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MUMBAI: The government is looking at a near uniform approach across all forms of media, said information and broadcasting ministry secretary SK Arora while explaining the...
NEW DELHI: A section of the government today ruled out dismantling of the autonomous Prasar Bharati as has been demanded by the organisation’s employees’ union. ...
MUMBAI: Toronto-headquartered Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) has received regulatory approval to add Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia), to the list of eligible satellite...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) now has its own website. The site was launched by information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy on Wednesday....
MUMBAI: The information and broadcasting ministry will be organising a workshop to discuss issues related to certification. The one-day workshop will be inaugurated tomorrow (5 July)...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting ministry today indicated further dilution in the ban on smoking scenes in films and TV serials by stating that “aesthetics” cannot...
MUMBAI / NEWDELHI: The government today said it has circulated a draft downlinking and uplink policy for feedback. This is an attempt to put a regulatory...
On 17 May, a Tuesday, even as the new information and broadcasting ministry secretary SK Arora, after taking over from his predecessor Navin Chawla, was telling...
MUMBAI: Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) is organising a series of spectrum-related events in June to generate new synergies between spectrum regulators and broadcasters in the...
MUMBAI: Now you see them now you don’t. The game of hide and seek that has been going on the last few years between adult channels...
NEW DELHI: Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who is in India on an official visit, on Tuesday, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Eisner and his colleagues...
NEW DELHI: No more fun times with Kingfisher. McDowell soda water will remain uncorked and Cavender’s adventure gear will have to take a backseat, as the...
NEW DELHI: Aimed at liberalising the regime, information and broadcasting ministry has cleared 20 per cent FDI for the private FM radio sector, but stuck to...
MUMBAI: The ministry of company affairs has not come out openly in support of the information and broadcasting ministry’s contentions on Space TV. Preferring to lob...
NEW DELHI: The Department of Company Affairs (DCA) willing, Space TV may finally see some light at the end of the long bureaucratic tunnel. The information...
NEW DELHI: The government today exhorted the telecom equipment manufacturers to ramp up their capacities to meet the burgeoning demands of the country’s telecom industry. ...
NEW DELHI: The government today said that it was not opposed to foreign direct investment (FDI) in the media, including print and electronic. Speaking at a...
MUMBAI: The CII-KPGM report has identified ten action points for the entertainment industry and the government. The aim is to drive home the point that growth...
MUMBAI: Big Brother will soon be watching. All that goes on in TV that is. Speaking in Parliament today, information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy said...
NEW DELHI: The government today indicated that it is open to a revenue sharing model to help migrate the existing FM players into a new regime....
NEW DELHI: The policy changes are yet to be effected, but the government today informed the Parliament that 70 new FM radio stations are proposed to...
MUMBAI: Finally in sight, it seems, at least for Space TV, the Tata Sons and Star group, 80:20 joint venture for a DTH service in India....
NEW DELHI: Contrary to expectations, the government has marginally increased its financial support to Prasar Bharati (translated in English as the Broadcasting Corporation of India), which...
DELHI: An inter-ministerial meeting today discussed technical issues relating to Ku-band transmission. During the time of filing this report, though much of details were not available...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry is now firmly of the view that regulation of content should be separate from carriage and is working on...
MUMBAI: The Kerala government has issued a notification banning sale of all kinds of computer and online lottery tickets in the state. The order, which comes...
MUMBAI: Minister of Communications & Information Technology Dayanidhi Maran has launched the Automated Spectrum Management System (ASMS) of the Wireless Planning & Coordination (WPC) Wing of...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has cleared the decks for foreign financial institutions investing in television news channel ventures by issuing some modifications to...
NEW DELHI: Finally the information and broadcasting ministry has taken the downlinking policy to the Cabinet that aims at having all TV channels beaming into India...
NEW DELHI: Finally, the information and broadcasting ministry has taken to the Cabinet secretariate the downlinking policy that aims at having all TV channels beaming into...
NEW DELHI: The government today refused to be cowed down by strident questions relating to the Tata-Star DTH joint venture and hinted that procedures were followed...
NEW DELHI: The government is no hurry to take a final decision on broadcast and cable regulators recommendations on conditional access, distribution of channels and a...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy today told a parliamentary panel that the government is considering putting a time limit for clearance of community...
NEW DELHI: The government, today, stated there would be no rollback of foreign investment norms for the print medium, though a group of ministers (GoM) has...
NEW DELHI: The move will disappoint private players, but the government has formally ruled out any possibility of foreign investment in the private FM radio sector....
NEW DELHI: Fazed by the fact that dissemination of information on government’s achievements were not being done properly, the information and broadcasting ministry, has been made...
NEW DELHI: Is information & broadcasting and culture minister Jaipal Reddy being relieved of one of his portfolios, notably I&B? The Capital is abuzz with rumours...
MUMBAI: Information & broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy today signed a note allowing foreign institutional investors (FIIs) to invest in television news channels. The note prepared by...
MUMBAI: Indian telecom service provider VSNL, which is a division of the Tata Group has announced that its US affiliate, VSNL America appointed Dave Ryan as...
BANGALORE: The Karnataka state government formed Pandey Panel has decided to ignore Information and Broadcasting minister’s gentle pressure on Karnataka CM Dharam Singh and decided to...
NEW DELHI: The ambivalence of the government continues over legislation relating to various broadcast issues. After having professed the need for a broadcast bill, the information...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting ministry proposes to set up a committee to look into the regulatory framework for the KU-band DTH sector and possibly...
NEW DELHI: A fortnight ahead of a crucial hearing in the Supreme Court relating to a cricket telecast row between Doordarshan and Ten Sports, senior executives...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy, today, said that the government is studying the issue whether foreign financial institutions’ (FIIs) investments in news ventures...
NEW DELHI: The producers of TV programmes from the Northeast (comprising eight states of the country) have taken up cudgels against alleged malpractices prevailing in India’s...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation has urged the government to exempt the broadcast industry from service tax as part of its wish list for the forthcoming...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of private FM radio players met information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy, today, to exhort him to expedite work on the recommendations...
NEW DELHI: Is it action time in the media? If the meetings that have been lined up for information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy today are...
NEW DELHI: The new information and broadcasting secretary Navin Chawla took over formally in his new posting, replacing Pawan Chopra who retired yesterday from government service....
NEW DELHI: The new Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government has started making bureaucratic appointments and information and broadcasting ministry is amongst the first batch of units...
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NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
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