NEW DELHI: A National Supercomputing Mission will be launched at an estimated cost of Rs 4500 crore over a period of seven years. This was...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has notified an amendment to the existing Quality of Service Regulations (QoS) for Digital Addressable System (DAS)...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today recommended that the reserve price for FM Radio channels for Phase III in a new city...
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has been awarded the Platinum icon award for Comprehensive Web presence in the Web Ratna Awards 2014. The...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) additional secretary J S Mathur, who heads the Task Force for Phase III and IV of Digital Addressable Systems...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today asked the two advocates representing the 16 December gangrape convicts to respond to the charges that they allegedly made derogatory...
MUMBAI: In a landmark judgement the Indian Supreme Court today scrapped the ‘draconian’ Section 66A of the IT Act, which provides the power to arrest a...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has adjourned the petition by the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) and others challenging the advertising cap of 12 minutes per...
NEW DELHI: Youth Affairs Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has urged the states to help the centre in bringing transparency and accountability in sports by implementing the Sports...
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment has obtained a John Doe order from the Mumbai High Court to protect its latest release Hunterrr from the menace of piracy. The...
NEW DELHI: A total number of 21699, 27605, 28481 and 32323 websites were hacked by various hacker groups spread across the world from 2011 to 2014,...
NEW DELHI: The Government has advised all television channels in public interest to safeguard innocent lives, to ensure that no operations-linked information reaches the terrorists and...
NEW DELHI: The Government has earned Rs 7.41 crore as processing fee from multi system operators from April 2011, the Lok Sabha was informed on 20...
NEW DELHI: A total of 135 private FM radio channels will be auctioned in the first batch covering 69 cities in Phase III based on the...
NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore said on 19 March that the enhanced reach and instant dissemination on social media had...
NEW DELHI: The ban on the telecast of the controversial BBC documentary India’s Daughter by Leslee Udwin about the 16 December, 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape will continue...
NEW DELHI: District magistrates of Indian states have been asked to proactively involve community radio stations in the dissemination of information regarding government policies. A...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Government has no plans to put a cap on the number of satellite television broadcasting channels in the country, the Parliament...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley said today that the government was committed to ensuring that ‘airwaves’ constitutes property of the people or the...
NEW DELHI: Minister of State Rajyavardhan Rathore has said that women have excelled in all fields and have made everyone proud of their achievements. Speaking...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Delhi High Court is still to decide finally on the ban on India’s Daughter by Leslee Udwin, Information and Broadcasting Minister...
NEW DELHI: The fifth National Sammelan for Community Radio Stations will be inaugurated in Delhi on 16 March by Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitely. Minister...
NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore has said that media can transform the lives of the people living in rural areas by...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has extended the deadline for comments by stakeholders on the draft Tariff Order prescribing framework for commercial interoperability...
NEW DELHI: The Government will include provisions for checking the menace of paid news in the amendments to the Press and Registration of Books Act. ...
NEW DELHI: The Parliament was informed on 13 March that the list of 28 “objectionable and abusive” words suggested for banning from Indian films by Central...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting secretary Bimal Julka has said that the forthcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in November will have a special section...
NEW DELHI: There was an increase of approximately nine million broadband subscribers between December 2014 and January 2015 with the number going up from 85.74 million...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today refused to stay the ban on BBC’s documentary India’s Daughter by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin on the Nirbhaya gang rape of...
NEW DELHI: Indian Institute of Technology Professor Dr. M. Jagadesh Kumar and former National Human Rights Commission secretary general Rajiv Sharma have been appointed part-time members...
NEW DELHI: There will be an Open House meeting on 20 March for applicants for new television channels and those seeking changes in their uplinking or downlinking options. ...
NEW DELHI: Operators of FM radio who had applied for migration to phase III FM but changed their minds, will be given an opportunity to withdraw...
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) is considering a proposal to prohibit live media coverage of counter terrorism operations by security forces. Minister...
NEW DELHI: Even as the film continues to be available on internet, the Delhi High Court refused to give urgent hearing to a public interest litigation...
NEW DELHI: Two amendments made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to its tariff orders that aimed at preventing broadcasters from giving their channels...
NEW DELHI: A total telecom spectrum of Rs 77,000 crore (provisional figure) was reached by the end of the week with 17 rounds. Eight telecom operators...
NEW DELHI: Even as the documentary “India’s Daughter” by Oscar-winning British filmmaker Leslee Udwin on the Nirbhaya gang-rape case has been telecast by BBC4 on a...
NEW DELHI: Six rounds of bidding were completed in the auction of spectrum in 2100 MHz, 1800 MHz, 900 MHz and 800 MHz bands, which began...
NEW DELHI: In a day of speedy action, the Delhi High Court today upheld the stay on telecast of a documentary based on interviews including one...
NEW DELHI: Following strong protests in Rajya Sabha today, Home Minister Rajnath Singh committed to members that the government will move to court to restrain the...
NEW DELHI: A notice was issued by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) inviting applications for the first batch of phase III FM auctions for 135...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is still to decide on an appeal by the Government against orders of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) Hyderabad and Andhra...
NEW DELHI: Action has been taken against three television channels so far in 2015, of which two have been taken without issue of any show cause...
NEW DELHI: The Government has categorically denied any interference in the decision-making of the Central Board of Film Certification or any coercion on the chairperson or...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a draft Tariff Order (TO) for consultation with stakeholders prescribing a framework for commercial interoperability...
NEW DELHI: An Open House meet will be organised on reserve price for auction of FM Radio channels in new cities in Delhi on 9 March....
NEW DELHI: Even as the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has put on hold the list of 28 “objectionable and abusive” words to be banned...
NEW DELHI: Digital India and its gains will form a highlight of the next round of ‘Festivals of India’ during 2015-16. The Culture Ministry has...
NEW DELHI: The audio-visual medium received 55.7 per cent of the government advertisements in Hindi as compared to 32.38 per cent in the print medium in...
NEW DELHI: Following the controversy that arose when a government advertisement relating to Republic Day reproduced the original Preamble to the Constitution, the Government has given...