Madhya Pradesh

A senior reporter of a national Hindi daily and his associate were brutally murdered in Bhopal on Tuesday, the Telegraph has reported. The bodies of Shahdeo Pandey (43) and his associate Mohammad Sabir were recovered after several hours of search Wednesday morning. Details from the report: It is believed they were throttled to death and their heads smashed with stones. They were heading towards...

The Madhya Pradesh police on Tuesday released a Delhi-based journalist after detaining him for 42 hours. Nadeem Ahmad of the Milli Gazette was in the state to report on the recent arrests of activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), acording to a report in the Central Chronicle. The Chronicle reported: Nadeem Ahmad said that on April 6, he went to Aroda village under...

Hundreds of people belonging to the Jain community along with a number of journalists staged a road blockade here Wednesday demanding immediate arrest of the culprits who had shot dead a journalist and his driver a day before. Pawan Jain, editor of evening newspaper Virdohi Dhara published from the neighbouring Vidisha town, and his driver Sardar Singh were shot dead near the city's posh J.K. Road...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, has today condemned the imprisonment of an investigative journalist in India. "Penalising whistle blowers for their truth telling is a curtailment of press freedom that must be resisted," said IFJ President Christopher Warren. According to information received by the IFJ...