By Nishant Arora New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) The US-based on-demand streaming website Netflix arrived in the country five months ago and after facing initial hiccups, is geared up to overturn the viewing habits of…
Imphal June 26 (IANS) Manipur will go without newspapers and news magazines for one month beginning from Sunday as the sole agent in the state was forced to shut shop by the Kangleipak Students’ Association…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 25 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is following in the footsteps of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by keeping the media away, state Congress president V.M. Sudheeran said on Saturday. Sudheeran, interacting with…
Kolkata, June 24 (IANS) With the CFSL Hyderabad expressing its inability, the Calcutta High Court on Friday directed sending the Narada sting tapes to the Chandigarh laboratory for forensic examination. Hearing multiple litigations seeking probe…
London, June 23 (IANS) Germany’s popular Bild newspaper on Thursday made a slew of promises to Britain if the country remains in the European Union. The list, which combined self-knowing mockery of German and British…
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) The city police, probing the Narada sting controversy that allegedly caught several Trinamool Congress leaders accepting “bribes”, on Thursday summoned the news portal’s CEO Mathew Samuel who had conducted the expose….
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) From mushy affairs, tales from Indian mythology, a dose of horror and supernatural twists – stories on the general entertainment channels (GEC) are a mirror to the…
Lisbon, June 23 (IANS) Portugal’s Correio da Manha TV channel has demanded an official apology from football star Cristiano Ronaldo after he threw the microphone of one of its journalists in a lake. The director…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) In a sudden development, Aveek Sarkar on Wednesday resigned as Editor of The Telegraph and Anandabazar Patrika and as Chief Editor of the ABP Group of Publications. His brother Arup Sarkar…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Effective communication suiting the target audience is crucial for the success of projects like the Swachh Bharat Mission and Namami Gange, Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley said here on…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) In a sudden development, Aveek Sarkar on Wednesday resigned as Editor of The Telegraph and Anandabazar Patrika and as Chief Editor of the ABP Group of Publications. His brother Arup Sarkar…
New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) Media baron Subhash Chandra, who won the recent Rajya Sabha election from Haryana with BJP’s backing, on Tuesday said that complaints against him for alleged fraud to secure victory in…
Beijing, June 21 (IANS) China is no barrier to India’s NSG membership, says a leading state-run Chinese daily even as it clubbed India and Pakistan together in their quest for membership to the elite nuclear…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Monday invited applications for e-auction of 266 FM Radio channels in 92 cities in the second batch of Private FM Phase III. “The…
Beijing, June 20 (IANS) In an effort aimed at promoting domestic originality, China’s media regulator has issued a directive limiting imported TV shows and remakes. With authorised remakes of foreign TV reality shows gaining popularity…
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) A case has been initiated under several offences including defamation against Narada News CEO Mathew Samuel following a complaint by Kolkata Mayor and West Bengal minister Sovan Chatterjee’s wife Ratna, police…
Kolkata, June 18 (IANS) A day after ordering a police probe into the Narada sting operation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday dubbed such “exposes” as “politics of blackmail” and said the inquiry…
Islamabad, June 17 (IANS) Pakistani authorities on Friday imposed a ban on the Ramadan transmission of two private TV channels over promoting controversial and sectarian views. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) said the…
By Saeed Naqvi Every Joint Secretarys room in the Ministry of External affairs had a neatly folded copy of the International Herald Tribune on the coffee table. This was the pattern in the 70s and…
By Ruwa Shah Srinagar, June 17 (IANS) In search of space for political dissent in the trouble-torn Kashmir Valley, 23-year-old Saba Nazki and a bunch of youths have started a tabloid — “Mizraab” — exclusively…