India

Jaipur, April. 30 (PTI): The confederation of newspapers and news agency organisations, an umbrella organisation of apex media trade unions, today asked the Centre to immediately announce setting up of the new wage boards for journalists and non-journalist employees in the newspaper industry and said it would draw up an agitation plan soon. Addressing the valedictory session of the two-day meeting...

Jaipur, April. 29 (PTI): The confederation of newspapers and news agency organisations, an umbrella organisation of apex media trade unions, today threatened a countrywide agitation, including an indefinite strike, if the Central Government does not set up new wage boards for journalists and non-journalists at the earliest. Addressing a two-day annual general meeting of the confederation here, its...

Journalists' leaders in India are being urged to lead a new campaign to reinforce rights of women journalists in one of Asia's dramatically expanding media markets. A five-day union debate on gender equality and women's rights concluded with a call to make women's rights and improved portrayal of women priorities over the coming year. Unions are being invited to set up special gender councils to...

New technologies and a booming economy will help double revenues in India's television industry by 2010, but regulatory barriers could impact growth in the world's third-largest cable TV market, Reuters has reported quoting a new study. The Hong Kong-based Media Partners Asia (MPA) has estimated in a just-released study that India is set to become Asia's leading cable market by 2010, the largest...

Some weeks ago, a journalist investigating a scam in the Assam forest department was brutally murdered. Perpetrators of the crime are obviously part of the loop of crime and sleaze surrounding the department. There is the timber lobby, politicians, bureaucrats and what have you. They are a deadly cocktail by any standards. Following on the heels of this gruesome killing is the attempt on the life...

Even while Manipur is immersed in the controversy over the life attempt on a well known journalist by an underground organization, a not so similar media issue is raging in the West. Danish newspapers in September published a series of cartoons of Islam’s prophet, Mohammed, some of which are said to have lampooned him as a terrorist (we have still not seen them although they are reported to be on...

Srinagar, Feb 11: Yusuf Jameel, veteran Kashmiri journalist has won the best journalist of the South Asian region award for his outstanding reporting from Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir during a visit across the Line of Control last year. He was among a dozen journalists from Jammu and Kashmir who joined the return visit to Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir of the South Asian journalists and during...

A citizen journalist video clip from a concerned citizen about a pregnant woman giving birth on a pavement after being denied admission in a government hospital has created a stir in the Andhra Pradesh capital of Hyderabad. CRUEL INTENTION: A pregnant woman had to perforce give birth on the roadside after being denied admission in a government hospital in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. The incident...

Twenty-five years after the alleged rape and murder of a woman journalist in Orissa, a statue of hers has been put up in a village as a mark of respect. Chabirani Das was gangraped and murdered near the Beluakhai beach in the coastal district of Jagatsinghpur on Oct 3, 1980. She was staying along with her husband Naba and a child at Dihasaibiri village in the same district. Chabirani was a...

GWALIOR: You might have come across several newspapers writing on the plight of women, but have you ever heard about a paper run by women, for women and to women? If not, then come to Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh to read through 'Mahila Paksh', India's first women centric newspaper, covering issues and subjects ranging from atrocities on women to their achievements in various fields. With reporters...