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They challenge your newspaper literacy, interrupt otherwise intelligible conversations, and add to the difficulty of finding your way. The culprits: India's endemic acronyms, abbreviations and initials. Bureaucrats across the world pack official reports with them, but India distinguishes itself by relishing in their everyday use, from place names to first names and even swear words. In the first...

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that it was planning to bring an amendment in Press Council on India Act to give it more teeth for acting against newspapers and magazines which publish obscene pictures. The Centre shared its plan for give more powers to the PCI with a Bench comprising Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Khanna which was hearing a bunch of...

NEW DELHI: The Press Council of India on Friday urged the governments of Assam and Manipur to take steps to ensure that the media in the two States is able to function free of its fear of threats from militant organisations as well as the pressure of law enforcing agencies. The council said no restrictions or pre-censorship should be imposed on the media in the name of fighting militancy. At the...

The Delhi High Court's sentencing of three journalists and the publisher of Mid Day to jail terms is being seeen as a severe blow to press freedom in the country. The order has also brought into focus what ought to constitute contempt of court. Editors of a number of newspapers and television channels in New Delhi Saturday passed a resolution calling upon both the print and electronic media to...

Bangalore, Sept. 19 (PTI): Seeking abolition of the Wage Board, the Indian Newspaper Society today accused the Central government of trying to curb the freedom of speech and independence of the media. “At a time when independent India boasts of a free and open economy, we are faced with yet another Wage Board– being the only industry in the country to have one”, INS President Hormusji N Cama said...

If the words "print" and "media" conjure up images of plummeting profits, shrinking readership and editors tearing their hair out as they attempt to staunch the exodus to the online universe, you clearly aren't thinking of India. As the country celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain, newspapers are flourishing, with growth projections that would impress even the savviest...

NEW DELHI, July 26: The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has noted with consternation and alarm the decision reportedly taken by the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (Citu) in West Bengal to suspend distribution of newspapers in Kolkata on 8 August. In a Press release issued in the Capital today, INS president Mr Hormusji N. Cama stated: “This decision, we are informed, has been taken to extend...

New Delhi, July 24: The national wage boards for working journalists and non-working journalists of newspapers and news agencies will hold their first meeting at Kochi in Kerala on August two. During the meeting, the boards will meet representatives of newspaper establishments, working journalists, non-journalist newspaper employees and other stakeholders interested in the fixation/ revision of...

New Delhi, July 3: Delhi High Court today set aside a lower court order convicting an Urdu newspaper jounalist on the ground that he had promoted feeling of hatred and dissatisfaction against the Government through his article 24 years ago. Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra ruled that the lower court had erred in concluding from the article that it was against the goverment. The judge said ‘’I consider...

Good salaries combined with the social prestige that comes with being part of a booming industry have made media courses some of the most sought after in the Indian capital today. Admission seekers are thronging the over 100 government and private institutes offering undergraduate and post-graduate degrees and diplomas that are seen as the first steps to striking it big in journalism. A 20 percent...