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MUMBAI: Within a fortnight, Kerala government has backtracked its decision on the lottery ban. However, the government has stated that the ban on online lotteries, which...
MUMBAI: Star has created a new post to handle government and regulatory affairs. Joe Welch has been appointed as senior vice president government affairs, and will...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed country’s first DTH TV service provider to replace set-top boxes (STBs), if...
MUMBAI: Admitting Zee-Turner’s appeal on the recent TRAI directive that asked it to restore signals to Asianet Cable Network in Kerala, the Telecom Disputes Settlement &...
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: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has issued directives to Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) for the withdrawal of the advertisement of Garuda-FW Service which...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed Sony-Discovery to immediately restore signals of its bouquet of channels to Allahabad-based Three Star Communication which...
NEW DELHI: Zee-Turner, a distribution joint venture between Zee Telefilms and Time Warner, has appealed to the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) on a...
NEW DELHI: In its new set of recommendations for Unified Licence, Trai has reduced the revenue share licence fee from 15 percent to 6 per cent...
Regulation, as opposed to the market, largely determined trends in India’s cable and satellite distribution business over the past 12 months. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court today issued notice to the Centre on an application alleging that it has taken contradictory stands on the maintainability of...
BANGALORE/ MUMBAI: In what is going to be a shot in the arm for Asianet and its subscribers, Trai has directed Zee Turner to restore the...
NEW DELHI: Jagmohan Dalmiya, the most powerful man in Indian cricket, had reason to celebrate today. The Supreme Court, in a ruling delivered this morning, directed...
BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court (HC) has permitted the advocate general (AG) to file contempt proceedings against two Kannada crime serials ‘Crime Dairy” and “Crime Story”...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has obtained the quality management system certificate license under ISO 9001:2000 from Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), a national...
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: Conditional access system (CAS) may not have taken off but the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) now moots setting a deadline for digitalisation of...
MUMBAI: Transparency, a dirty word in the cable TV industry, is what the Telecom and Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is pressing for. Broadcasters and multi-service...
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: With an eye on expanding the scope of radio broadcast, telecom regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today invited suggestions on issues relating to satellite...
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...
MUMBAI: In a ruling on similar lines to one laid down earlier this year by the Supreme Court in the Ten Sports Vs Doordarshan case, the...
BANGALORE: The 10th Additional City Civil and Sessions Special Court (electricity act) Bangalore has issued summons against Hathway Cable Network Bangalore, Bangalore Electric Supply Company (BESCOM),...
BANGALORE: The Karnataka government sought a direction from the High Court (HC) to ban Crime Diary and Crime Story being telecast on Kannada ETV and Udaya...
MUMBAI: The Kerala High Court has asked pubcaster Prasar Bharati to indicate how much it would be willing to pay for simulcasting live the ongoing India-Bangladesh...
MUMBAI/Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today formally issued interconnect regulations for the broadcast sector, nixing exclusive broadcaster-distributor contracts and disallowing premium on exclusivity....
NEW DELHI: The private broadcasters’ worst fears are about to come true. The broadcast and cable regulator is likely to issue its final interconnect regulations order...
NEW DELHI: Unfazed by a lukewarm response from the government to some of its earlier radical recommendations on broadcasting, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today...
NEW DELHI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman Pradip Baijal today called for further reduction in tariffs to enable broadband penetration into rural areas to make...
NEW DELHI: Cases related to cricket rights and elections of office-bearers to the Indian cricket board could not be taken up by the Supreme Court today....
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: Broadcast and cable regulator is unlikely to come out with the final interconnect regulations this week as had been envisaged, even as it grapples...
NEW DELHI: Cable rates are set to go up by seven per cent (basic tariff excluding taxes) from 1 January, 2005. According to a statement released...
NEW DELHI: The much anticipated cricket cases could not be taken up by the Supreme Court today. A fresh listing would be made later. In a...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is preparing a consultation paper on digitalisation of TV broadcasting. The regulator is expected to submit the paper...
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: Broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), has reiterated some its earlier suggestions on FM radio broadcasting, while “strengthening” some other...
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: As per a compilation done by TRAI based on latest reports from operators, the subscriber base for telephony services continued to maintain its growth...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to break the government’s financial hold over it, telecom and broadcast & cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), has...
NEW DELHI: The telecom and broadcast and cable regulator is now pushing for convergence to happen. Any move in this direction would primarily serve to to...
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...
BANGALORE: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) plans to launch broadband internet service by December-end or January 2005 all over India. The public sector corporation plans...
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...
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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...
