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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicPress Council of India

Topic: Press Council of India

Retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai appointed chief of Press Council of India

Justice Desai who had recently headed the Delimitation Commission on Jammu and Kashmir became the first women chairperson of the Press Council of India.

PCI seeks report from UP govt on death of journalist who reported against liquor mafia

Press Council of India chairman Justice Chandramouli Kumar Prasad has taken suo motu cognisance of the matter and UP govt, DGP and Pratapgarh SP have been asked to send a report.

Former Supreme Court judge PB Sawant dies of cardiac arrest

Justice Sawant, 90, was one of the co-conveners of the Elgar Parishad conclave held on 31 December 2017 in Pune.

Supreme Court seeks Centre’s reply on PIL seeking to set up media tribunal

The plea said media, particularly the electronic, has become like an unruly horse which needs to be tamed.

Don’t publish election surveys without verification — PCI issues new advisory for newspapers

New guideline part of PCI’s updated Norms of Journalistic Conduct, edition 2020, which was uploaded to media watchdog’s website Friday. Also includes advisory on Covid reporting.

Editors Guild urges PCI to withdraw advisory on foreign content publication by Indian media

In a statement, the guild says such an advisory could bring in some form of censorship and even punitive actions against those organisations, which publish content.

Press Council says Indian media is responsible for verifying foreign content before publishing

Media watchdog says it has considered references received from govt on responsibility of Indian newspapers in publishing foreign content, and thinks unregulated circulation is ‘not desirable’.

TRP is manipulatable, needs to change, say I&B Ministry, Prasar Bharati & PCI to House panel

Amid the ‘fake TRP' row, the three agencies & parliamentary panel on IT were unanimous in their views that TRP isn’t a ‘robust system & has become dated’.

Watchdog PCI slams ‘media trial’ in Sushant Singh Rajput case, says don’t publish gossip

In advisory issued Friday, print media watchdog PCI has urged against giving excessive publicity to victim, witnesses, suspects and accused as it amounts to 'invasion of their privacy rights'. 

Modi govt’s new bill to regulate digital media too, has no punishment clause for paid news

The draft bill that I&B ministry has uploaded online for comments and suggestions has also removed provisions of prosecution for publishers.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.