Four people were arrested yesterday in connection with a case over the murder of a journalist in front of a crowded market in Chandana Chowrasta of Gazipur on Thursday night.

Journalist Suborna Nodi may have been killed by hired criminals over filing of a dowry case against her former husband and in-laws, police said after primary investigation.

A former senior news editor of The Indian Express and his 92-year-old mother have been killed at their residence in Mohali in Punjab of India.

Police say a journalist from a local television network was abducted and killed while covering a protest rally in India’s remote northeastern state of Tripura.

Gunmen in Pakistan shoot dead a former journalist in Karachi, the third such attack on media personnel in less than 24 hours.