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Journalist Welfare Scheme: Newly constituted 10-member Committee to submit
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI): Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has constituted a ten-member Committee headed by Ashok Kumar Tandon, renowned Journalist and Member of Prasar Bharati on Thursday, to take a look at the existing guidelines of the Journalists Welfare Scheme (JWS)
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Facebook says helped airlift Afghan staff, journalists from Kabul
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US] September 2 (ANI/Sputnik) - Facebook said it helped evacuate Afghan journalists to Mexico from Kabul, alongside the tech giant's employees, partners and their families, according to a statement seen by media.
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Afghan journalists say man seen hanging from helicopter a flag installer,
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 1 (ANI): Video footage has surfaced on social media that shows a US-made Black Hawk helicopter flying over Afghanistan's Kandahar province, with a person seen hanging below from a rope.
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US strands over 500 journalists in Afghanistan: Congressman Michael McCaul
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], September 1 (ANI): More than 500 journalists and their families who were employed by the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) were abandoned by the State Department in Afghanistan, senior Republican on the US House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul said.
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2 journalists, 2 athletes among victims of Kabul airport explosion
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 29 (ANI): Two journalists, including a female TV anchor and two athletes, were killed in a deadly explosion at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
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US stands by its commitment to evacuate vulnerable Afghans: Biden
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US] August 24 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he stands by the commitment to evacuate people and this includes vulnerable Afghans, such as women leaders and journalists after the Taliban's hostile takeover of Afghanistan.
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US must plan evacuation of Afghan journalists: RSF
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Paris [France], August 23 (ANI): Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on US President Joe Biden to draw a special plan for evacuating endangered Afghan journalists and human rights defenders.
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Taliban carrying out 'organised searches' for journalists, says German bro
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 20 (ANI): German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported that the Taliban are carrying out 'organised searches' for journalists after Chancellor Angela Merkel described the terrorist outfit's takeover of Afghanistan as "bitter, dramatic and terrible."
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Space for independent reporting from China has shrunk, says expert
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 20 (ANI): The space for independent reporting from China has shrunk with Beijing applying it's abrasive and confrontationist werewolf diplomacy attitude even to the foreign journalists, said Fabien Baussart, President of Center of Political and Foreign Affairs (CPFA).
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Afghan women journalists say they are now being "barred" from working
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 20 (ANI): Women journalists in Afghanistan have said that they are being barred from working by the Taliban who have overtaken control of the country and who had assured that women would be allowed to work corresponding with Sharia law.
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International Federation of Journalists urges for evacuation of media work
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 20 (ANI): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged for the necessary evacuation of media workers at critical risk in Afghanistan and asked the international community to expedite all evacuation and rescue operations.
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J-K DGP orders action against police officer over assault of journalists i
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 18 (ANI): A day after journalists were allegedly assaulted by police while covering the Muharram procession in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, Director-General of Police Dilbag Singh on Wednesday ordered immediate action against the police officer f
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