Ravi Shankar Alok

Ravi Shankar Alok, a 32-year-old screenplay writer allegedly committed suicide in Mumbai on Wednesday, police said.

WhatsApp, the messaging platform used to spread rumours that led to mob violence, should quickly create a mechanism to flag messages that are repeatedly shared on the platform in a particular part of the country, Ravi Shankar Prasad, the union information technology minister has said.

The ruling BJP today launched a sharp attack at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for remarks by his party's senior leaders on Kashmir and the army's role in anti-terror operations.

The Supreme Court collegium, or a group of five most-senior judges, met today to take a call on Justice KM Joseph's elevation to the top court that was rejected by the government in April. This is the collegium's second meeting to firm up its response to the centre's decision that has set up a face-off between the judiciary and the executive and ha...

The Supreme Court collegium, or a group of five most-senior judges, is firm on its recommendation to elevate Justice KM Joseph to the top court and has decided to formulate a detailed response to the government that had rejected its choice, top sources told NDTV after the collegium's 50 minute meeting.

Just hours before the Supreme Court's five most-senior judges sat down to discuss Justice KM Joseph's elevation, the government insisted that its decision to stop the Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice's appointment did not have anything to do with his 2016 verdict cancelling President's rule in Uttarakhand.

Rahul Gandhi, the target of the ruling BJP's sharp attacks after the Supreme Court ruled that there was no need to probe Judge BH Loya death, delivered a stinging comeback on Thursday that signalled the Congress president's disagreement with the court's findings. The Supreme Court had earlier in the day rejected demands for an independent probe int...

India today delivered a sharp warning to social media sites, particularly, Facebook against any attempt to influencing India's electoral process. Ravi Shankar Prasad, the union information technology minister, declared that the government would take "strong action" against Facebook if needed.

Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today asked the Congress to come clean on its inks with Cambridge Analytica that is in the middle of a huge controversy over a massive data breach.

The arrest of Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister P Chidambaram, by the CBI early on Wednesday has triggered a fierce back-and-forth between the Congress and the ruling BJP. The agency alleges Karti Chidambaram, 46, facilitated foreign investment approvals for a television company when his father was finance minister and was paid brib...

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who piloted the bill to make instant "Triple Talaq" a criminal offence through Lok Sabha on Wednesday, called the passage of the legislation to restore dignity of Muslim women a "historic day". Mr Prasad also countered the charge that politics, and not gender equality, had motivated the NDA government to push throu...

A bill to make instant "Triple Talaq" - the Islamic practice of men divorcing their wives by stating "talaq" (divorce) thrice - a criminal offence was introduced in the Lok Sabha today. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad called the "Muslim Women (Protection Of Rights On Marriage) Bill" an attempt to deliver justice and respect for women, and not abou...

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today insulated the government from the raging controversy over the move to transfer the Karnataka High Court judge Jayant Patel that led him to put in his papers this week. Justice Patel, who had ordered a CBI investigation in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case in Gujarat, told NDTV that he wanted to stay back in...

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday pitched the Supreme Court's verdict that privacy is a fundamental right as a reaffirmation of the government's position. But he was soon contradicted by the government's former top law officer.

The national capital's lead planning body, the Delhi Development Authority, was rebuked by the National Green Tribunal on Thursday for casting aspersions on the expert group's findings on the damage to the Yamuna floodplains due to last year's three-day Art of Living extravaganza.

Ravi Shankar Alok, a 32-year-old screenplay writer allegedly committed suicide in Mumbai on Wednesday, police said.

WhatsApp, the messaging platform used to spread rumours that led to mob violence, should quickly create a mechanism to flag messages that are repeatedly shared on the platform in a particular part of the country, Ravi Shankar Prasad, the union information technology minister has said.

The ruling BJP today launched a sharp attack at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for remarks by his party's senior leaders on Kashmir and the army's role in anti-terror operations.

The Supreme Court collegium, or a group of five most-senior judges, met today to take a call on Justice KM Joseph's elevation to the top court that was rejected by the government in April. This is the collegium's second meeting to firm up its response to the centre's decision that has set up a face-off between the judiciary and the executive and ha...

The Supreme Court collegium, or a group of five most-senior judges, is firm on its recommendation to elevate Justice KM Joseph to the top court and has decided to formulate a detailed response to the government that had rejected its choice, top sources told NDTV after the collegium's 50 minute meeting.

Just hours before the Supreme Court's five most-senior judges sat down to discuss Justice KM Joseph's elevation, the government insisted that its decision to stop the Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice's appointment did not have anything to do with his 2016 verdict cancelling President's rule in Uttarakhand.

Rahul Gandhi, the target of the ruling BJP's sharp attacks after the Supreme Court ruled that there was no need to probe Judge BH Loya death, delivered a stinging comeback on Thursday that signalled the Congress president's disagreement with the court's findings. The Supreme Court had earlier in the day rejected demands for an independent probe int...

India today delivered a sharp warning to social media sites, particularly, Facebook against any attempt to influencing India's electoral process. Ravi Shankar Prasad, the union information technology minister, declared that the government would take "strong action" against Facebook if needed.

Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today asked the Congress to come clean on its inks with Cambridge Analytica that is in the middle of a huge controversy over a massive data breach.

The arrest of Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister P Chidambaram, by the CBI early on Wednesday has triggered a fierce back-and-forth between the Congress and the ruling BJP. The agency alleges Karti Chidambaram, 46, facilitated foreign investment approvals for a television company when his father was finance minister and was paid brib...

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who piloted the bill to make instant "Triple Talaq" a criminal offence through Lok Sabha on Wednesday, called the passage of the legislation to restore dignity of Muslim women a "historic day". Mr Prasad also countered the charge that politics, and not gender equality, had motivated the NDA government to push throu...

A bill to make instant "Triple Talaq" - the Islamic practice of men divorcing their wives by stating "talaq" (divorce) thrice - a criminal offence was introduced in the Lok Sabha today. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad called the "Muslim Women (Protection Of Rights On Marriage) Bill" an attempt to deliver justice and respect for women, and not abou...

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today insulated the government from the raging controversy over the move to transfer the Karnataka High Court judge Jayant Patel that led him to put in his papers this week. Justice Patel, who had ordered a CBI investigation in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case in Gujarat, told NDTV that he wanted to stay back in...

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday pitched the Supreme Court's verdict that privacy is a fundamental right as a reaffirmation of the government's position. But he was soon contradicted by the government's former top law officer.

The national capital's lead planning body, the Delhi Development Authority, was rebuked by the National Green Tribunal on Thursday for casting aspersions on the expert group's findings on the damage to the Yamuna floodplains due to last year's three-day Art of Living extravaganza.