-PTI The Punjab government today imposed a complete ban on "journalistic activities" undertaken by the teachers and other employees of state education department. The Government has categorically made it clear that strict disciplinary action would be initiated against such erring teachers and employees under the provisions of the Civil Service rules, an official release said here. The release said that journalistic activities by teachers or other education department employees would not be allowed...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Uterus Removal Cases in Bihar Seem Conspired: SHRC
-PTI Bihar State Human Rights Commission today took suo motu cognizance of reports in different Newspapers about cases of removal of uteruses purportedly under Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY). "They (the cases) do not appear to be sporadic incidents; rather they seem to have been done in a systematic manner as if they were the result of conspiracy and part of some racket. The reports refer to the districts of Saran, Sitamarhi,...
More »The rising stink in the media business-Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
-The Business Standard An industry capable of bringing down governments has chosen to keep quiet about the creeping corruption in its own backyard You can pay Newspapers to get any kind of article published, ditto for news channels. You can fix TV ratings or readership numbers. You can even fix the box-office figures for your film. And if nothing works, you can always entice a media buyer with a cutback to...
More »“No one really looks for poor man’s missing child’’-Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu “The child of the poor who goes missing is just a number in the police record, it is only when a rich man’s child goes missing that the media, the police and the politicians really bother,’’ says Raj Kumar, who along with his wife continue to wait for the return of their eight-year-old daughter Kajol who went missing in April 2010 from in front of her house in Nangloi...
More »Government shreds entire Radia tapes, tells Supreme Court it’s difficult to find who leaked excerpts to media
-The Economic Times The trail of those who leaked the Niira Radia tapes could have been lost forever had not the Supreme Court decided to keep a copy with itself. The Centre on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it has destroyed the entire Radia tapes, publication of excerpts from which threw the spotlight on ways of doing business as well as the tendency of security agencies to violate privacy of...
More »