Kolkata, Feb 10 (IANS) An angry mob attacked the OB van of Star Ananda, a Bengali news TV channel, and assaulted media persons at Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's rally near Singur Saturday. The group of frenzied men at Baratelia near Singur, where Banerjee was allowed to hold the rally, attacked the OB van of Star Ananda, a channel that is seen as toeing the pro-industrialisation line...
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...
Imphal, jan 13: Nameirakpam Biswajit, reporter of the Imphal Free Press, was severely beaten up by police commandos of the Imphal West district police while covering the chaos in front of Congress Bhavan today. Our reporter was kicked and beaten with lathis despite identifying himself as a journalist. The incident took place at around 2 pm in front of the Congress Bhavan at BT Road amidst police...
Unidentified gunmen made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the editor and publisher of the Kangla Pao evening newspaper, Paonam Labango at around 9:10 pm tonight in front of the Kangla Pao office at Keisampat. The gunmen, who were waiting for the editor to come out from his office fired a shot but fortunately the bullet missed him After opening fire, the unidentified gunmen escaped under...
A photojournalist was roughed up by a Delhi Police official Thursday and his camera smashed while he was taking pictures of the general strike called by Airports Authority of India (AAI) staff. B.B. Chaudhary, assistant commissioner of police posted at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, manhandled Kamal Singh of the Press Trust of India (PTI). He snatched Singh's camera and smashed it on the...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is angered by the failure of Indian police to ensure journalists’ safety, after three journalists were injured in West Bengal on December 8 when police resorted to a lathi (baton) charge during a protest. The Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU), an IFJ affiliate, reported that the journalists, who were reporting on the protest, were hurt when...
SAS Nagar, November 30: IN yet another instance of police high-handedness, a photo journalist discharging his professional duty was assaulted, dragged to a police station and booked for allegedly misbehaving with and manhandling a police personnel. A shocked Samuel, who is a staff photographer with the Hindustan Times, an English daily published from Mohali, said he was beaten up and humiliated by...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the attacks on Hindsat journalist, Afzal Khan, in Bhopalpatnam, Chhattisgarh on November 15 by the anti-Maoist group, Salwa Judum, including public humiliation, threats against the journalist and his family, and physical assault. On November 15, at a public meeting in a high school in Bhopalpatnam, the leaders of Salwa Judum over the...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the attacks on the NE TV station office by members of the Youth Congress on October 12 in Assam, India. According to an IFJ affiliate, the Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU), the group of Youth Congress workers gathered outside the station and yelled abuse at NE TV journalist Manoranjana Sinh and her husband, a former central minister...
New Delhi, September 3: A woman journalist was allegedly assualted by the Chief Medical Officer of Sushrusta Truama Centre in N Delhi on Saturday evening. According to the journalist, the incident took place while she had gone to the trauma centre in the line of her work. “Alongwith a newspaper reporter, I had gone to the centre to find out about a child — Shahid, from Balli Maran — who was...
