YEREVAN, ARMENIA – The International Center for Journalists (http://www.icfj.org/) (ICFJ), in partnership with 100 LIVES, has named Rukmini Callimachi of The New York Times as the inaugural recipient of its Integrity in Journalism Award. She will receive the award for…
Panama City— Panamanian officials have raided a warehouse of the law firm Mossack Fonseca, which has been at the center of the huge document leak related to offshore accounts. Special prosecutor for organized crime Javier Caraballo says large quantities of…
Dhaka – A court on Friday put eminent journalist Shafik Rehman on a fresh five-day remand for further interrogation in a case filed over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, unb news agency…
Dhaka – Fearing that he might be made disappeared, senior journalist Probir Sikdar has urged the Prime Minister to take immediate step to save his life, unb news agency reported. He made the appeal in his Facebook status on Thursday…
Dhaka – A court on Friday put eminent journalist Shafik Rehman on a fresh five-day remand for further interrogation in a case filed over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Judge Mahmudul Hasan…
Dhaka – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday termed ‘inhuman’ the remand of journalist Shafik Rehman after his arrest. Talking to reporters after visiting Shaifk Rehamn’s Eskaton Garden residence in the city, he demanded that the journalist…
Dhaka – Law Minister Anisul Haq said on Sunday journalist Shafik Rehman was arrested on specific charges. “The matter is now under investigation. If the allegations brought against him are proved after investigation, he’ll be punished and if not, he’ll…
Dhaka –Detectives arrested journalist Shafik Rehman, former editor of the Bangla daily Jaijaidin, from his residence in the city’s Eskaton Garden on Saturday morning, unb news agency reported.
The High Court Monday stayed the proceedings of 72 cases filed against Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam for allegedly defaming Awami League president Sheikh Hasina by publishing unsubstantiated information provided by the military intelligence during the army-controlled interim government in…
Rome – Even as 60 million people around the world face severe hunger because of El Niño and millions more because of climate change, top European and American media outlets are neglecting to cover the issues as a top news…
Dhaka – The threat of extinction of Bangladesh rivers is the subject of ‘Amar Nodi’ (My River), a special content that will be on BBC Bangla from April 9 and April 16 on radio, online and social media, unb news…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka on Thursday, once again re-fixed the date for submitting probe report in the Sagor-Runi murder case.
Sumit Galhotra/CPJ Asia Program Senior Research Associate “Everyone will get their turn in this war, especially the slave Pakistani media,” warned Ehsanullah Ehsan, spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban on Twitter this week. “We are just waiting for the appropriate time.”
Dhaka – The Supreme Court in an order on Wednesday said that the owners of newspapers and news agencies must pay the taxes applicable for the wages of their employees.
New York – The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Indian authorities to release journalist Deepak Jaiswal, and to cease harassing and jailing journalists for their work. Police arrested Jaiswal, a reporter for the Hindi-language daily Dainadini, in the…
New York – Chinese police on Sunday arrested two brothers and a sister of journalist Zhang Ping, who lives in Germany, from his family’s hometown, the journalist told CPJ. The arrests came a week after Zhang published an article decrying…
Donald Trump has had issues with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly ever since he says she treated him unfairly in a debate in August. After the debate, the GOP presidential candidate said that during the debate the host had “blood coming…