BV Seetaram, chairman and chief editor of Chitra Publications, whose primary publication is the Mangalore-based newspaper Karavali, has been arrested in the district of Udupi, Karnataka. Seetaram’s detention relates to defamation charges filed in March 2007, when he and his wife were arrested for fomenting animosity on grounds of religion.
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Jagjit Saikia, district correspondent for the newspaper Amar Asam, was killed by unknown assailants on 22 November in the town of Kokrajhar.
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Indian artist MF Husain hes been cleared of obscenity charges over his painting ‘Mother India’. Hindu groups had claimed that the painting, featuring a nude posed in the shape of a map of India, was sacrilegious.
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Fifty-one Indian journalists who were travelling to cover chief minister of Andhra Pradesh YS Rajasekhara Reddy visit to the Vaddera community were instead taken to the Tiruchanoor police station, in Tirupati, and kept there for three hours on Friday.
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