Justice Desai who had recently headed the Delimitation Commission on Jammu and Kashmir became the first women chairperson of the Press Council of India.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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’.
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'.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
A next generation extended stand-off air-to-surface missile test fired by IAF, ROCKS has been designed & manufactured by Israeli defence major Rafael, keeping India’s needs in mind.
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