Johnny Depp turns scribe in `Rum Diary`

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 18:19

Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp is all set to portray a burned-out journalist, who takes up a job in Puerto Rico, in the upcoming movie`Rum Diary`.

Scribe roughed up during poll talk show

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 13:09

Reporter of a Malayalam TV channel was roughed up allegedly by CPI(M) sympathisers during an `open air` election talk show here, police said.

US scribe to depose on Dhaka trial he covered 35 years ago

Last Updated: Monday, March 14, 2011, 16:05

Lawrence Lifschultz reported a military court trial in 1976 in Bangladesh.

Bhatt to go to Iraq, meet scribe who hurled shoe at Bush

Last Updated: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 13:02

Noted film-maker Mahesh Bhatt, who is producing "The Last Salute", a play on the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at former US President George Bush, plans to visit the strife-torn country and meet him.

Cuttack scribes lodge FIR against ruling BJD workers

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 23:59

A scribe of a local TV channel alleged that ruling BJD activists attacked him and forced him and his cameraman to hand over their recording cassettes which contain recordings of the BJD activists attacking BJP workers at Banki.

Police seeks scribe`s murder trial thorough video conferencing

Last Updated: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 21:10

Delhi police has approached a city court seeking trial of TV journalist Saumya Vishwanathan`s murder case through video conferencing saying the accused had tried to escape from police custody.

Arunachal MP aggrieved for wrong tag of scribe assaulter

Last Updated: Monday, December 27, 2010, 15:31

Lok Sabha member from Arunachal West constituency, Takam Sanjoy Monday said he was aggrieved by reports in a section of the media linking him with the assault on two women journalists earlier this month.

AIMPLB condemns manhandling of scribe by Shahi Imam

Last Updated: Saturday, October 16, 2010, 21:30

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Saturday condemned the manhandling of a scribe by Maulana Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of Delhi`s Jama Masjid, and his supporters during a press conference here earlier this week.

Journalist beaten up by Delhi Shahi Imam`s supporters

Last Updated: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 23:57

Shahi Imam of the Delhi Jama Masjid lost his cool when a Muslim journalist questioned him regarding the Ayodhya verdict during a press conference following which he was thrashed by supporters of the cleric.

UP govt announces Rs five lakh exgratia to kin of slain scribe

Last Updated: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 00:39

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today announced an ex-gratia of Rs five lakh to kin of a journalist, who died after being seriously injured during an attack on cabinet minister Nand Kumar Gupta "Nandi" in Allahabad.

Scribe injured in blast at UP Minister`s house dies

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 23:48

An Indian Express journalist, who was injured in an explosion outside the house of Uttar Pradesh minister Nand Gopal Gupta "Nandi" in Allahabad, died in a hospital here this evening.