New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India on Thursday opposed in the Supreme Court the idea of putting temporary restraint on reporting of court proceedings saying enforcing guidelines in this regard would lead to "infringement" of right to free speech. The Guild said there was no power under the common law for the courts to "postpone" the publication of judicial proceedings and if there was any "vacuum" in law, restrictions...
07:21 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Suspense prevails over who will be the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Clamour within the Samajwadi Party has been growing for Mulayam Singh Yadav's son Akhilesh Yadav to take over, but Akhilesh claims that his father will be the chief minister. IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai's take on whether Akhilesh and not Mulayam should be the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh: A 38-year-old chief minister who is not...
10:44 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi put everything at stake in Uttar Pradesh as the first phase of campaigning ended on Monday. Addressing a press conference in Varanasi, Rahul said that UP was not an election, but a mission for him. Ruling out any alliance, he also said that he will stay on in UP irrespective of the result. IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai's take on whether Rahul Gandhi has...
10:49 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Amit Saigal, founder and editor of music magazine the Rock Street Journal, drowned while swimming off a Goa beach on Thursday, officials said. Saigal was swimming with his friends near their anchored sail boat off Bogmalo beach, 35 km from Panaji in Goa. "Saigal's friends who were present there said that he was asthmatic and could have had an asthma attack when he was swimming, while the entourage...
03:24 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief of CNN IBN calls for your questions and comments on www.ibncj.com ...
08:31 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Media have been accused of playing a negative role by even the Chief of the Press Council Of India. ...
11:38 PM, Nov 10, 2011
New Delhi: In an obvious reference to Team Anna, Congress condemned 'unnecessary statements' on Lokpal issue by 'some groups' despite repeated assertions by UPA leaders including Sonia Gandhi about their resolve to carry out all reforms to put an end to corruption. "After strong statements by Congress President Sonia Gandhi again and again about the commitment of UPA to carry out all necessary reforms to bring an end to corruption,...
07:30 AM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India has severely criticised comments made by Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju on the media. The Guild said that Justice Katju's words had touched a new low in the discourse over the functioning of the media and it totally opposed the attempt being made by him to assume draconian powers to control the media, which are a violation of the very...
10:07 PM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India has condemned the scathing remarks of the new chairman of Press Council of India, Justice Markandey Katju, on the media. The Guild has also strongly opposed powers sought by Justice Katju to impose fines, withdraw ads and to suspend the licence to publish or broadcast. It noted that the council was led by someone who seemed like he wanted to invoke "fear" in...
07:23 PM, Nov 01, 2011
The cabinet has approved an Information and Broadcasting proposal which fixes the criteria for granting licences to TV channels. According to the new guidelines approved by the Cabinet on Friday, a channel can renew its broadcast licence only if it has less than five violations of the programming and advertisements code to its name. The minimum net worth for TV news channels has increased from Rs 3 crore to Rs...
06:01 PM, Oct 12, 2011
The cabinet has approved an Information and Broadcasting proposal which fixes the criteria for granting licences to TV channels. According to the new guidelines approved by the Cabinet on Friday, a channel can renew its broadcast licence only if it has less than five violations of the programming and advertisements code to its name. The minimum net worth for TV news channels has increased from Rs 3 crore to Rs...
06:01 PM, Oct 12, 2011
New Delhi: Under attack over scams and corruption issues and also the Anna wave, the UPA has decided to go in for image correction by issuing new guidelines for issuing licence to TV channels. But one of its proposals has angered the Broadcast Editors' Association. The UPA watched the spreading Anna wave with horror and there was a strong feeling at a Cabinet meet last month that it would have...
11:27 AM, Oct 09, 2011
New Delhi: India went into damage control mode on Monday after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made controversial comments on Bangladesh at the Editors meet he held in the capital last week. The Prime Ministers Office (PMO) staff had published Dr Manmohan Singh's off-the-record fears of 25 per cent of all Bangladeshi's hating India. The Prime Minister reportedly spoke to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Monday to clarify the controversy....
08:28 AM, Jul 05, 2011
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