A 45-year-old freelance journalist was admitted to Fortis hospital with severe brain injuries after an attack by an unidentified person in northwest Delhi on Wednesday. Local residents found Aparna Kalra, the journalist, lying unconscious in a pool of blood at a public park in Ashok Vihar, Hindustan Times reported. Kalra[Read More…]
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Journalist booked for allegedly instigating jawan suicide
Journalist Poonam Aggarwal has been booked by the Nashik Police on Monday in connection with the alleged suicide of Indian Army soldier Lance Naik Roy Mathew. Poonam shot a sting video featuring Mathew. In the video Mathew is seen highlighting the ‘sahayak system’ in the army accusing his seniors of[Read More…]
New York’s legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin dies
Jimmy Breslin, who died Sunday at 88, was a central character of New York journalism, notably with the New York Daily News. Breslin won a Pulitzer Prize for some amazing articles which include his works exposing police harassment in Queens. Of his remarkable works, the most impressive was an interview with[Read More…]
NTCA bans BBC and its journalist for five years over a documentary
Disappointed by a BBC documentary that questions India’s violent safety actions at Kaziranga national park in Assam, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) that administers all the tiger reserves in the nation, has forced a ban on the top media group and its journalist Justin Rowlatt for next five years.[Read More…]
Journalist shot dead in Bangladesh
A people representative of the ruling Awami League of Bangladesh has shot dead a journalist named Abdul Hakim Shimul despite police presence in Bangladesh’s northern district Sirajganj. Hakim was a local and a correspondent at one of the top daily, National daily Samakal. Additional Police Super Abul Hasnat said explaining the[Read More…]
Rohit Shahadat Din: Frontline journalist detained
Journalist shot dead in Bihar
A journalist was shot dead by three persons on Saturday morning in Sasaram, headquarter of Rohtas district in Bihar. Dharmendra Singh, working for Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, was at a tea stall outside his house in Amra Talab area under town police station in Sasaram when three persons in a[Read More…]
Activists outraged as Pakistani journalist barred from travelling abroad
Pakistani government has been slammed by Amnesty International for its “crude” imposition of a travel ban on Cyril Almeida for reporting the clash between civilian officials and military over covert support for militants. The assistant editor at Dawn, was placed under the country’s “Exit Control List,” and was forbidden from[Read More…]
“I am not ashamed of anything” says Radhika Apte while slamming a journalist
Recently in a press conference, actress Radhika Apte slammed a journalist for asking about the leaked nude scenes in her last release ‘Parched’. When the reporter wanted to know about the entire “controversy” surrounding the release of a nude scene from her movie, she retorted by saying, “Sorry, your question is very[Read More…]
“Iss Indian ko yaha se Nikalo,” Indian journalist ousted from Pakistan briefing in New York
As tension simmers between India and Pakistan after the Uri attack, an NDTV journalist was on Monday asked to leave a press briefing of the Pakistan Foreign Secretary in New York. As reported by NDTV, the journalist Namrata Brar was asked to leave the room at the Roosevelt Hotel where[Read More…]
Interviewing cattle, Pakistan style!
In a ‘moo’ving video that is grabbing eyeballs, Pakistani reporter Amin Hafeez has taken journalism to another level by interviewing buffaloes! Hafeez who is known for his reporting skills as ‘funny’ on social media, is seen asking the cattle ‘questions’ over their ‘ability’ to cross the foot over bridge in[Read More…]