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…
New York, Oct 20 (IANS) If you cannot take your eyes off the innumerable selfies posted on social networking sites like Facebook, take heed. Researchers have found that the more often people view their own…
New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) A Srinagar journalist who runs a news portal said he was questioned and “harassed” by police over a video statement by Hizbul Mujahideen he had published on his website a…
Islamabad, Oct 19 (IANS) Amid rising tensions with India, Pakistan’s media regulatory authority on Wednesday approved a complete ban on airing of Indian content in Pakistan from October 21. The decision was taken at the…
Mogadishu (Somalia), Oct 19 (IANS/AKI) Somali security force have arrested two journalists in capital Mogadishu who work for satellite TV channel Al Jazeera, a local radio station reported on Wednesday. The reporters, named as Hamza…
IANS has entered into an agreement with Sputnik International, a leading Russian news agency to exchange news on a wide variety of subjects. Consequently, IANS would be moving news from Sputnik about Russia and other…
Beijing, Oct 19 (IANS) A television series adaption of the classic, “Red Star Over China”, written by American journalist Edgar Snow, will be screened in China on Saturday. It is one of the most influential…
Hyderabad, Oct 18 (IANS) NewsDistill, a leading news aggregator, has introduced a unique feature that allows users to search and get news based on their current location or from the place of their choice. The…
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) In what is an obvious reference to Pakistan’s use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy, External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said that the invitation to member states…
London, Oct 18 (IANS) WikiLeaks have announced that Ecuador has shut down internet access for its founder Julian Assange. “We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange’s internet access Saturday, 5 pm GMT, shortly after publication…