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New Delhi, Dec. 14 (PTI): A large number of journalists and workers of media organisations today staged a demonstration in front of the Labour Ministry here demanding immediate constitution of a new wage board. The demonstration was organised by the Confederation of Newspaper and News Agency Organisations. M S Yadav, Joint Secretary of the Confederation, addressing the protestors, said "If the...

Mumbai, Dec 14: Warning a section of media which put out "agenda-driven" news, market regulator SEBI today said it would tighten its leash on such media to protect interests of the investing public. "We will find a way to deal with this type of news in the interest of average investors," SEBI Chairman M Damodaran said after inaugurating the ticker showing BSE's live quotes and a video screen at...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders called for an end to the impunity with which journalists are being targeted in Iraq after Omar Mohammed, of US-run Arabic satellite channel al Hurra, escaped a second murder attempt after being ambushed in central Baghdad. Mohammed was fired on by gunmen who had lain in wait for him as he left his office on 11 December 2006. He escaped with a bullet wound to...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has reminded leaders from democratic countries attending the 15 and 16 December 2006 ceremonies marking the start of another five-year term for Gambian President Yahya Jammeh in Banjul that 16 December will be the second anniversary of journalist Deyda Hydara's still unpunished murder. The organisation said it particularly warned Taiwanese Prime Minister Su...

The Moscow city government has refused permission for a parade to honor Anna Politkovskaya and other Russian journalists killed in recent years. A Moscow journalists' group planned the event for next Sunday, the radio station Ekho Moskvy said. The group said all it sought was permission to march peacefully through the center of the city. Politkovskaya, who reported for Novaya Gazeta on human...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on its network of more than 100 unions and associations around the world to give their backing to a nationwide series of unified protests in India on Thursday. The country’s three major journalists groups – the Indian Journalists’ Union, the National Union of Journalists, India and the All India Newspaper Employees Federation – have...

NEW YORK: For the past four years there has been no shortage of news and views on Iraq and the long-running war there. What’s been missing: a one-stop-shopping clearinghouse for nonpartisan information, including material coming out of Iraq itself from natives of that country, not from foreign correspondents. Now that need is being addressed in the form of IraqSlogger, in Beta at www.iraqslogger...

LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Global news agency Reuters (RTR.L: Quote, Profile , Research) on Wednesday appointed David Schlesinger to be its new editor in chief, replacing Geert Linnebank, who will become a senior adviser to the company's chief executive. Schlesinger, who has been global managing editor and head of editorial operations since 2003, will take over in January 2007. "He (Schlesinger)...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on its network of more than 100 unions and associations around the world to give their backing to a nationwide series of unified protests in India on Thursday. The country's three major journalists groups - the Indian Journalists' Union, the National Union of Journalists, India and the All India Newspaper Employees...

Reporters Without Borders has urged the Indian authorities, particularly Home minister Shivraj Patil, to provide clear and objective information about the detention of Abdul Rouf, a journalist on the Srinagar News, and his wife Zeenat Rouf. "The rule of law should be guaranteed in Kashmir as elsewhere in India. It is unacceptable that the security forces arrest, detain and charge journalists in...