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Hackers target Bahrain airport, news sites to mark Arab Spring uprising

Hackers said they had taken down the websites of Bahrain's international airport and state news agency on Tuesday to mark the 12-year anniversary of an Arab Spring uprising in the small Gulf country. A statement posted online by a group calling itself Al-Toufan, or The Flood in Arabic, claimed to have hacked the airport website, which was unavailable for at least a half hour in the middle of the day. It also claimed to have taken down the website of the state-run Bahrain News Agency, which was sporadically unavailable. The group posted images showing 504 Gateway Timeout Errors, saying the hacking was in support of the revolution of our oppressed people of Bahrain. The same group appears to have hacked and changed articles on the website of Akhbar Al Khaleej, a pro-government newspaper in Bahrain, hours earlier. The newspaper's website was still down Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from authorities. Feb. 14, 2011, marked the first day of protests led by Bahrain's Shiite ...

Public feedback invited on fact check by PIB to boost due diligence: MoS IT

The proposal of fact check by government's media arm Press Information Bureau under the IT Rules has been made with a view to strengthen the due diligence by intermediaries and public feedback has been invited on the same, Parliament was informed on Friday. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said with the expansion of the Internet and more and more Indians coming online, the number of Indians exposed to false and untrue or misleading information available on the Internet has also grown. He said that the centre under Information Technology Act, 2000, has made the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules) which cast specific obligations on intermediaries, including social media intermediaries, to observe due diligence while discharging its duties. The due diligence under the rule includes making reasonable efforts by the intermediaries to check their users from

Here's why Ravi Nathani is bullish on Nifty 50 index in the near-term

Traders must adopt a bullish stance on the market as the Nifty 50 index closed above 17,870, indicating that bulls are likely to be stronger than bears in the near-term, says Ravi Nathani

The age of verbiage

Without a modicum of self-restraint, the constant stream of hot takes might end up undermining the informed debate that undergirds all open societies

Indians' trust increases in govt and business, dips in media, NGOs: Survey

India is also among 11 countries where trust in government has increased

Business trusted most among govts, NGOs, media in polarizing world: Report

People are more gloomy about their economic prospects than ever before and trust business far more than other institutions like governments, nonprofits, and the media in an increasingly divided world

Senior executives at NDTV quit, company says putting new team in place

Group president Suparna Singh, chief strategy officer Arijit Singh and chief technology officer Kawaljit Singh Bedi exit firm

GroupM Media's CEO Prashanth Kumar elected president of AAAI

Prasanth Kumar, the chief executive officer (CEO) for South Asia of GroupM Media has worked at Pepsi, The Hindu, and The Media Edge & McCann Erickson in a career spanning more than 25 years

Here's how Oxford zeroes in on its word of the year as people vote for 2022

As OUP leaves the word of the year to a people's vote, here's how the process works

When Disney decided to dump its CEO Bob Chapek, the change happened fast

While Chapek's rise to the CEO spot in February of 2020 came as a surprise to many, his departure this week was even more shocking

New media poses challenge of credibility: I&B Secretary Apurva Chandra

The shift towards new media for consuming information from traditional sources such as newspapers has presented a challenge of credibility to the government, Information and Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra said on Wednesday. Addressing the first World Media Congress in Abu Dhabi, Chandra said India has over 1.2 billion mobile phone users and 600 million smartphone users who are consuming a high amount of information and entertainment via mobile devices. He said the traditional media sources in India comprised 897 television channels and over 80,000 newspapers in various languages. However, he added, that recently there has been a shift from the traditional media as youngsters were consuming information from new media sources. This has presented a challenge of credibility and that presented a challenge to the government, Chandra said. He said social media has caused faster and deeper percolation of information in India, to the effect that it has even reduced the loss of lives

New set of proposals on media ownership in the works, says TRAI chief

Second time in eight years that TRAI will be issuing guidelines. Comes amid the Adani-NDTV spat. Regulator had released consultation paper in April

We are open to innovative relationships that come our way: Madison CMD

Nothing is easy in today's world. Being an independent has its own set of challenges, said he

Hostile media bid shows how Asia's richest can align and dominate a sector

The NDTV acquisition, if successful, would make Adani and Ambani straight-up rivals in a sector for the first time, given Ambani's control of large media assets including news channels

'Stop threatening media,' says Delhi CM Kejriwal to PM's media advisor

Addressing Aam Aadmi Party's first Rashtriya Janpratinidhi Sammelan here, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal accused the Prime Minister's media advisor of threatening the media

NDTV crosses Rs 500-mark for the first time since Jan 2008; up 97% in a mth

On August 30, 2022, the Adani group published a detailed public statement about the NDTV's open offer, which will tentatively open on October 17, 2022, subject to the market regulator's approval.

Man rescued from lift in Gurugram society slaps guards; FIR lodged

Soon after the man got out of the lift, he went about slapping Ashok Kumar, the apartment's security guard

CJI Ramana hails media for cooperation in disseminating information

Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana Friday hailed the media for disseminating information about the judiciary and termed it as an active partner in the collaborative project of strengthening the judicial system. Justice Ramana, who succeeded S A Bobde on April 24, 2021 as the CJI, was delivering his address at a function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) in the apex court's auditorium to bid him adieu on completion of his over 16-month-long tenure as head of the judiciary. The media has been extremely cooperative in disseminating the information about the judiciary. You share the equal burden of dispelling myths and notions. I thank you for being an active partner in this collaborative project of strengthening the judiciary. I thank each one of the journalists who have been covering the proceedings of the Supreme Court diligently, efficiently, and instantly, the outgoing CJI said. Born on August 27, 1957, Justice Ramana was enrolled as an advocate on Februar

Indian employees likely to see bigger salary hike in 2023, says report

Some of the sectors which have been included in the survey are- financial services, banking, and technology, media and gaming

11 Oppn parties resolve to fight against misuse of EVMs, money, media

They discussed and deliberated at length the challenge of 3Ms -- machine, money and media -- faced by India's electoral democracy and unanimously passed the resolutions on them.