The Andhra Pradesh police today conducted searches at the office of Margadarsi Financiers, owned by media baron C Ramoji Rao, following allegations of financial irregularities against the firm, according to news reports. Armed with a search warrant issued by a local court, a team of 17 CID officials went to the head office of Margadarsi Financiers at Saifabad here and carried out the search to...
HYDERABAD — The Andhra police have stepped up their efforts to resolve the mystery of the grisly murder of Lakshmi Sujata, a news reader at a local Television channel in a Vijaywada lodge. They have arrested three people including the brother-in-law of the victim. A police team from Vijaywada also arrested two persons from Hyderabad, the police sources said. In Vijaywada, where Sujata Lakshmi...
Warangal: A journalist working as Doordarshan Mahbubnagar district contributor was found dead in suspicious circumstances near Quila Warangal on Saturday. Vijayanand (37), a native of Mahbubnagar, came to Warangal on December 28 to write the final exams of the Bachelor of Communication and Journalism, a year-long correspondence course, offered by the Distant Learning and Continuing Education of...
RSF has welcomed the release on bail of N. Venugopal, editor of the Telugu-language twice-monthly "Veekshanam", on 16 June 2005. The editor was arrested on 30 May, along with three other members of the Revolutionary Writers Association (Virasam), V. Chenchaiah, G. Pinakapani and Ravi Kumar. Police had opposed their bail application before the Nizamabad District Court. On the morning of 16 June, a...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is outraged over the continued detention of journalist Venu Gopal in Qila Jail, Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. "Incarceration of journalists on false charges is an outright attack on press freedom, and must not be tolerated on any account," said IFJ President Christopher Warren. According to information received by the IFJ, the noted journalist...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is outraged over the continued detention of journalist Venu Gopal in Qila Jail, Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. "Incarceration of journalists on false charges is an outright attack on press freedom, and must not be tolerated on any account," said IFJ President Christopher Warren. According to information received by the IFJ, noted journalist, and...
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the prolonged detention of N. Venugopal, the editor of the Telugu-language fortnightly Veekshanam in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh, and the conspiracy charge that has been brought against him. Venugopal was arrested on 30 May in the company of other writers and activists related to the local Naxalite Maoists. The press freedom organisation...
