2005-2014

New Delhi , Aug 18: THE Government has shot down a proposal by news agency Reuters India Pvt Ltd (RIPL) to independently provide content services to subscribers in India. The company had sought permission from the Government to provide content (including media, news and other) services to subscribers in India on the understanding that the clients who have access to the content services would have...

The Supreme Court on August 18, Thursday has issued notices to the Centre and the Press Council of India (PCI), two news agencies (Press Trust of India and United News of India) and two leading city dailies (The Times of India and the Hindustan Times), on a petition seeking classification of newspapers on the basis of whether their content is suitable for minors, which could be classified as Adult...

New Delhi: Mass-circulated national newspapers that write freely of sex in keeping with today's cosmopolitan India that no longer treats this three-letter word as taboo could end up getting classified in the same manner as films are. A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court, raising the point whether newspapers should be classified on the basis of sexually explicit material...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre, the Press Council of India, Times of India, Hindustan Times, the Press Trust of India and the United News of India on a petition questioning the publication of "titillating material" (in the two newspapers) in the name of right to freedom of speech and expression enjoyed by the Press. A three-Judge Bench comprising the Chief...

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 18: The issue of some newspapers using ‘‘titillating material’’ to woo readers today reached the Supreme Court, which issued notices to the Press Council of India, news agencies PTI and UNI, and dailies Hindustan Times and The Times of India. The PIL, filed by Ajay Goswami, sought classification of dailies on the basis of their content on the lines of what was being followed by...

New Delhi: A public interest litigation in the Supreme Court on Thursday raised a newsworthy, and pertinent, question: Should daily newspapers with sexually explicit material be given an ‘A’ rating for carrying content that in a film would see the Censor Board restrict it to adult viewing only? The apex court evidently concurred that it was a question that needed an expeditious answer. A three...

New Delhi, August 18: Should newspapers be classified on the basis of sexually explicit material contained in them similar to censor board categorising films for viewers? A PIL raising this question was on Thursday taken up for hearing by the Supreme Court and a Bench comprising Chief Justice RC Lahoti, Justice GP Mathur and Justice PK Balasubramanyan issued notices to the Centre, Press Council of...

NEW DELHI, August 19: Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has ruled that English daily The Pioneer had perpetrated a breach of privilege by publishing a "grossly libellous" article but rejected the privilege motion saying it would be beneath the dignity of the House to take further note of motivated imputations. "I believe that the disapproval by large sections of this Honorable House, of the...

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Thursday did not accept the privilege motion against The Pioneer but strongly criticised the article in question and ruled that "gross breach of privilege had been committed". He warned that in future reckless and contumacious (obstinately disobedient or rebellious) conduct indulged in by who-so-ever may be will be dealt with in the appropriate manner...

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee Thursday rejected a motion of privilege against the writer and editor of a newspaper that had published an article criticising him, but expressed his strong condemnation and pointed to "reasonable restrictions" in freedom of the press. "In view of the condemnation on the floor of the house and as it will be beneath the dignity of this great...