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Wind up Press Council or revamp it: Parliamentary panel


Regretting lack of "effective" government action to tackle paid news, a parliamentary panel has sugg...

Remove Katju as PCI chief, say activists


Social activists here Monday wrote to President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s...

Katju writes to President seeking pardon for Devender Pal Singh Bhullar


PCI chairman Justice Markandey Katju has written to President Pranab Mukherjee asking pardon for Dev...

Urdu does not belong to any particular community: Katju


Press Council of India Chairman Justice (retd) Markandey Katju on Sunday said that Urdu belonged to ...

Urdu does not belong to any particular community: Katju


Press Council of India Chairman Justice (retd) Markandey Katju on Sunday said that Urdu belonged to ...

Urdu, Sanskrit are India`s culture, says Katju


Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Markandey Katju Saturday said Urdu and Sanskrit are India`s cu...

Indians vote like cattle: Markandey Katju


India is not a full-fledged democracy as 90 percent of its people vote like sheep and cattle, Press ...

Katju should not act like a spokesperson of a party: JD (U)


With PCI Justice Markandey Katju making a pitch for pardoning actor Sanjay Dutt, Janata Dal (United)...

1993 Mumbai blasts: Sanjay, Zaibunnisa deserve mercy, says Katju


Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Markandey Katju on Wednesday raised his voice to seek mercy fo...

Press Council Act to get more teeth: Govt


To give more teeth to the media watchdog, government on Friday said it will amend Press Council of I...

Minimum qualification for journos needed: Katju


Suggesting that absence of a proper eligibility criterion was affecting the quality of reportage, PC...

New theory in jurisprudence needed: Katju


Modern jurisprudence is undergoing a crisis as it had exhausted the possibility of further developme...

BJP objects to Katju`s article on Gujarat in Pak daily


BJP attacked Press Council of India chief Markandey Katju for writing article in Pakistan daily agai...

After Jaitley, Nitish hits back at Katju


Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday slammed Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Kat...

Opposition assails Bihar on `muzzling press freedom`


The Opposition charged NDA govt of muzzling freedom of press and demanded a two-hour long debate in ...

Oppn assails Bihar on `muzzling press freedom`


Armed with the Press Council of India (PCI) report, the opposition Tuesday charged the NDA governmen...

Katju faces ire of PCI members; defers adoption of 2 reports


Markandey Katju faced a stormy session in PCI meeting when members of the body forced him to defer a...

Stop acting as Congress’ agent: JD(U) to Katju


Hitting out at Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju for alleging that Bihar government is...

Unfazed by BJP attack, Katju calls Jaitley`s remarks reckless


Under attack from BJP, Press Council chief Markandey Katju accused opposition leader Arun Jaitley of...

Katju warns of legal action if press wrongly denied govt ads


Hitting out at governments for stopping advertisements to publications over "critical" articles, Pre...

PCI issues guidelines for publishing foreign vacancy ads


In an effort to safeguard interests of overseas job aspirants, Press Council of India has issued gui...

90 per cent of people vote on caste lines: Katju


90 per cent of people vote on caste lines instead of assessing a candidate`s merit, Press Council of...

Self-regulation is no regulation: Katju


"Self regulation" as practised by the electronic media is a "ploy" to escape accountability, Markand...

Revise paid news guidelines, take suo motu action: PCI panel


Noting the prevalence of unethical practice of paid news in recent Gujarat polls, a Press Council of...

India, Pak have failed in giving minorities their due: Katju


Both India and Pakistan have failed on the test for a civilised society as minorities in either of t...

Attack on journalists: Katju demands action against cops


The former Supreme Court judge said that he strongly condemned the attack on journalists by the poli...

Legal notice to Js Katju over ‘idiot Indians’ remarks


Two students from Lucknow have sent a legal notice to Press Council of India chairperson Justice Mar...

PCI forms 4-member committee to check paid news in Guj polls


The Press Council of India has formed a four-member committee to investigate the practice of paid ne...

PM favours self regulation by media


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said censorship was no answer to irresponsible journalism and favoured...

PCI committee to probe incidents to violence in Faizabad


A PCI committee, set up to probe an attack on a religious place and a media house in Faizabad in UP,...

PCI constitutes one-man committee to probe Faizabad incident


Press Council of India on Tuesday constituted a one-man committee to probe into the incident of atta...

Katju slams politicians for being `intolerant` towards media


Press Council chief Markandey Katju on Wednesday said such increasingly intolerant behaviour by poli...

Justice Katju warns newspapers against tarnishing reputations


Press Council chairperson Justice Markandey Katju on Saturday asked newspapers not to damage reputat...

11 journalists bag Press Council of India awards


Damyanti Datta of India Today and Priyanka Dubey of Tehelka bagged certificate of excellence for In...

Katju appeals to Pak leadership to release Sarabjit


: Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju on Sunday appealed to the President and Prime Mini...

Monopoly of corporate houses in media not good sign: Katju


Justice Markandey Katju on Saturday said the increasing tendency of monopoly of corporate houses in...

Arrest cops, politicians behind Trivedi`s ordeal: Katju


Terming the arrest of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi in Mumbai a "serious criminal offence", PCI Chairman ...

Katju pitches for bringing electronic media under PCI purview


Pitching for bringing the electronic media under the ambit of Press Council of India, its Chairman M...

How does it matter if Rajesh Khanna is dead or alive: Katju


Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju slammed television news channels for "excessive" cov...

J&K interlocutors seek probe on funding of newspapers


The interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir have suggested a probe by an appropriate regulatory body to f...

Sakshi writes to Press Council against CBI action


Sakshi media house filed an application with the Editors` Guild and the Press Council of India again...

Movemet for Sarabjit`s release begun in Pakistan


Pakistani Press Council has begun efforts to set up a committee and start a movement for the release...

Justice Katju for regulating social media


"Social media like Facebook, Google need to be regulated as a lot of dirty and filthy material is av...

Press Council to challenge HC order in SC: Katju


Terming as “not correct" the Allahabad HC order which prohibited all media reports related to troop ...

Bihar: Press council begins probe into complaints


A three-member Press Council Of India (PCI) fact-finding team began a two-day hearing on charges of ...

`Independent media regulatory authority needed`


Prashant Bhushan said the Press Council of India did not enjoy any "serious authority" to take actio...

Lokpal may increase corruption: Katju


The Bill can create a parallel bureaucracy that could turn into a”Frankenstein monster" and double o...

Idea of Lokpal would create blackmailers: Katju


Press Council Chairman Justice Markandey Katju on Tuesday trashed the idea of setting up Lokpal sayi...

Will send fact finding teams to some states: Katju


Katju said that he had also sent a letter to the Chief Minister of West Bengal objecting to the new...

Katju warns of strong action in paid news


Justice Katju warned all media persons, candidates and election authorities of strong action if they...