Updated: 05:04 pm NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today adjourned to 15 July the final hearing of a bunch of petitions challenging the ad cap sort...
NEW DELHI: The government has decided to hold review meetings of all permitted teleport operators who have been divided in batches over three days to meet...
NEW DELHI: Action was taken by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) 74 times against different television channels in the three years between April 2011 and...
NEW DELHI: A meeting of representatives of all multi-system operators (MSOs) with senior officials of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) will be held every Tuesday commencing 6 May....
NEW DELHI: After several months of delay, the government has finally invited Request for Proposal (RFP) for selection of agency for conducting e-auction of FM channels...
NEW DELHI: A fortnight ago, the Information & Broadcasting Ministry had asked the broadcasters and teleport operators to provide full details relating to the companies operating...
NEW DELHI: Operators of the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) have been asked by the Information ad Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) to send a self-certified declaration to the...
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry (MIB) has issued an advisory to the general entertainment channel (GEC) Colors in connection with ‘Bigg Boss Season 7’...
NEW DELHI: The Information & Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) has asked the broadcasters and teleport operators to provide full details relating to the companies operating them. The...
NEW DELHI: Even as the stay on implementation of ad cap continues, the Delhi High Court adjourned the hearing of the petition of News Broadcasters Association...
MUMBAI: Day one of FICCI FRAMES 2014, the 15th chapter of the annual convention, witnessed a couple of significant announcements by Information & Broadcasting Secretary Bimal...
NEW DELHI: Six private television channels got the government’s approval in the past month. But the number of news and non-news channels remains almost equal. The...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari has said the first two phases of digitisation of cable television provided a learning experience as far as...
NEW DELHI: Filmmakers in India and Canada are expected to benefit in pooling their creative, artistic, technical, financial and marketing resources for the co-production in the...
NEW DELHI: With the general elections coming closer, the government is ensuring that the public becomes aware of the good work it has done in the...
NEW DELHI: As part of several senior-level transfers in the media units of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B Ministry), Indian Information Service officer of the...
MUMBAI: The MIB has released the list of permitted private satellite TV channels in India as on 31 January, 2014. According to a report published by...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Manish Tewari today addressed the attendees of the fifth CEOs round table conference organised by the Confederation of Indian...
NEW DELHI: K Ganesan is being posted as the new director general of the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity in the Information & Broadcasting (I&B)...
MUMBAI: Within days of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) giving out its fact sheet on how digital addressable system (DAS) phase I and II...
NEW DELHI: There has been some hue and cry about the manner in which the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has apparently rushed to notify the...
MUMBAI: The clock has started ticking as of yesterday, 16 January, when the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) passed its order regarding TV rating guidelines....
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting minister Manish Tewari inaugurated the 20th International Conference and Exhibition on Terrestrial and Satellite Broadcasting – BES Expo 2014, today...
MUMBAI: The inter-ministerial committee in the information and broadcasting ministry (MIB) is likely to take up the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI’s) recommendations on controlling...
MUMBAI: To have foreign direct investment (FDI) in TV ratings or not, that is the question. And the recently-cleared TV ratings guidelines by the Cabinet Committee...
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet today gave the go-ahead to the television ratings guidelines ,which had earlier been proposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
NEW DELHI: While border control, visa regulations and immigration formalities were the ground realities in connecting the global youth, it is undeniable that the march of...
By Ranjan Thakur The year 2013 witnessed a large number of activities in Prasar Bharati and Doordarshan. A major achievement of Doordarshan was in rebranding its...
MUMBAI: The government broadcaster, Prasar Bharati is set to see a major advancement. Reportedly, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) is planning to invest close...
MUMBAI: It has come under flak in the past for being rather liberal in issuing licences to TV broadcasters. But the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting...
NEW DELHI: The government intends to bring ‘reproduction of any newspaper in electronic form’ within the ambit of the Press and Registration of Books Act. In...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari today staunchly defended the advisory issued by his Ministry asking news television channels to make a distinction between...
NEW DELHI: The Government gave out 2164 newspapers advertisements on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel between 1998 and 2003. Interestingly, the...
NEW DELHI: Taking umbrage at constant comparisons of the speech of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Independence Day to that of other political leaders, the Information...
NEW DELHI: The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is expected to receive a sum of Rs 800 million under the 12th Plan for infrastructure...
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has asked news and current affairs channels not to show as part of news any clips from feature films...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni has said that the recent Assembly elections in five states had thrown up several cases of paid news....
Radio is theater of the mind. Once you get people laughing, they’re listening and you can tell them almost anything. That’s the motto of Radio MUST,...
NEW DELHI: The government is likely to revert to the Delhi High Court with a status report on CAS’ rollout early next week even as the...
NEW DELHI: Even as the grant-in-aid to Prasar Bharati in the budgetary allocations for the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for 2007-2008 has come down, there has...
NEW DELHI: Renowned Kannada actor-turned-politician MH Ambareesh has quit as the minister of state for information and broadcasting and also his seat in the Lok Sabha...
NEW DELHI: Veteran ballet dancer Mamata Shankar, renowned cardiac surgeon Sunil Kapoor and senior journalist George Verghese have been appointed members of the Prasar Bharati Board...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry is likely to issue an ordinance by the end of the week, making it mandatory for Neo Sports to...
MUMBAI: Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs, PR Dasmunsi while addressing the session on ‘Media and Indian Diaspora’ at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divasstated...
NEW DELHI: The film industry wants abolition of customs/excise duty, countervailing duty on import of broadcasting/post-production and animation equipment, set-top boxes (STBs) and removal of octroi...
MUMBAI: Conditional access system (Cas) will be rolled out in the notified areas of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata from 31 December and no time extension is...
MUMBAI: Three senior officers of the Indian Information Service have been promoted to the rank of additional secretary. They are Shipra Biswas, PK Bandopadhyay and Amitabha...
MUMBAI: The Minister for Information & Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs, PR Dasmunsi inaugurated the Audio Visual Unit of the Press Information Bureau(PIB). Speaking on the occasion,...
MUMBAI: All India Radio will broadcast live commentary of semifinals & final matches of the Sunfeast Open Tennis Championship being played in Kolkata. The Semifinals are...
MUMBAI: Radio One has announced the launch of a quiz contest based on Bollywood, titled Bollywood Badshah. “Bollywood Badshah is truly the definitive Bollywood quiz in...

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