-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...
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Controversial draft amendment to IT disappears from website
-The Telegraph It is still not clear why the rules are suddenly taken down New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has again fumbled with a hot potato in another attempt to regulate social media content. On Wednesday, the ministry of electronics & information technology (MeitY) published draft rules that proposed the formation of an appeals panel that could veto content takedown on social media platforms — which would possibly make India the first...
More »Policy creep: On e-commerce and overregulation risks
-The Hindu Overregulation risks retarding growth and job creation in the e-commerce sector Barely 11 months after the Government notified the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020, the Department of Consumer Affairs has mooted a set of sweeping amendments, ostensibly “to protect the interests of consumers... and encourage free and fair competition in the market”. Among them is a norm stipulating the appointment of a chief compliance officer, a nodal contact person for...
More »Sanctity of poll -Sam Rajappa
-The Statesman Assembly elections in the States of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union Territory of Puducherry to be held between 27 March and 29 April come at a time the prestigious US-based Freedom House report has lowered India’s rank from a “free” to a “partially free” country and Sweden’s V-Dem Institute which once described India as the world’s largest democracy as an “electoral autocracy.” The government can either...
More »Parliament proceedings: Government welcomes dissent on social media, says Ravi Shankar Prasad
-The Hindu ‘Issue is not of use of social media, it is of abuse and misuse of social media’. Union Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Thursday that climate activist Disha Ravi’s arrest was based on law and order and it is under judicial process. He added that the House should consider “should some people abuse social media internationally to defame India to promote secessionism.” Replying to a question...
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