A report prepared by the Association for Democratic Reforms states that the total tax exemptions received by six national parties during financial years 2006 to 2009 is Rs 510.02 crore. Vicky Nanjappa reports
President Pranab Mukherjee will deliver his maiden address to the nation on Tuesday on the eve of 66th Independence Day.
Unlike Israeli company NSO, whose sale of Pegasus cyber tech grabbed worldwide attention, and other manufacturers of offensive-cyber products, Cellebrite operates in a grey area between security exports and civilian ones.
The central government has finalised GPS-based toll collection to ensure seamless movement of vehicles across the country.
Debarun Mukerjee's collection were resplendent of a bygone era
Rajesh Khanna's life can be viewed as a paradigm of stardom's tragedy. He found both success and failure hard to handle.
I&B ministry to lease out AIR towers to private FM operators in the sensitive north-east region.
The unending travails of Prasar Bharati Corporation, now made worse by allegations of corruption in high places and a threatened strike by its employees, point once again to the need for new thinking on public broadcasting.
There is no record of Hridaynath Mangeshkar being sacked by the AIR, Raut said.
The test was carried out by DRDO against a high-speed unmanned aerial target which was successfully intercepted by the missile.
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has been given the responsibility of promoting the Unique Identification Number project, officials said here on Friday.
'He was honest and very sincere. These qualities remained with him till the end.'
Belying expectations, Prasar Bharti has earned only Rs 58.19 crore (Rs 581.9 million) as revenue during the Commonwealth Games last month.
The government on Thursday approved the Rs 1,540 crore (Rs 15.40 billion) digitalisation programme for state-owned broadcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio in the 11th Plan to help meeting challenges posed by private operators.
Amid the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said self-awareness and self-discipline are the country's strengths in fighting against the novel variant of the COVID.
Lalu Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal was derecognised as a national party by the Election Commission on Friday, a decision that comes ahead of the assembly polls in Bihar.
As new OTT release Bawaal tackles the lives of a terribly unhappy couple, and Satyaprem Ki Katha about a young wife with a tragic secret is a box-office success, here's pick of ten (out of a considerable number) of relatively recent films about troubled marriages.
The official said the listeners of all the languages are sending messages through e-mails and WhatsApp to AIR. "The gist of the messages are that the people are considering this act of Pakistan as unIslamic as punishing innocent is against the tenets of Islam. Travellers are given high regards in Islam," the official added.
'Poornam' Viswanathan, actor and former Tamil News reader with All India Radio who announced India attaining freedom in his news bulletin in 1947, died in Chennai on Wednesday after brief illness.
He will be the first head of State to address the nation on the eve of Teacher's Day.
'The second Covid wave spread due to the irresponsibility of the Election Commission of India and now they are committing the same mistake.'
Malayalam music director M G Radhakrishnan, the creator of many evergreen melodies, died at a private hospital today.
The Australian team management chose Peter Handscomb ahead of Travis Head
Ponmariappan, who has been running a free library at his hair-cutting salon in Tamil Nadu, was featured on Mann Ki Baat on October 25.
Nirupama Rao, who took over as the foreign secretary on August 1, has had a variety of issues on her platter -- the reported incursions by China along the border, the attack near the Indian embassy in Kabul, Pakistan dilly-dallying on prosecuting Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and the mounting political pressure over the rehabilitation of displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka.
E-commerce companies managed to beat the odds by adopting a flexible approach in terms of transforming their business models and leveraging emerging technologies. They had to constantly align their objectives with evolving customer needs. With companies hiring thousands of temporary workers, expanding to smaller cities, and launching new products, e-commerce giants gird up to celebrate the peak festival season without Covid restrictions after a three-year time-out.
The cheetahs have been brought from Namibia as part of India's ambitious programme to bring the big cat back from extinction.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, eminent personalities, politicians described Lata Mangeshkar as the "nightingale of the subcontinent"
Taking cue from holy book Bhagwad Gita, the draft telecom bill has equated spectrum to the soul which remains immortal and has used the analogy to propose its use for continuity of telecom service of entities that face insolvency.
The Chinese dependence is far from over, industry players are also citing a shortage of electronic toys in the country.
'The senior army leadership has no interest in reconciling with Imran Khan, and no interest in seeing him return to power.'
The campaign sought to highlight the achievement and policies of the Congress-led UPA government in electronic and print media.
Bollywood has quite a few actors known for their magical awaaz.
The Lok Sabha on Thursday approved a bill making it mandatory for private broadcasters to share live feed of national sports events with Doordarshan and All India Radio on free-to-air basis.
J R D Tata and Air India... Mrigank Warrier explores one of India's eternal love stories.
Just a few weeks ago, Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw did some tough talking with the senior managers of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the ailing state-owned telecom service provider. The message was clear: They had to perform, quit by taking the voluntary retirement package or be compulsorily retired from service. The terse message from an otherwise polite and soft-spoken minister came just days after he announced a second and bigger package of Rs 1.64 trillion as part of a four-year turnaround plan for BSNL.
The renaming of the stretch and other institutions is in line with the Centre's effort to remove any trace of colonial mindset, it has maintained.
On Monday, more than 5000 employees of Prasar Bharti-run DD and AIR went on a mass casual leave. "The government has made no effort to heed to the grievance of employees. So we have decided to continue with our nationwide agitation," Sangam Thankur, General Secretary, Akashvani and Doordarshan Administrative Staff Association said.
In a statement, the National Federation of Akashvani & Doordarshan Employees - an umbrella body of 21 associations representing about 38,000 employees -- said that all the members have submitted their leave applications with the department heads.
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