Journalists Heckled

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's aide Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday lost his cool and heckled a journalist who asked about corruption allegations against Farah Khan, believed to be a close friend of the first lady Bushra Bibi.

Comedian Kunal Kamra's petition challenging the flying ban on him by most domestic airlines was rejected today by the Delhi High Court, which disapproved of his conduct. "This kind of behaviour certainly cannot be permitted," said the High Court.

Comedian Kunal Kamra on Friday tweeted that he has been banned by air carrier Vistara, more than two months after he was grounded by four airlines for heckling a TV channel editor on an IndiGo flight.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said aviation regulator DGCA ought not to have certified action of airlines other than Indigo, which imposed an indefinite flying ban without an inquiry on stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra for allegedly heckling journalist Arnab Goswami on a flight.

Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra, banned by three airlines from flying for allegedly heckling TV journalist Arnab Goswami aboard a flight, on Wednesday said he just wanted to express solidarity with PhD scholar Rohith Vemula and at no point, he was "unruly or disruptive".

Amidst reports of growing press censorship in Pakistan, the country's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was heckled by a Canadian journalist in London alleging that his social media account was suspended over complaints from the government, according to media reports.

A man, who was allegedly part of the mob that heckled the NDTV team during protests at Sabarimala, has been appointed as the joint convener of a committee formed by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to supervise the human chain of a million women being organised on January 1 in the state.

Several organisations in Kerala agitating against entry of women of menstrual age into the famous Sabarimala temple have urged media outlets not to depute women journalists to cover the issue as the Lord Ayyappa temple is set to open Monday for a special puja.

Two journalists of the New York Times, who managed to climb up the pathway to reach the famed Sabarimala temple in Kerala this morning, were forced to abort their trek and turn back following a massive protest by those who are trying to enforce the centuries-old ban on the entry of women of reproductive age in the temple, which was scrapped by the ...

Armed, masked mobs today targeted women mediapersons who had gone to cover the protests near Kerala's Sabarimala temple. Four media organisations were targeted -- in some cases in presence of the police. Republic TV's Pooja Prasanna was beaten with sticks, Saritha S Balan from The News Minute was kicked on the spine. Midway through live telecast, N...

Bengaluru is safe, asserted the state's Home Minister G Parameshwara, faced with an angry city after several women were allegedly molested and heckled on the famous MG Road on New Year's Eve, even as cops struggled to control thousands of revelers who had poured out on the streets at midnight. The Home Minister said there were enough policemen and ...

Minutes after Republican candidate Donald Trump addressed around 5,000 people in Newtown, Pennsylvania, his supporters shoved and pushed an NDTV reporter outside the venue calling her "liar" and threatened to "knock the mic down".

All charges have been dropped against an Indian- American journalist, who was arrested last week while covering Republican frontrunner Donald Trump's election rally in Chicago which was called off due to unprecedented protests, his news network said.

An Indian-origin journalist with a major US television network was heckled by Donald Trump's supporters and briefly detained by police during a protest at the Republican presidential front-runner's campaign rally here, media reports said.

Two days and some thousands of tweets later, the hate and intimidation continues.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's aide Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday lost his cool and heckled a journalist who asked about corruption allegations against Farah Khan, believed to be a close friend of the first lady Bushra Bibi.

Comedian Kunal Kamra's petition challenging the flying ban on him by most domestic airlines was rejected today by the Delhi High Court, which disapproved of his conduct. "This kind of behaviour certainly cannot be permitted," said the High Court.

Comedian Kunal Kamra on Friday tweeted that he has been banned by air carrier Vistara, more than two months after he was grounded by four airlines for heckling a TV channel editor on an IndiGo flight.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said aviation regulator DGCA ought not to have certified action of airlines other than Indigo, which imposed an indefinite flying ban without an inquiry on stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra for allegedly heckling journalist Arnab Goswami on a flight.

Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra, banned by three airlines from flying for allegedly heckling TV journalist Arnab Goswami aboard a flight, on Wednesday said he just wanted to express solidarity with PhD scholar Rohith Vemula and at no point, he was "unruly or disruptive".

Amidst reports of growing press censorship in Pakistan, the country's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was heckled by a Canadian journalist in London alleging that his social media account was suspended over complaints from the government, according to media reports.

A man, who was allegedly part of the mob that heckled the NDTV team during protests at Sabarimala, has been appointed as the joint convener of a committee formed by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to supervise the human chain of a million women being organised on January 1 in the state.

Several organisations in Kerala agitating against entry of women of menstrual age into the famous Sabarimala temple have urged media outlets not to depute women journalists to cover the issue as the Lord Ayyappa temple is set to open Monday for a special puja.

Two journalists of the New York Times, who managed to climb up the pathway to reach the famed Sabarimala temple in Kerala this morning, were forced to abort their trek and turn back following a massive protest by those who are trying to enforce the centuries-old ban on the entry of women of reproductive age in the temple, which was scrapped by the ...

Armed, masked mobs today targeted women mediapersons who had gone to cover the protests near Kerala's Sabarimala temple. Four media organisations were targeted -- in some cases in presence of the police. Republic TV's Pooja Prasanna was beaten with sticks, Saritha S Balan from The News Minute was kicked on the spine. Midway through live telecast, N...

Bengaluru is safe, asserted the state's Home Minister G Parameshwara, faced with an angry city after several women were allegedly molested and heckled on the famous MG Road on New Year's Eve, even as cops struggled to control thousands of revelers who had poured out on the streets at midnight. The Home Minister said there were enough policemen and ...

Minutes after Republican candidate Donald Trump addressed around 5,000 people in Newtown, Pennsylvania, his supporters shoved and pushed an NDTV reporter outside the venue calling her "liar" and threatened to "knock the mic down".

All charges have been dropped against an Indian- American journalist, who was arrested last week while covering Republican frontrunner Donald Trump's election rally in Chicago which was called off due to unprecedented protests, his news network said.

An Indian-origin journalist with a major US television network was heckled by Donald Trump's supporters and briefly detained by police during a protest at the Republican presidential front-runner's campaign rally here, media reports said.

Two days and some thousands of tweets later, the hate and intimidation continues.