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NEW DELHI: It is a well known truism that the administrative arm of the government is not run by politicians but by bureaucrats. And while there...
His father wanted him to be a doctor, but he chose science as his discipline in college. Within a short time, having done his graduation from...
NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader and former information & broadcasting (I&B) minister Pramod Mahajan passed away this afternoon at Mumbai’s Hinduja Hospital following multiple organ failure....
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader and former information & broadcasting (I&B) minister Pramod Mahajan was shot this morning (Saturday) and remains in a critical...
There was great speculation whether Rupert Murdoch would do it again – raise the DTH issue, which has got Star TV into trouble time and again...
Is global media baron Rupert Murdoch coming to town? If reports are to be believed a visit is being planned for the News Corp chief to...
After Star TV Executive Chairman Gareth Chang’s recent resignation, and NewsCorp Arthur Anderson officials have visited India twice to asses the value of Star TV, NewsCorp...
It's the festival of lights. And for many the festival of noise courtesy exploding fireworks. In the hope of reducing the number of those belonging to...
“I have to pay a hafta of Rs 6,000 crore (60 billion) per week to Maharashtra’s creditors,” says Sushil Kumar Shinde on The RKB Show. Airing...
For the next eight weeks BBC World’s Question Time India will be presenting a series of in-depth discussions of the major topics that lie at the...
Soon after Virender Sehwag, aka as Najafgarh (a Delhi locality)‘s Nawab, completed his triple ton against Pakistan in the first Test at Multan on Monday, a...
MUMBAI: Come 20 March and Mumbais Gateway of India will be all set to witness the clash of two political bigwigs Pramod Mahajan (BJP) and Shivraj...
NEW DELHI: After India’s finance minister unleashed the sop opera in the run-up to the general elections, now comes the soap opera. Not content with film...
MUMBAI: Smriti Z Iraani Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’s self-righteous bahu Tulsi, has a new role to play now. Smriti has joined the Bharatiya Janata...
MUMBAI: Frames 2003, billed as Asia’s biggest convention on the business of entertainment, will reflect on the future direction for the mantra of corporatisation and convergence....
NEW DELHI: The chorus against conditional access system (CAS) has reached the office of deputy prime minister LK Advani. On the pro-CAS side, the information and...
MUMBAI: Ravi Shankar Prasad was, as expected, sworn in this evening as minister of state for information and broadcasting with independent charge. I&B minister Sushma Swaraj...
How would you describe India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj ,DTH,? Gutsy and headstrong! Slightly strange for one born on 14 February. There have been...
Indian information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj again resorted to some political speak yesterday on the convergence bill. She said that she was not aware that...
NEW DELHI: Some members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT and Telecom, which recently submitted its report on the Communication Convergence Bill 2001, have expressed...
NEW DELHI: India will have to wait for at least six months before having a legislation to regulate and govern the convergence space encompassing the sectors...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Despite her comments to the contrary, consensus continues to elude I&B minister Sushma Swaraj on the passage of the Cable TV Regulation...
NEW DELHI: India will have to wait for at least six months before having a legislation to regulate and govern the convergence space encompassing the sectors...
MUMBAI: At the legislative level, the convergence bill looks to be in limbo but there is a huge amount happening in the IT space, especially as...
NEW DELHI: Information Technology & Communication and parliamentary affairs minister Pramod Mahajan is staying put for the moment as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) closed ranks...
NEW DELHI: The Communication Convergence Bill, envisaging a super-regulatory authority for the IT, telecom and broadcasting sectors, is likely to be tabled in the Indian Parliament...
NEW DELHI: The Communication Convergence Bill, envisaging a super-regulatory authority for the IT, telecom and broadcasting sectors, is likely to be tabled in the Indian Parliament...
NEW DELHI: The case of the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, is getting curiouser. Yesterday, though it was listed as part of the day’s...
Speculation is rife in the Capital that in the impending reshuffle of the Union Cabinet which Prime Minister AB Vajpayee is slated to undertake over the...
There has been another fallout of the much-hyped issue of CAS’ failure to get the okay of members of Parliament from the Rajya Sabha (Upper House...
The Union cabinet okay on 7 May to CAS, increasingly becoming synonymous with a Can of Assorted Sorrows rather than Conditional Access System, has compelled both...
The old bugbear is finally out of the way. Ku-band direct to home television (DTH) looks set to get the go-ahead finally after a three year...
When information technology minister Pramod Mahajan was given additional charge of the telecommunications ministry on 1 September in a cabinet reshuffle it was seen as a...
Telecoms minister Ram Vilas Paswan apparently got his just reward for increasing teledensity in India during his two year tenure and piloting the Communication Convergence Bill...
The two-day global convention on the business of entertainment organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) concluded in Mumbai Saturday with...
