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As an uneasy truce prevails on the Israel-Lebanon front, it is time for the Lebanese media to take stock of the situation. The month-long operations saw the destruction of basic infrastructure and the imposition of a land, sea and air embargo leading to a massive drop in advertising, distribution problems, and fears of paper supply shortages. SCOURING FOR NEWS: Lebanese civilians collect...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced outrage at an attack on Indian journalist D.N. Mohanty, who was beaten unconscious in his home in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on 31 July 2006, and at the attempts of both Bangladeshi and Indian authorities to hush up the case. "In view of the repeated attacks against journalists in Bangladesh, the authorities ought to seriously consider the...

The Israel-Hezbollah conflict has claimed its first journalist. Layal Nejib, a photographer working for a Lebanese magazine was killed Sunday when her taxi was hit by a shrapnel as Israeli warplanes bombarded a convoy of people feeling their homes near Tyre in southern Lebanon. Nejib, 23, is the first journalist to be killed in Israel's offensive to push back Hezbollah guerrillas who captured two...

Israel is fast catching up with its adversaries in its attacks on the press. Seven journalists and media workers were injured in a space of two days during attacks carried out by Israeli forces in Lebanon earlier this week. Two Palestinian photographers were shot at last week in the Gaza area. BOMBED OUT: The compound of buildings housing the television station of the Lebanese Shiite militant...

Rajkot, July 3: WHILE the Rajkot head of Swadhyay Parivar, Manish Savshani, is in custody of Ahmedabad Police, two more persons from Rajkot district were detained on Monday for in a case of attack on the editor of an eveninger on May 5, 2005, allegedly by Swadhyay Parivar supporters. Raju Shah, editor of Saurashtra Aajtak, was reportedly attacked by three men for publishing an e-mail sent by Vinu...

Journalist Shujaat Bukhari, who escaped after being kidnapped here by two men last night, has said one of his abductors tried to shoot him but the weapon malfunctioned. Bukhari, a special correspondent for The Hindu, said this was the third attempt on his life in the past four years but he had not sought police protection even after yesterday's abduction. "As of now, I have no idea of the motive...

Srinagar, June 10: Traffic policemen allegedly assaulted a senior journalist and his wife at Regal Chowk on Saturday. Local news agency CNS said the traffic cops stopped the vehicle of videographer of Associated Press (AP) Mehrajuddin and asked him to show its documents. Quoting Mehrajuddin, the CNS said the traffic policeman asked him unrelated questions and slapped him without any provocation...

NDTV Resident Editor Manish Kumar and cameraman Akram Ali were injured when pro-quota medical students attacked them with sticks and stones at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) here today. They were attacked when they went to the hospital to interview students who were injured earlier in a baton-charge by police on pro-quota protestors who had turned violent. As Kumar and Ali arrived...

Coimbatore, April 17: The Coimbatore Press Club (CPC) today condemned the "barbaric" attack on the reporter and photographer of a Tamil eveninger at nearby Pollachi, last evening. "The attack on the lensman and reporter of 'Tamil Murasu', is said to have been carried out by AIADMK supporters in a deliberate attempt to cover up violation of the model code of conduct," CPC president V S Palaniappan...