Geneva: Binoy Job, a senior official in the Prime Minister's Office who was instrumental in using media for social change, is among 11 Indians selected as 'Young Global Leaders' by the World Economic Forum. 37-year-old Job, Director, Media and Communications to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and 10 other Indians were named as 'Young Global Leaders' at a function in Geneva on Tuesday. Others Indians selected for the honour are Subhashini...
06:46 PM, Mar 07, 2012
When Rahul Gandhi first appeared on India's political scene, he was projected as the new-age neta, the politician that we never had. There was and ...
09:22 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Refusing to call the Uttar Pradesh result a debacle, the Congress on Tuesday said its anti-Mayawati campaign succeeded but it could not capitalise on the momentum built by party icon Rahul Gandhi due to lack of infrastructure. "The Congress was the first to start the oust Mayawati campaign, but we could not take the benefit due to lack of party infrastructure... The Samajwadi Party was able to do...
02:05 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress has rubbished all poll surveys that put it in second place. Party leader Sachin Pilot is confident that the grand old party will form the government in four of the five states that went to polls. The election in Uttar Pradesh has been called a litmus test for Rahul Gandhi but with the CNN-IBN-The Week post-poll survey conducted by the CSDS places the Congress in second...
07:12 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Bangalore: All websites, including social media sites, would have to operate within the India laws and be responsible for hosting any content, Minister of State for Communications & IT Sachin Pilot said on Monday. "Be it a social media website or any other site on internet, they all have to operate within the laws of the country and they should be accountable and responsible for what they put up on...
01:10 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Bangalore: The government on Monday said there was no question of blocking or censoring social networking and other websites hosting content but maintained that they should operate within the ambit of Indian laws and be accountable. "Whether it's social media website company or any company for that matter, they all have to operate within the laws of the country. And what we have said is there must be responsible behaviour...
03:29 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Bangalore, Concerned over nearly 80 million mobile subscribers of new telecom operators, the government on Monday said it is looking at various options to protect the interest of subscribers following the Supreme Court's order to cancel 122 licenses given to the telecom companies. Customers will not be affected much from the 2G verdict as they have been given four months to cease operations. It means users have enough time to...
02:30 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Davos: Amid raging debate over restricting content on social networking sites, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot has said it is the right of people, institutions, groups or any entity to object if something is hurting their sentiments. "If they believe something is hurting their sentiments, to put something which is blatantly objectionable, I think they must have the right to seek legal recourse where they can...
12:34 AM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal met officials of Internet giants like Google and Facebook in Delhi on Thursday to formulate content guidelines for social networking sites. Minister of State for Communication and IT Sachin Pilot as well as Department of Telecom Secretary K Chandrashekhar were also present at the meeting. The private players have objected to the government's censorship of web content. They have suggested that instead of...
01:56 PM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday kicked off the party's campaign for the 2012 Uttar Pradesh assembly election in Phulpur by saying that UPites have been forced by failed governments to beg in Maharashtra. In a debate that followed, the party came to his defence while the opposition claimed Rahul had insulted the people of UP. Defending the Gandhi scion, Congress leader Sachin Pilot said that the...
08:39 AM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: India's Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot will lead a delegation of senior officials from the IT department, National Security Council and the external affairs ministry to a two-day international cyber conference in London. "The conference will deliberate upon issues related to economic and social benefits of cyber space, anticipating, preventing and tackling cyber crime and international implications of actions in cyber space," said a...
09:51 AM, Oct 29, 2011
Srinagar: Union Minister Sachin Pilot on Saturday said he supported the nobility of Anna Hazare's cause but the sanctity of the Parliament to carry out legislation process had to be respected. "Anna ji is a respected person. I support the nobility of his cause but we have to respect the sanctity of the (legislation) process," Pilot told. The Union Minister of state for IT and Communications, said, everyone including the...
04:40 PM, Aug 20, 2011
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If politics were to mirror celluloid, then clearly our netas seem out of step. A fortnight ago, two Hindi films were released: 'Budha Hoga Tera ...
12:09 AM, Jul 15, 2011
New York: It will be a different gathering of Parliament members with no marshals to throw out and no zero hour to show their lung power. Here the Speaker will be replaced by professors and the MPs will sit in the classroom taking notes and quiz. The 2011 cohort of 13 members of India's parliament will come to the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut on June 16 to...
11:20 PM, Jun 12, 2011
On 'The Week That Wasn't', Cyrus brings you the funnier side to UPA II's completion of two years. ...
11:44 PM, May 28, 2011
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