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The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has suggested the government to co-regulate the media with a well-defined law as self-regualtion is not enough in today’s scenario with rapidly-changing technologies. Self-regulation is a norm that has high values and noble objectives. “Yet in the context of independent India – more so in the context of modern-day broadcasting [...]
A friend asks you to try a product she vouches for. Chances are you will go ahead and buy it the next time you see it on the store shelf. It’s all about credibility – a factor that’s making brands turn to a new medium, blogging, to market their products. Based on a different branding mantra that entails not just [...]
A Website of the Special Industry Initiative forJ&K (SII J&K) “Udaan” to provide skills and enhance employability for the youth of Jammu & Kashmir was launched by Union Minister P. Chidambaram here today. Speaking on the occasion he said that about eight Corporates have entered into an agreement with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) for providing employment oriented training for about 8000 youth from the state over five years covering various [...]
It is not everyday that a 10-year-old catches the office of the prime minister of India off-guard and without answers. But then, Aishwarya Parashar, a Class 6 student, is no ordinary girl. For she has stumped PMO officials with her Right to Information (RTI) query on when and by what orders was the title of ‘Father of the Nation’ conferred [...]
History beckons China’s President Hu Jintao during his India visit if he sheds entrenched antipathies and chooses to directly engage the Dalai Lama with a specific intention of initiating the process of resolving the festering problem of the Tibetan region that is in turmoil and have been aflame with self-immolations, that spread to Delhi Monday with a 26-year-old youth setting [...]
Nervous leaders in China have blocked all internet reports of an alleged attempted coup, the Daily Mail reported Friday. Online reports of tanks on the streets of Beijing and shots fired within the secure leaders’ compound – next to the top tourist spot, the Forbidden City – are being closely monitored by the international intelligence communities, including the US and [...]
With two of them governors, four billionaires and over a score sitting in high places in government, Indian Americans not only keep making news but have also emerged as major players in American media. Take Indian-born Aparism Bobby Ghosh, for instance, who was last week named by Time magazine as ‘Editor-at-Large’. In naming Ghosh, Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel, called [...]
The government is planning to constitute a committee to look into the mushrooming of media training schools across the country, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said here Friday. Conferring the Seema Nazreth Award for Journalistic Excellence to Indulekha Arvind of Business Standard at a function here, Soni said her ministry was in the process of constituting a committee in [...]
The son of Sayed Ahmed Kazmi, an Indian journalist arrested for his links with the terror attack on an Israeli diplomat’s wife last month, has denied allegations that his father had given shelter to those behind the attack. Addressing a press conference here Friday, Shauzab Kazmi said no Iranian national linked to the Feb 13 bomb attack had visited their [...]
A clothing company sparked a Twitter outcry after the label in a pair of its trousers suggested it is the women’s job to do washing. Madhouse, a nationwide chain of discount men’s clothing stores, was branded “shameful” and “outrageous” by hundreds of Twitter users Monday, because of the label’s washing instructions to “Give it to your woman”, The Telegraph reported [...]
Increasing numbers of Britons are becoming bored with social networking sites, a study has found. According to the research, 41 percent of the British online population claim to be getting bored with social media and say they will use it less, The Telegraph reported. However, the uptake and usage of sites such as Facebook and Twitter is still growing, the [...]
The US Monday slapped sanctions on Syria’s General Organization of Radio and TV, the latest in its efforts to press the Syrian government to stop the violent crackdown on demonstrators, Xinhua reported. The US Department of Treasury said in a statement that as a state-run agency under Syria’s ministry of information, the organisation was responsible for operating Syria’s state-owned TV [...]
Cloud computing will generate some 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015, and India alone will create over 2 million, predicts a study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC). Pointing out to a strong linkage between cloud, innovation and entrepreneurship, the study said most companies look at migration to cloud computing as a way to free up existing resources [...]
The US Monday slapped sanctions on Syria’s General Organization of Radio and TV, the latest in its efforts to press the Syrian government to stop the violent crackdown on demonstrators, Xinhua reported. The US Department of Treasury said in a statement that as a state-run agency under Syria’s ministry of information, the organisation was responsible for operating Syria’s state-owned TV [...]
Indira Gandhi National Open University’s (IGNOU) National Centre for Innovations in Distance Education (NCIDE) in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar has launched ‘Science@Mobile’. The innovative scheme aims to educate people across the country about science through free mobile updates. “Now, interesting science facts, latest science news, health tips, green tips, events and days of scientific importance will be at your fingertips with this service. The basic [...]
Four lawyers were arrested late Saturday for their suspected involvement in a violent attack the day before on journalists and policemen at the city civil court complex, police said. “We have so far arrested four advocates under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for their suspected involvement in the violent incidents at the court complex Friday in which [...]
Social networking website Facebook has been criticized for employing content moderators in the developing world and allowing them to access people’s personal information, The Telegraph reported Saturday. Facebook responded saying: “No user information beyond the content in question and the source of the report is shared.” However, new evidence seen by the newspaper shows that these moderators, who have to [...]
West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan Thursday asked the media not to sensationalise rape cases and stressed it was everybody’s duty to protect the women and children of the state. Stating that West Bengal used to be one of the safest places in the past, the governor said: “Now the rapes are not being committed by outsiders. They are being committed [...]
Ted Turner, the 73-year-old billionaire founder of CNN, spends one week each month with a different girlfriend, The Telegraph reported Thursday. He revealed that he has four girlfriends, with each of whom he spends one week a month. Turner and his third wife Jane Fonda divorced in 2001, after 10 years of marriage. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, [...]
Pakistan is preparing a code of conduct for the media, says Information and Broadcasting Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan, but journalists view the move with alarm. Awan said Wednesday that the final draft of code of conduct would be formulated for better working of media, reported Associated Press of Pakistan. She said that reviving or amending the code of conduct for [...]
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