Given necessary policy regulations and improved, innovative content, the media and entertainment industry in India could make a giant leap and emerge as a $100 billion industry, stakeholders said Friday.


Media could be $100-bn industry, say stakeholders


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The Japanese government Thursday said it will lodge a formal complaint about a cartoon published in a French weekly newspaper depicting sumo wrestlers with extra limbs in front of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.


Japan blasts French nuclear-related cartoon


New Delhi, Sep 9 IANS) While Britain has amended its laws to decriminalise defamation, in India the issue is still being debated with journalists often being harassed on the basis of libel, said experts here Monday.


Need to decriminalise defamation, say experts


Italian journalist Domenico Quirico and Belgian writer Pierre Piccinin da Prata, who were kidnapped in Syria, have been freed, officials said.


Journalist, writer released by abductors in Syria


Mexico City, Sep 8 (IANS/EFE) Amnesty International has praised the release of two Mexican journalists, arrested while covering teachers' protests in the capital against President Enrique Peña Nieto's education overhaul.


Amnesty hails release of Mexican journalists


Six people, including a television journalist, were killed Saturday following communal clashes in the state's Muzaffarnagar district, police said. High alert has been sounded across the state even as army and paramilitary forces were deployed in the area.


Six killed in UP communal clashes, high alert in state


A local television journalist and five other people were killed Saturday in a communal clash in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said.


TV journalist among six killed in UP communal violence


A local television journalist and five other people were killed Saturday in violent clashes in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said.


TV journalist among six killed in UP violence


The All India Radio (AIR) has handed over to Pakistan the recordings of two important speeches by the country's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah.


AIR hands over Jinnah speech recordings to Pakistan


Paris, Sep 4 (IANS/EFE) Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a group based in Paris, has urged Mexican authorities to release four journalists arrested while covering a protest against Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto's education overhaul.


Mexico urged to free jailed scribes


The Odisha High Court has issued notice to the state authorities over an order by a government hospital in June banning entry of media persons to its wards, a petitioner said Wednesday.


Odisha court issues notice on media gag order


A Cairo court Tuesday ordered taking Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr (Al-Jazeera in Egypt) television news channel off air.


Egypt court bans Al-Jazeera TV channel


The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) Monday sought insurance cover for all journalists in view of the increasing number of attacks on them.


DUJ seeks insurance cover for all journalists


Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari condemned Saturday's attack on journalists by supporters of spiritual guru Asaram Bapu in Jodhpur.


Attack on journalists condemnable: Manish Tewari


D.C. Prashant, one of few pre-independence era journalists of Jammu and Kashmir, died here Wednesday, his family said. He was 96.


Veteran Kashmir journalist dead


Thiruvallam Bhasi, chief editor of 'Indian Malayalee' magazine, was Sunday presented the prestigious Federation of India Associations Victoria (FIAV) award for his role in promoting Malayalam and his magazine in Australia.


Malayalam magazine in Australia gets award


Local journalists Saturday carried out a peaceful protest in the state's winter capital Jammu against the rape of a fellow-journalist in Mumbai.


Jammu journalists condemn Mumbai gang-rape


A journalist with a Hindi daily was shot dead in Etawah, home district of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Police said the incident took place in the Bakewar area as he was returning home after the day's work.


Journalist shot dead in Uttar Pradesh


Journalists in the national capital Friday condemned the gang-rape of a young woman photojournalist by five men in Mumbai Thursday and demanded quick action against the perpetrators.


Delhi journalists protest Mumbai gang-rape


The woman photojournalist who was brutally gangraped Thursday underwent surgery Friday, said a spokesperson for the Jaslok Hospital where she was admitted.


Gangraped journalist undergoes surgery, stable


The Network of Women in Media, India, (NWMI) expressed shock and anger Friday over the gangrape of a journalist and the assault on her male colleague in Mumbai a day ago.

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