The government is in the final stages of setting up an Empowered Nodal Group which could act as a single point authority for disbursement of news in the event of major crisis like Mumbai terror attack.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Saturday assured a delegation that he would look into their demand of making attacks on media a non-bailable offence, in the backdrop of the attack on IBN-Lokmat Marathi TV channel office.

Suspected Shiv Sena activists on Friday ransacked the office of a Marathi news channel in suburban Mumbai, assaulting journalists and damaging furniture.

"The channel could be run on the lines of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha channels and content developed to bring out various facets of Indian Railways," the Passenger Amenities Committee of Railways has recommended.

After getting a journalist arrested, The South Indian Film Artistes' Association Thursday said it was ready for talks with a prominent Tamil daily, whose News Editor was detained.

Taking note of a "wrong" report about Chinese firing at Indian border guards, Government has decided to slap cases against two reporters of a prominent national daily who authored it.

A Pakistani television journalist was shot dead as he made his way to work in the latest killing of a reporter to rock the insurgency-hit country, a press freedom group said today.

Amid an outcry from its own newsroom, The Washington Post on Thursday canceled plans to host events offering lobbyists access to US government officials, members of Congress and Post reporters.

Malaysia is to launch a free-to-air Islamic television channel aimed at family education based on the religion's teachings, according to the Islamic affairs minister.

The concept is one of myriad experiments going on across the Web as the traditional media industry founders against the realities of free online news and cheap online advertising.

The 83-year-old owner of America's best-selling men's glossy magazine could sell the company he founded more than 56 years ago for some $300 million, after its profits slump in the face of free pornography on the Internet.

Twelve years after the groundbreaking "Bombay Dost" (Bombay Friends) first hit the streets and despite selling some 5,000 copies every quarter, lack of funding and advertising revenue forced it to close.

The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating global epidemic was just fear-mongering hype. But that's not how public health officials see it, calling complacency the thing that keeps them up at night.

Out of the 195 countries and territories covered in a Freedom House study, 70, or 36 percent, were rated "free," 61 (31 percent), were rated "partly free" and 64 (33 percent) were rated "not free."

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt told worried US newspaper owners on Tuesday they need to work with the Web giant as they struggle to find a new business model for the ailing industry.

US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad.

A radio presenter was fighting for his life today in hospital after being shot in the Philippines, the latest in a series of media figures in the country to be targeted.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday assured broadcasters, who had objected to proposed curbs on TV channels over coverage of events like Mumbai terror attacks, that changes in Cable TV rules would be taken up only after "widest" consultations with all stakeholders.

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) General secretary Prakash Karat Wednesday sent a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seeking the establishment of an independent regulatory body to monitor television news channels.

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Monday lamented the inadequate coverage of the Parliament in the media, saying that it was mainly limited to disruptions and disturbances in Parliamentary proceedings.

A job well done, or the end of a mission that has achieved little - newspapers in London were divided Thursday on Britain's withdrawal from Iraq, although all agreed that lessons must be learned.

A Parliamentary Committee has favoured statutory regulations for the media as it voiced concern over the live telecast of the 60-hour "Operation Black Tornado" by the security forces in the wake of the Mumbai terror strikes.