This is a first – Wikipedia has decided to stage a black out for entire English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC (10:30 am India time) on Wednesday, January 18. This Wikipedia blackout is arranged in protest of proposed legislation in the United States — the
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Most of us catch up on news as our daily bread and butter, to get informed about our surroundings. So do I. After all, information is the power of the masses. Once when I opened a popular news channel’s site, I was greeted by a BIG banner saying “
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Here is a big gaffe by India’s largest and one of the most respected newspapers in India – The Times of India. Surprisingly, today’s Mumbai Edition of Times of India seems to have two different versions with different titles for the same story. It is also one of the
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Last week Indian Broadcasting Federation (IBF), decided to have a self-regulatory mechanism for content control of non-news channels. For news channels, there is already a self regulatory mechanism named (News Broadcasters Association or NBA), whose effectiveness is yet to be seen. The new regulation also includes having a complaints
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According to some latest statistics around 770 million people in the country have access to a mobile. Around 1/10th of them have access to the Internet. This shows that Internet penetration is still very low in this country. But there is an increasing penetration of social networking sites (around
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Rupert Murdoch had raised lot of eyebrows last year when he announced scathing attack on Google for using his site’s content free of cost and had vowed that he would block Google from accessing his sites. In an exact opposite, Guardian, one of the leading online portal / daily
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I am not so naive to think that media “doodh se dhooli hui hai” (i.e: is completely clean). But I did not expect that corruption is so rampant in Mainstream Media that even big name news papers & journalist are taking cash to feature articles ! Honestly, as of
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Did you know that Local language Newspapers are the most widely circulated and read newspapers in India. English dailies do not fare well when it comes to readership. The highest ranked English daily was Times of India (and I always was under the impression that TOI was one of
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Obama misses the target. Needs an eye-test? ‘Obama stands for ‘Change’, ‘Change we can believe in’ – these were some tall claims that were heard when Barack Obama took over as US President a year ago. Now the agenda of ‘Change’ itself seems to have changed. What was once
» continue readingAman ki Asha can turn out to be a new lease of life in betterment of relations between India & Pakistan, or should I say Indians & Pakistanis. If you are not aware what Aman ki Asha is – It is a joint movement launched by the two leading
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