Follow-up

New Delhi, January 7: TEN months back, a Sessions Court acquitted the five accused in the murder of Outlook journalist Irfan for lack of evidence, pointing out that there had been lapses in the investigation. Till now, even as a fresh appeal in the case awaits admission in the High Court, no steps have been recommended against the three police stations connected to the case. The case dates back to...

SAS Nagar, December 27: Mohali Police today finally withdrew the false criminal case registered against senior photo journalist of Hindustan Times, Samuel N Dass, after finding that the allegations in the complaint lodged by two policemen were not based on facts. In addition to this, the two Punjab Police personnel, Head Constable Hardarshan Singh and Constable Harjinder Singh, were found not...

Imphal, dec 22: In protest against the attempt on the life of the editor and publisher of the Kangla Pao, Paonam Labango on Wednesday night, Imphal-based newspapers suspended publication for a day and state journalists staged a day-long sit-in protest at Keisampat yesterday. The dharna commenced from around 10 am and went on till 4 pm. Over a hundred working journalists participated in the dharna...

Imphal, December 22: Media fraternity of Manipur demonstrated at the State capital here yesterday in protest against the life attempt on the editor of Kangla Pao. Editor of local vernacular eveninger Kangla Pao Paonam Labango (47) was fired upon by three unknown youths while the former was moving out from his Sega Road office along Tiddim Road after completing the day's work at 9.10 pm on December...

CHANDIGARH: In a show of solidarity, journalist fraternity of the city and surrounding areas Thursday registered their strong protest against Punjab government's inaction against assault by Kharar police on HT lensman Samuel on November 30. Meeting at the Chandigarh Press Club at 11.00 am, large number of print as well as electronic media journalists moved to the Sector 17 plaza in a cavalcade of...

The Chhattisgarh government said Saturday that it would probe the alleged assault of a journalist by civil militia personnel and punish the guilty. The assurance came after the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemned the Nov 15 attack on Afzal Khan, a journalist, by Salwa Judum cadres - part of the civil militia movement funded by the state. Khan is a correspondent...

Hours after receiving a jolt from the Supreme Court, RK Sharma, a suspended Haryana cadre IPS officer and key accused in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, on Tuesday downplayed his alleged intimate relationship with the deceased scribe but claimed she knew several top BJP leaders, the Daily News & Analysis (DNA) has reported. Some details: “She (Shivani) knew many officers in various...

Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll today called on other news organizations, especially those that use AP services, to increase their attention on imprisoned AP photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by U.S. military officials in Iraq for more than six months without being charged. Saying Hussein “works on behalf of every news organization that receives news from the...

NEW YORK: Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll today called on other news organizations, especially those that use AP services, to increase their attention on imprisoned AP photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by U.S. military officials in Iraq for more than six months without being charged. Saying Hussein “works on behalf of every news organization that receives news from...

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is brushing off a request for more information and a decision on an Associated Press photographer held for six months in Iraq without formal charges. In a letter to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, does not provide details about why Iraqi photographer Bilal Hussein remains at a U.S. run prison camp. The letter repeats the military...