Bengaluru police have arrested the editor of a local Kannada tabloid for allegedly cheating a woman by promising her a post in a non-existent State press council.

Liz Mathew, Deputy Editor at The Indian Express, was presented with the Dr Mangalam Swaminathan National Award for excellence in journalism at a function held in New Delhi on Saturday, November 29.

LEAD ANALYSIS: Parliament’s Winter Session opens with the Opposition demanding a debate on SIR. SPOTLIGHT: Mathura, the survivor who reshaped India’s rape laws in 1972, is found living in extreme poverty — Soumitra Bose (TOI) reports a wave of public and official aid now rushing to her. TECH: A decade-low 4,573 new H-1B approvals for Indian IT firms, as Big Tech takes over the visa leaderboard. SPORTS: Kohli’s vintage 135 and India’s tight 17-run win built on early bowling breakthroughs against SA. ENTERTAINMENT: Tere Ishk Mein enters strong with 66 crore, keeping it on track for HIT status.

Two years after its launch, Catholic Connect News has established itself as a central digital platform for India’s Catholic community, bringing together parish, diocesan, national and global Church updates in one place. Developed as part of the Catholic Connect initiative of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), the platform was created to address long-standing gaps in how Church-related information is shared and accessed.

A Jammu Development Authority (JDA) team, accompanied by police, reportedly demolished journalist Arfaz Daing’s house in Narwal on November 27, 2025, triggering accusations of selective enforcement from political leaders and lawyers.

Old Bike, one of Australia’s best known bike magazines celebrating the passion, history and culture of classic motorcycles, has been acquired from nextmedia by Adventure Entertainment, a global leader in adventure media, films, and events.

The ABC News Loop service begins in the new year and will deliver Australian journalism directly into social media feeds. The ABC says News Loop will, “add depth to the scroll with world-class, made-for-social explainer journalism that informs, entertains and engages’.

Presented on Sunday night in Monaco by Sebastian Coe, the World Athletics President’s Award – which was first bestowed in 2016 – is given to those who have made significant contributions to the sport and is one of the highest honours in world sport.

Tunnel vision, social media ban looms, millions of dollars promised for 'local media', 'case for coal', youths mapped, Jess poll, and money talks, all that and more in today's daily news roundup. Stories and pictures by Nicola Smith, Sam Buckingham-Jones, Angela Macdonald-Smith, Nick Toscano and Mike Foley, Perry Williams and Rachel Baxendale, and Marcus de Blonk Smith, Bimini Plesser, and Paul Garvey, Chris Mitchell, Colin Packham, Simon Schluter, Cara Water, Patrick Hatch, Kieran Rooney, and Gemma Grant, Grace Frost, Shannon Deery, Josh Hanrahan, Lucy Arundell.

HT Media has announced the closure of two radio stations in Chennai, citing financial and strategic non-viability. As reported by medianews4u, one of the stations—94.3 FM—had already gone off air several weeks earlier. Its license was formally surrendered by HT’s subsidiary, Next Radio Limited, leading to the station’s official shutdown on October 24, 2025.

Aashish Dixit, 39, a journalist with the Press Trust of India (PTI), passed away on Thursday, November 27, following a prolonged illness.

A journalist, Sudip Biswas was allegedly dragged out of his house and attacked by three individuals.

LEAD ANALYSIS: SC wants a safer internet, asking the Centre to draft fresh rules for screening harmful user content before it goes viral. SPOTLIGHT: Kerala just landed on Mars — with sites like Periyar, Bekal and Varkala now stamped onto Martian geography by the IAU. SPORTS: Deepti Sharma shattered WPL records, returning to UP Warriorz for 3.2 crore — the biggest buy of the 2025 auction. TECH: Apple is in Delhi HC fighting rules that could expose it to a massive $38BN antitrust penalty. ENTERTAINMENT: Dhanush is poised for his biggest Bollywood opening yet, with Tere Ishk Mein.

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday, November 27, issued a notice to journalist Mahesh Langa after the state government challenged the anticipatory bail granted to him last year in a cheating case.

The Delhi High Court has questioned the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) over inadequate paperwork in the case involving Reuters journalist Raphael Satter, whose Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card was revoked in December 2023. The court told the MHA counsel, “Your officers have completely distorted it.”