Hyderabad, July 5: The Andhra Pradesh Police announced on 3rd July that Azad, a top Maoist leader and another unidentified person were killed in an encounter on the previous day, in Adilabad district. It was now established beyond doubt that the other person was Mr. Hemchand Pandey, a freelance journalist from Uttarakhand, who was contributing to various Hindi newspapers and periodicals over the years.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, Mr. K Sreenivas Reddy, Secretary-General, the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and Y Narender Reddy, General Secretary, the Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists (APUWJ), said that there were doubts about the circumstances leading to the death of Mr. Hemchand Pandey, a freelance journalist. They demanded that the Government should immediately conduct an inquiry by an independent authority to find out the circumstances leading to the death of a journalist and clear the doubts in the minds of the public, particu more...

Hyderabad, May 31 (NSS): The Governor Mr. E S L Narasimhan assured a delegation of the working journalists organizations of print and electronic media that he would study the recommendations of the Press Council of India (PCI) on the brutal police lathi charge on the journalists in OU Campus and suitable advised the government within his constitutional limitations. According to a press note issued by the Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists (APUWJ), the Governor gave a patient hearing when they met him here on Monday at Raj Bhavan and handed over a letter signed by about 50 prominent Editors and senior
journalists seeking intervention on the OU Police lathi charge on
journalists.

About 50 prominent Editors, senior journalists from print and electronic media in the state urged the Governor of Andhra Pradesh Mr. E S L Narasimhan to intervene and advise the Chief Minister Mr. K Rosaiah to fully implement the recommend more...