The Supreme Court on Friday sought Attorney General K.K. Venugopal's assistance on a plea seeking a gag order against the media on the impeachment process supposed to be initiated against Chief Justice Dipak Misra in Parliament.


SC seeks AG's help on media gag on CJI impeachment


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Deepika Padukone is the only Indian actress to feature in the Time 100 Influential People in the World, sharing space with names like Nicole Kidman, Gal Gadot, Greta Gerwig and Lena Waithe.


Deepika Padukone in Time 100 Influential People of 2018 list


Three Indians, including Reliance Industries (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani and human rights lawyer Indira Jaising, feature in Fortune magazine as the 50 Greatest Leaders of 2018, released on Thursday.


Mukesh Ambani, 2 other Indians in Fortune Greatest Leaders 2018


More than 50 journalists including editors, columnists, media persons and media freedom organisation representatives in Pakistan have signed a petition against the ongoing curbs on freedom of expression in the country.


Pakistan journalists sign petition against media curbs


A top bureaucrat in Japan's Finance Ministry has resigned following allegations that he sexually harassed female journalists.


#MeToo hits Japan as top official quits over abuse claims


The Goa Police Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old man of South Goa's Vasco port town for posting a fake news in Facebook on Tuesday, which claimed that Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is currently being treated for advanced pancreatic cancer in the United States, is no more.


Goa man, who posted fake news of Parrikar's death, arrested


The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Jay Shah, son of BJP President Amit Shah, and news portal "The Wire" to settle a defamation case filed by the former against the portal for carrying a story on the exponential increase in the turnover of his company after the BJP-led government came to power at the Centre in 2014.


SC asks Jay Shah, news portal to settle defamation case


The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed some media organisations to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation for disclosing the identity of an eight-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district.


Media houses to pay Rs 10 lakh for revealing rape victim identity


Five Nepalese female journalists on Wednesday left on an expedition to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.


5 Nepalese female journalists to climb Everest


Five persons involved in the April 8 murderous attack on Sahara Samay TV journalist Anuj Chaudhary in Ghaziabad have been arrested, police said on Tuesday.


Five held for murderous attack on Ghaziabad journalist


Fox News host Sean Hannity, an ardent supporter of Donald Trump, was named as the third "mystery" client of Michael Cohen, the US President's longtime personal lawyer, the media reported.


Cohen's mystery client revealed as Fox News host


The New York Times and The New Yorker were jointly awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their revelations of sexual harassment and abuse that continued unheeded and unpunished in Hollywood, politics, the media and Silicon Valley, the media reported.


The New York Times, The New Yorker share Pulitzer for public service


The New York Times and The New Yorker have jointly won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for public service for their reporting on exposing powerful and wealthy sexual predators, including allegations against Hollywood movie maker Harvey Weinstein.


2018 Pulitzer Prizes winners announced


The Lahore High Court ordered on Monday a temporary ban on the airing of "contemptuous" speeches about the country's judiciary by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and other PML-N leaders.


Pakistan court bans airing 'contemptuous' speeches by Nawaz, Maryam


The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to several media houses for disclosing the identity of an eight-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district.


Notice to media houses for disclosing Kathua rape victim's identity


Two independent UN human rights experts on Thursday called on Myanmar to release two Reuters reporters who were arrested while investigating the killing of Rohingya Muslims and to drop the charges against them.


UN experts urge Myanmar to release detained reporters


Over 200 journalists on Thursday took out a procession against the attack on television journalist Anuj Chaudhary and demanded the suspension of a Station House Office (SHO).


Journalists want SHO suspended over attack on newsman


The CBSE has filed a police complaint against a website for publishing false news and spreading rumours that a number of questions in the JEE (Main) examination were lifted from a model paper prepared by a coaching institute, an official said on Thursday.


CBSE files FIR against website for false news on JEE


Ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London next week, several bodies on Wednesday raised the issue of journalists being killed and the threat to the media's rights.


Commonwealth bodies propose code to protect media


Two Reuters reporters who documented a massacre of Rohingya Muslims will face trial for violating the Official Secrets Act after they were arrested with papers handed to them by police, a Myanmar judge ruled on Wednesday.


Reuters journalists to face trial for work in Myanmar


Paris, April 11 (IANS/AKI) Unesco Director-General Audrey Azoulay on Tuesday condemned the killing of Palestinian photographer Yaser Murtaja and welcomed an Israeli probe into the incident.

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