In the past few days, the media has been awash with reels and posts of a tear-brimmed Bengali actor-director declaring in a public meeting that he had been compelled to compromise his artistic and cultural convictions for the sake of his family.
It may be noted that the country's first IICT, based in Mumbai, opened its doors with the first batch of students in the month of August this year.
He was speaking at the conference titled ‘The Social Sector and the role of Media’ held at the India Habitat Centre in collaboration with Prayas, a Delhi-based Juvenile Aid Centre, on Thursday.
The NTSB, a US federal agency tasked with investigating aviation and major transportation incidents, termed the recent media reports on the AI171 London-bound flight meeting with the accident last month, as “premature and speculative”.
Last week I had written about the gradual dwindling of journalistic credibility in media today. Expectedly, I received a number of reactions from readers, friends and family which ranged from appreciation….mostly from old timers who associate journalism with unequivocal non-conformism….to exclamations of outright incredulity
To strengthen the growth of the Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, and Comics (AVGC) sector and its ecosystem, the government is considering raising the quantum of incentives offered under the Incentive Scheme for Audio-Visual Co-production and Shooting of Foreign Films in India, said Apurva Chandra, Secretary, Information and Broadcasting.
Media reports over the past week have quoted Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar as having said he lacks funds to pursue development projects after the state government fulfilled the Congress party’s five poll promises which are thought to have been instrumental in helping it to a famous victory in the Assembly election.
Playback singer Arijit Singh, who is often dubbed as the superstar of the Hindi music industry, has recorded another reprise version of a song after the much debated 'Pasoori Nu'. This time, the singer has lent his vocals to the new version of the superhit song 'Main Nikla Gaddi Leke' from the upcoming film 'Gadar 2'.
Elon Musk run Twitter is testing a new feature "Notes on Media", which will make it easier for people to identify potentially misleading media.
The decision by Twitter to label National Public Radio (NPR) in the USA as “state-affiliated media,” which it then changed to “government-funded media” after a barrage of criticism, underscores the need to rethink the role of major social media platforms as critical gatekeepers in the public sphere.
