SET India, in which Sony Entertainment Pictures holds 64.5 per cent stake, plans to acquire 100 per cent of SET Satellite Singapore through a share-swap deal, sources said.\n\n\n\n
Bloomberg Data Service India's proposal to service media clients in India is believed to have been rejected by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board.
Sources said the letter of intent (LoI) for the group's foray into DTH was given on Monday to Blue Sky Magic, a company of the Reliance-ADA group.\n\n
I&B Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said the channel, run by Naik's Islamic Research Foundation, was denied the rights for "not fulfilling due conditions".
India's cable television distribution industry comprising multi system operators and local cable operators is set to generate over Rs 1,000 crore a year as carriage fee from the channels slated for launch in the coming months.
"Muzzling the Internet and censoring online content through PIB is the Modi government's definition of 'fact checking'," Pawan Khera alleged.
As per sources, the MHA recommended the MeitY this week to ban and block these apps, and the ministry subsequently initiated the process as per communication.
Its workers are on their toes to win over the voters once again, with idea of 'Amrit Kaal'.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the Centre's denial of security clearance to Malayalam news channel MediaOne, and pulled up the ministry of home affairs for raising national security claims in "thin air" without facts.
The industry came under scrutiny after the proliferation of games like cards, casinos, and fantasy sports among young people led to addiction and financial losses, with some reported cases of suicide.
Allowing foreign direct investment in FM radio and a switchover to a revenue share regime is likely to get a go-ahead from the government later this week when the union cabinet takes up the matter related to the second phase of licencing.
The government has approved the 'Terms of Reference' for the 16 Finance Commission, which makes recommendations on sharing of tax revenues between the Centre and states. The recommendations would cover a five-year period commencing April 1, 2026, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said on Wednesday, giving details about the decisions taken at the Cabinet meeting last evening. The commission would submit its report by October 31, 2025, Thakur said.
Even if it wants to censor what you read, watch, or consume, the amount of content online is so huge that it is physically impossible for any government to do it, notes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
The cable industry on Friday set a deadline of December 15 for implementing the much-delayed conditional access system in South Delhi zone.
Throwing up its hands, the government is now leaving it to state governments to suggest fresh dates and demarcation of zones for enforcing conditional access system in Mumbai and Kolkata.
Foreign Investment Promotion Board is understood to have deferred, two weeks, any decision on NDTV's proposal to offer 34.28 lakh fresh equity shares, aggregating Rs 52.88 crore.
The SP said Chopra is the kingpin of drugs in Hamirpur and added that this is the seventh case registered against him under the NDPS Act.
MAG was constituted by Department of Electronics and IT in February 2014.
Dominic Xavier asks why the government wants to control what we watch.
The Centre on Monday issued advisories to news websites, OTT platforms and private satellite channels asking them to refrain from carrying advertisements of offshore betting sites. "...the private satellite television channels are strongly advised to refrain advertisements of online offshore betting platforms and/or their surrogate news websites or any such product/service depicting these platforms in a surrogate manner," the ministry of information and broadcasting advisory said. It also warned private satellite television channels of penal action under applicable laws for violation of the advisory.
While conditional access system continues to remain in disarray, the first direct-to-home television service in the country is likely to take off by October 1 with a Zee promoted company signing its license agreement with the government on Friday.
Radio Mid-Day West India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Mid-Day Multimedia Ltd, has sent a conditional notice to Information and Broadcasting Ministry to surrender its FM license in Mumbai, effective Sunday.
The channel was mired in controversy ever since it went on air.
The country's deputy foreign minister Emine Dzhaparova said that Ukraine 'regrets' the defence ministry's depiction of goddess Kali in a 'distorted manner' and that the European country 'respects unique Indian culture and highly appreciates support from India'.
The government appears to be going flexible on the conditional access system with a "soft launch" on July 15, and is not likely to make the set-top boxes mandatory for viewing pay channels from this date.
To keep Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed about the mood of the nation, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has begun sending his office an analysis of the latest trends on social media.
The apex court, which asked the Centre to consider creating a regulatory mechanism and apprise it, said the government should also inform as to what steps have been taken on the issue under the Cable Television Network Act (CTNA).
More than 20,000 Russian soldiers were killed and over 100,000 were wounded since December 2022, White House official John Kirby said, according to CNN.
The channels were suspended for 48 hours over their coverage of last month's communal violence in Delhi, with the official orders saying they covered events on February 25 in a manner that 'highlighted the attack on places of worship and siding towards a particular community'.
Union Minister Najma Heptullah on Saturday slammed the previous UPA government
Journalists acting in a manner prejudicial to the country's "security, sovereignty and integrity" as well as "public order, decency or morality" will lose their government accreditation, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has said in its new guidelines.
