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The WGA East and the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, have won a major victory in their joint effort to unionize producers and editorial employees at Story…

The guild alleges that the bill gives more power to the Press Registrar General overseeing the publishing of periodicals.

DIGIPUB urges the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to review the many concerns with the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023.

India's lower house of parliament greenlit the revised data privacy legislation presented the previous week, even as the bill has received criticism, with many believing that it grants significant discretionary authority to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which was reintroduced in the lower house last week (nearly a year after abrupt withdrawal of a previous proposal last), makes companies collecting user data mandatory to ob...

Not only does it sound the death knell for the RTI Act, but it also makes anyone and everyone who deals with someone else's information liable for prosecution for any breach of its provisions

Guild has asked Lok Sabha Speaker to refer the bill to a parliamentary select committee to 'allow a deep discussion on the issues that are crucial for press freedom'

The Editors Guild of India has urged Lok Speaker Om Birla to refer the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which is to be taken up by the Lok Sabha on August 7, to a parliamentary committee for further discussion

Since the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in India in 2014, it has sought to make the Muslim vote irrelevant and devalue the country's secular values.

In a move that Vijay Shekhar Sharma no doubt hopes will please regulators and convince them to greenlight the Paytm founders business plans, Ant Financial has transferred a 10% stake in the fintech major to an entity owned by Sharma. The transaction will reduce Chinese representation on the cap table of One 97 Communications, Paytms parent. This and more in todays ETtech Top 5.

Expressing deep concerns over the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill as it carries provisions that can have an adverse impact on press freedom, the Editors Guild of India (EGI) has urged Lok Sabha speaker Om Prakash Birla to refer the Bill to the Parliamentary Standing Committee.