His Excellency Atal Behari Vajpayee Prime Minister of India Office of the Prime Minister New Delhi India Vienna, 29 January 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the brutal murder of Shivani Bhatanagar, a correspondent of the English-language daily newspaper The Indian Express. IPI is informed that unknown assailants entered Ms. Bhatnagar’s […]

Two masked gunmen shot and killed Umesh Rajput, reporter with Hindi daily Nai Duniya, outside his home near Raipur, in Chhattisgarh, Sunday night. Although rushed to a nearby hospital, he was declared dead upon arrival. The two assailants fled the scene on a motorcycle. A note written in red ink was found near the crime […]

International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Director Barbara Trionfi this week sent a letter to the chief justice of the High Court of Kerala, India expressing concern over continued restrictions on journalists’ right to cover court proceedings. In the letter, which was also directed to the chief minister of Kerala’s government, Trionfi noted that journalists have […]

An Indian journalist hospitalised after being beaten over the head by unknown assailants died on Friday of his injuries while being transferred to a second hospital after his condition deteriorated. Indian media reported that the journalist, Rajesh Mishra, worked as an editor for Media Raj, a Hindi weekly published in the city of Rewa, Madya […]