, 2005, it will discuss the offer of up to 9 per cent of its share capital for raising funds through foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs), private placement, American depository receipts (ADRs) or global depository receipts (GRDs) subject to a 5-year conversion period. P K Iyer...

Search giant Google has teamed up with publisher Hearst Corp. and financial institution Goldman, Sachs & Co., to back a promising new means of distributing broadband Internet connections that could radically change the way people -- and even electronic devices -- send and receive data. The unusual alliance has made a nearly $100 million investment in Current Communications Group (CCG), a company...

Just about every week, the phone rings with an earnest, young journalism student at the other end asking what he or she needs to do to become a reporter. Some have already given it a great deal of thought. Most have not. For a while now, I've toyed with the notion of one day writing a book, a kind of road map for would-be reporters on some of the obstacles ahead. I'm not sure what I'd call it...

There are no bars in the 70-square-foot cell that Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter, is expected to call home for the next four months or so, as she serves her contempt-of-court sentence in the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia. But though the jail has a reputation among lawyers and corrections officials as a relatively progressive institution, Ms. Miller indicated to her lawyers...

The world sees London's tribulation through the eyes of Adam Stacey and the words of Matina Zoulia. Their stories of the moments following the bomb blasts that struck the city during the Thursday morning rush hour captured public attention in a way that few news stories could. In other words, citizen journalism passed the breaking-news test. Try not to lose yourself in Stacey's photograph of a...

A research lab at Waterford Institute of Technology is playing a leading role in a new Third World initiative involving millions of euro in government aid and corporate donations, which seeks to leverage technology development processes to improve the lives of thousands of Indian communities. The Information Systems, Organisations and Learning Research Centre (ISOL) at the Waterford Institute of...

The government today notified the June 16, 2005 decision of the Union Cabinet, which allowed foreign portfolio investment in Indian print media and printing of international editions of foreign newspapers in India. It has also notified increasing the levels of syndicated content to 20 per cent. The notification said permission will be granted only in cases where equity held by the largest Indian...

NEW DELHI: The Government notified on Wednesday changes in the print media guidelines, approved by the Cabinet in mid-June, that seek to facilitate greater foreign presence in print media through printing of facsimile editions of foreign newspapers and periodicals, and enhancement of the syndication limits in Indian newspapers. Also, greater flexibility has been allowed in the foreign investment...

This is a proud but awful moment for The New York Times and its employees. One of our reporters, Judith Miller, has decided to accept a jail sentence rather than testify before a grand jury about one of her confidential sources. Ms. Miller has taken a path that will be lonely and painful for her and her family and friends. We wish she did not have to choose it, but we are certain she did the right...