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The Supreme Court has stayed an Assam government order cancelling accreditation to the North East Television (NETV) correspondents to cover the 33rd National Games in Guwahati which began Friday, news agencies reported. A bench of Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan and Justice DK Jain stayed the February 6 order of the state government's Media Accreditation Committee after hearing NETV's counsel and...

By Ria Novosti, [RxPG] Moscow, Feb 10 - Law enforcement agencies said Saturday they are investigating an attack, apparently by skinheads, on a Newsweek magazine correspondent at a Moscow metro station. A police spokesman said Aidar Nuribayev was assaulted and beaten by four young men, who were apparently skinheads, at 11.30 p.m. local time - Friday at Tverskaya metro station in central Moscow. He...

An image of stylish Lebanese youths driving through a Beirut neighbourhood devastated by Israeli bombing, taken by US photographer Spencer Platt, has won the World Press Photo of the Year award, the jury announced today. The image contrasts a group of friends against a background of the wreckage of a collapsed building. Tellingly, one woman grimaces as she uses her mobile phone to send a text...

New Delhi, Feb 10 : Global Media Publications, a leading New Delhi, India-based publisher on South Asian issues has launched www.khabrein.info a dedicated online news paper for Indian diaspora residing around the world. Khabrein that means news in Hindi and Urdu aims to objectively present news and views to Indian audience living not only within the confines of this great country but also people...

A Dutch journalist has asked an Amsterdam court to convict him for eating chocolate, saying by doing so he was benefiting from child slavery on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, Reuters reported Friday. Teun van de Keuken, 35, is seeking a jail sentence to raise consumer awareness and force the cocoa and chocolate industry to take tougher measures to stamp out child labour. Children play with an old...

Last week, Arthur Hayes Sulzberger, the publisher of America’s most prestigious newspaper, told Haaretz, the Tel Aviv-based daily newspaper, that it is entirely possible that the New York Times might soon no longer be published on paper. “I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either," he told Haaretz in a rare interview. "The...

Ranchi/Calcutta, Feb. 9: “Negotiations are in an advanced stage” is the only comment that stakeholders were willing to make today. But the buzz is that Jharkhand’s leading newspaper, Prabhat Khabar, is all set to change hands. Unconfirmed reports put the UP-based Jagran group and MP-based Dainik Bhaskar group, the latter also the publishers of the English daily DNA (Daily News & Analysis) in...

US Internet advertising revenues may have grown more than 30 per last year, but many corporate advertisers and advertising agencies are concerned that their online ad impressions may not be properly counted. Respondents indicated two areas where audited Web metrics are useful: 91 per cent said it's important to audit ad impressions and delivery, while 89 per cent felt it's important to verify...

The Supreme Court has stayed an Assam government order cancelling accreditation to the North East Television (NETV) correspondents to cover the 33rd National Games in Guwahati which began Friday, news agencies reported. Soldiers use bomb detectors to check for explosives on a road in Guwahati, Monday, February 5, 2007. The rebel United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) withdrew its call for a...

CHINA'S Communist Party propaganda department has launched a points-based penalty system to try to rein in the increasingly muck-raking print media, a Hong Kong newspaper reported today. Media outlets will be allocated a dozen points that the propaganda department and the government media regulator can deduct one, three, six or all 12 at a time, the newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying. It...