The city police moved an application in the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court on Tuesday seeking custody of suspected Chhota Rajan aide Paulson Joseph, lodged in a jail for his role in the J Dey murder, as they doubt he may have met the woman journalist arrested recently before the sensational killing.
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Scotland Yard is wading through 300 million News International emails as part of its widening probe into phone-hacking at Rupert Murdoch's 'News of the World' tabloid.
Timeline of the spot-fixing scandal that led to the conviction of Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif in the Southwark Crown Court in London on Tuesday.
Rebekah Brooks, the embattled chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British operations, quit on Friday, after days of mounting pressure over the phone-hacking scandal involving the group's once best selling tabloid News of the World.
Despite the International Cricket Council's (ICC) clause nullifying the ball-tampering allegation against Virat Kohli, former Pakistan cricketers have demanded the world's cricketing governing body to penalise the Indian Test skipper in the incident which relates to the drawn Rajkot Test against England. After the 'mintgate' row involving South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis in which he was found guilty of ball-tempering, a British tabloid had on Tuesday accused that some footages of the Rajkot Test indicated that Kohli appeared to shine the ball using residue from a sweet.
Condemning the killing of a senior journalist of English tabloid Mid-Day in Mumbai on Saturday, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said no civilised society can tolerate this kind of attack on the freedom of the press."This act has challenged the freedom of press and the perusal of objective reporting. This incident is a sign of insanity perpetuated by mindless individuals in which innocent citizens are killed," she said.
Journalist with Mumbai-based tabloid MiD DAY has been shot at. J Dey, the injured crime reporter is admitted to Mumbai's Hiranandani Hospital.
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Journalists from the print and electronic media marched to Mantralaya on Thursday protesting the arrest of Tarakant Dwivedi alias Akela, a reporter working for the Mumbai-based tabloid MiD DAY.
China must start taking an of late "pushy" India seriously as it has strategically placed itself in the United States-China face-off to gain maximum benefits, a leading official newspaper has said.
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Pulitzer prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld, writer of a new book on Mahatma Gandhi that has generated a controversy in India, says that his work is "not sensationalist", and is based on material that is already published and available in the National Archives of India.
With Australia's Ashes campaign on the ropes after a crushing second Test loss to England, local sports writers have resorted to trying to cajole 41-year-old legspinner Shane Warne out of retirement to save the cricket team in their hour of need.
Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former aide Rebekah Brooks will face British lawmakers on Tuesday about the phone-hacking scandal which has engulfed their media empire and rocked police and politicians to the core.
Colonel Anil Athale (retd) on the state of the judiciary in the country.
In the cut and thrust of British tabloid journalism, the fact that News of the World illegally accessed mobile phones to ferret out information to be used in sensational stories is not exactly breaking news.
Passionate readers trooped into corner shops at the crack of dawn on Sunday to pick up the last and special edition of the 168-year-old News of the World tabloid, which was abruptly closed down this week amidst allegations of phone-hacking.
There was more bad news for media baron Rupert Murdoch on Friday as lawyers representing the murdered British teenager Milly Dowler said they would soon launch legal action against News Corp in the United States.
'Namaste Telangana,' credited to be the first Telugu newspaper of Telangana region, has hit the stands all over the region on Monday with a record initial print run of 750,000.
It was in August last year that the spot-fixing scandal rocked Pakistan cricket, when the national team was on tour in England. The scandal ended in big bans for three leading Test cricketers.
Australia's spin legend Shane Warne and former England coach Duncan Fletcher on Thursday joined the growing clamour for life bans on Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir if they are found guilty of 'spot-fixing'.
The International Cricket Council had conveyed its apprehension to the PCB about the alleged nexus between some Pakistani players and suspected bookmakers even before the British tabloid came out with the spot-fixing scandal on August 28.
Former managing editor of the News of the World, Stuart Kuttner, was on Tuesday apprehended and later released on bail, marking the 11th arrest in the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct tabloid.
The police probing the phone-hacking issue on Tuesday arrested Stuart Kuttner, former managing editor of the now defunct News of the World tabloid of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, marking the 11th arrest in the case.
The match-fixing scandal that has rocked Pakistan cricket grew in proportion on Monday with reports emerging of more games being rigged prompting a shocked cricketing fraternity to demand life bans on guilty players.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan said the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit has failed to keep cricket clean and blamed the taskforce for not policing the sport properly.
International cricket was rocked by a match-fixing scandal on Sunday with as many as seven top Pakistani players, including captain Salman Butt, being under the scanner for their role in 'spot-fixing' in the ongoing fourth Test against England at Lord's.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is facing the danger of a one-match ban unless his side manage to increase their over-rate following slow bowling during England's first innings in the opening cricket Test.
Copies of the last edition of News of the World were sold out across the United Kingdom as millions of people bought more than one copy of the collector's item, some have already been put up for sale at a higher price online.
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England's "shamed" cricketers came in for a slogging in the British press on Thursday after they crashed to a humiliating defeat against minnows Ireland in their World Cup match in Bangalore.
A lip lock between the lead pair of the film created a lot of buzz ahead of its release.
The police on Monday released a sketch of one of the four killers of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey on the basis of description given by eyewitnesses to the shootout incident.
Fenerbahce striker Robin van Persie, who suffered a horrific eye injury in his side's latest win against Akhisar Belediyespor in the Turkish Super Lig, calmed fears of his eyesight saying his eye is 'undamaged'.
Australian captain Ricky Ponting's doubts about the genuineness of his team's win in the Sydney Test against Pakistan are mounting amid reports that the ICC knew of suspected match fixer Mazhar Majeed's activities during the game.
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