-IndiaToday.in The Union government is likely to introduce a bill by which digital media in the country will be regulated. The Centre is likely to bring legislation by which digital media in the country will be regulated and could face action for "violations" under the Registration of Press and Periodicals Bill, sources said. The bill, if passed, will replace the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867, which regulates newspapers and printing presses...
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How communal rumours hid the truth about the deluge in Assam’s Silchar -Rokibuz Zaman
-Scroll.in Days after the town was submerged, social media accounts started posting about ‘flood jihad’. Last month’s deluge in Silchar, in Assam’s Cachar district, was followed by a dangerous rumour. This was no natural flood, the rumour claimed – it was deliberately caused. Several social media accounts suggested it was “flood jihad”, in a not-so-veiled reference to the Muslim community. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma himself repeatedly suggested the flood was no...
More »News watchdog slams ‘media trial’ of Umar Khalid, orders Zee, India TV, Aaj Tak to remove Videos -Anupriya Chatterjee
-ThePrint.in Zee News, Zee Hindustan, India TV & Aaj Tak ‘violated principles of impartiality, objectivity’ in five 2020 telecasts, News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has said New Delhi: Criticising the “media trial” of Delhi riots-accused Umar Khalid and noting its “serious objection to sensationalist taglines and tickers”, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has ordered news channels Zee News, Zee Hindustan, India TV, and Aaj Tak to remove all...
More »Calcutta High Court orders CBI probe in hiring of primary teachers -Tapas Ghosh and Kinsuk Basu
-The Telegraph Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay asked central agency to file an FIR The high court on Monday ordered a CBI investigation into recruitment of teachers in government-aided primary schools by the state’s primary education board. Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay asked the central agency to file an FIR to initiate an investigation into alleged illegal recruitment of teachers by the board based on the teachers’ eligibility test in 2014. The judge asked 269 teachers, identified as...
More »Amid acute water crisis, Nashik women hike 3 km to get muddy water from nearly-dry well - Gautham Balaji
-IndiaToday.in Residents of a village in Maharashtra’s Nashik had to resort to filtering dirty, muddy water fetched from a well due to a lack of clean drinking water. Women also have to walk 3-km on a daily basis to fetch water for the people in their family. New Delhi: Due to an acute water shortage in a village in Maharashtra’s Nashik, a man had to fetch muddy water from a well where...
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