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...Ravi Shankar Prasad, a senior BJP leader and former information technology minister, described opposition claims that the government was responsible for the possible attacks flagged by Apple as “false and...
...Viacom18 is a partnership between Ambani’s Reliance Industries conglomerate, Paramount and a Qatari sovereign wealth fund-backed investment group run by Murdoch and Uday Shankar, a former Disney executive...
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...Apple manufacturers Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron are among 22 companies that have applied to the scheme, said technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in August....
...“All the big names decided to come in and build up their war chests,” said Shankar Ramakrishnan, senior bonds editor at Informa Global Markets....
...“We have asked WhatsApp to explain the kind of breach and what it is doing to safeguard the privacy of millions of Indian citizens,” tweeted Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s electronics and information technology...
...In a meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday, Chris Daniels, chief executive of WhatsApp, was told by Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s information technology minister, that the government was deeply concerned about...
...The BJP’s social media department targets undecided voters with tailored messages, customised according to voting history, class and caste, says a former data analyst for the party, Shivam Shankar Singh....
...Last week Ravi Shankar Prasad, who is both minister for justice and for technology, called on WhatsApp to take action....
...For now, Hotstar’s growth is subsidised by Star’s traditional television services, and Mr Shankar sees little chance of the former overtaking the latter in the foreseeable future....
...Uday Shankar, Star’s chairman and chief executive, said last year that the company would generate $500m in operating income in 2018....
...Its co-founder is chemistry professor Shankar Balasubramanian, whose previous company Solexa devised the world’s leading technology for reading the sequence of DNA itself....
...Shankar Balasubramanian will be aiming to mimic the success of his first company, Solexa, founded in 1998 as a university spinout to commercialise a new superfast way to sequence DNA....
...“We would be very open to being the majority shareholder [in Tata Sky],” Mr Shankar says....
...Responding to the scrapping of 66a, Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister of communications and IT, said the BJP government did not support the stand of the previous Congress administration on the issue....
...Shankar Athreya has moved from Singapore, where he was global head of strategy and business development at Olam International, to London to take up a job as head of farmland investments at Insight Investment...
...Uday Shankar, Star TV’s chief executive, says the ISL is hoping these ageing stars can work their magic one final time, helping to attract spectators and viewers, especially among India’s growing urban middle...
...Ravi Shankar Prasad of the opposition BJP called the manifesto “an insult to the people of India”....
...Samarjit Shankar, managing director of global strategy at Bank of New York Mellon, said that flow indicators were indicating a willingness on the part of investors to cautiously – and selectively – move...
...“The fact of lobbying has been admitted before the American senate,” said Ravi Shankar Prasad, a BJP spokesman. “Lobbying is prohibited in India. Bribery is a crime....
...Shankar Narayanan, country head UK & Ireland at Tata Consultancy Services, believes that business has a collective responsibility to inspire a generation of young people to work at the forefront of technological...
...“Product markets are reasonably open, reasonably competitive,” says Shankar Acharya, former economic adviser to the Indian government. “What’s missing in India in a huge way is a large factory class.”...
...Uday Shankar, chief executive of Star India, has been quoted in the local press as saying: “This decisive verdict finally creates clarity on who owns the rights and a mechanism for monetisation and fair...
...Harrison’s salvation came in the form of a meeting with Ravi Shankar, “the first person to impress me”....
...“This fund is a good start, a step in the right direction to bring confidence back to the market,” said V Shankar, Standard Chartered’s chief executive for Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas....
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