New Delhi: The home ministry on an average approves 5,000 call interception requests a month based on "justified grounds" made by law enforcement agencies, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.The interception of telephone conversation is done

New Delhi: The government has given the task of identifying objectionable content on the internet to industry body IAMAI, telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed Parliament Friday."Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), an association

New Delhi: Ravi Shankar Prasad, Telecom Minister, expects aggressive bidding in the upcoming spectrum auction. There is a "compelling business case" for companies to own airwaves on the back of a projected explosion in data

Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked a question to the Union Ministry of Law and Justice last year on August 11, 2014 which remains unanswered till date. The question was posed by him on

Mumbai: Asserting that the Digital India initiative is focused more on the poor than the elite, Union IT minister Ravi shankar Prasad today said the 'White Revolution' should be replicated in the information technology arena

Varanasi: Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad yesterday inaugurated BSNL's free Wi-Fi service at two ghats in Varanasi and announced to provide similar facility to visitors at 407 tourist places in 45 cities across the country

Varanasi: In the wake of ongoing political crisis in Bihar, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today batted for a fresh assembly elections in the state saying polls were needed for a stable and better governance

New Delhi: BJP today condemned the allegations by AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal that it was offering enticements to voters, saying that was a sign of “frustration” within the rival party as the people were “coming

New Delhi: Questioning the “conspicuous silence” of Arvind Kejriwal on AAP's “dubious” funding, BJP today alleged that the party leader's political conduct has been completely contradictory to the standards he had set for himself.Union Minister

New Delhi: Following criticism over the use of the word “immigrants” for people from northeast in its vision document for Delhi, BJP today came out with a rephrased version and asserted the party stood firmly

New Delhi: Union Minister Ravishankar Prasad today took a potshot at Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh and said he was “not taken seriously by his own party members” as he reacted to his jibe at

New Delhi: Hitting back at Congress over the Republic Day advertisement row, a senior Union minister said on Wednesday that  leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and B R Ambedkar were "more intelligent" than the present day

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious ‘Digital India' project got a major fillip after the state –owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has decided to invest Rs 7,000 crore to offer free high –

New Delhi: Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday commissioned India's first hi-speed rural broadband network in Kerala's Idukki district, an official statement said.Speaking on the occasion, Prasad said the country was witnessing

Thiruvananthapuram: India's first hi-speed rural broadband network would be commissioned in Kerala's high range Idukki district tomorrow, ushering in a new era of Digital India.With the commissioning of the network, Idukki with a large tribal

New Delhi: Kerala will be the first state to be fully covered by broadband connectivity under the national optical fibre network (NOFN) project, which aims to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats across the nation by

New Delhi: BJP today questioned Congress President Sonia Gandhi's “silence” on statements of prominent party leaders “justifying” the Paris terror attack on journalists and demanded a response from her even as it asked the opposition

New Delhi: Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf yesterday discussed with Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad the role the US-based tech giant can play in the government's Digital India programme.They also discussed ways to increase

New Delhi: The NDA government is committed to improve tele-density, voice and broadband penetration and ensure quality of services to both rural and urban areas to achieve the vision of Digital India, Communications and IT

Patna: Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said opposition parties were not ready for a debate on conversion issue that has rocked Parliament for the last two weeks and blamed them for stalling the