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- TRAI to regulate corporate control of media
- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is all set to recommend the creation of an ‘institutional buffer between corporate owners and newspaper management’ to the government.
- TRAI, which is also the regulator for the broadcasting industry, will also suggest ways to restrict cross-media ownership in line with practices in ‘most other established democracies.
- recommendations would be based on the principle that corporate ownership of media must be separated from editorial management, as “the media serves public interest”.
- Mr. Khullar plans to recommend a special organisational structure in which the corporate owner — who may have multifarious business interests — would have only a financial interest in the company, restricted to owning of shares. The editorial operations would be done under a different structure where the corporate owner would have little say
- India china to expand collaboration films
- In a bid to enable their people to access each other’s popular culture, India and China have decided to expand their collaboration in the realm of films through festivals, exchange of artistes and students and joint productions. But practical constraints remain.
- As a Chinese film festival got underway here on Tuesday, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari and his visiting Chinese counterpart, Cai Fuchao, decided to take steps to deepen the ‘people-to-people relationship’ between the two countries.
- India has invited China to be the principal guest country at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa next year. It also requested China to send classical films for the festival later this year These provided legal frameworks for ‘private, quasi-government or government agencies’ to enter into contracts to produce films together
- Article on Manmohan's concern about the 13th amendment act.
- Allopaths up in arms against health ministry's proposal
- Allopathic doctors across the country have raised serious objection and apprehension over the latest move of the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry which has suggested that doctors under the Indian System of Medicine (ISM) should be allowed to practice modern medicine.
- He further noted that the Department of Ayush has taken an in-principal approval to empower ISM qualified doctors to practice modern system of medicine in a limited way and constituted a committee to examine the issue.
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