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Official Panel Sees ‘Western Bias’ in India’s Low Press Freedom Rank But Wants Defamation Decriminalised ‘Index Monitoring Cell’ member P. Sainath distances himself from ‘draft’ report, submits separate note. Despite the growing number of cases against journalists, the draft official report on improving Indias press freedom ranking claims, "The work culture in the Government of India involves transparency as the norm". Image: Bill Kerr/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 Rig...

A check on OTT platforms The new IT Rules must come into force as early as possible The government recently notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 in order to make the conduct of service platforms more ethical. And, also, to ensure that they strictly comply with the principles laid down by the Constitution as well as other Indian laws. The Rules also provide for self-classification of content by the OTT platforms into five age-ba...

This new government oversight for streaming service content and online digital news is, put simply, an overkill.

Traditional media firms ask Centre to treat their websites differently from digital-only outfits Digital news organisations like ‘The Wire’ and ‘The News Minute’, who have challenged the rules to regulate digital news, were not invited for the talks. Updated Mar 12, 2021 · 11:01 am A file photo of Union minister Prakash Javadekar. | PTI Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday held a meeting with members of the Digital News Publis...

Following PCI, NBSA norms, ensure new rules dont lead to compliance burden: Top news providers urge Following PCI, NBSA norms, ensure new rules dont lead to compliance burden: Top news providers urge Javadekar Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar on Thursday held an interaction through video-conference with the representatives of the DNPA in the backdrop of the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 advertisement Union Minister Prakas...

NEW DELHI: The Kerala high court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Centre on a plea challenging the new Information Technology (IT) rules to regulate digital news media. The development comes a day after the Delhi high court too sought the Union government’s response on another petition challenging the new guidelines.

The judge also said that the Central government could not take any coercive action against LiveLaw under Part III of the rules.

Kerala high court has issued notice in plea moved by livelaw challenging the new IT Rules as unconstitutional. The court has also granted livelaw interim protection from any coercive action under Part III of the new rules

The HC was hearing a petition filed by the Foundation for Independent Journalism which said that the new IT Rules issued by the government on February 25 are palpably illegal.

Delhi High Court Seeks Centres Response On Plea Challenging New IT Rules Delhi High Court Seeks Centres Response On Plea Challenging New IT Rules The plea said it has profound and serious harms for digital news media, like the petitioner, and destructive of their rights. The Delhi High Court bench issued notices to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought the centres response on a plea challenging the new Information Technolog...