Ravi Belagere

The editor of a weekly tabloid in Karnataka has been arrested for allegedly hiring a contract killer to murder a colleague, the police have said.

Karnataka's legislators came together across party lines today to reject a motion seeking that they reconsider the punishment of a year each in jail handed by the state assembly to two editors of Kannada tabloids for breach of privilege. The assembly had sentenced the editors to the jail term and had fined them Rs 10,000 each in June this year, ove...

Lawmakers should "not act as complainant, prosecution and judge," the Editors' Guild of India said today, condemning last week's order of the Karnataka Assembly to arrest and fine two journalists for writing articles that it alleges are defamatory. The order, the Guild said, was a "gross misuse of powers and privileges of a state legislature". The ...

The editor of a weekly tabloid in Karnataka has been arrested for allegedly hiring a contract killer to murder a colleague, the police have said.

Karnataka's legislators came together across party lines today to reject a motion seeking that they reconsider the punishment of a year each in jail handed by the state assembly to two editors of Kannada tabloids for breach of privilege. The assembly had sentenced the editors to the jail term and had fined them Rs 10,000 each in June this year, ove...

Lawmakers should "not act as complainant, prosecution and judge," the Editors' Guild of India said today, condemning last week's order of the Karnataka Assembly to arrest and fine two journalists for writing articles that it alleges are defamatory. The order, the Guild said, was a "gross misuse of powers and privileges of a state legislature". The ...