A group of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) workers stoned the office of a Malayalam daily in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday protesting a cartoon carried by it on the currency note garland controversy involving Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and party supremo Mayawati. According to a spokesman of the newspaper, Tejas, the slogan-shouting group, holding the BSP flag, smashed the office sign board and damaged...
A journalist and three crew members of private TV channels were roughed up, allegedly by pro-strike activists in various places, when they were covering the general strike, called by Leftist trade unions here on wednesday, police said, according to a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. Some details: Amrita TV Chief Reporter Deepak Dharmadam was traded blows by a group of persons when he was moving...
The Indian newspaper society (INS) and Editors Guild of India on Wednesday condemned the attack on three journalists and the office of Malayala Manorama in Kerala allegedly by SFI activists and asked the state government to take strong action against the guilty, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. In a statement, INS president Bahubali S Shah said the three journalists and a driver were...
Kannur, Aug. 13 (PTI): Scribes of Manorama News TV channel and Malayala Manorama daily's Kannur unit were manhandled by suspected CPI(M) workers while they were travelling in their vehicle here today. The incident occurred as the vehicle got stranded in a rally organised by the pro-CPI(M) "kerala state Karashaka Thozhilali Union' to the head post office here, as the scribes were returning after...
New Delhi, July 9 : The Editors Guild of India today strongly condemned the threats issued to K. Gopalakrishnan, Editor, Mathrubhumi Malayalam, by leaders of the CPI(M) and its frontal organisations in Kerala. It also condemned the appearance of anonymous posters in Kerala warning that Gopalakrishnan would be framed with lewd charges. It described the purported attack on Gopalakrishnan as a crude...
New Delhi, June. 23 (PTI): The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) today condemned the attack on the office of Malayalam daily ‘Mathrubhumi’ and asked the government to take urgent steps to bring the culprits to book. Reacting with “shock and horror†to the attack on the Mathrubhumi office, INS President Hormusji N Cama said, “if criminal elements and miscreants are allowed to get away with...
Kanhangad (Kerala), May. 25 (PTI): An 'attempt to murder' case was today lodged against the Managing Editor of the evening daily, even as the editor said he was being falsely implicated in the case after the daily's office was attacked by unidentified persons late last night. According to the Hosdurg police, a case of attempt to murder was filed against Aravindan Manikoth, Managing Editor of...
Amrita TV Chief Executive Editor Neelan was attacked by some miscreants, purportedly for airing a programme on increasing ''goonda'' attacks in the capital. Neelan was attacked last night in front of the state secretariat on his way home. He was admitted to a private hospital here with head injuries, Amrita TV said. He had received several threats after ''Ullarakal'', a programme based on '...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) the global organisation of journalists, representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide is concerned over the recent violence directed towards journalists and media workers in Kerala, India. "It is unacceptable for journalists to be attacked in attempts to intimidate or censor reports," said IFJ President Christopher Warren today. "Journalists must...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation of journalists representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, is concerned over the recent violence directed towards journalists and media workers in Kerala, India. "It is unacceptable for journalists to be attacked in attempts to intimidate or censor reports," said IFJ President Christopher Warren today. "Journalists...
