Maharashtra

The Shiv Sena on Sunday started an agitation against establishments using the word “Bombay” and targeted a reputed school and a newspaper supplement. Apparently moved by party MP and Executive Editor of the Sena’s mouthpiece Saamana Sanjay Raut’s views in his weekly column, the activists allegedly burnt some copies of Bombay Times, a supplement of The Times of India, the Press Trust of...

A group of Shiv Sena activists yesterday ransacked the Mumbai office of weekly Outlook to protest an article in the magazine that featured party chief Bal Thackeray in a list of "villains". The activists barged into the office located in Raheja Chambers in the business district of Nariman Point in the afternoon and asked for the editor. They started ransacking the office on being told that no...

The staff of the Mumbai office of Star News was attacked Monday and its offices ransacked by about 50 activists of the so-called Hindu Rashtriya Sena after it broadcast an interview with a runaway couple – a a teenage Hindu girl and a young Muslim man. Policemen are seen through shattered glass panel of the office of the Star news network in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 16, 2007. Hard-line Hindu...

A journalist was ambushed and stoned by attackers who left him fatally injured in the rural area of Takalghat near Nagpur in Maharashtra state, central India, on 8 June 2006. Aran Narayan Dekate died in hospital two days later. Fellow journalists in Nagpur told Reporters Without Borders that his death was very likely to be linked to articles he wrote in the Marathi-language regional daily Tarun...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said Mumbai journalist Violet Godwin “might have been killed” due to negligent investigation on the part of the Mumbai police. In a letter to the Centre, which in turn has forwarded to the state government, the international body came down heavily on the Mumbai police. Now the victim’s brother, dissatisfied with the nature of investigation by the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed concern at the growing trend of violent attacks by rightwing outfits against journalists in Maharashtra. "Disagreement with views cannot be the reason to attack media houses. The media must be allowed to remain independent, and encouraged to resist pressure tactics, from whichever direction they come," said IFJ president Christopher...

PUNE: At least seven persons claiming to be activists of Shambaji Brigade forcefully entered the office of 'Lokmat' newspaper on Monday evening and ransacked the place in protest against a poem in the Marathi daily's Sunday supplement on Shivaji Maharaj. The activists threatened the employees for having published the poem by late GD Mudgulkar which referred Sant Ramdas Swam as Shivaji Maharaj's...

MUMBAI: The D N Nagar police station on Saturday arrested a reporter of this newspaper on a complaint lodged against her for an article in TOI despite an apology and clarification having already appeared in the morning edition (February 18). The reporter was later granted bail of Rs 5,000 by an Andheri metropolitan magistrate after the police did not press for custody. The article in the paper...

Journalists from various media organisations here today took out a 'silent morcha' to the divisional commissionerate to protest assaults on scribes in the city and demand action against the accused and compensation to the victims. The morcha of 400-odd scribes, led by senior journalist and Executive Editor of Sakal Gopalrao Sakrikar, Saamna's Assistant Editor Dhananjay Lambe and others began at...

MUMBAI: An editor of a local newspaper has lodged a complaint against a ward-level president of the Samajwadi Party, another journalist and an owner of a newspaper for allegedly molesting her. The complainant, a 30-year-old woman, alleged Mehbub Faruqui (35), Surendra Dube (40) and Seeraj Shaikh, who is local ward president of Samajwadi Party, had molested her on the afternoon of February 1 at the...