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Reporting conflict has become the greatest challenge for journalists in the northeastern part of India which has been reeling under the impact of insurgency for almost half a century. They are performing their duty in a condition of great stress and strain. There have been glaring instances of journalists being targeted by separatist outfits, and threatened, assaulted and harassed by security...

The nearly eight-year-old Shivani Bhatnagar murder trial entered a crucial phase last week with the prosecution starting its final arguments, says a report in the Times of India. This phase of the trial is the penultimate step before a verdict is delivered in the case that involves suspended IPS officer R K Sharma and five others as accused. Shivani, a print journalist, was strangled and murdered...

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...

The Delhi High Court will hear the final arguments in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case today, says an Asia News International (ANI) report. Shivani, a journalist with the Indian Express, was found murdered on January 23, 1999. Suspended Haryana IPS officer R K Sharma, is a key accused in the case. Sharma, along with five co-accused - - Pradeep Sharma, Satya Prakash, Ved Prakash Sharma, Ved alias...

Global pree freedom advocates have expressed alarm at the deteriorating conditions for journalists in Manipur. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed alarm over the fact that an adverse situation for media workers in Manipur has turned markedly worse in the space of a mere week. By all credible accounts, this has happened on account both of militant groups operating in...

Israel's attorney-general has asked Britain for more information about an analysis of an audio recording which may shed new light on the killing of British journalist James Miller in Gaza in 2003, the Guardian has reported. Britain's former attorney-general, Lord Goldsmith, wrote to his Israeli counterpart Menachem Mazuz in June, presenting the analysis and asking him to begin legal proceedings...

An officer of a private telecom company on Monday failed to produce call details of the husband of slain journalist Shivani Bhatnagar before a court trying the murder case involving suspended IPS officer RK Sharma, the Times of India has reported. Some details: Gulshan Kumar Arora, witness produced by Sharma to defend himself, said that the records are maintained upto a particular period of time...

Reporters Without Borders voiced relief on learning that, on 20 July 2007, the Ethiopian government heeded international pleas and pardoned 38 opposition members, including four journalists, who had been given jail terms ranging from six months to life on 16 July. The four journalists to receive pardons were: "Ethiop" editor Andualem Ayele, "Abay" editor Mesfin Tesfaye, "Asqual" editor Wonakseged...

A city court today granted interim bail for 10 days to an associate of suspended IPS officer R K Sharma, the prime accused in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar in 1999, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report in the Hindu. Additional Sessions Judge, Rajender Kumar Shastri, released Satya Prakash, also an accused in the scribe’s murder, on interim bail against a personal bond of Rs 20...

A city court on Tuesday, suspended the non-bailable warrant issued against the editor of a national daily following a submission that he was not in the country to appear before it in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, in which suspended IPS officer R K Sharma is the prime accused, the Times of India has reported. Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, who had earlier in the day issued a...