The move is significant as the ministry has announced its intention to set up another committee to evaluate the success of CAS in areas where it has been implemented. The committee is likely to submit its report by December.
The government on Friday made it mandatory for channels downlinking into India to register themselves in the country to have an effective control on their operations and banned any advertising and news programmes designed specifically for Indian audi
At least 38 PLA troops drowned while crossing a fast-flowing, sub-zero river in darkness, according to an article in the Australian newspaper The Klaxon which cited a report prepared by a group of social media researchers after a year-long investigation.
No religion or God says that you have to visit pandals and temples and mosques to pray, Vardhan underlined.
Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh told reporters that a national TV news channel, facing flak over its attack on Mumbai police and Maharashtra government in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, was also involved in the TRP racket.
The I&B ministry did not grant the film titled "Caste on the Menu Card", an exemption certificate.
He dropped those perceived to be non-performers or whose integrity came into question, and also where it was felt they needed to learn a lesson or two in humility.
Alarmed by the growing number of advertisements on 'miracle' drugs being shown on television channels, Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration
For podcasters -- those who create podcasts -- the medium's appeal also owes to the fact that its content remains unregulated. Uncomfortable conversations, taboo subjects, stigmatised issues, are all encouraged.
In an interesting turn of events, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni decided not to announce the 57th National Awards for films, though it is customary for the minister to do the honours, considering the prestige attached to the awards and the fact that it is the President of India who gives away the awards.
A division of Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice H R Malhotra asked the Health and IB ministries to respond to the notices by September 30.
The 76-page "Review of Existing Television Rating System in India" tries very hard to justify why a committee was formed to examine the currency an industry uses to buy and sell advertising time.
Despite having other mandatory clearances, applications of many international magazines have been returned by the I&B ministry, say senior officials. Magazines in genres like medicine, science and technology, and legal publications are the worst affected as their titles are more often found to be already registered with the government. Since 2006, at least 25 applications from international publishers have been turned down on the ground 'title not available.'
The report suggests that one of the major impacts of COVID-19 on the media and entertainment industry is the instability caused and the downfall in the advertising revenues across all media segments
Both lifestyle and technical publications are allowed up to 100 per cent foreign investments, according to the norms laid out by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The Al-Abbas group of the UAE, through its publishing arm, Twenty First Century Publishing, will be the 50:50 joint venture partner of Bangalore-based Connoisseur Publishing.
Telephone Regulatory Authority of India's decision not to give permission to political outfits to launch satellite channel has come as a dampener for many parties, which were planning to enter the television arena ahead of the next year's general elections. Several state governments, including Delhi, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, and political parties had approached the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting seeking permission to start their own television channels.
Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, an autonomous Institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, invites applications for admission to the following courses.
An upset government on Thursday said necessary action will be taken after BBC ignored its advice and broadcast the controversial interview of Delhi gangrape convict even as it asked video sharing website YouTube to remove the documentary as it is "very sensitive".
On Sunday the Ukrainian Tennis Federation urged the sport's governing body the International Tennis Federation (ITF) to immediately expel Russia and Belarus from the organisation and ban Russia from team and individual tournaments. Also, athletes from Ukraine and other nations have called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to suspend Russia and Belarus and ban their athletes from events immediately.
The new rules for foreign investment issued by the Cabinet committee on economic affairs have two specific problems. Both lie in the new provision that any company which has an Indian majority shareholding and Indian control will be treated as an Indian company.
He underwent a renal transplant on May 14 and on the same day, his ministerial charges were given to Piyush Goyal on an interim basis.
Concerned that they will not be able to comply with downlinking guidelines and cable laws, broadcasters and the cable industry have strongly opposed any move to govern Internet Protocol TV services through the Unified Access Service Licence agreement
The 90-year-old singer will be conferred the award in a ceremony on October 21st by President Pratibha Patil.
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory to two television channels -- Aaj Tak and India TV -- earlier this week, for 'showing content that appears to be spreading panic and fear'.
Speaking in Kolkata at the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Das Munsi said, "The TRP mechanism in India is not only faulty, but is a game between the stock exchange and the company. It is a very serious and delicate issue. Five to six big corporate channels account for advertisement revenue close to Rs 5,000-6,000 crore. This mechanism should be looked into and more transparency is needed in the system."
Mid-day Multimedia Ltd on Tuesday said the Netherlands-based BBC Worldwide Holdings BV will invest Rs 31.85 crore (Rs 318.5 million) to acquire stake in Radio Mid-day West (India) Pvt Ltd.
Raj Thackeray-led MNS said that they will not oppose film's release.
Government has postponed by a month a decision to privatise four of the countrys biggest airports pending more inter-ministry consultations, Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Friday.
Matter to come before copyright board on January 28.
The relaxation would be available only to those beneficiaries who have been credited with the advance for buying the cylinder but have not been able to purchase the refill.
The Afghanistan government has ordered private TV stations in the war-ravaged country to stop broadcasting popular Indian soap operas by April 15, a move that apparently reflected the growing influence of hardliners who criticised the serials as being 'un-Islamic'. Several private Afghan TV channels, including Tolo, Ariana and Shamshad, broadcast the Indian soap operas dubbed in Pashto and Persian. Action will be taken against TV channels that do not stop airing the serails.
Sports Ministry to introduce 'transparent' National Sports Code
A CAG report severely criticises the movie certification body for fabrication of documents and showing bias while issuing film certificates.
'The BJP has sent out a message that its allies are at its mercy.' 'The allies cannot pressurise or bargain with the BJP any more,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
Government is giving a re-look at the existing uplinking policy in news and current affairs channels following an application from a wholly-owned foreign company for uplinking from India a 24-hour news channel
Asked about the report, MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said, "The political judgements of Freedom House are as inaccurate and distorted as their maps."
The football teams will be competing amid a tense political backdrop with international negotiations stalled over North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
In what would be a significant boost to the domestic entertainment industry, the United States has been roped in as the partner country for the 2009 Ficci Frames - the annual global convention on the entertainment and media industry that is partly sponsored by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It will be the tenth year of Ficci Frames next year.
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