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Competition can make strange bedfellows. The Times of India and Hindustan Times, bitter rivals in the national capital, have joined hands in Mumbai to take on DNA, the daily expected to be launched by the Essel Group-Dainik Bhaskar combine, in July. The collaboration between two of the country’s biggest media empires – Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (publishers of The Times) and Hindustan Times Ltd –...

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has alleged that Aljazeera is encouraging armed Islamist groups by broadcasting beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq. Speaking at a security conference in Singapore on Saturday, Rumsfeld said that "if anyone lived in the Middle East and watched a network like the Aljazeera day after day after day, even if he was an American, he would start waking up and...

Hyderabad, June 1 : Speakers at a national round table Wednesday agreed on the need for regulation of the media but differed on who should draw the line. Top journalists and Minister for Information and Broadcasting S. Jaipal Reddy felt there should be regulation for media, especially the electronic media, in view of the maddening competition but differed on who should make such the regulation...

With the launch of 'Mumbai Mirror', a tabloid from the stable of Benett Coleman and Co, on May 30, the first salvo has been fired in the impending media war in Mumbai. The city is also awaiting two more confirmed launches – that of the Mumbai edition of the Hindustan Times and Zee-Bhaskar group’s DNA in the next couple of months. A Kolkata-based newspaper group too is eyeing the Mumbai market with...

The Times of India Group is renewing its focus on magazines and is in the process of bringing various international titles to the country. One of the first to enter the market would be ‘Top Gear’ from the BBC stable. Gautam Sen is the editor of the magazine. Top Gear is expected to be published from India by the end of this month or early July. On being contacted, Times officials neither confirmed...

If there is an increase in rape cases don't blame the police. Blame the media. The Times of India seems to be under heavy pressure. In the weeks to come it will have to face stiff competition from at least two other publishing houses and it is preparing itself to face it. Almost daily, as it were, it is announcing launch of new sections, like Times International, Times City and two full Sunday...

Several dailies make space for Japanese number puzzle. A number puzzle that has stormed its way into major newspapers, magazines and websites across the US, UK and most of the world, has disembarked on Indian shores via a slew of dailies, including The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Deccan Chronicle and The Asian Age. Originating in Japan in its current form, Sudoku consists of a 9x9 grid, further...

George Brock, Managing Editor of The Times of London, has been elected President of the World Editors Forum, the global association dealing with issues of professional concern to senior news executives -- and the parent organization of this weblog. Mr Brock succeeds Gloria Brown Anderson of the New York Times. "WEF is the only global organisation devoted to raising and maintaining the quality of...

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister S. Jaipal Reddy, Press Council Chairman and prominent media personalities have advocated self-regulation by the media at a national round-table on "Should there be a Lakshman Rekha for News Media?" here on Wednesday. Inaugurating the meeting, Mr. Reddy advised the media to do "collective and cool introspection," besides building up its credibility. The...

It should now be easier for Indian journalists and other citizens to get public information from their government, thanks to a new law. The Indian Parliament approved the new access to information law on May 12, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX). According to IFEX, the new law follows election promises by the...