Karnataka

Authorities in Karnataka state should drop charges against Tehelka magazine correspondent KK Shahina that appear intended to discredit her reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Police visited her residence in Kerala state twice in January and left notices for her to appear for questioning, leading her to fear she will be taken into custody, she told CPJ by email. In late...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the criminal proceedings launched against KK Shahina, a reporter with the weekly news magazine Tehelkaa, after a story of hers appeared to cast doubt on the prosecution of a prominent Islamic cleric and political figure on terrorism charges. Shahina's story appeared in an issue of Tehelka dated December 4, released a week prior to the...

Supporters of the head of a local dargah in Gulbarga attacked the office of Kannada daily Samyukta Karnataka on Friday and assaulted the staff. Three employees of the newspaper were severely injured, the Hindu has reported. The daily’s circulation manager Vilas Deshpande, who suffered serious head injuries, has been admitted to the Government General Hospital, and his condition stated to be...

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday ordered the state government to pay Rs 10,000 as compensation to detained journalist BV Seetaramwhile partly allowing a habeas corpus writ petition by his wife challenging the detention. In her writ petition, Rohini, managing director of Chitra Publications, had sought release of her husband, editor of Mangalore-based Kannada eveninger Karavali Ale, contending...

The chairman-director of the Chitra group, publisher of daily Karavali Ale, who has been held in a defamation case, was brought to the court premises in handcuffs, tied to a chain held by a policeman in Karnataka's Udupi on Monday. BV Seetaram, who is also the editor-in-chief of the group, was declined bail as he feared arrest by the Mangalore police on other charges, the Hindu reported. “If I...

A contractor, who assaulted a television journalist, was arrested by the Mahadevapura police in Bangalore on Monday, the Times of India has reported. Recently, a television journalist had gone to report a tender process in Mahadevapura town municipality. Seeing journalists on the premises, contractor Prakash Reddy assaulted and pushed them out of the municipality office. A complaint was lodged...

Bangalore: The Ashok Nagar police on Friday arrested two software engineers employed by an IT major on the charge of beating up a reporter of The Hindu on Convent Road on Monday. The arrested are Praveen Kumar of Hubli and Shank Deep Chakraborty of Kolkata. The two, both engineering graduates with a master’s degree in management, have confessed to beating up the reporter, Ayesha Matthan, Ulsoor...

BANGALORE: A young woman reporter with The Hindu was beaten up by two as-yet-unidentified men on a motorbike on Convent Road on Monday evening. Ayesha Matthan, reporter with MetroPlus, was walking down on Convent Road when the men illegally rode the motorbike on the footpath behind her. When they asked her to move out of the way, she refused and told them to get off the footpath. An altercation...

Mangalore Jan 31: A newspaper office was attacked by miscreants this evening in Mangalore. An office belonging to evening daily Karavali Ale (a sister concern of Canara Times), was attacked by some miscreants today 30 Jan 2007, evening at Baikampady industrial area. Watchman who was on duty at the time of incident was also said to have been attacked by the mob. Computers, Laser Printers and other...

A journalist of an English TV news channel, who was reporting live on holi celebrations in Chikpet area in Bangalore on Wednesday morning was molested by a gang of miscreants playing holi. According to the police, a gang of miscreants allegedly poured gulal and water colours on the journalist before a live camera, and tore her clothes. There were over 40 persons, who were playing holi at that...