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Stating that India was at a historical juncture, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said the media had a crucial role in tackling and guiding the process to create a modern society built on a rapidly growing economy. Inaugurating the silver jubilee celebrations of Telugu daily Prajashakti, a mouthpiece of CPI-M and a national seminar on "press and the nation" here, he said media had enormous...

HYDERABAD, AUGUST 21: Indicating that he did not share Andhra CM Y S R Reddy’s view that the media should have no interaction with banned Maoist organisations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today that any political group can use the media to convey its views. Stressing that a ‘‘free press is the ultimate check’’ against the ‘‘tyranny’’ of authority, Singh said the media is ‘‘like a mirror’’...

As Indians, we should feel proud of our vast, varied and vibrant media. This is a national asset and a pillar of strength for our democracy which has been made richer by the plurality of our free press. In a diverse nation of a billion people, there are bound to be differences in taste and opinion. Differences in attitude and ideology. Differences in linguistic and political preferences. The...

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It was a chance visit to a site I often spend time at whenever I am starved of good reading material. For someone who takes more than mere academic interest in the Northeast, my click on the link "Murder of truth after murder at Gateway" was a foregone reflex action. After zipping through the article, I gave it a second read and empathised with the writer who made a clean breast of things: "I am...

When I give talks about the Middle East there is invariably at least one person in the audience who asks a question along these lines: "Isn’t it true that we Americans are doing lots of good things in Iraq, but we never hear about it because the media simply refuse to report it?" My answer runs something like this: Iraq is both better and worse than what you see on TV. Better, because good things...

NEW DELHI, August 19: It had to happen sooner or later – the Supreme Court has issued notices on a petition questioning the publication of "titillating material" in the name of right to freedom of speech and expression enjoyed by the Press. Notices have been issued to the Union Government, the Press Council of India, the Times of India, Hindustan Times, the Press Trust of India (PTI) and the...

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...