The Department of Telecom-munications (DoT) of the Government of India has sent a note recently to the service providers like Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodaphone and BSNL to find out ways how to ‘block’ social media apps like Facebook and Whatsapp. The industry, however, has reacted sharply saying t...
The media has always enjoyed describing the conquests of Imran Khan as a playboy, along with his victories in the cricket field. He brought the World Cup to Pakistan in 1992 and married three times, the last being early this year. His joining politics 22 years ago was never taken seriously; yet now,...
Media encourages controversies, the latest being the government’s tag “institution of eminence” added to Jio University, which physically does not exist. A Twitter mention of the HRD Minister of Jio University - along with BITS Pilani and Manipal - of achieving the eminence tag created all&nbs...
China is a country where the media is not free. But one cannot but appreciate the way how the People’s Republic of China handled a group of 20 international journalists invited to visit Xinjiang to feel for themselves and then write about their ambitious project of reconstructing the Silk Route.In...
Afghanistan, according to a global survey, is the most dangerous place for journalists. Eight journalists were killed last year. World over, democracy is at stake; so are the journalists. In India, too, death of a journalist is becoming common.Gouri Lankesh was a victim last year; but her assai...
The newly elected chief minister of Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy is by profession a film producer. His wife is a film actor. Film and politics, especially in the southern states, are very closely interlinked. The former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha, was a film actress. So was Andhra Prades...
A ‘photo-shopped’ picture of the prime minister’s mother riding an auto-rickshaw has created a furore in the media and among the opposition. Unfortunately, the Indian media almost goes unchecked in circulating such mischief frequently.Western researchers have developed organised efforts ...
The Prime Minister finally warns his political colleagues not to provide ‘masala’ for the media. This is a confession long awaited. The Prime Minister has been avoiding talking to the press ever since he came to power. Only at times he had spoken to a select few, when he thought he needed to, an...
So finally it came. The I&B Minister moved forward, then backward and then, forward again. The Minister announced that any journalist found involved in propagating ‘fake’ news would lose his government accreditation. The Prime Minister’s Office moved in promptly and the order was struck do...
The world is in turmoil with the leakage of 50 million personal data from the social media giant, Facebook, through a London- based political strategist company, Cambridge Analytica. It is said the data was used to influence the American citizens to vote for the current President Donald Trump. In In...