In a major decision to liberalise the broadcast sector, the government on Friday decided to raise FDI cap to 74 per cent in various services of the sector, except the TV news channels and FM radio where the cap of 26 per cent will apply.
A powerful explosion on Saturday ripped through a crowded market in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan, killing at least 14 people and injuring over 20 others, officials said.
A total of 33 people, including 23 pro-Taliban militants, were killed in two separate incidents of violence in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Friday, officials said.
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Even as Sakshi media group of Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was trying to recover from the shock of freezing of five of its bank accounts with deposits of Rs 112 crore, it has suffered another major blow.
The body of a British employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who was kidnapped in January, was found by police in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan on Sunday.
A powerful explosive device was defused on Wednesday on board a train in Pakistan that had passed through Lahore railway station at the time of a bomb blast that killed three persons and injured over 50 others.
The missile strikes were carried out at Mohammad Khel and Degan in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan tribal agency that has witnessed numerous drone attacks in the past
"After pulling down the statue, slogans of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' were raised,'' Datta told PTI.
Over 100 soldiers were hit by avalanche at Pakistan army base in Siachen on early Saturday morning, said a security official.
Pakistan's parliament will decide the contours of future relations with the United States and its allies after November's cross-border NATO air strike, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Thursday.
The BJP urged the EC to take 'suo motu cognisance' and take suitable action.
A Pakistani policeman was killed and eight persons were injured while defusing two bombs planted outside a girls' school in the country's volatile northwest.
A United States drone targetted a vehicle in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan on Monday, killing three suspected terrorists, officials said.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Musa has said he is ready to face trial in a case of alleged irregularities in the import of a large amount of the controlled drug Ephedrine. Ali Musa cut short his honeymoon in South Africa and returned to Pakistan on Saturday after being named as an accused in the case by the Anti-Narcotics Force.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday asked Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to cut short a visit to the United States and return to Pakistan even as the army's top commanders held a special meeting against the backdrop of mounting tensions with the US over Inter-Services Intelligence's links with terror groups.
Five school children were gunned down on Tuesday and five others injured in the outskirts of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan after unidentified gunmen attacked a school van, police said.
Unidentified gunmen attacked a team of a TV news channel in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan, critically injuring a senior journalist, police said on Monday.
Pakistan's Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Monday took suo moto notice of the political and ethnic violence in Karachi and asked TV news channels to provide footage of incidents in the country's financial hub.
At least five suspected militants were killed and several others injured when a US drone targeted a vehicle in the restive South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan on Monday.
The CBI began its questioning of the UP lawmaker around 5 am on Friday.
Pakistani security and intelligence operatives detained a US national in Peshawar for not possessing valid travel documents and took him to an undisclosed location for interrogation, officials said. The American, identified as Aaron deHaven, was detained in the posh University Town area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman Gen Khalid Shameem Wynne, who was scheduled to travel to the US on May 22, had called off his visit, unnamed military officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels. Wynne contacted his US counterpart, Admiral Mike Mullen, and informed him that the visit could not go ahead under the prevailing circumstances, the military officials were quoted as saying
An unmanned United States spy plane struck a vehicle in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan today, killing seven suspected militants.
Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested the contractor who allegedly built the million-dollar complex where Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead during a raid by United States special forces in Abbottabad.
Remember the trees that bend during the storm will survive; the ones that try to defy and stand straight tend to get damaged and uprooted, points out management guru Virender Kapoor.
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A TV news channel journalist, who reported on the rain and flash floods in Uttarakhand while perched on the shoulder of an affected villager, has been sacked, the channel head said on Wednesday.
Pakistan's Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, a vocal critic of the controversial blasphemy law, was on Wednesday shot dead by gunmen who ambushed his car near his residence in Islamabad, the second high-profile politician to be assassinated in nearly two months.
I strongly believe that if the government does indeed have the mindset and launches the machinery to severely punish white collar criminals, my life will be easier albeit in a convoluted manner.
It is also revealed that Ganesh is 42-years-old and has two kids, reports M I Khan from Patna.
Having been criticised enough for being silent on the scams and allegations that have been levelled at his government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on Wednesday interacting with editors of television channels for a question-answer session that will be telecast live.
Pakistani authorities have rejected the demand of the United States to release an American diplomat who shot dead two youths in Lahore, saying the matter would be handled in court according to the country's laws. Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told a TV news channel on Sunday that the matter was already in court and the Punjab police were investigating the shooting incident in Lahore on Thursday. "It would not be appropriate to publicly talk on this issue," he said.
Stalin owes his victory this time, like in 2019, to the hate-campaign of the local Hindutva forces, which kept haranguing him, and even his dead father, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
'In the lockdown, family viewing became even more important.' 'Kids saw adult content and adults saw a lot of kids content.' 'The audience is no longer just the housewife, but the whole family.'
If purists are surprised as to why and how people are not demanding prohibition or not talking about past promises, both in the election manifestos five years back and even those made to the courts, the answer lies in how the state has been evolving and changing these past few years, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu failed to catch a flight today for New Delhi, after he was prevented from entering the airport due to a clash between his enraged supporters who smashed TV cameras and other equipment carried by reporters waiting for him, sources said.
Santanu Bhowmick, a journalist from 'Dinrat' news channel, was covering the agitation and road blockade by the IPFT at Mandai when he was hit from behind and abducted.
Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Friday sought a signed explanation from Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani in the wake of reports that the government was planning to remove key members of the superior judiciary, deepening the rift between the two sides.
A suicide bomber struck a World Food Programme distribution centre in the restive Bajaur tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 40 people and injuring 72 others.
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