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MUMBAI: Even as the Mumbai High Court decision on the cable industry issues involving consumers, broadcasters and cable operators is pending, a Mumbai based consumer activist...
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati is vigorously pursuing its mission of making the transition from analogue to digital. Tektronix which claims to be the market leader in video...
NEW DELHI: India’s Information and broadcasting ministry has got itself a new additional secretary (broadcasting) – Vijay Singh as Anil Baijal has been moved to Delhi...
NEW DELHI: Time to pop the double bubbly at Essel/Zee, it seems. First HITS, now DTH! It is learnt from government sources that the file relating...
NEW DELHI: The industry had been referring to it as the day when the CAS (conditional access system) rollout picture would become clearer. What transpired though...
MUMBAI: The clock for the start of the next edition of FICCI FRAMES 2003, the convention dedicated to the business of entertainment, is silently ticking away....
MUMBAI: More than 50 overseas speakers, along with media industry leaders are expected to participate in over 24 business sessions at Ficci Frames 2003, the three...
Ravi Shankar Prasad, the new minister of information and broadcasting is a no-nonsense man. He speaks haltingly, in a measured manner, mulling, chewing and pondering over...
MUMBAI: Ravi Shankar Prasad was, as expected, sworn in this evening as minister of state for information and broadcasting with independent charge. I&B minister Sushma Swaraj...
NEW DELHI:The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued guidelines for granting licenses to well established educational institutions/organizations like Universities and Institutes of Technology/Management and residential...
Conditional access may have been okayed by Parliament, but questions still haunt the industry. I&B minister Sushma Swaraj feels that post-CAS quite a few pay channels...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry today is understood to be pushing ahead for the issue of conditional access system (CAS) to be included in...
MUMBAI: The information & broadcasting ministry is laying the final groundwork for the tabling of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, that will bring...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to justify the existence of some divisions (and also the employees working there) within its fold, the information and broadcasting ministry...
MUMBAI: SCat India 2002, the country’s largest Cable TV and satellite broadcasting event will be held from 23-25 October, at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai....
Tomorrow India‘s BJP-led 18-odd party coalition NDA government completes three years in office.So does the information and broadcasting ministry, in a way the nodal organisation for...
MUMBAI: Press Council of India (PCI) chairman K Jayachandra Reddy has said that the Council has suggested to the Central Government it constitute a regulatory authority...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry is understood to have sought the advice and opinion of the law ministry on conditional access system and whether...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), an apex body of broadcasting companies operating in India, has finalised a set of guidelines on ads which can...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is willing to start negotiations with KK Modi company, Modi Entertainment Network (MEN), on the issue of converting national broadcaster Doordarshan’s DD...
MUMBAI:It’s once again the turn of the Consumer Action Network (CAN) to air its views on conditional access. CAN president Ahmed M Abdi has welcomed the...
NEW DELHI: The media has an important role and responsibility in fighting and isolating forces of terror. The battle is to be fought by the journalists,...
NEW DELHI: UR Rao, chairman of the Prasar Bharati Corporation, has put in his papers, citing personal reasons. Sources in Prasar Bharati admitted today that...
MUMBAI: The Prasar Bharati board has decided to drastically cut down its dependence on news agencies PTI and UNI by 2006. Currently the two news...
NEW DELHI: Action seems to be happening slowly on the DTH front. Now, the information and broadcasting ministry will prepare a note on set-top boxes for...
NEW DELHI: Information Technology & Communication and parliamentary affairs minister Pramod Mahajan is staying put for the moment as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) closed ranks...
NEW DELHI: With the adjournment of the Indian Parliament sine die today, the fate of conditional access system becomes that much more nebulous. Though, some government...
NEW DELHI: Officials from the information and broadcasting ministry and the Bureau of Indian Standards are slated to meet on 20 August. The agenda: to discuss...
NEW DELHI: If it’s not this then it’s that. Yesterday it was the opposition uproar over the alleged irregularities by the petroleum ministry in the allotment...
NEW DELHI: The fate of conditional access system is becoming increasingly uncertain – something that was looking highly unlikely about a fortnight back when information and...
NEW DELHI: The fate of conditional access system is becoming increasingly uncertain – something that was looking highly unlikely about a fortnight back when information and...
NEW DELHI:The information and broadcasting ministry has asked the business advisory committee of parliament to relist the Cable TV Networks Amendment Bill 2002 next week and...
NEW DELHI: The Cable TV Amendment Bill 2002 has been listed for business on the agenda of the Rajya Sabha (RS – the Upper House) for...
NEW DELHI: The Cable TV Amendment Bill 2002 has been listed for business on the agenda of the Rajya Sabha (RS – the Upper House) for...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has requested the business advisory panel of the Indian Parliament to re-list the Cable TV Amendment Bill 2002 on...
NEW DELHI: If you really cannot beat them, then join them. And Prasar Bharati, the autonomous body which oversees the functioning of pubcasters Doordarshan and All...
MUMBAI: Not in the car; and not in the local trains. Over 90 per cent of FM radio listeners are currently still at home. Most of...
NEW DELHI: The meeting of the high-powered government committee mandated to look into the issue of surrogate and objectionable advertisements, was postponed today. Reason: In anticipation...
The I&B Ministry, which sent showcause notices to four television channels for carrying surrogate advertisements for two liquor brands, is set to “get serious” on a...
The private FM players may be getting all the publicity at the moment but good old All India Radio is not going to be left behind....
Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj set the ball rolling again today on the conditional access issue following her trip to Cannes. Swaraj convened a meeting...
Manufacturers of liquor and tobacco products advertising on various TV channels under the garb of surrogate advertising, beware. The information and broadcasting ministry is in the...
Broadcasters and sections of the television industry who were just about heaving a sigh of relief that the Cable TV amendment on conditional access, proposed by...
There has been another fallout of the much-hyped issue of CAS’ failure to get the okay of members of Parliament from the Rajya Sabha (Upper House...
THE MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING (SHRIMATI SUSHMA SWARAJ): A small amendment in the Cable Act is proposed through this Bill. Though the proposed amendment is...
Well, Madame won out after all. Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj’s single point agenda of imposing set top boxes and conditional access on the Indian...
NEW DELHI: Officials from the information and broadcasting ministry and the Bureau of Indian Standards are slated to meet on 20 August. The agenda: to discuss...
Requirement of new norms and standards for the cable industry and viewers was the main topic in a discussion on `The Cable Industry and the Viewers:...
Despite information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj’s assertion on 6 May that efforts will be made to bring in the Convergence Bill during the current session...
Another year and the industry continues to scan the horizon for the chimera of clarity of purpose from the powers that be in the government. The...
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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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