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The Indian Express Sep 25, 2020 Last week, the Supreme Court  came down heavily on a TV channel  that was intent on broadcasting hate-filled programmes. The Court underlined the need for laying down clear guidelines, and their effective implementation, for the media against hate speech. This has brought to the centre-stage, once again, the debate about the need, scope and extent of media regulation. TV channels have the power to set the country afire with their hateful discourse, for which some of them have become notorious. In his  opinion piece,   S Y Quraishi , former Chief Election Commissioner of India and a former member of National Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA), explains the possible forms of such regulation. They are government regulation, self-regulation and independent regulation. The government has made several attempts in the past to regulate the media but all such attempts came crashing down in the wake of public outcry. Government regulations ...

Hindu Dated: May 03,2020 Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar, speaking on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, said his government “will expose” the surveys that portray a “bad picture about  ‘Freedom of Press’ in India ”. The Minister’s comments come in the backdrop of the latest survey of the global body, Reporters Without Borders, that shows India dropping two places on the global press freedom index ranking to 142nd place in the list of 180 countries. India’s neighbours — Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka — are ranked higher in the list. “Media has the power to inform and enlighten people. Media in India enjoy absolute freedom. We will expose, sooner than later, those surveys that tend to portray bad picture about ‘Freedom of Press’ in India,” Mr. Javadekar tweeted. The report on “'The World Press Freedom Index 2020”, which was released on April 22, said that with no murders of journalists in India in 2019, as against six in 201...

The Economic Times January 23, 2018 India's hordes of business graduates — many of whom have reached the top at American multinationals such as Sunder Pichai at Google and Satya Nadella at Microsoft — are of no use to the country if it does not create its own multinationals, unlike China.  "Observers who are interested in comparing the growth prospects of China and India often cite the large pool of MBA talent as one of India's major strengths, but the jobs these graduates do ironically reflects the weakness of the economy," says an article in state-run Chinese news outlet Global Times.  It says it is disturbing to think that so many high-level technical and management staff are working and creating great value for foreign companies.  And that's not how India would be able to match or overtake China in economic growth. India needs its own multinationals driven by talented Indian managers. "To accelerate its economic growth, India needs its...

Bloomberg By ,PTI |  Dec 18, 2017 Bloomberg Media is the consumer-facing media organisation of Bloomberg, the  multi-platform media company  for business and finance.  The first iteration of TicToc by Bloomberg will feature a mix of live video and reporting from Bloomberg journalists around the world, as well as breaking news content from consumers, curated and verified by Bloomberg editors with a real-time distillation of the related conversation on Twitter, it said in a statement "We are seeing a shift in the media landscape today: more content companies are partnering with platforms to create hybrid businesses that better serve consumers and society. With TicToc by Bloomberg, we are fusing the best of Bloomberg and Twitter to build a fast and credible modern news experience," Bloomberg Media Chief Executive Officer Justin B Smith said.  The 24-hour news network has got seven sponsors on board including  Goldman Sachs , AT&T Business, CA Technolog...