"There was no deviation from the Standard Operating Procedure. The weather suddenly turned bad and strong winds caused the uprooting of a tree that fell on the cable," Director, Tourism, Mehmood Shah said.
'During Amit Shah's recent visit to Kerala, the strategy of concentrating the attacks on the CM on false charges was clear enough.'
Did Vinod Sehgal die in Tsangdgar or was he taken PoW to Tibet or China? Why has the IAF kept so quiet for all these years, asks Claude Arpi.
If a feasible business model is worked out for cable operators, they will not only build the last-mile networks, but also market them among the local population telling people the benefits as well as how to utilise them
"The purpose of this film is only political -- to get some extra mileage in the elections. We believe, it is not just a corrupt practice, but the very launch of the film is motivated," Kapil Sibal told reporters outside the Election Commission.
The apex court, while hearing a plea raising grievance over the programme, said that the manner in which some media houses are conducting debate is a matter of concern as all kind of defamatory things are being said.
The salient features of the new OTT/social media policy announced by the Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on February 25, 2021.
Finally Mi TV arrives on the Indian shores for the first time as Mi TV 4.
Lakdawala was apprehended by Mumbai Crime Branch's anti-extortion cell team at the International Airport. He once worked for underworld don Dawood Ibrahim before forming his own gang.
The lawsuit, by four industry associations and 34 producers, seeks the court's direction to Republic TV, its editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and reporter Pradeep Bhandari, Times Now, its editor-in-chief Rahul Shivshankar and group editor Navika Kumar and unknown defendants as well as social media platforms to refrain from making or publishing allegedly irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks against Bollywood.
According to the estimates prepared by CASBAA, India will require about $12-15 billion investments to upgrade its analogue cable set to digital. At present, India's digital cable reach is less than 20%. Currently, there are about 71 million cable homes in the country out of a total of about 130 million television homes. But only about 6% cable homes are digital. With only 3% broadband penetration, India ranks very low in comparison to countries like Brazil, China & Thailand.
Joining the issue of raging controversy over hike in subscription rates of cable channels, the cable operators across the metropolis have decided not to air pay channels for a day from midnight.\n\n\n\n
The process may begin as early as November this year if the cable industry's plan, submitted to the ministry of information and broadcasting, is accepted. CAS has been implemented only in parts of these three cities. As the technology enables consumers to choose channels, the expansion will bring down the average monthly cable bill of about 7.2 million consumers in the non-CAS areas in these cities by almost half to Rs 150-Rs 200.
To rationalise the entertainment tax levied on the direct-to-home (DTH) companies and the cable operators by the state governments and also to encourage the cable industry to switch to the use of advanced optical fibre cable instead of the copper wire cables, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has set up two sub-committees.
The cable industry has asked the government to quickly address the policy issues related to the Internet Protocol TV. Otherwise, over 3,000 unauthorised television channels, which include pornography, will enter Indian homes.
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Cable operators body has demanded an equal footing with the DTH players.
Tata group company Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd today said it is constructing a $250-million (about Rs 988 crore) worth cable system for linking Mumbai directly to Paris, London and Madrid via Egypt.
If you thought that international cable television majors such as Liberty Media and Comcast Corporation will line up to invest in the Indian cable TV industry after the government's proposal to allow 74 per cent foreign equity in cable, think again. The buzz is that the government is in a mood to raise the foreign equity bar for the cable industry from the current 49 per cent to 74 per cent.
Conditional access system notified areas in Mumbai have turned into a battleground with local cable operators and multi-system operators trading allegations
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar will now get an opportunity to examine issues related to information technology. The Rajya Sabha MP has been included in the Standing Committee on Information and Technology.
A K Antony was "one of the only" leaders apart from Priyaranjan Dasmunsi who "flatly criticised" Sanjay Gandhi during a session of the All India Congress Committee in 1976 in Guwahati, during the Emergency, when the latter's political graph was on the rise, United States diplomatic cables have claimed.
Even as unconfirmed reports suggested that the cables of the CCTV were cut at the blast site in Hyderabad's Dilsukh Nagar were cut prior to the attack, the investigating team is examining the footage it has managed to get from one of the cameras installed at a nearby bus station.
Trai said, the operators should ensure that payout per month of the 'best fit plan' generally does not exceed the payout per month of existing tariff plan of the subscriber.
As the digitisation drive enters its second phase, the I&B ministry has asked telecom regulator to come up with measures to control monopolies in the cable TV.
The spat between cable TV operators and broadcasters continues despite the appointment of Trai, with the cable service providers accusing Trai of being helpless in reining in broadcasters and calling for a licence regime to control the channels.
Bharti's undersea fibre-optic cable connecting Chennai with Singapore has not been affected by the deadly tsunami waves, triggered by the massive quake off the Indonesian coast, its CMD Sunil Mittal said on Tuesday.
Strategically important and first of the kind in North India and Jammu and Kashmir, the 592-meter long Basohli Bridge over River Ravi will be fourth of its kind in the country
Broadcast regulator TRAI said on Thursday that cable operators can only charge a fixed amount from each subscriber, as prevalent on December 26 last year, but there is no ceiling on the number of subscribers each operator can enlist.
The Union government will implement the much awaited Conditional Access System before July 14 this year helping to streamline the cable TV industry.
Real Madrid have reluctantly agreed to play their La Liga match at Rayo Vallecano at 1745 GMT on Monday, a day after the game was abandoned because of alleged lighting sabotage at Rayo's Estadio de Vallecas stadium.
The President has given his assent to four Bills including the Cable Television Networks (Amendment) Bill
Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf and his top diplomats made a U-turn on talks with India after the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee released Hurriyat leaders in early 2000 as part of his peace initiatives on Kashmir, according to a declassified US cable.
Today, hour-long, high-pitched 'debates' at prime time, replete with inflammatory visuals and captions, using half-truths, insinuations and lies, pour venom against Muslims and seek to divide Hindus and Muslims, notes Jyoti Punwani.
On November 8 last year, Rohatgi had informed the court that the decision to ban the transmission on November 9 had been put on hold by the government.
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