Journalist Rana Ayyub rejected allegations on Friday that she "misused" donor funds raised in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying money-laundering charges levelled against her are "preposterous and wholly mala fide".
Nine people, including five students, were killed after a private tourist bus hit a state-run KSRTC bus from behind at Vadakkenchery in Palakkad district, Kerala Road Transport Minister Antony Raju said on Thursday.
The incident reportedly took place at Salem during the actor-politician's visit to participate in a consultative meeting there for the May 16 Tamil Nadu assembly polls.
'I don't think I should think about that, it's up to the people to think'
'I feel we have tried to discuss it (with) them. To speak as much as you can to the media, but make sure that it is a proper kind of press conference where you take everyone's questions at one go.'
J B Punamagar, the Butawal-based reporter of Himal Khabarpatrika, was abducted by a group of Maoists while he was reporting in Kapilvastu district, according to the Federation of Nepalese Journalists.
Sports journalists on Saturday boycotted the FIH press conference for the second time in the week in protest against the mishandling of media accreditations ahead of the hockey World Cup which gets underway in New Delhi on Sunday.
The cross-examination of Akbar by Ramani's counsel remained inconclusive and would resume on on July 6.
Journalists join pro-democracy rallies, King Gyanendra cracks down on dissent.
Relieved at the safe return of two female American journalists who were arrested in North Korea some five months ago, US President Barack Obama today thanked the former First Citizen Bill Clinton for his "extraordinary humanitarian" effort in this regard.
The agency is carrying out searches at eight locations in Delhi, Noida, Lucknow and Mumbai in this regard.
India's leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal had an emphatic "no" for an answer when a scribe alluded to suggestions that cricketers could be better off wearing half pants instead of trousers in the future, given that the game is often played in extreme heat.
A Kerala court on Tuesday sentenced to 10 years in jail the husband of Vismaya, an Ayurveda medical student who hanged herself in her marital home in June last year, for dowry death.
A 19-year-old trainee reporter of a private news channel was allegedly molested by the security guard of actress Tanushree Dutta near Fimlistan Studio in Mumbai's western suburb, police said on Thursday.
India's pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah says there will be varied opinions about his bowling and there is no point losing one's cool on outside noise, on which he has no control.
Fans were quick to condemn Rahul's remarks with some calling the Indian cricketer 'despicable' and someone who lacked 'the spirit of sportsmanship'.
Three persons, including Upendra Singh, a history sheeter allegedly linked to the Rashtriya Janata Dal strongman and former Lok Sabha MP from Siwan Mohammed Shahabuddin have been detained but no arrests have been made so far.
Pakistani and foreign journalists on Thursday staged a token walkout of the weekly news briefing at the Foreign Office here to protest the killing of Asia Times Online bureau chief Syed Saleem Shahzad, whose body was found in Punjab province a day after he was reported missing.
'When in both post-mortems, doctors say that he was not shot, we had not option left but to cremated him'
Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Thursday chose to stay mum over her name figuring in the Panama Paper leaks for allegedly having links with offshore entities.
About 30 CPI-M men at Riapara stopped Gouranga Deb Hazra, PTI's East Midnapore district correspondent, who was riding pillion on a motorcycle, on his way to Chandipur from Nandigram around noon.
'This hundred is because of my Abbu (father). The celebration was for Sidhu Moosewala. I love his songs'
The hearing on as many as nine petitions, including those filed by the Editors Guild of India and senior journalists seeking independent probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping matter is presently on.
A case of rape and abetment to suicide has been filed against the boyfriend of Delhi-based journalist Nirupama Pathak, an alleged victim of 'honour killing', following charges leveled by her arrested mother. The FIR was lodged by the police on Friday evening on directions from a local court and investigations are going on, Koderma Superintendent of Police G Kranthi Kumar said on Saturday.
The parents of Nirupama Pathak, who was allegedly murdered by her family members on Thursday, were taken into custody for interrogation on Monday, a senior police official said."We have detained the parents of Pathak, who was attached with a reputed English business daily from New Delhi, for interrogation in connection with her murder," Koderma Superintendent of Police Kranti Singh said.The mysterious death of the journalist turned out to be a case of murder.
Activists of India Against Corruption and a journalist were allegedly manhandled in Farukkhabad by some persons on Thursday when they were conducting a survey regarding allegations of financial irregularities in a trust run by Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid.
A journalist, who had hurled a shoe at Union Home Minister P Chidamabaram, on Wednesday alleged he was roughed up outside a Delhi court following the hearing in anti-Sikh riots cases against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar.
Kanojia was arrested for allegedly sharing an objectionable social media post on Ram Temple.
The petition, likely to come up for hearing within next few days, sought to investigate if the illegal hacking into the phones using the Pegasus spyware represented an attempt by agencies and organisations to muzzle and chill the exercise of free speech and expression of dissent in India.
Mediapersons from Mumbai and Karachi press clubs have called for liberalised visa regime for journalists from both countries to ensure free exchange of information.
A day after its journalist Akshay Singh who was covering Vyapam scam died under mysterious circumstances, India Today group has urged Madhya Pradesh government to send his viscera sample to a forensic laboratory outside the state, preferably AIIMS here, for a transparent examination.
Akshay Singh, who worked for TV Today group, began frothing at the mouth and wad rushed to civil hospital and later to a private hospital, but doctors failed to revive him.
Citing national security, the Centre had refused to file a detailed affidavit in the matter.
The team of Pakistani journalists called on separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Adding yet another dimension to the "cash-for-vote" scam, the Andhra Pradesh Police issued notice to news channel T News for airing an audio tape of purported conversation between Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and nominated Telangana MLA Elvys Stephenson, sparking protests by media fraternity on Saturday.
The 18-member group interacted with inmates of migrant camps, many of whom narrated tales of how they lost their kin and homes and hearth to militancy.
The pleas are related to reports of alleged snooping by government agencies on eminent citizens, politicians and scribes by using Israeli firm NSO's spyware Pegasus.
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