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HYDERABAD — The Andhra police have stepped up their efforts to resolve the mystery of the grisly murder of Lakshmi Sujata, a news reader at a local Television channel in a Vijaywada lodge. They have arrested three people including the brother-in-law of the victim. A police team from Vijaywada also arrested two persons from Hyderabad, the police sources said. In Vijaywada, where Sujata Lakshmi...

A journalist was ambushed and stoned by attackers who left him fatally injured in the rural area of Takalghat near Nagpur in Maharashtra state, central India, on 8 June 2006. Aran Narayan Dekate died in hospital two days later. Fellow journalists in Nagpur told Reporters Without Borders that his death was very likely to be linked to articles he wrote in the Marathi-language regional daily Tarun...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced its condolences to the family of TV sports presenter Jaafar Ali, who was gunned down on the morning of 31 May 2006 in Baghdad. He was the third journalist to be killed in Iraq in the space of 48 hours and the eleventh employee of the national TV station Al-Iraqiya to be killed since the start of the war in March 2003. Alarmed by the surge in...

Ranchi, April 4: The body of Nalin Mishra, Editor of 'Jharkhand Today' magazine was found in an abandoned house here with hands and legs tied, police said today. He was last seen on March 28 and he did not return home at Kumhar Toli since then, police added. The death of Mishra (42) under mysterious circumstances has caused concern and shock in the media circles in Jharkhand. (Agencies)

A journalist with an Assamese daily has been murdered allegedly at the behest of a forest warden he had criticised in several articles. According to the Assam Tribune, Prahlad Goala, the Golaghat correspondent of the Asomiya Khabar, was brutally murdered on the night of January 6 at Thuramukh near Nambar Reserve Forest. Goala is the first journalist to be killed anywhere in the world in 2006...

Warangal: A journalist working as Doordarshan Mahbubnagar district contributor was found dead in suspicious circumstances near Quila Warangal on Saturday. Vijayanand (37), a native of Mahbubnagar, came to Warangal on December 28 to write the final exams of the Bachelor of Communication and Journalism, a year-long correspondence course, offered by the Distant Learning and Continuing Education of...

Barely three days after the media lauded a rare conviction in the killing of a journalist, a reporter was shot dead Thursday night at a public market in the central Philippines, the 10th journalist to be killed this year, Reuters reported. George Benaojan, 27, was talking to a colleague at the public market in Talisay City on the central island of Cebu when a lone gunman shot him in the neck and...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, today protested against the senseless shooting to death of a journalist in Muzaffarnagar in northern India. "We are deeply saddened by the death of our colleague, a victim of a mindless act of violence, and mourn this needless loss, " said IFJ President, Christopher Warren...

New York, May 23, 2005–The former presenter for a popular MTV-style music video program was shot and killed in her home in Kabul last week. Shaima Rezayee, 24, hosted the daily music program "Hop" on the private television channel Tolo TV until March. Police told The Associated Press that Rezayee was killed May 18 by a single bullet wound to the head and that members of her family may have been...

The battered body of a local newspaper editor from the eastern state of Orissa was found by the side of a highway near the village of Bhagirathipur on Tuesday, November 9, police sources told the Press Trust of India (PTI), a national newswire service. Dilip Mohapatra, editor of the Oriya-language newspaper Aji Kagoj, disappeared on Monday, November 8. His body was discovered the next day on the...