In order to implement big ticket ideas which are likely to come via the Budget of 2015, Modi needs better political talent around him, says Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com.
'I defy all the controversy. For me, it is meaningless. They say the students are unhappy that I have been appointed as the head of FTII. They have not seen my work so how can they be unhappy?' Gajendra Chauhan tries to justify his appointment to head the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India.
Sources said the letter of intent (LoI) for the group's foray into DTH was given on Monday to Blue Sky Magic, a company of the Reliance-ADA group.\n\n
The government on Thursday said it would explore the possibility of allowing more agencies to do television-rating points.
At least 38 PLA troops drowned while crossing a fast-flowing, sub-zero river in darkness, according to an article in the Australian newspaper The Klaxon which cited a report prepared by a group of social media researchers after a year-long investigation.
Trinamool Congress MLA Mahua Moitra alleged that the Centre's social media hub policy was to be used as a tool to monitor social media activities of the citizens and should be quashed.
The public interest litigation was filed by one Supriya Aggrawal, who alleged that the magazines had been corrupting the the mind of youngsters through the surveys.
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Indicating that there could be soon norms for media coverage of terror-related operations, Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said that the issue is under "serious and very advanced consideration" of the government.
But he would rather have the government sack him as he feels that the directive is tantamount to questioning his credibility, sources said.
Make in India has seen an overwhelming response on its digital platforms like Facebook and Twitter since its launch just 3 months ago.
Throwing the ball back in the government's court, TRAI on Friday favoured status quo on the existing cable set-up across the country, including tariffs.
India's Ambassador at the World Trade Organisation K M Chandrashekar is all set to become the new revenue secretary and special secretary S N Menon will become the new commerce secretary.
A three-member team of I&B ministry officials is expected to visit the crisis-hit FTII soon to find a solution to the 70-day-old strike by the students
Operation Sankat Mochan, aimed at evacuating over 500 Indians stuck in the war-torn South Sudan, got underway on Thursday.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunshi saying 'content of a character (in any artistic venture) cannot be dictated or interfered'.
Asked about the report, MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said, "The political judgements of Freedom House are as inaccurate and distorted as their maps."
Xi and Modi are scheduled to hold informal summit talks on Friday evening and on Saturday.
SET India, in which Sony Entertainment Pictures holds 64.5 per cent stake, plans to acquire 100 per cent of SET Satellite Singapore through a share-swap deal, sources said.\n\n\n\n
Bloomberg Data Service India's proposal to service media clients in India is believed to have been rejected by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board.
Recognising the malaise of paid news, the Election Commission has proposed to the government to make it an electoral offence even as it continues to tackle it itself by monitoring the expenditures of candidates.
News Time Assam be taken off air for 1-day and Care World TV channel for 7-days.
Jaitley, 66, has become 'very weak' as his health has deteriorated over the past few weeks, sources said, adding that he has developed some throat condition as well that prevents him from speaking for long.
Allowing foreign direct investment in FM radio and a switchover to a revenue share regime is likely to get a go-ahead from the government later this week when the union cabinet takes up the matter related to the second phase of licencing.
The chairperson of the Censor Board has sent her resignation to the government. So have some other members. They have alleged interference by the government and corruption in the board.
The government has ordered internet service providers in India to block 39 internet sites that host and allow their users to share obscene content.
The former Union minister had suffered a stroke in 2008 and was hospitalised since then.
The cable industry on Friday set a deadline of December 15 for implementing the much-delayed conditional access system in South Delhi zone.
