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The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) has alleged that the office of the Headlines Today news channel, which was attacked by suspected Sangh workers in New Delhi, had violated "norms of decent journalism" and regretted the damage to "some small property" during the protest against the media house. "It was a peaceful demonstration. We are sorry that flower pots and some small property were damaged...

Over 2000 angry protesters — led by local Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) leaders — barged into the office of Headlines Today news channel on Friday and vandalised the ground floor of the Videocon Towers at Jhandewalan in New Delhi. The mob was protesting a sting operation aired by Headlines Today, which linked RSS leader Indresh Kumar with Devender Gupta — a key accused in the Ajmer...

An editor of a local daily has moved a court seeking action against a Congress leader for allegedly threatening to burn him alive for publishing reports about unauthorised constructions in west Delhi, says a Press Trust of India report. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate PK Jain, after hearing his plea on Saturday last, fixed November 19 as the next date for hearing when the journalist will...

Another hit and run accident took place in Mumbai on Sunday morning, CNN-IBN has reported. The mishap involved two television journalists. One of them was seriously injured. The details: Shailendra Mohan and Dharmendra Tiwari, two journalists from the news channel NDTV, had stopped their car near the Kherwadi junction of the western express highway around 0500 hrs. They were shooting for a story...

A journalist working with a private television channel was on Saturday stabbed by unidentified persons and robbed him of his wallet and mobile phone in south Delhi, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported quoting police sources. Sourabh Mishra, working as a sports journalist with Zee News, was attacked by three unidentified persons who came in an autorickshaw, stabbed him and took his wallet...

A journalist working with Headlines Today news channel was shot dead in her car near her southwest Delhi home while returning from work in the early hours Tuesday. Soumya Viswanathan, 27, was found dead in her white Maruti Zen car on Nelson Mandela Marg in South Delhi's Vasant Kunj area around 3.30 a.m, police said. Her car was found rammed against the road divider and she was seated in the driver...

The Editors Guild of India has expressed shock at the pressure tactics being adopted by the Bharatiya Janata Party against CNN IBN Television channel. Criticising BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu for declaring that his party would boycott CNN IBN, if the channel does not immediately telecast the tapes of the sting operation carried out in concert with the BJP MPs in New Delhi on Juy 22 in connection with...

Jan 23, 1999: Shivani Bhatnagar, principal correspondent of the Indian Express, murdered in her East Delhi flat, when she was with her infant son. July 30, 2002: Delhi Police arrest Sri Bhagwan as he allegedly spills the beans on IPS officer RK Sharma. August 03,2002: Delhi police team raids Sharma’s residence at Panchkula in Haryana. Pradeep Sharma, the alleged killer, is arrested by police...

Senior IPS officer RK Sharma was Monday awarded life imprisonment by a Delhi court in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case. The court said he did not deserve the death penalty due to his "excellent" service record. Three other convicts were also sentenced to life imprisonment for the gruesome killing. Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, disallowing the prosecution's plea that the...

A Delhi fast track court Tuesday convicted suspended IPS officer Ravi Kant Sharma in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case of 1999 along with three other co-accused. While Sharma has been convicted under Sections 302, 120B and 201of the Indian Penal Code, three others—Sri Bhagwan, Satya Prakash and the alleged hired killer Pradeep Sharma—have been found guilty of murder and destruction of evidence...