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Anil Dharkar, veteran journalist and author died on Friday. The founder of 'Mumbai International Literature Festival and Literature Live!' died in Mumbai after a brief period of illness, a former colleague said. Anil Dharkar had an illustrious career of over five-decades. He was the editor of several publications including Mid-Day and The Independe...

More than 100 journalists protested today at the Mirzapur Collectorate office, a day after a case was filed by the state government against a reporter who filmed students at a UP government school eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal.

Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi on Monday condemned the filing of a first information report against a journalist who filmed students at a government school eating roti with salt as a part of their mid-day meal. Mr Dwivedi said he would initiate a probe in this regard.

The Editors Guild of India on today described as "cruel" and a "classic case of shooting the messenger", the Uttar Pradesh government's complaint against a journalist for reporting that rotis and salt were being served to children as mid-day meal at a school in Mirzapur. "It is a cruel and classic case of shooting the messenger. It is precisely exp...

Days after studentsat a government school in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district were filmed eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal under a flagship scheme of the central government, a case has been filed by the state government against the journalist who shot the video.

According to reports, the reason for Ameesha Patel's foul mood was because the Bhaiyyaji Superhitt team failed to inform her about the scheduled press interaction. Not just Ameesha Patel, her co-star Preity Zinta apparently stormed off the sets because of not being informed about the press meet

A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court in Mumbai has framed charges against 10 accused, including arrested scribe Jigna Vora, in the journalist J Dey murder case of 2011.

Senior journalist Jigna Vora, the eleventh accused in the J Dey murder case, is now in the dock owing to her acquaintance with underworld don Abu Salem. According to investigating officials, Vora had befriended the don during his court hearings. While investigating Vora's nexus with underworld don Chhota Rajan, the cops learnt that she had also de...

Jyotirmoy Dey was the third journalist in India to be killed in the past six months, a media watchdog said on Tuesday.There have also been 14 attacks on the Indian media in the same period. In all the cases, investigations are under way but no arrest has been made, said Geeta Seshu of the Free Speech Hub (FSH) of The Hoot.Dey, a Mid-Day reporter wh...

Anil Dharkar, veteran journalist and author died on Friday. The founder of 'Mumbai International Literature Festival and Literature Live!' died in Mumbai after a brief period of illness, a former colleague said. Anil Dharkar had an illustrious career of over five-decades. He was the editor of several publications including Mid-Day and The Independe...

More than 100 journalists protested today at the Mirzapur Collectorate office, a day after a case was filed by the state government against a reporter who filmed students at a UP government school eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal.

Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi on Monday condemned the filing of a first information report against a journalist who filmed students at a government school eating roti with salt as a part of their mid-day meal. Mr Dwivedi said he would initiate a probe in this regard.

The Editors Guild of India on today described as "cruel" and a "classic case of shooting the messenger", the Uttar Pradesh government's complaint against a journalist for reporting that rotis and salt were being served to children as mid-day meal at a school in Mirzapur. "It is a cruel and classic case of shooting the messenger. It is precisely exp...

Days after studentsat a government school in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district were filmed eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal under a flagship scheme of the central government, a case has been filed by the state government against the journalist who shot the video.

According to reports, the reason for Ameesha Patel's foul mood was because the Bhaiyyaji Superhitt team failed to inform her about the scheduled press interaction. Not just Ameesha Patel, her co-star Preity Zinta apparently stormed off the sets because of not being informed about the press meet

A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court in Mumbai has framed charges against 10 accused, including arrested scribe Jigna Vora, in the journalist J Dey murder case of 2011.

Senior journalist Jigna Vora, the eleventh accused in the J Dey murder case, is now in the dock owing to her acquaintance with underworld don Abu Salem. According to investigating officials, Vora had befriended the don during his court hearings. While investigating Vora's nexus with underworld don Chhota Rajan, the cops learnt that she had also de...

Jyotirmoy Dey was the third journalist in India to be killed in the past six months, a media watchdog said on Tuesday.There have also been 14 attacks on the Indian media in the same period. In all the cases, investigations are under way but no arrest has been made, said Geeta Seshu of the Free Speech Hub (FSH) of The Hoot.Dey, a Mid-Day reporter wh...