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The Delhi High Court on Monday stayed operation of an order passed by the trial court directing the prosecution to furnish to prime accused and suspended IPS officer R. K. Sharma copies of certain observations by Rakesh Bhatnagar recorded by the investigating officer in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, says a United News of India (UNI) report in the Hindu. Details: While staying the trial courtâ...

March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, is adding a finance site to its stable of offerings, a move that sparks fresh competition for Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. Google Finance lets users search for stocks and mutual funds and displays company information, news stories and interactive charts. Users can also track the performance of stocks they own, said Katie...

The Anglican Church in Wales has apologised to Muslims after printing a cartoon satirising the Prophet Muhammad in its Welsh-language magazine. The Church in Wales has issued an immediate recall of all copies of the latest edition of Y Llan - meaning Church - following the reproduction of the cartoon. The drawing, reprinted from the French daily France Soir, satirises Muhammad by depicting him...

ONE could almost imagine George Clooney, robed and slippered, taking to the veranda of his Italian lakeside villa and hunkering over a laptop for his maiden voyage into the blogosphere, which appeared in the form of a passionate left-wing call to arms at HuffingtonPost.com last week. "We can't demand freedom of speech then turn around and say, 'But please don't say bad things about us,' " the...

NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Workers from 12 newspapers that are being sold by McClatchy Co. (MNI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) are pressing ahead with efforts to acquire the papers, which include The Philadelphia Inquirer and San Jose Mercury News, union representatives said on Monday. The newspapers were part of McClatchy Co.'s $4.5 billion deal earlier this month to buy Knight Ridder Inc. (KRI...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia | Political and economic pressure on the Slovenian media is on the rise. Despite many years of warnings by media experts that the state needs to abandon its indirect influence on the fourth estate, the center-right government of Janez Jansa isn’t showing any signs of breaking with the habits of its center-left predecessors. On the contrary, Slovenia’s most influential media are...

Has the home page eclipsed the front page as the go-to place for breaking news and highly touted exclusives? News executives say yes, that on many days and for many stories, their dot-com properties have started to supersede their traditional news products. The shift is being driven by improved broadband and wireless technology, which makes Web video and text more accessible and allows people to...

Rome, 20 March (AKI) - A hundred years of censorship imposed by monarchies or dictatorships and threats of jail or even death against dissenting journalists, have meant that one the worst enemies of freedom of information in Iran is self-censorship, argues Iranian-Italian journalist Ahmed Rafat in a new book published in Italy this week. "The last spring - the battle for freedom of information in...

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Sri Lankan police last Monday questioned Lasanthe Wickrematunga, editor of the Sunday Leader, for two hours over spurious allegations that his weekly newspaper was "jeopardising the security of the country." The police investigation follows the publication on March 5 of an article entitled "The Tiger report on paramilitaries", which was based on a...

BAGHDAD, March 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. military is offering new safeguards to journalists in Iraq to prevent a repeat of lengthy detentions suffered by several reporters last year. Abandoning a policy that denied journalists special status -- and under which three Reuters staff were jailed for up to eight months -- the general in charge of detentions said such arrests would now be treated as...