You need a regulator, minister tells broadcasters
byNew Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The broadcast industry, witnessing rapid changes in the wake of cable TV digitisation, should consider the idea of a…
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Thiruvananthapuram DD commences webcasting facility
byThiruvananthapuram, April 18 (IANS) The Thiruvananthapuram unit of Doordarshan Thursday became the first among the 29 DD regional centres of the country to possess…
Newspaper office attacked in Mexico
byMexico City, April 18 (IANS/EFE) Two bombs were thrown at the office of the Mural newspaper in Zapopan, a city in the western Mexican…
Bangladeshi pro-opposition daily’s editor sent to jail
byDhaka, April 18 (IANS) The editor of a Bangladesh’s pro-opposition daily was sent to jail Wednesday in a case filed for publication of a…
Journalist murdered in Mexico
byPuebla (Mexico), April 17 (IANS/EFE) A journalist was murdered as he left a bank in Puebla, a city in central Mexico, officials said. Alonso…
Bangladesh crackdown on bloggers escalates
byBangladesh should immediately drop charges against and release four bloggers and a newspaper editor arrested this month – Human Rights Watch
US remains vulnerable, says media
byWashington, April 16 (IANS) The American media reacted with horror to the twin blasts at the Boston Marathon that once again brought the nation…
Rome mayor sues TV programme for mafia allegations
byRome, April 16 (IANS/AKI) Rome’s Mayor Gianni Alemanno has launched legal proceedings against an Italian investigative TV show that claimed the mafia and crime…
Remove Katju as PCI chief, say activists
byLucknow, April 15 (IANS) Social activists here Monday wrote to President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking the removal of Press Council…
Reliving, archiving the thrill of Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war
byNew Delhi, April 14 (IANS) The names of Debdulal Bandyopadhyay and Nilima Sanyal may not ring a bell with today’s generation, but they were…