Journalist

A Chhattisgarh Police Special Task Force Commander alleged that he had seen Yadav stand behind a Maoist fighter during an ambush in August that year. Yadav has maintained that he was not even in Darbha the day of the ambush. read more

Journalist Pawan Jaiswal who circulated the video was booked for voluntarily obstructing public servant in discharge of his function, false evidence, criminal conspiracy and cheating. read more

Some 80 journalists a year have lost their lives on average over the last two decades, with more ending up behind bars said the organisation, which is known by its French initials RSF. read more

Dickwella and De Silva were the two batsmen who put together a solid stand and added 67 runs for the sixth wicket in the Rawalpindi Test. read more

Foreign agents, defined as involved in politics and receiving money from abroad, must register with the justice ministry, label publications with the tag and submit detailed paperwork or face fines. read more

Academicians from over 15 premier government and private institutes participated in a workshop focused on child rights to create the new courseware and instil a perspective amongst budding and working journalists. read more

Assailants came from Patiala, armed with iron rod, bricks, wooden sticks, an iron punch and a pistol read more

Earlier in the day, two civilians were killed and over 80 others sustained injuries after police lathi-charged them during a peaceful pro-freedom rally organised to observe the “black day”. read more

Aiming to provide protection to journalists, Chhattisgarh draft Protection of Media persons Act makes their harassment a cognizable but bailable offence, with a jail term of up to one year for violators. read more

Sri Lanka completed a 3-0 clean-sweep of their Twenty20 series over world number one Pakistan with a 13-run victory in Lahore. read more

The footage showed two motorcycle-borne helmeted men halting briefly before closing in on the woman, snatching her mobile phone and speeding away. The incident happened at around 6.30 pm and the CCTV footage showed other people on the road at the time... read more

The woman, Joymala Bagchi, 26-year-old journalist who works with a news agency, fractured her jawbone and suffered multiple injuries to her face, elbow and other areas after she fell out of the moving auto-rickshaw while trying to save the cellphone... read more

On August 24, five journalists were booked under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986, and the police arrested four of them for allegedly peddling fake news against police personnel through their web portals. read more

Police later detained the Bhupani station house officer (SHO) Abdul Sahid for allegedly abetting suicide. A local journalist was also detained. read more

Ghorawal police station in-charge CP Pandey confirmed an FIR has been filed based on the journalist’s complaint. read more