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.


Envelope containing anthrax mailed to Berlusconi paper


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Congratulations kept rolling in Monday as celebs took to Twitter to laud the Mumbai Indians for their triumph in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League.


Euphoric Bollywood tweets to congratulate Mumbai Indians


In the wake of the shutting down of the scam-tainted Saradha Group media house, the West Bengal government Thursday announced it would acquire two of the closed TV channels. The Left questioned the decision on moral and legal grounds and sought its reversal.


Bengal to acquire closed Saradha TV channels, Left opposes


In the wake of the shutting down of media houses owned by the scam-tainted Saradha Group and leaving hundreds of employees jobless, the West Bengal government Thursday announced it would acquire two of the closed TV channels.


Bengal to acquire two closed Saradha TV channels


India has a very free press and an increasingly active civil society movement, but they do put pressure for early action and sometimes these leads to hasty judgement, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday.


Pressure by media leads to hasty judgement: PM


The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked Facebook and other social networking sites how Indian children could be prevented from knowingly or unknowingly getting exploited by adults online.


Court query on shielding kids from online exploitation


Taking cognizance of prolonged harassment faced by a journalist and his family by their landlord for not paying an exorbitant rent here, Bihar's rights panel Wednesday sought a report from the city police chief on the issue.


Bihar rights panel seeks report on scribe's plight


An FIR was Monday registered here against social networking site Facebook on a complaint that claimed a group on the site exhorts people to slaughter cows, police said.


Facebook booked over group exhorting cow slaughter


The board of web pioneer Yahoo has reportedly approved a deal to buy popular blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, according to various media reports.


Yahoo to buy Tumblr in $1.1 bn deal?


Three newspaper employees, including a manager, were killed by two unidentified assailants at their office here Sunday, police said.


Three newspaper employees murdered in Tripura


Washington, May 15 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Two wigs, a typed spy recruitment letter, a compass and an atlas of Moscow in the days of GPS and smartphones. These are some of the items Russian officials say they found when a US diplomat was caught allegedly attempting to recruit a Russian agent to spy for America's CIA.


Americans poke fun on social media over alleged spy arrest


A Kashmiri student has became the first girl editor of a global  children's newspaper 'The Peace Gong' released in New Delhi, an official statement said Monday.


Kashmiri student becomes editor of global children's newspaper


Television ratings, that determine how the Rs39,000 crore ($7 billion) advertising pie is shared among channels, will soon have independent oversight to insulate it from charges of manipulation and bias.


TV ratings to become more transparent


Three people, including a Patna-based journalist, were killed in a road accident in Deoria district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday.


Journalist among three killed in UP road accident


Rome, May 9 (IANS/AKI) The Italian government has no information on the 62-year-old war reporter Domenico Quirico, who vanished in Syria in April, Foreign Minister Emma Bonino said Thursday.


Italian journalist untraced in Syria


The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the centre on a plea by Janta Party leader Subramanian Swamy that editors of news organisations in India should be citizens of the country.


HC notice on Swamy's plea that editors must be Indian citizens


Moscow, May 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Moscow Arbitration Court has upheld a ban on Halloween-themed makeup tutorial video, which has been ruled by a state watchdog as  "suicide promotion".


Moscow court upholds ban on YouTube's Halloween video


Press Council of India chairman Markandeya Katju Sunday appealed to the central government to release injured Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay as a "humanitarian act".


Katju appeals for injured Pakistani prisoner's release


The Indian media could learn from the Boston bombing when the public and security agencies helped to close down the American city after the terror attack, a former RAW official said Saturday.


Indian media should learn from Boston bombing


Caracas, May 4 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan sportswriter Jhonny Gonzalez was shot and killed Friday while leaving the building where the sports daily Lider has its headquarters, apparently for resisting a robbery, the publication said.


Venezuelan sportswriter killed in robbery


Rome, May 4 (IANS/AKI) Prosecutors in Rome have opened a kidnapping and anti-terrorism investigation after Italian journalist Domenico Quirico disappeared in war-torn Syria.

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