-The Economic Times MUMBAI: If you get a phone call from your long-time banker asking you to resubmit your name and address proofs, don't be surprised or irritated. It is the fallout of the Reserve Bank going beyond the cobrapost.com expose on unethical practices of banks, forcing them to go back to the drawing boards to weed out bogus and wrong documentation that allowed many people to open accounts and launder...
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In teary spectacle on TV, the crisis of Bengal's 'chit fund media' -Subrata Nagchoudhury
-The Indian Express On Monday, the Bengali new year's day, viewers who tuned into Bengali music channel Tara Muzik witnessed a spectacle never seen before on Indian TV. Anchors of the channel and independent artistes called in to present Barsha Baran, a programme to celebrate the new year 1420, wept copiously on camera while announcing that the channel, facing an unprecedented "crisis of survival", was shutting down. Hundreds of viewers commiserated with...
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-The Hindustan Times Amid raging controversy over regulation of electronic media in India, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday recommended to the government to establish a statutory body to regulate the broadcast media, saying state intervention was necessary. "Absence of state intervention on its own is no guarantee of a rich media environment. On the contrary: to promote a media environment characterized by pluralism and diversity, State intervention is necessary," a bench...
More »Set up watchdog for electronic media: HC -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express Quoting from a speech of former British prime minister Tony Blair who compared the media to a “feral beast”, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday recommended the Centre to put in place a “statutory regulatory body” for controlling the electronic media. A bench led by Justice Pradeep Nandarajog rejected the idea of “self-regulation” by the broadcasters, underlining that the absence of state intervention on its own was no guarantee...
More »Media demonising Muslim community: Katju
-PTI "Discrimination" against Muslims is giving rise to a feeling of injustice among them, Press Council Chairman Markanedya Katju on Sunday claimed and rebuked the media for what he described as "demonising" Muslim community through "irresponsible" journalism. "Whenever a bomb blast occurs or such incident takes place, within an hour or so many TV channels start showing that an email or sms has come from the Indian Mujahideen, JeM or Harkatuljihad-e-Islam, or...
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