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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 ...

The Telegraph 16 June 2020 SC sets Friday as deadline for filing detailed affidavits explaining the number of BS-IV vehicles in the country after March 31. The Supreme Court on Monday directed the ministry of road transport and highways besides the Federation of Automobile Dealers Association (FADA) to file by Friday detailed affidavits explaining the number of BS-IV vehicles in the country after March 31. The apex court took umbrage over the “violation” of its March 27 order by which it had allowed the sale of limited number of BS-IV vehicles for 10 days across India, except in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), after the lifting of the Covid-19 induced lockdown. The top court had on March 27 said it was permitting the sale of 10 per cent of unsold BS-IV vehicles to make up for six days lost due to the lockdown which had started from March 25. It had also allowed registration of 1.05 lakh two-wheelers, 2,250 passenger cars and 2,000 commercial vehicles...