-newstrackindia New Delhi: Social crusader Anna Hazare, who began his fast unto death at Jantar Mantar against corruption and for his de...
Deccan Chronicle scrip hits fresh 52-week low
COIMBATORE : Shares of Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd, whose promoters have pledged a significant portion of their holdings in the past...
Only an American journalist could ask such an extraordinary question
COMING from the nation that crowns its baseball and football premiers "world champions", it probably should come as no surprise...
Jigna Vora gets bail after 8 months, questions remain
Mumbai: Jigna Vora got her first breather in the eight months since her arrest for her alleged involvement in the murder of veteran journa...
National media policy needed: I& B council recommends
PIB: The Sectoral Innovation Council of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, under the Chairpersonship of Smt. Asha Swarup...
Stringent norms for news channels for Olympics telecast
Broadcasters are not allowed to use words such as Olympic or London 2012 to brand or position their shows New Delhi : Television...
Voice in the AIR for 85 years
-VOM News Decades before satellite television and FM radios began capturing the imagination of audience, at least two generations grew up ...
Olympics coverage norms upset news channels
NEW DELHI: Rigid News Access Rules of the London Organizing Committee for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games prevent news channels from...
Rupert Murdoch resigns from newspaper boards
LONDON: News Corp chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch, preparing to split his media empire into entertainment and publishin...
CCTV to Be Installed in Media Houses in Arunachal
ITANAGAR, PTI : The Arunachal Pradesh government has decided to install CCTV cameras in all media establishments of the state to ins...
Media hails new India president Pranab Mukherjee
-BBC News India's media has applauded the election of former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee as the new president.The newspapers, h...
Reliance Media jumps 10% in a flat market
Reliance Mediaworks, controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, shot up on the bourses today after it agreed to raise Rs 605 crore from...
Guwahati molestation case: NCW thanks media
New Delhi/Guwahati : The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Tuesday thanked the media for highlighting the incident where a teen...
Outrageous scripts for a ghastly incident
Popular Hindi television channels chose patently disgusting phrases to present the heart-rending assault in Guwahati. The words employed we...
Media bodies condemn attack on woman journalist
GUWAHATI : The recent brutal attack on a lady journalist in Itanagar has evoked strong reactions from various media organizations ac...
Media houses to stay shut to protest scribe attack
-Times of India ITANAGAR: The Arunachal Press Club (APC) and the Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists on Monday (APUWJ) held a d...
ITV Media acquires NewsX for an undisclosed sum
-VOM News New Delhi: Information TV (ITV), which operates Hindi news channel India News, on Monday said it had acquired English news ch...
Guwahati molestation case: Editor of TV channel that filmed the incident resigns
GUWAHATI : The editor-in-chief of the local television news channel, which had videographed the molestation of a girl outside a pub ...
Beginning of the end of India's main stream media?
- M R Venkatesh They swarm the Internet like locusts. They hunt in packs like wolves. They strip you to bare bones within minutes like ...
Sarah Jessica Parker to play journalist in 'Glee'
Sarah Jessica Parker London: 'Sex And The City' star Sarah Jessica Parker will play a frazzled, eccentric journalist of a fas...
Woman journalist's condition stable, no arrest so far
On Sunday July 15, gunmen in Itanagar shot journalist Tongam Rina of the Arunachal Times from close range when she was entering her offic...
Penguin India launches eBooks
New Delhi: Penguin Books India has launched its first tranche of eBooks. This will be the first extensive list of Indian ebooks to be publi...
Kartikeya Sharma-led India News’ parent co in talks to buyout NewsX
English general news channel NewsX may have finally found a buyer. The company that has been on the market for a while is said to be in a...
Guwahati molestation: Electronic media forum demands high level enquiry
Guwahati : The electronic media in Assam on Sunday demanded a high level probe into the allegations by RTI activist Akhil Gogoi agai...
Live India' owners sell channel to Mahesh Motewar
Hindi news channel Live India has a new ownership structure, as its present owner HDIL has decided to sell the channel to Prosperity Agro,...
HT Media among India’s hottest employers
HT Media Ltd, the publisher of Hindustan Times, has emerged as the top media employer in a “Great Place to Work” survey of 600 companies....
Televised assault, molestation
Television channels in Guwahati seem to be consciously hunting for scenes of crime, sex, and sleaze. TERESA REHMAN presents two cases to ...
Olympics wins as DD decides to give India-Sri Lanka series a miss
- Indiantelevision MUMBAI: Olympics takes first priority over cricket as pubcaster Doordarshan decides to give the upcoming India-Sri Lan...
I & B ministry opens a facebook page on 'Community Radio India'
-ANi News New Delhi : In order to establish a direct communication between the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and various stak...
Yahoo Confirms 400,000 Passwords Stolen in Hack
- Eweek Less than 5 percent of the Yahoo accounts had valid passwords listed, the company contends. Yahoo officials confirmed that an old...
India looking to reverse ban on Pakistani TV channels
Pakistanis told the Indian delegation that if India wants to spruce up people-to-people contacts, it must allow Pakistani channels int...
Sunday Mirror crime reporter and Daily Star Sunday deputy news editor arrested
Scotland Yard said a 37-year man was detained at his home in Kent and a 34-year-old man also arrested in connection with Operation Elvede...
Newspaper websites 'would move abroad under statutory watchdog'
Leveson inquiry-Lord Black argued against statutory regulation of the press. Lord Black backs self-regulation at Leveson inquiry, cla...
Egypt to launch TV channel with fully-veiled women
Cairo: A new satellite TV channel managed completely by women donning the niqab or the full veil will begin broadcast in Egypt on July 20,...
Jammu and Kashmir ‘nightmare’ in UK media
-Timesofindia LONDON: Late on Tuesday, Britain's Channel 4 screened an hour-long TV documentary virtually challenging India's cr...
USA TODAY names David Callaway its new editor-in-chief
-USAtoday McLEAN, Va. – USA TODAY named David Callaway its new editor-in-chief Tuesday, ending a seven-month search that began when former...
Why untouchability is still a tradition?
New Delhi : Once again the team of ‘Satyamev Jayate’ was on target. It might be a hard fact to digest for urban Indians that the pract...
Satyamev Jayate on the brutal reality of Untouchability
-Timesofindia Dalits or the downtrodden/untouchables are a reality of our society. A modern, educated, urban India may ignore or thinks ...
Jordan MP whips out gun, hurls shoe in live TV show
A Jordanian lawmaker loses temper during a live talk show, whipping out a gun and hurling his shoe at his rival. -Presstv Amman:Mohamm...
India's Best Journalists
By- Ravinar Since the article on India’s Worst Journalists-2012 last April I had received many suggestions to do one on India’s best. S...
RTI activists Akhil Gogoi and Ramesh Agrawal attacked in past 48 hours
Gogoi was visiting flood-affected areas in Assam; Agrawal is fighting land grab by industries in Chhattisgarh. Two activists, one...
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-VOM News Mumbai : Landmark and Leadstart Publishing hosted the launch of the book 'A Bolt Of Lightning', a debut n...
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WASHINGTON - Just in case you did not know, India ranks 131st — between Burundi and Angola — in the 2012 press freedom index of Rep...
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New York : Rupert Murdoch's embattled media giant News Corp posted a net loss of USD 1.51 billion in its fiscal fourth quarter, ...
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In creating an independent television channel to promote the Rajya Sabha (RS) and its members, Vice-President Hamid Ansari, who is c...
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New Delhi : The Press Council of India, whose chairperson Markandey Katju has been critical of journalists by and large, has now i...
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NEW DELHI : The telecom regulator's decision to limit advertisements to 12 minutes per clock hour besides introducing restrictio...
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Vote Now! Nirmal Baba needs no introduction. In India, he has become a household name. Basically, he is a spiritual guru, but with...
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By Tom Watkins, CNN A reporter from El Salvador who has been reporting for years about immigration issues in Atlanta finds himself...
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Rupert Murdoch is "not a fit person" to exercise stewardship of a major international company, a committee of MPs has conc...
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