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.


A foreign policy classroom with a difference


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The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the city police on a plea of a group of foreign correspondents here seeking permission to cover the day-to-day trial of the Dec 16 gangrape case.


Dec 16 gangrape: Court takes up foreign media's coverage plea


Poor communities from backward districts in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh will narrate stories of deprivation and discrimination through a network of video volunteers.


Innovative videos to initiate change


India needs to bring the malnutrition debate on the political centre-stage, experts noted Friday at the India launch of the Lancet 2013 series on maternal and child nutrition.


Malnutrition ought to take political centre-stage: Experts


The Pakistan High Commission Wednesday said there was no change in its media policy towards India and termed as "very unfortunate" and "a total falsehood" allegations that the long-serving scribe of an Indian news agency was being "thrown out" of Islamabad. Indian officials said Pakistani authorities have been "dilly-dallying" over clearing visas for Indian journalists.


Pakistan says Indian scribe overstayed


When Doordarshan programme executive Sunita went to make a documentary on the high-altitude Nako lake in Himachal Pradesh, little did she realize she was second away from disaster.


When ITBP, army came to the rescue in the hills


A new media code proposed by the Sri Lankan government contains overbroad and vague language that could have a severe and chilling effect on free speech, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.


Sri Lankan media code threatens free speech


Indian-born Amol Rajan has been appointed editor of the London morning daily The Independent, making him Fleet Street's first non-white editor, the newspaper reported Monday.


India-born Amol Rajan is editor of London's The Independent


The prime suspect in the recent attacks on two journalists from Bengali news channels in North 24 Parganas district was arrested from Bihar Thursday, police said.


Suspect in attacks on Bengal journalists arrested in Bihar


Sri Lankan authorities should challenge a parliamentarian's claim as to the whereabouts of a political cartoonist who was forcibly disappeared in 2010 and provide information on his fate, Human Rights Watch said Monday.


Sri Lanka told reveal fate of 'disappeared' cartoonist


A court in Agartala Saturday sent Tripura newspaper editor Sushil Choudhury to two days judicial custody in a triple murder case, an official said.


Tripura editor sent to judicial custody in triple murder


Eleven more people were arrested Saturday in connection with the attack on two TV journalists in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 14, police said.


11 more arrested for attacking journalists in Bengal


The Indian Journalists Association Friday condemned the "brutal attack" on journalists in West Bengal's North 24 Parganaas distict and asked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to take action against the culprits and ensure security for mediapersons.


Journalists condemn attack on peers in Bengal


Annapurna International School of Film and Media (AISFM) and Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University (JNAFAU) here have signed an MoU to offer new four-year undergraduate and two-year postgraduate degrees with specializations in media.


Hyderabad-based film school offers new media degree courses


The killing of three employees of a newspaper office here last month has taken a new turn with the arrest of the widow of one of the victims, police said Saturday.


Widow held in Tripura triple murder


He's the man behind many a Bollywood hit and has also been a success in his avatars as judge and talk show host on television. But Karan Johar says categorically that he won't be delving into fiction on the small screen because he can't find the right connect.


I don't understand the TV game: Karan Johar (Interview)


The Supreme Court Friday declined to hold an early hearing of a PIL seeking to restrain the Delhi government from continuing with its advertisement campaign focusing on Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her administration's achievements.


SC declines early hearing of Sheila Dikshit's ad campaign spend


Moscow, May 30 (IANS/EFE) US television veteran Larry King has agreed to host a political talk show on Russian-government-owned RT, the international network said.


Larry King to host show on Russian network


A creative consultant from Los Angeles decided not to follow any stereotypical way of asking a woman to marry him, but proposed to his girlfriend in front of thousands of followers on Twitter.


#WillYouMarryMe: Man proposes on Twitter


Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is getting special treatment in Tokyo during his three-day visit to Japan. For instance, the lunch hosted by the emperor and the empress for Manmohan Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur, at the Imperial Palace was "very much extraordinary".


Japan raises the bar for Manmohan! (Tokyo Diary)


Milan, May 29 (IANS/AKI) An envelope containing suspected anthrax spores was mailed to the Milan office of the Il Giornale newspaper, owned by the brother of former premier Silvio Berlusconi.

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