Seoul, (IANS) : South Korea's ruling party on Friday decided to change its name to distance itself from the "Rasputin" scandal that shook the nation leading to President Park Geun-hye's impeachment, a media report said. The conservative bloc has proposed to change its...
By Vikas Datta, Jaipur, (IANS) : Internet and mobile phones, smart and otherwise, may have made communications and information access to information instant but also leave users vulnerable to surveillance from state agencies, warns a British journalist who had a role...
New Delhi, (IANS) : Leading media house Jagran Prakashan welcomes any move by the government to raise the foreign equity limit in print media to 49 per cent, but said in the given scenario, the industry does not need any additional capital from overseas, its CFO R.K....
New Delhi, (IANS) : The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) will start a journalism course in Urdu, the government announced on Tuesday. M. Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of Information and Broadcasting, will inaugurate the 67th diploma course in Development...
By Ruwa Shah, New Delhi, (IANS) : Conflicts are known to fuel creative art but Kashmir has been an exception where there is no institutionalised set-up for aspiring creative writers, says an award-winning Kashmiri journalist-turned-author and academician. Shahnaz...
Gwalior, (IANS) : Political chaos, death, destruction and suffering dominates the media portrayal of Iraq and its culture and art scene is completely neglected, according to Iraqi musician Osama Abdulrasol. "The media across the world only speaks of Iraq in terms of...
By Alison Saldanha, (IANS) : From currency to salt-very little escaped the reach of fake or fabricated news in 2016. Rumours spread from WhatsApp and other social media into the mainstream media. Institutions such as Unesco and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had to...
Jeddah, (AB/IINA) : The 11th session of the Islamic Conference of Information Ministers, which concluded in Jeddah on Wednesday, called on the OIC Groups of Ambassadors in the foreign countries to pay attention to the media activity and interact with the foreign media...
Jeddah, (IANS) : The 11th session of the Islamic Conference of Information Ministers, under the theme of "The Role of New Media in Confronting Terrorism and Islamophobia", will begin in Jeddah on Monday. The four-day conference is scheduled to discuss several issues...
By Saeed Naqvi, (IANS) : Since I had been to the region some time ago, a school invited me for a talk on Syria, particularly Aleppo, and why Assad was killing his own people. "This is not true" I said. "Why do you have this impression?" "Because this is what we read...