NEW DELHI: The Home Ministry has asked all television channels and those managing teleports, whose downlinking permissions have expired after five years or is in the...
NEW DELHI: The Government has spent over Rs 780 crore by way of advertisements, of which a major part went to audio-visual advertisements, during the past...
MUMBAI: Amidst strong controversy, Arun Jaitley led finance ministry of India tabled the Goods and Service Tax (GST) in the parliament for further debate. GST is...
NEW DELHI: Despite fears that the growth of Internet is not as fast as it should be, social media and apps appear to be pervading all...
NEW DELHI: A total of 178 applications for new TV channels have been pending with the Government of India since 2012. Information and Broadcasting Minister...
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) has been conferred the certificate of registration by the British Standard Institute (BSI) for the Quality Management System...
NEW DELHI: The composition of various Indian sports committees as well as the eligibility criteria for sports awards have been announced. The chairman for the Arjuna...
NEW DELHI: Nine of the 13 multi-system operators (MSOs) who attended the last two open house meetings for MSOs in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry were...
NEW DELHI: With the addition of eleven more multi-system operators (MSOs) after 25 March, the number of MSOs who have been granted permanent registration for ten...
NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has appealed to the Maharashtra Government to review its entertainment tax structure, noting...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has forwarded a list of 82 TV channels, teleports and news agencies to the Home Ministry for...
NEW DELHI: Even as several multi-system operators (MSOs) have been waiting endlessly for security clearances to ensure they get licences for digital addressable system from the...
MUMBAI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) is taking all steps possible to ensure that the sector prospers and any issue, which hampers the growth is...
NEW DELHI: The Government has stayed a decision taken by the Health Ministry around six months earlier to increase the size of pictorial warnings on tobacco...
NEW DELHI: Even as there are consistent delays on the Home Ministry’s part to examine security clearances for multi system operators (MSOs) and complaints of non-availability...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan is working towards launching four channels in the north east in the near future. Three of these channels will be in...
NEW DELHI: Keeping in view the continuing delays in multi-system operators (MSOs) failing to get security clearance, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) has send a...
NEW DELHI: With addition of two more multi-system operators (MSO) from Sikkim and Bihar, the total number, who have been granted permanent registration for 10 years...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed modifying satellite television market rules to enable satellite subscribers to gain access to in-state news and other programming...
NEW DELHI: A National Supercomputing Mission will be launched at an estimated cost of Rs 4500 crore over a period of seven years. This was...
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has been awarded the Platinum icon award for Comprehensive Web presence in the Web Ratna Awards 2014. The...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) additional secretary J S Mathur, who heads the Task Force for Phase III and IV of Digital Addressable Systems...
NEW DELHI: Youth Affairs Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has urged the states to help the centre in bringing transparency and accountability in sports by implementing the Sports...
NEW DELHI: A total number of 21699, 27605, 28481 and 32323 websites were hacked by various hacker groups spread across the world from 2011 to 2014,...
NEW DELHI: The Government has advised all television channels in public interest to safeguard innocent lives, to ensure that no operations-linked information reaches the terrorists and...
NEW DELHI: The Government has earned Rs 7.41 crore as processing fee from multi system operators from April 2011, the Lok Sabha was informed on 20...
NEW DELHI: A total of 135 private FM radio channels will be auctioned in the first batch covering 69 cities in Phase III based on the...
NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore said on 19 March that the enhanced reach and instant dissemination on social media had...
NEW DELHI: District magistrates of Indian states have been asked to proactively involve community radio stations in the dissemination of information regarding government policies. A...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Government has no plans to put a cap on the number of satellite television broadcasting channels in the country, the Parliament...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley said today that the government was committed to ensuring that ‘airwaves’ constitutes property of the people or the...
NEW DELHI: Minister of State Rajyavardhan Rathore has said that women have excelled in all fields and have made everyone proud of their achievements. Speaking...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Delhi High Court is still to decide finally on the ban on India’s Daughter by Leslee Udwin, Information and Broadcasting Minister...
NEW DELHI: The fifth National Sammelan for Community Radio Stations will be inaugurated in Delhi on 16 March by Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitely. Minister...
NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore has said that media can transform the lives of the people living in rural areas by...
NEW DELHI: The Government will include provisions for checking the menace of paid news in the amendments to the Press and Registration of Books Act. ...
NEW DELHI: The Parliament was informed on 13 March that the list of 28 “objectionable and abusive” words suggested for banning from Indian films by Central...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting secretary Bimal Julka has said that the forthcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in November will have a special section...
NEW DELHI: There will be an Open House meeting on 20 March for applicants for new television channels and those seeking changes in their uplinking or downlinking options. ...
NEW DELHI: Operators of FM radio who had applied for migration to phase III FM but changed their minds, will be given an opportunity to withdraw...
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) is considering a proposal to prohibit live media coverage of counter terrorism operations by security forces. Minister...
NEW DELHI: Even as the documentary “India’s Daughter” by Oscar-winning British filmmaker Leslee Udwin on the Nirbhaya gang-rape case has been telecast by BBC4 on a...
NEW DELHI: Following strong protests in Rajya Sabha today, Home Minister Rajnath Singh committed to members that the government will move to court to restrain the...
NEW DELHI: A notice was issued by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) inviting applications for the first batch of phase III FM auctions for 135...
NEW DELHI: Action has been taken against three television channels so far in 2015, of which two have been taken without issue of any show cause...
NEW DELHI: The Government has categorically denied any interference in the decision-making of the Central Board of Film Certification or any coercion on the chairperson or...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has put on hold the list of 28 “objectionable and abusive” words to be banned...
NEW DELHI: Digital India and its gains will form a highlight of the next round of ‘Festivals of India’ during 2015-16. The Culture Ministry has...
NEW DELHI: The audio-visual medium received 55.7 per cent of the government advertisements in Hindi as compared to 32.38 per cent in the print medium in...
NEW DELHI: Following the controversy that arose when a government advertisement relating to Republic Day reproduced the original Preamble to the Constitution, the Government has given...

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