Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity spent about Rs 1,286 crore in 2016-17: GovernmentThe DAVP is the nodal agency to undertake multi-media advertising and publicity for various ministries and departments of the government.
No government ads for magazine set up by Deendayal UpadhyayaAccording to the I&B ministry, the publications has not been submitting its monthly copies to the DAVP since October last year, which is wh...
Rich 'fleecing' banks, poor forced to commit suicide: Varun GandhiGandhi also said that people did not know the thoughts of today’s top leaders on key issues as winning elections had become the sole criter...
Modi government spent over Rs 35 crore to advertise achievementsRTI activist Anil Galgali had sought information on expenses incurred by the Centre for publishing advertisements in leading newspapers acr...
Centre spent Rs 8 crore on PM Narendra Modi's open letter on government's 1st anniversaryThe advertisements were created by the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP), a department under the I&B ministry.
Centre giving special attention to North East through Act East policy: Harsimrat Kaur BadalThe Centre, she added, has proposed to set up six agricultural universities and upgradation of power transmission in the North-East.
Narendra Modi government may withhold ads to Jammu and Kashmir papersAn analysis carried out by security agencies have indicated that these papers, Urdu and English, have been taking an anti-India stand in th...
UPA Govt's 'Bharat Nirman' campaign to be winded upUPA government has decided to bring to an end its high profile multi-media 'Bharat Nirman' publicity campaign.
New government policy on advertising in digital cinema halls soonInformation and Broadcasting Ministry is set to launch a policy for advertisements on digital cinema halls soon, I&B Secretary Bimal Julka ...
Government hikes DAVP ad rates for print mediaThe government has hiked by 19 percent the rates at which the Department of Audio Visual Publicity (DAVP) releases its advertisements to ne...
- I&B ministry holds live Twitter conference on community radio
"Why not have gramsabha meeting on Commradio?" a twitterati who goes by the name Rajshri wanted to know from the ministry officials.
- Shortage of staff in Prasar Bharati affecting its functioning
There are nearly 8,469 vacancies in AIR and 5,753 posts vacant in Doordarshan and the shortage of staff was affecting the functioning of Pr...
- No unanimity on increasing FDI in print media, says Ambika Soni
Government said there was no unanimity on increasing FDI in the print media from the existing 26 per cent.
- Expert panel in the process of finalising DAVP ad rates: Ambika Soni
An expert committee is in the process of finalising latest DAVP advertisement rates for newspapers, I&B Minister Ambika Soni said.
- Ad featuring former Pak air chief cost Govt Rs 11 lakh
The controversial advertisement featuring former Pakistani Air chief was among four ads released to a newspaper to commemorate National Gir...
- Govt to come up with liberal ad policy for small papers
With a view to helping small and medium newspapers, the government is planning to liberalise its policy of releasing advertisements to thes...
- Kerala advertisers criticise new policy of I&B Ministry
The Kerala Advertising Association criticised the new policy announced by Information and Broadcasting ministry.