The advisory says such coverages appear to be violative of the Programme Code as defined under Section 5 of the Cable Television Network (Regulation) Act, 1995
The association fears that MIB will have the unbridled power to regulate news content based on whimsical interpretation of terms like ' obscene', 'anti-national' and ' good taste' in Rules 6 and 7
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More than 500 digital news publishers and OTT platforms had furnished the requisite information under Rule 18 of the Information Technology Rules, 2021
The amendments proposed have also increased the monetary penalty amount up to fifty thousand rupees