Several Twitter users said that his criticism of the Pakistan Army and the ISI led to his killing. read more

The court on Tuesday, however, made it clear that proceedings against the journalist will continue in accordance with law, and observed that even courts have to bear the brunt of social media. read more

Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel thrashed a journalist who was covering a train derailment near Dhimanpura in the early hours of Wednesday. read more

Prashant Kanojia had shared a video of a Kanpur-based woman making allegations against Yogi Adityanath. read more

Police also sealed the premises of a private television news channel in Noida for allegedly running without a licence, a day after arresting its chief and editor, also for broadcasting content allegedly defaming Adityanath. read more

An FIR was registered against Noida based journalist Prashant Kanojia at Hazratganj police station in Lucknow on Friday night in which it was alleged that the accused made “objectionable comments against the CM and tried to malign his image. read more

News agency PTI said that Kanojia had shared a video on Twitter and Facebook where a woman is seen speaking to reporters of various media organisations outside the chief minister’s office claiming that she had sent a marriage proposal to Adityanath read more

Jamal Hussein, a security guard of Communist Party of India (Marxist) lawmaker Islamuddin, was separately arrested on Sunday on similar charges. read more

McKee had written for The Atlantic magazine and Buzzfeed News and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2016 as one of their “30 under 30” outstanding figures in media, according to her literary agent Janklow & Nesbit. read more

Nalanda police superintendent Neelesh Kumar said Ashwani Kumar’s eyes were bleeding when they found his body. He said the police were looking into all possible angles in the case and would come up with a report on the findings soon. read more

The investigations had been ordered in a letter dated March 13 from the cybercrime wing of the Federal Investigation Agency, part of the interior ministry, the group said in a statement. read more

India sheltering an enemy of China since decades and his name is Dalai Lama”, Twitter erupted with criticism over his remark. read more

Police on Wednesday arrested a gang of three, including a constable of Delhi Police’s Home Guards, for allegedly trying to kidnap a local journalist from outside his office in Indirapuram. read more

The incident took place at 8.30 pm on Thursday at Hotel Girija chowk on Tilak Road. Two youths on their Jupiter two wheeler were speeding when a Yamaha bike driven by the journalist Dar came in between. read more

Police said the arrested men demanded the money from the call centre owner to remove his name from a first information report (FIR) registered against him in November last year. Officials have not revealed the owner’s name. read more