Indian Journalist Attacked

The US correspondent of the Press Trust of India, Lalit K Jha, was covering the pro-Khalistan protest when he came under attack. But the timely intervention by the US Secret Service and the local police saved him.

Washington-based Indian journalist Lalit Jha was physically attacked and verbally abused by Khalistan supporters in Washington while he was covering a pro-Khalistan protest outside the Indian Embassy on Saturday afternoon.

Government officials at both the local and national levels in India were involved in "intimidating" critical media outlets through physical harassment and attacks, a US report on human rights noted on Tuesday.

Hundreds of members of a hardline Islamist group attacked Hindu temples and a train in eastern Bangladesh on Sunday, the police and a local journalist said, as violence spread across the country in the wake of a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Kashmiri Muslims have suffered most from terror attacks by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists and this had been overlooked by Western activists and world media for years, senior journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh said at a US congressional hearing on Tuesday. Ms Singh also called the hearing "prejudiced, biased, a setup against India and in favour of Pakistan...

Union Minister V K Singh on Wednesday took aim at everyone from members of the opposition, student leaders, journalists and actors, who, according to him, had held back India from becoming a state like Israel in taking down terrorists.

Fugitive tycoon Vijay Mallya met BJP leaders before fleeing India, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi claimed on Saturday, though he refused to name them. Interacting with Indian journalists in London, Mr Gandhi also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for going easy on prominent industrialists like Vijay Mallya wanted for cheating Indian b...

Shujaat Bukhari, a senior journalist known to be a fearless voice in Kashmir, was shot dead last evening in an attack that has left the nation in shock and journalists numb with grief. The 52-year-old editor-in-chief of Rising Kashmir was killed by three terrorists on a bike, seen on CCTV footage carrying weapons in a sack. Mr Bukhari was leaving h...

A Pakistani journalist known for criticising the powerful military said he had escaped an abduction attempt after being assaulted by armed men in Islamabad Wednesday, in the latest case involving forced disappearances in the turbulent country.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today expressed shock at the 'gruesome' murder of a TV journalist in Tripura and said 'repeated' attacks on the media were worrisome for the Indian democracy.

An NDTV journalist was on Monday asked to leave a press briefing of the Pakistan Foreign Secretary in New York, where tension is simmering between the two countries over the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Uri, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Altogether 114 cases were registered in various parts of the country for attacks on journalists in 2014, Lok Sabha was informed today.

A large group of lawyers barged into a Delhi court, some carrying Indian flags, and shouted slogans of "Vande Mataram" ahead of a hearing on arrested JNU student Kanhaiya Kumar.

An innocent Canadian Sikh journalist was wrongly accused of being involved in the Paris attacks after his Photoshopped image went viral on social media and a Spanish newspaper printed the snap identifying him as a terrorist.

An Indian-American journalist suffered a heart attack inside the White House, but a prompt response by US Secret Service personnel saved his life.

The US correspondent of the Press Trust of India, Lalit K Jha, was covering the pro-Khalistan protest when he came under attack. But the timely intervention by the US Secret Service and the local police saved him.

Washington-based Indian journalist Lalit Jha was physically attacked and verbally abused by Khalistan supporters in Washington while he was covering a pro-Khalistan protest outside the Indian Embassy on Saturday afternoon.

Government officials at both the local and national levels in India were involved in "intimidating" critical media outlets through physical harassment and attacks, a US report on human rights noted on Tuesday.

Hundreds of members of a hardline Islamist group attacked Hindu temples and a train in eastern Bangladesh on Sunday, the police and a local journalist said, as violence spread across the country in the wake of a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Kashmiri Muslims have suffered most from terror attacks by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists and this had been overlooked by Western activists and world media for years, senior journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh said at a US congressional hearing on Tuesday. Ms Singh also called the hearing "prejudiced, biased, a setup against India and in favour of Pakistan...

Union Minister V K Singh on Wednesday took aim at everyone from members of the opposition, student leaders, journalists and actors, who, according to him, had held back India from becoming a state like Israel in taking down terrorists.

Fugitive tycoon Vijay Mallya met BJP leaders before fleeing India, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi claimed on Saturday, though he refused to name them. Interacting with Indian journalists in London, Mr Gandhi also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for going easy on prominent industrialists like Vijay Mallya wanted for cheating Indian b...

Shujaat Bukhari, a senior journalist known to be a fearless voice in Kashmir, was shot dead last evening in an attack that has left the nation in shock and journalists numb with grief. The 52-year-old editor-in-chief of Rising Kashmir was killed by three terrorists on a bike, seen on CCTV footage carrying weapons in a sack. Mr Bukhari was leaving h...

A Pakistani journalist known for criticising the powerful military said he had escaped an abduction attempt after being assaulted by armed men in Islamabad Wednesday, in the latest case involving forced disappearances in the turbulent country.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today expressed shock at the 'gruesome' murder of a TV journalist in Tripura and said 'repeated' attacks on the media were worrisome for the Indian democracy.

An NDTV journalist was on Monday asked to leave a press briefing of the Pakistan Foreign Secretary in New York, where tension is simmering between the two countries over the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Uri, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Altogether 114 cases were registered in various parts of the country for attacks on journalists in 2014, Lok Sabha was informed today.

A large group of lawyers barged into a Delhi court, some carrying Indian flags, and shouted slogans of "Vande Mataram" ahead of a hearing on arrested JNU student Kanhaiya Kumar.

An innocent Canadian Sikh journalist was wrongly accused of being involved in the Paris attacks after his Photoshopped image went viral on social media and a Spanish newspaper printed the snap identifying him as a terrorist.

An Indian-American journalist suffered a heart attack inside the White House, but a prompt response by US Secret Service personnel saved his life.