Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday ordered a CID inquiry with regard to a journalist in a local paper who has gone missing, days after he reported irregularities and corruption in the admission process in a college.


Scribe still missing, Mamata orders CID probe


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Internet technology companyWay2online on Monday announced it has launched Way2News, a free app that brings short summarized nuggets of news in local languages.


Way2online launches free news app


Days after he reported about irregularities and corruption in the admission process in a college, a journalist with a Bengali daily in West Bengal's Alipurduar district has gone missing.


Bengal journalist goes missing after college corruption story


Mexico City, Aug 2 (IANS/EFE) A photojournalist who moved here from Veracruz state after receiving threats was among five people whose bodies were found in an apartment in the capital, officials said.


Photojournalist among five murdered in Mexico City


An Egyptian court on Sunday adjourned a long-running trial of three Al Jazeera journalists for the tenth time.


Al Jazeera journalists' trial adjourned for tenth time


Not just shopping together, couples who spend time together on Facebook tend to share a stronger bond and enjoy a longer-lasting relationship than those who avoid seeing each other online, an interesting study has revealed.


Couples using Facebook enjoy stronger bonding


A note left by a disgruntled intern for his  former boss has gone viral on the internet, a media report said on  Thursday.


Intern's angry note to boss goes viral online


Women's emotional attachment to Facebook can lead to poor perception of their body and also follow risky dieting, a study says.


'Facebook obsession can lead girls to risky dieting'


The information and broadcasting ministry on Monday asked TV channels not to show live coverage of the ongoing anti-terrorism operations in Dinanagar town of Gurdaspur district in Punjab and said some channels carried such telecasts in violation of rules.


Don't show live coverage of terror attack: Government to TV channels


Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has come out against the death penalty given to 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon, saying he should not be punished for his brother's crime.


Hang Tiger, not Yakub, says Salman Khan


With the given security tools, journalists are ill-equipped to protect the identity of their sources, especially after Edward Snowden's leak of classified documents to journalists across the globe about massive government surveillance programmes and threats to personal privacy, says a new study.


Journalists need new security tools in post-Snowden world


A medical student's action of posting a selfie next to a woman's private parts while working in a hospital delivery room has drawn much criticism, media reported.


Doctor takes selfie next to woman giving birth


The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted permission to Red FM channel to participate in the mock auction of FM radio waves.


Red FM can participate in mock auction: HC


The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the government to consider postponing the third stage of the FM auction as it termed  "vague" and open to "misuse" the process for granting security clearance to radio channels for participating.


Court suggests FM auction be postponed


A journalist was killed and two other people were critically injured when they were attacked shortly after covering a raid on a ladies bar on Friday, police said.


Journalist killed in Maharashtra


A man wanted in India on charges of domestic violence and dowry has been tracked down in a British county, a media report said on Thursday.


Man wanted in India in dowry case spotted in Britain


An Australian woman faces deportation from the United Arab Emirates for an "objectionable" post on Facebook, media reported on Tuesday.


Facebook post lands Australian woman in Abu Dhabi jail


There were mixed reactions by Pakistan's twitterati to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Friday with the opposition describing it as "shameful" and others welcoming the development.


Mixed reactions by Pakistani twitterati to Modi-Sharif meet


Hundreds of mediapersons here marched in a candle-light procession on Friday to pay homage to three journalists who recently lost their lives in the line of duty across India.


Journalists in Mumbai salute slain journalists


A Pakistani journalist's parents were murdered at their home in Lahore, the media reported on Thursday.


Pakistani journalist's parents murdered


Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursay promised an unbiased probe into the death of journalist Akshay Singh, who was reporting on the Vyapam scam, and offered a job to a family member.

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