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Forbes Media, which publishes the Forbes Magazine, is up for sale and hopes to generate at least $400 million through the move. Forbes Media's CEO Michael Perlis wrote in an email to staff that the company has received quite a few indications of interest to buy Forbes Media. Forbes Magazine is best known for its annual billionaire and power lists.

Ending their 14-year old marriage, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch (82), who leads the 20th Century Fox and News Corp, has reached a divorce settlement with his wife Wendi Deng Murdoch. However, they have jointly stated that the settlement was amicable and will have a shared interest in their daughters' welfare. It was the third marriage for Rupert Murdoch.

Vice President Hamid Ansari, who headed the selection of Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal as a member of the Prasar Bharati board on Tuesday, has recommended the withdrawal of his name. Ansari immediately asked the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to cancel it, as soon as Tejpal's alleged sexual assault on a colleague came to light on Wednesday night, sources said.

Tehelka founder and editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal (50), accused of sexually assaulting a junior colleague in a five-star hotel, was Friday booked for rape by Goa Police as the Union home ministry sought a report in the matter. Police have obtained CCTV footage from the hotel and a leaked copy of a complaint filed by the victim to Tehelka's managing editor.

The Tehelka journalist who accused Editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal of sexual assault resigned from the organization on Monday. She has reportedly mentioned in her resignation letter that the organisation has failed her. Meanwhile, Tarun Tejpal moved the Delhi High Court, seeking anticipatory bail in the sexual assault case lodged against him in Goa.

Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal has rubbished the allegations of sexual assault against him, labelling the whole episode 'a BJP conspiracy'. He accused the Goa police investigation of being 'tainted and unfair' as it was being carried out under political pressure. "The complaint by the girl is clearly motivated, false and an afterthought with oblique motives," Tejpal has alleged.

Goa Police have recorded the statement of the journalist who has accused Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal of sexually assaulting her. According to officials, victim's statement is consistent with the points she made in her complaint emailed to Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury last week. Meanwhile, Goa police issued an "immigration checkpost alert" against Tejpal so that he can't leave India.

In his anticipatory bail plea, Tehelka's founder-editor Tarun Tejpal on Tuesday said he had exposed corruption in defence deals in 2001 due to which BJP's then president Bangaru Laxman as well as then defence minister had to resign and he and Tehelka have been targeted due to this. The court, however, refused to grant interim protection against arrest to him.

Tarun Tejpal had sent his junior colleague an "informal apology letter" on November-19 saying that he was unaware that their encounters were non-consensual and asked her to "forgive and forget" them. The woman journalist rebutted his version saying that she had pleaded him to stop. Not being able to take no for an answer turns men into beasts, she added.

The managing editor of Tehelka, Shoma Chaudhary, who has been in controversy trying to shield the reputation of Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal, has resigned from her post. In her resignation e-mail, she had mentioned that her resignation followed, as she was unable to take any more questions raised on her integrity to tarnish the image of Tehelka.

Police on Thursday registered a case against former Delhi BJP MLA Vijay Jolly for his acts of vandalism outside Tehelka former managing editor Shoma Chaudhury's residence. Jolly, along with other BJP workers, protested before Shoma's house demanding her immediate arrest. Following this, Shoma was provided with a security cover. BJP has condemned Jolly's act and distanced itself from the protest.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Saturday sought an explanation from BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi for revealing the surname of Tehelka victim on Twitter. NCW has called it very unfortunate and has asked Lekhi to reply to them within 25 hours. Citing it as a punishable offence, the commission has decided to take action against this act.

As per a survey by the Washington-based International Women's Media Foundation and the London-based International News Safety Institute (carried on 822 women media workers), about two-third of women journalists have experienced abuse, harassment, or threats by male bosses at work. Moreover, the survey also says that the majority of women, who are harassed, do not report the incidents.

While having accepted that he was indulged in the act, Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexually assaulting a junior journalist, stuck to his version that whatever happened between the two was a "consensual act", a police officer said Thursday. However, the journalist had claimed that Tejpal groped and touched her private parts on two occasions in the Goa hotel.