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India top country in world in use of mobile apps: Ravi Shankar Prasad

IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday

About 200,000 jobs added in IT sector since 2019: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Prasad informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday

Govt keen to develop, strengthen own mobile app store: Ravi Shankar Prasad

The Parliament was informed on Thursday

No proposal to appoint regulator for social media: Union Minister Prasad

The government on Wednesday informed Parliament that there is no proposal with the IT ministry to set up a regulator for social media

Parliament passes Arbitration Amendment Bill to protect taxpayer money

Section 36 of the (Arbitration) Act says the arbitration award be set aside if it is against public policy, said Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in Rajya Sabha

9,849 URLs, accounts, webpages blocked in 2020: Prasad

More than 9,800 URLs, accounts or webpages were blocked in 2020, Union minister Ravi Shankar said on Wednesday

Ravi Shankar Prasad gets anti-coronavirus vaccine shot; pays Rs 250

Prasad was administered the first dose of anti-coronavirus vaccine in Patna on Tuesday

Comments against judges a disturbing new trend: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Prasad also expressed satisfaction over the judiciary having risen to the challenge posed by the Covid-19 pandemic last year.

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Centre announces Rs 15,000 crore PLI for pharma, IT hardware sectors

Pharma scheme aims at Rs 3 trillion incremental sales, 100,000 jobs; experts say hardware scheme to help India become electronics manufacturing hub for the world

PLI scheme for IT products has outlay of over Rs 7,000 cr, says govt

Cabinet clears Production Linked Incentive scheme to boost manufacturing of laptops, tablets, PCs, servers, says Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

Cabinet approves over Rs 12,000-cr PLI scheme for telecom sector: Prasad

The government expects that the scheme will lead to Rs 2.4 trillion incremental production of telecom equipment in the country in the next five years

SC notice to govt, Twitter to check fake news, hate speech on platform

Notice comes amid govt-Twitter spat over content takedown requests made by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to the microblogging firm

Amid row with Twitter, Prasad says social media firms must abide by our law

In Rajya Sabha, minister says Twitter's double standards will not work

'Follow our laws': Prasad tells social media firms amid row with Twitter

'Please don't spread enmity, violence and misinformation," says minister in Parliament.

Indian ministers switch to local platform Koo as Twitter standoff continues

Koo was launched in July 2020, founded by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka. Radhakrishna had earlier founded TaxiForSure, which was later bought by Ola

Budget should be seen as extension of Atmanirbhar, RBI's package: Prasad

"Companies like Apple under Production Linked Incentive of Rs 1,97,000 crores will be able to manufacture mobiles. This will generate employment," he said

5G core network should be Indian; permission for trials soon: Prasad

Prasad said the country should move faster on the next-generation technology with indigenously made telecom gears

Govt looking into WhatsApp privacy policy changes: Ravi Shankar Prasad

There has been a user backlash over a new privacy policy of WhatsApp

WhatsApp revised privacy policy: Justice Singh recuses herself from plea

Justice Singh took objection to an email sent to the Court from WhatsApp and the matter will now be heard by another bench on Monday, January 18