Editors of two Kannada tabloids on Tuesday filed a joint petition in the Karnataka High Court, seeking a stay on the state assembly order to jail them for writing allegedly derogatory articles against three ruling Congress lawmakers.


Two Kannada editors seek stay on assembly order to jail them


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Journalists who attended the media briefing by President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were told ahead of time that no questions would be allowed - a break from the tradition of two questions asked from each press delegation.


No questions allowed at Trump-Modi media meet


US space agency NASA said that it has no pending announcement regarding extraterrestrial life, following a wave of media reports that it was about to announce the evidence of alien life.


NASA says no pending announcement on alien life


Editors of two Kannada tabloids sentenced by the assembly to a year in jail for defaming two ruling Congress lawmakers have not been arrested as one is hospitalised while the other one has been missing since Saturday, police said on Monday.


Two Kannada editors ordered jailed by assembly yet to be arrested: Police


The Delhi School of Journalism, conceived by the Delhi University (DU), has inched closer to becoming a reality after the Academic Council resolved one of the thorniest issues - whether it would be self-financed - in its way by deciding against this.


DU's proposed school of journalism not to be self-finance'


Colombia's ELN guerrilla group has announced the release of two Dutch journalists who were kidnapped last week.


Colombian rebels free kidnapped Dutch journalists


The demand by Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries for Qatar to shut down Al Jazeera media network, among other conditions, to end the ongoing diplomatic impasse in the Gulf region has drawn condemnation.


Arab states' demand to shut Al Jazeera evokes condemnation


Prominent journalists gathered here on Thursday to discuss freedom of the press in India in the wake of CBI raids on NDTV's Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika in a bank fraud case and said many loan defaulters are roaming free.


Senior scribes discuss freedom of press in India


Title: Reporting Pakistan; Author: Meena Menon; Publisher: Viking/Penguin Random House; Pages: 340; Price: Rs 599


Reporting from Pakistan: Adventures in a mirror-image land? (Book Review) 


Mosul, June 19 (IANS/AKI) Kurdish journalist Bakhtiyar Haddad died and three French colleagues were injured when a bomb exploded in Mosul's Old City during an offensive by Iraqi forces to retake last district of the city held by the Islamic State jihadist group, local media reported on Monday.


Kurdish reporter killed in Mosul blast


The Supreme Court on Monday said that the Majithia Wage Board Award on wages for newspaper employees have to be "implemented in full" and wages notified under it were "non-negotiable".


Wage Board: Newspapers have to implement award in full, says SC


Forwarding a WhatsApp message on his mobile phone landed a Madhya Pradesh youngster in trouble as he was detained by police and released only after prolonged questioning.


WhatsApp message lands MP minor in police cross-hairs


An international human rights group on Monday condemned attacks on bloggers and activists in Vietnam and it urged the government to carry out impartial investigations.


Rights group condemn attacks on Vietnam activists, bloggers


Print will no longer be the dominant media as it is being replaced by the digital medium that is rapidly becoming the arbiter of public discourse, says a well known US media educator who has taken up a teaching assignment in India.


Print media will no longer be king: US media educator


Actress-producer Priyanka Chopra has taken the top spot on Top Actors chart beating her "Baywatch" co-stars Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron.


Priyanka Chopra placed No.1 on Top Actors chart


A sniper's bullet grazed the neck of an Australian journalist while he was reporting from the besieged Philippines city of Marawi on Thursday, police said.


Australian journalist injured in Philippines siege


Three months after the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP dispensation was thrown out by voters in Punjab largely over the drug menace, not much has changed on the ground, a latest TV sting showed.


Drug trade still flourishing in Punjab, TV sting shows


Amid raging debate over the role of the press and its freedom in the country, Vice President Hamid Ansari on Monday said only a "free and responsible" media could hold power to account in this age of "post-truths" and "alternative facts".


Free, responsible media can hold power to account: Vice President


An Israeli court on Sunday ordered a journalist to pay 115,000 shekels ($32,500) in damages to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara for defaming them.


Journalist ordered to pay Israeli PM damages for libel


A journalist was shot dead on Sunday by unknown gunmen in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.


Journalist shot dead in Pakistan


German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said it is "vitally important" to punish those responsible for the "disappearances" of people and especially journalists in Mexico, a media report said.

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