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TopicRavi Shankar Prasad

Topic: Ravi Shankar Prasad

All-party delegation led by Ravi Shankar Prasad in France to engage with Senate, National Assembly

According to a statement by Indian Embassy in France, the delegation will also interact with think tanks, media & Indian diaspora to convey India's stance against terrorism.

How ‘wanderers’ of BJP are surviving outside PM Modi’s Union Cabinet, & what they are doing now

67 ministers have left the Modi govt since 2014, most of them dropped for non-performance. Some resigned to get bigger assignments, some got organisational duties. Others are still waiting.

No Sushil Modi, RS Prasad out — Why Team Modi has no room for Bihar BJP’s old guard

Bihar BJP leaders who called the shots between 1995 and 2020 are increasingly being made irrelevant. In the cabinet expansion, two leaders were dropped, one was excluded.

Facebook, Google’s 1st compliance report a big step towards transparency, says Prasad

Under the new IT rules, digital platforms that have over 5 million must publish monthly compliance reports, mentioning the details of complaints received and action taken thereon.

TV news is droning about drones and all aflutter over Twitter

Experts on news channels spoke aggressively after drone attack on Jammu Air Force station, want India to ‘occupy 40 km of PoK’.

Social media companies have to be accountable to Indian laws, Ravi Shankar Prasad says

Speaking at the India Global Forum, the minister said if Twitter is invoking the digital copyright act of US then it has to also be cognisant of the copyright rules of India.

Cabinet approves additional Rs 19,041 cr to expand BharatNet broadband service in villages

The total expense of the project will be Rs 29,430 crore to cover around 3,60,000 villages in the 16 states and will be rolled out through public-private partnership model.

Parliament panel to seek Twitter’s explanation for blocking IT Minister, Tharoor accounts

Twitter briefly blocked IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Parliamentary IT panel chairman Shashi Tharoor from accessing their account over alleged violation of copyright laws.

Twitter blocks Ravi Shankar Prasad’s account for 1 hour over ‘violation’ of US copyright laws

Criticising Twitter, IT minister Prasad posted on Koo saying the action was in 'gross violation' of IT rules as it failed to give prior notice before denying access to his account.

Twitter didn’t comply with IT rules, chose path of ‘deliberate defiance’: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Criticising the move as 'astounding', the IT minister said Twitter was given multiple opportunities to comply with the rules, but deliberately chose the path of non-compliance.

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Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.