New York: Leading US dailies have described India's decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail and aviation as "biggest economic reforms" in two decades, while apprehending these proposals pose a "big political risk" for the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led UPA government. 'The New York Times' said Singh's Congress-led government is "under heavy pressure to kick-start India's slowing economy, boost employment and improve the country s shambolic infrastructure" and allowing major...
11:39 AM, Sep 15, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said media should avoid the desire to be sensational and exercise restraint so that nothing that divides society and country is written, broadcast or telecast. ...
04:35 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Kochi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said media should avoid the desire to be sensational and exercise restraint so that nothing that divides society and country is written, broadcast or telecast. The media has a very important role to play in promoting greater communal harmony and inter-group and inter-community dialogue and its reporting and opinions should be "fair, objective and balanced", Singh said. "The desire to be sensational should...
02:20 PM, Sep 13, 2012
New Delhi: Alongside the iPhone 5 launch, Apple also announced the launch of the new lineup of the its portable media players - all-new iPod touch and reinvented iPod nano. The new iPod touch is said to be the thinnest iPod touch ever, and has a 4-inch Retina display. It features a 5 megapixel iSight camera with 1080p HD video recording, Apple's A5 chip, Siri, the intelligent assistant, and iOS...
12:39 AM, Sep 13, 2012
The sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been dropped. But do we also need formal guidelines or regulations for the media? ...
09:43 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that guideline for media reporting cannot be made across the board. Pointing out that in certain cases it is necessary to pass postponement orders in order to prevent the prejudicing of the order, the five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court observed that any aggrieved person can approach a High Court of the apex court in order to prevent coverage of the...
11:04 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its judgement on the framing of media guidelines for reporting court proceedings of sub-judice matters on Tuesday. This issue was referred to the apex court after the leakage of certain documents to the media relating to dispute between Sahara group and market regulator SEBI. However, the court expanded its ambit to others who were hurt by the broadcast of sub-judice matter....
08:29 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday raised concerns over misuse of social media specially to flare up communal hatred by certain section. Recently Law Minister ...
08:06 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that social media is the new challenge that the national security faces and a system needs to be put in place to stop its misuse. "The use of bulk SMSes and social media to aggravate the communal situation is a new challenge that the recent disturbances have thrown before us. We need to fully understand how these new media are used...
01:09 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Los Angeles: President Barack Obama's acceptance speech on Thursday night drew the largest television audience of this year's political conventions and ranked as the biggest political moment ever on social media site Twitter. More than 35.7 million people tuned in on three broadcast and 10 cable networks to watch Obama accept the Democrats' nomination for president, according to Nielsen ratings data. While TV audiences for political conventions have dropped sharply...
06:40 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: The government is "losing the communication battle" because its skills do not match up to the proliferation of media where many people are "screaming and shouting that something has gone wrong" without explaining the basis, Law minister Salman Khurshid said on Tuesday. "The media has transformed itself faster....social media, electronic media, print mediathere has been a proliferation of media. And the communication skills that we need for modern...
09:16 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Melbourne: Mothers unable to breastfeed their babies are bypassing registered milk banks in Australia and reaching out to strangers on social media for donations of human milk. One such network called 'Human Milk 4 Human Babies' connects parents in need of breast milk with those willing to provide it free of charge. Users in Australia have responded to requests for milk donations for babies as young as three weeks. In...
04:43 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Indore: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday alleged that the BJP is maintaining "fictitious" accounts on social media and manipulating online surveys to project that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has an edge over Rahul Gandhi as future prime minister. "You know that there are a lot of fictitious accounts on social networking sites and the BJP is managing voting on such sites to show results in its favour,"...
08:01 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday took potshots at Hindi news channels and said that he would shut them all down if they did not stop misquoting his speeches. "People from Hindi channels dole out news without understanding the issue. Such channels should discontinue doing this, otherwise we will do what we can to stop this game," Thackeray declared. He then joked about how the channels...
05:13 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: The IBN Network has added five more awards to its list, this time at the exchange4media News Broadcasting Awards. CNN-IBN was awarded for the best coverage of the Lokpal Bill, while the best in-show graphics award was given to CNN-IBN's sister concern IBN7 for Budget 2012. Also IBN Lokmat bagged three awards for Best Spot News Reporting, Best Continuing Coverage by a Reporter and Best News Programme in...
08:42 AM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: Slamming media for live coverage of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was "totally wrong and unacceptable" as it made security forces' fight with terrorists "exceedingly difficult." "Any attempt to justify the conduct of the TV channels by citing the right to freedom of speech and expression would be totally wrong and unacceptable in such a situation. The freedom of speech and...
08:36 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: When Sushma Swaraj commented that the Congress gained 'mota maal' or massive profits in the coal blocks allocations, the social media experts grabbed the chance to pontificate or ridicule a trend that has become a reality on social media websites. Every day, political experts coin terms that stay on in the public domain for days to get reproduced and mutated into socially acceptable reference points for analysts and...
02:47 PM, Aug 28, 2012
North America 83 per cent US President Barack Obama, who was the first world leader to get on Twitter in March 2007, is also the most popular politician on the micro-blogging site with more than 17 million followers. But he ranks fifth on the overall list, right after Britney Spears. South America 75 per cent Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is the second-most followed politician on Twitter with over three million...
12:36 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday joined a protest against the Centre's move to block certain 'hate' pages and Twitter accounts by turning on his display picture to black, while terming the action as a "crackdown on freedom of speech". "As a common man, I join the protest against crackdown on freedom of speech! Changed my DP. 'Sabko Samnati De Bhagwan' (May God give wisdom to all)," he...
05:46 PM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: The government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security. The backlash came as New Delhi turned up the heat on Twitter, threatening "appropriate and suitable action" if it failed to remove the accounts as soon as possible. Several Indian newspapers said this could mean a...
09:34 AM, Aug 24, 2012
