New Delhi : Senior journalist, author and human rights activist Kuldip Nayar died at a hospital here, his family said on Thursday. He was 95. Nayar breathed his last at the Escorts Hospital at 12.30 a.m. The cremation will take place at 1 p.m. on Thursday afternoon....
Salalah : The Arab Media and Sustainable Tourism Conference, organized by the Arab Centre for Tourism Media (ACTM) in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism - Oman (MOT) and the Municipality of Dhofar, concluded its activities on Sunday with a call for integration...
Singapore : US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday called for the immediate release of two Reuters reporters detained in Myanmar for probing the persecution of the ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state. Pompeo said on Twitter that he spoke to...
Srinagar : Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday wondered if the situation in Jammu and Kashmir had deteriorated so badly that the government was afraid of allowing foreign correspondents to report freely from the state. Annie Gowen, the India bureau chief...
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir has directed cable television operators to stop airing 30 television channels, including controversial preacher Zakir Naik's Peace TV, among several others that originate from Pakistan. Sources said the decision was taken by Governor N.N....
New Delhi : Journalist organisations held a remembrance-cum-solidarity meeting here on Monday in memory of Shujaat Bukhari, Editor-in-Chief of Rising Kashmir and said his killing demands accountability at various levels. In a joint statement, 11 media organisations...
Srinagar : Senior journalist and Editor-in-Chief of English daily "Rising Kashmir" Shujat Bhukhari was on Thursday shot dead by militants outside his office here, police said. Militants fired from close range at Bukhari outside his office in the Press Enclave area of...
By Sheikh Qayoom, Srinagar : The murder in broad daylight of senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari, editor-in-chief of the English daily Rising Kashmir, has shocked the entire media fraternity in the Valley -- and has them wondering whether the killers will ever be...
Seoul : North Korean authorities on Tuesday morning denied permission to South Korean journalists to attend the dismantling of their nuclear base scheduled to take place between May 23-25. Pyongyang had originally invited the South Korean media along with those from...
New Delhi : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against senior journalist Upendra Rai, who was arrested last week on the charge of dubious transactions through his bank accounts, an official said on Friday. More than three ED teams...