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NEW DELHI: The transformative and ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme of the Government of India has started bearing fruits after six months of its inception and e-services...
NEW DELHI: Noting that Information Communication Technology (ICT) is the tool of development and progress, which is the very ethos and purpose of e-Governance, Communications and...
MUMBAI: The fourth edition of Hindi heartland’s biggest summit – Agenda Aaj Tak also known as the Hindi Jagat ka Mahamanch will be held this year...
NEW DELHI: Following protests by votaries of a free social media, the government today withdrew a draft of an encryption policy, thus exempting mass use encryption...
NEW DELHI: In an effort to fulfil its aim of linking the nation through the Internet, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is upgrading broadband speed by a minimum...
MUMBAI: India today launched four world class broadband products by Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT). With this, the country has come at par with all...
NEW DELHI: The Government is in the process of finalising the spectrum sharing and trading guidelines and is working towards creating an enabling ecosystem to make India...
NEW DELHI: Within days of Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s announcement about strengthening broadband base throughout the country, BSNL has said visitors to the Taj Mahal...
NEW DELHI: Communications and Information Technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that full mobile number portability will become operational across the country from July and consumers will...
NEW DELHI: Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has assured the industry that the auction of spectrum in the future too would be conducted in...
MUMBAI: Over the last few days, the hot topic of debate on social media has been net neutrality. Even as Indians sent more than 300,000 emails...
NEW DELHI: Even as the government has allocated spectrum worth more than Rs 1.09 lakh crore, Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said this will not...
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: 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: Those who are in politics must learn to be tolerant even in the face of criticism, Communications and Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar...
NEW DELHI: A total of 97,480 km of National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN) is planned in the first phase out of the total envisaged – 244,729...
MUMBAI: In a first of its kind initiative, NewsX hosted ‘Vision 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) Telecom Conclave’ a platform that brought together, Government bodies and...
NEW DELHI: Digital India is a tool to bridge the divide between the haves and have-nots, according to Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. In...
NEW DELHI: Resolving an issue that was pending for the past eight years, 31 bands of spectrum have been set aside for telecom and broadcasting. ...
NEW DELHI: Communications and Information Technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said that the centre will take the help of private companies to deeply entrench Prime...
MUMBAI: Taking a leaf out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative, Union Minister of Communication and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad today stressed on...
KOLKATA: The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) organised a mega event and an exhibition at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi on 25 December to...
NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mandate of ‘Digital India’ will be a game changer for the country and will have a cascading effect on...
NEW DELHI: India wants democratisation and broad-basing of the global affairs of telecommunications and internet governance, according to Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad....
MUMBAI: After swooning the nation with his ideas to enhance the internet connectivity in India in the Internet.org summit, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who was in...
NEW DELHI: The media came under attack on issues of paid news and regulation at different forums in the capital over the weekend. Chief election...
For many it is a daily struggle – how to balance their daily routines between work and perosnal life. But there are occasions when even the...
NEW DELHI: The appointment of former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Nripendra Misra as principal secretary to the Prime Minister got legislative sanction in...
NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar has been sworn in as the new Information and Broadcasting Minister. Javadekar, in an interview to a News channel...
Sex sells. Not that the Indian media and policy makers alike are waking up to the fact only now. Over the last few years the issue...
NEW DELHI: The ambivalence of the government continues over legislation relating to various broadcast issues. After having professed the need for a broadcast bill, the information...
NEW DELHI: With a launch date still not fixed, a certain section in Doordarshan now thinks that starting a free Ku-band direct-to-home (DTH) TV service is...
NEW DELHI: The new Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government has started making bureaucratic appointments and information and broadcasting ministry is amongst the first batch of units...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has signed the file on the issue of licensing fees for FM radio operators, referring the matter...
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry is likely to advise the information and broadcasting ministry that the licence fee of private radio FM players could be kept...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to buy time, which would also result in some benefit to the private FM players, the Indian government proposes to refer...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is likely to agree to partial sops for private players in the FM radio sector, though he...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), has issued a consultation paper on the second round of opening of the FM...
“All the important decision makers, including the information and broadcasting minister, the deputy prime minister, the finance minister and the Amit Mitra headed task force have...
NEW DELHI: Even as information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is slated to meet prime minister A B Vajpayee this evening on the issue of...
NEW DELHI: It was inevitable. Call it over-confidence or a comedy serial or a smart move, but cable operators attempting to turn politicians had to happen.Fazed...
The latest episode of Star World's interview show Cover Story will feature our I&B minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Viewers can catch him on 29 February at...
NEW DELHI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chief Pradip Baijal’s meeting with India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in the last two days...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today hinted to the Pakistani government that it should lift the ban on Indian TV channels...
MUMBAI: Even the courts appear to be waiting for the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) offer some clarity of the vexed issue of conditional access....
Lists – don‘t we just love them, the best of…, the worst of…, the what not… But one list that everyone wants to be on is...
NEW DELHI : The Indian government has decided that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) would be the body that would regulate the broadcasting sector...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: So it came to pass that the last day of the year was witness to another twist in the already twisted CAS...
NEW DELHI: The last day of the year may just about witness another twist in the already twisted CAS tale. Delhi chief minister Sheila...
NEW DELHI: The last day of the year may just about witness another twist in the already twisted CAS tale. Delhi chief minister Sheila...
