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Activists of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF-Nanaji Group) led by their convenor Javed Ahmed Mir Thursday ransacked the office of Greater Kashmir, a leading English daily in Srinagar and wounded four staffers of the newspaper. Police detaining Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF-Nanaji) leader Javed Ahmad Mir, centre, during a demonstration in Srinagar September 2004. Mir and his men...

Newspapers in Manipur have decided to suspend publication from Saturday after unidentified gunmen shot at and critically injured a senior journalist in state capital Imphal Thursday morning. The incident took place at the Uripok Bachaspati Leikai area shortly after 8 am when three armed men came on a two-wheeler and pumped in three bullets on Ratan Luwangcha, bureau chief of Manipuri daily...

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...

Photo journalist of a Hindi daily and vice president of the Pink City Press Club Niranjan Chauhan was beaten up at a marriage party, where he had taken photographs of the misuse of domestic gas cylinders. According to the police, a medico-legal case has been registered against the assailants and three persons have been arrested from Trimurti Circle in the city where the incident occurred. The...

A group of about 30 supporters of a Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) corporator ransacked the office of an eveninger here this evening. The assailants entered the office of 'Saanjvarta', situated in Nirala Bazar locality at around 2000 hrs, and ransacked the office by partially damaging the office furniture, fans, tables and window panes, the sources at the newspaper's office told UNI. Angered...

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...

New Delhi, November 26: Two women correspondents of a news channel, while returning home in a vehicle after work, were chased and cornered by a white Indica car near Nizamuddin bridge here last night. The two women Star News correspondents were returning home from work at night in the company’s car when a white Indica car (HR 38 KT 4373) started chasing them while crossing the Nizamuddin Bridge...

Unidentified gunmen shot at two journalists, seriously injuring one, when they were returning from work in Kohima on November 24. Sources said Xavier Rutsa, senior correspondent with Nagaland Post, and Ato Liezietsu, president of Kohima Press Club, who were on a scooter, were accosted by a group of youths on last Thursday evening. When they did not stop, the miscreants fired at them injuring Rutsa...

Amrita TV Chief Executive Editor Neelan was attacked by some miscreants, purportedly for airing a programme on increasing ''goonda'' attacks in the capital. Neelan was attacked last night in front of the state secretariat on his way home. He was admitted to a private hospital here with head injuries, Amrita TV said. He had received several threats after ''Ullarakal'', a programme based on '...