India and Senegal Monday agreed to set up a joint working group in the information and broadcasting sector.


India, Senegal to cooperate in information and broadcasting


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New Zealand's military chiefs Monday denied authorizing illegal spying on an investigative journalist who reported unfavorably on the New Zealand Defence Force's handling of prisoners in Afghanistan.


New Zealand military denies spying on journalist


Cyber squatters - or opportunistic buyers on internet who use a domain name with bad intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark - have already registered domain names referring to the new royal baby, Prince George Alexander Louis.


Opportunists snap up websites with royal baby names


Starting this August, internet users around the world will be able to watch live round-the-clock broadcast of giant pandas living in a breeding centre in southwest China's Sichuan province.


Now, see live broadcast on giant pandas


A Bangladeshi parliamentarian was arrested for allegedly assaulting two journalists last week, after a court scrapped his bail Wednesday.


Bangladeshi lawmaker held for assaulting journalists


The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Tuesday issued a contempt notice to union Home Secretary Anil Goswami and Information and Broadcasting Secretary Bimal Julka.


HC contempt notice against officials


Saba Raes, a middle-aged Muslim housewife, has her hands full seven days a week with household chores and her children but takes an hour out every Monday to record Hamd-o-Naat, a series of hymns in praise of Allah, for Radio Jamia. It's the invocation that begins the daily broadcast of the campus radio station of the Jamia Millia Islamia, one of India's oldest universities, here.


India's campus radio grows into community platforms (Education Feature -With Images)


Iran's Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini has termed as "unacceptable" a raid by Egyptian security forces at the office of Iranian satellite TV channel Al Alam in Cairo, a media report said.


Iran slams Egypt's raid on Iranian TV channel


The Journalists' Forum Assam (JFA) has lauded the Indian envoy at the United Nations for his concern and his appeal to the international community for the security of scribes working in conflict zones across the globe.


Journalists' forum appeals for safety of scribes in northeast


Title: A Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Reporting in India - for the Media, NGOs & People; Author: Santosh Shintre; Publisher: Sakal Papers Ltd.; Pages: 212; Price: Rs.490


Writing Green: A Guide to the Pen (IANS Book Review) 


The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked social networking site Facebook to upload a disclaimer on its home page that children below the age of 13 years cannot open an account on it.


Ban kids below 13 years, court tells Facebook


The Delhi government Monday decided to institute a Journalist Welfare Scheme to provide financial help to state government-accredited scribes in times of distress.


Delhi government to set up welfare fund for journalists


The existing FDI caps and entry routes in the print and broadcasting sectors would continue for the time being as the information and broadcasting ministry is awaiting the views of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the Press Council of India (PCI) on these issues in the broadcasting and print media.


I&B ministry seeks views of TRAI, PCI on FDI Caps proposal


Hindi news channel IBN7 will don a new look, with a new logo


IBN7 repositions with tagline "Bebaq. Bekhauf"


BJP leader L.K. Advani, who had last month expressed dissatisfaction over the way party was functioning, remarked Friday that he was more of a blogger these days than a political activist.


I'm more of a blogger now than political activist, says Advani


Network18 Group Friday announced setting up of an integrated business newsroom comprising its leading broadcast and digital news outlets in the business media space under Senthil Chengalvarayan as editor-in-chief.


Senthil Chengalvarayan to lead Network18 integrated business newsroom


Tegucigalpa, July 11 (IANS/EFE) Honduran authorities confirmed Wednesday that the remains found this week in the northern part of the country are those of a journalist who was kidnapped June 24.


Kidnapped Honduran journalist found dead


An actual murder trial will be broadcast on television in Britain, and is expected to give a rare insight into the court system, BBC reported Tuesday.


Real-life murder trial to be shown on TV for first time


The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday booked Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd (DCHL) chairman T. Venkatrami Reddy and two others for cheating and criminal conspiracy.


CBI books Deccan Chronicle chairman for cheating


Rahul Gorad, 21, touches the old-styled wooden door and a chair next to it in the right corner of a room. He takes five steps back and feels the warmth of the sun rays filtering through the glass window. Then he takes out his camera, and confidently aims at his subject, presses the trigger and captures the image. Nothing unusual about this? What is extraordinary is that Gorad is a blind photographer.


Blind photography: Promoting a non-retinal art culture


In a first of its kind effort, the entire top brass of India's foreign policy establishment spoke on foreign policy issues and the public services of the ministry of external affairs during a Hindi TV programme Saturday.

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