Uttar Pradesh

A news channel reporter was found murdered in Ratan Lal Nagar, under Govindnagar police station, in Kanpur on Sunday morning, the Times of India has reported. More from the report: [ Link] Identified as Brijesh Gupta, a resident of Babupurwa, his body was found inside his car outside a guest house. There were serious injury marks on the body which was wrapped in a bed-sheet. A revolver was also...

A photojournalist of a Hindi daily was beaten up by the police and arrested in Allahabad on Sunday night. Hemant Chaudhary, however, termed the police action arbitrary, the Indian Express has reported. Chaudhary claimed that he was trying to take photographs of the Allahabad Museum on Sunday evening, when the museum guards objected and snatched his camera and mobile phone. They dragged him inside...

A drunken man brutally attacked NDTV journalist Chandra Prakash on Thursday night in Noida, the channel reported. The culprit, Nandan Chaturvedi has been behind bars since Thursday night, when he almost killed the NDTV journalist. Chaturvedi was drunk when he drove his Santro into the car of Chandra Prakash in Sector 41, Noida at around 11.30 pm. Chaturvedi then took out a stick and beat Chandra...

A reporter was shot dead by his sister-in-law's brother at Panki area in the district, the Kanpur police has said, according to a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. Vinay, who was a reporter with a Delhi-based news organisation, had come to Allahabad to meet his brother and sister-in-law on Holi, SSP Anand Swaroop said. The trio, then went to Priya's brother's place, Ajay, at Panki where Vinay and...

A senior journalist and noted industrialist of Aligarh was shot dead in front of his house here under the Banna Devi police station by unknown assailants on Monday night. City Superintendent of Police J.K. Shahi said Hari Om Aggarwal, a senior journalist with Punjab Kesri (Delhi), was shot dead as he was returning home from a friend's shop. The body has been sent for post mortem. Aggarwal’s...

NOIDA: The 38-year-old reporter, Mahesh Vats, who had gone into a coma after he was brutally attacked by some persons, allegedly at the instance of Prayag Hospital owner Dr B P Singh, is dead. He passed away at 6.55 pm on Saturday, at Noida’s Metro Hospital, where he had been placed on life support systems since the attack on Thursday morning. The police will on Sunday take Dr Singh on remand...

NOIDA: After questioning orthopaedic surgeon Dr B P Singh, owner of Noida's Prayag Hospital through the night, Noida police arrested him on Friday for "criminal conspiracy" to kill reporter Mahesh Vats. Vats had been abducted by three goons from his house and beaten up very badly. The goons had been allegedly sent by the doctor who wanted to settle scores with him, as reported earlier. Vats, who...

Hyderabad, Mar 22 : A journalist working with a newspaper here was allegedly manhandled by the police and was detained for over nine hours in the police station last night. In a letter to Chief Minister YSR Reddy, the newspaper said the sub-editor of the paper was having a cup of tea at Punjagutta at about 11.45 pm last night when he was allegedly roughed up and dragged to the police station by...

A CNN-IBN employee was attacked and his vehicle set on fire in Lucknow's Hazratganj area on Tuesday morning, the channel has said. The attack came two days after CNN-IBN exposed the unaccounted wealth of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati. Four men with their faces covered dragged out two of the channel's employees from their vehicle and beat them up...

LUCKNOW: A photojournalist working with a local English daily suffered severe injuries when he was attacked by a group of traders at AP Sen Road on Saturday. The incident took place when the journalist spotted an organised racket of refilling liquid petroleum gas (LPG) for use as fuel in four-wheelers and tried to take pi ctures of the culprits in action. Though an FIR was lodged with the local...