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Published: Monday 31 August 2009

>> The TV reality show Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao is in the midst of a controversy with animal rights activists writing to ministry of information and broadcasting not to telecast such a show as it was meting out cruelty to animals. The show on Sony TV has 10 celebrities roughing it out in jungles of Malaysia.

>> Two journalists were fined by a court in Namibia for filming the annual seal hunt along the coast of the southern African nation. British journalist Jim Wilckens and South African cameraman Bart Smithers were found guilty of violating Namibia's Marine Resources Act by entering a restricted area, lawyer Raywood Rukoro said.

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