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India's size poses many challenges to businesses but its geographic stature is one of the main reasons for its current hold on the imagination of foreign investors. The media and entertainment industries are a case in point, with a market of 550 million consumers that is impossible to ignore. It is no surprise then that, in investment circles, India is rather crowded now. "Every private equity...

Mumbai: Zee group founder Subhash Chandra is planning a big splash in the print media with a newspaper in New Delhi next year. The Zee group's entry into the print advertising market in the capital, the country's biggest after Mumbai, is expected to bring down the cost of advertisements. The Daily News & Analysis, or DNA, may also start editions in the South with a war chest of Rs700 crore ($154...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The United States could be rife with Internet addicts as clinically ill as alcoholics, a study suggested. Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, said their telephone survey indicated more than one in eight US residents showed at least one sign of "problematic Internet use." The findings backed those of previous, less rigorous studies...

The Pentagon has brushed off a request from a journalist organization seeking more information and a decision on Bilal Hussein, an Associated Press photographer held for six months in Iraq without formal charges. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, in a letter to the Committee to Protect Journalists, did not provide details about why Iraqi photographer Bilal Hussein continues to be held without...

NEW YORK — The Pentagon has brushed off a request from a journalist organization seeking more information and a decision on Bilal Hussein, an Associated Press photographer held for six months in Iraq without formal charges. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, in a letter to the Committee to Protect Journalists, did not provide details about why Iraqi photographer Bilal Hussein continues to be held...

KABUL (Reuters) - A group which said it kidnapped Italian photojournalist Gabriele Torsello in the Taliban's southern Afghan heartland called aid workers on Sunday to say he was "fine" and they would make their ransom demands soon. Peacereporter ( www.peacereporter.net), a Web site specialising in reports from conflict zones, said Torsello's kidnappers called a hospital run by Italian aid group...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The only thing that surprised Abdolreza Tajik when the Iranian authorities shut the pro-reform newspaper where he worked was that it had survived so long since last year's election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But when the order to close Sharq came in September it confirmed his suspicions that the government of Ahmadinejad, who rails against the West and vows a return to...

Guardian Media Group is renaming its national and regional newspaper divisions to reflect its multimedia expansion. The publisher follows the Times and Telegraph who similarly renamed to reflect the importance of new publishing channels to their businesses. Guardian Newspapers Limited (GNL), the division that publishes the Guardian, the Observer and Guardian Unlimited, is to be renamed Guardian...

MOSCOW, October 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Supreme Court said Monday it has scheduled a hearing on an appeal against the acquittal of three people accused of murdering Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, for October 31. On May 5, a jury acquitted Fail Sadretdinov and two co-defendants, Chechens Kazbek Dukuzov and Musa Vakhayev, of Klebnikov's 2004 killing. Prosecutors in the case appealed to the...

Talks about the future of the US newspaper industry tend to revolve around two cities these days. There is Los Angeles, where staff at the Los Angeles Times last month rebelled against a distant corporate owner. And there is Chicago, home to that same owner, the Tribune Company, where a special committee is considering breaking up the group’s newspaper and television properties to satisfy...