Kolkata, Nov 3 (IANS) Search engine Google is yet to receive permission — primarily on the policy front — to launch its Street View feature in India, a company official said here on Thursday. “However,…
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 3 (IANS) The Congress party on Thursday requested the Kerala Governor to step in immediately to end the lawyers-media impasse in the state. Addressing reporters here after the party’s political affairs committee meeting,…
New York, Nov 3 (IANS) The US is “more backward” than India when it comes to leadership role for women, according to H R Shah, the CEO of TV Asia, the largest South Asian TV…
New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday gave away the Ramnath Goenka Awards for excellence in journalism. “I congratulate all those who have been awarded today,” the Prime Minister said in…
Kochi, Nov 2 (IANS) Around 10 journalists who had come to report the trial of the rape-murder of a Dalit law student in April at the Ernakulam district court on Wednesday were asked to leave…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Arnab Goswami, Editor-in-chief of Times Now, announced on Tuesday that he is quitting the Times Group, employees of the news channel said. Goswami made the announcement at a meeting with…
Mumbai, Nov 1 (IANS) After Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Mann Ki Baat radio address dedicated this Diwali to soldiers defending the countrys borders against tremendous odds, a national organisation of communication professionals has…
Ankara, Nov 1 (IANS) Police arrested Turkish opposition daily, Cumhuriyet’s editor-in-chief, Murat Sabuncu along with 11 others amid a crackdown on media after the failed July coup, authorities said. Writers associated with the daily Aydin…
Islamabad, Nov 1 (IANS) The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has suspended the licence of Nickelodeon channel for airing cartoons dubbed in Hindi language. The electronic media watchdog on Monday announced that the licence…
Islamabad, Oct 29 (IANS) Pakistan Information Minister Parvaiz Rasheed has resigned from his post in the wake of a story in the Dawn that reported details of a high-level civil-military meeting and an apparent rift…
New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Minister of Information and Broadcasting M. Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be a game-changer for the media and entertainment industry. He also said…
New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said the government does not subscribe to the “wrong proposal” of MNS leader Raj Thackeray asking filmmakers to donate Rs…
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 25 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday said the tough working conditions faced by more than 15,000 employees with TV channels in the state will be taken up once it comes…
New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) Driven by digital media and increasingly connected rural consumers, the Indian media and entertainment industry has the potential to grow three to four times over the next seven years, a…
New York, Oct 23 (IANS) Telecommunications giant AT&T on Saturday agree to buy Time Warner, the home of HBO and CNN, for about $85.4 billion, in one of the biggest media tie-ups ever. The move…
Karachi, Oct 23 (IANS) A Sessions Court in Karachi on Saturday granted an interim pre-arrest bail to the Frontier Constabulary (FC) guard Hasan Abbas, who had slapped a female reporter of a Pakistani private news…
New York, Oct 22 (IANS) While some Facebook employees tried to remove certain controversial posts by US presidential candidate Donand Trump from the website, CEO Mark Zuckerberg ruled that it would be inappropriate to censor…
Washington, Oct 22 (IANS) The supporters of US Republican nominee Donald Trump shoved and pushed journalists, including an NDTV reporter, outside an event venue in Pennsylvania, calling them “liars” and threatening to “knock the mic…
Mumbai, Oct 21 (IANS) Firstpost, a leading news website owned by Network 18 media conglomerate, on Friday announced 50 per cent growth in unique visitors on month-on-month basis on its website. According to the latest…
Beijing, Oct 21 (IANS) For the first time in China, a reality TV series that provides a peek into the lives of allegedly corrupt senior party officials and attempts to show their journey to the…