Over the last three years, 73 complaints regarding obscene and vulgar advertisements on private television channels have been lodged with r...

Indian telecom operators requested Trai to bring OTT apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram under the new Telecommunication Act's licensi...

Two of India’s leading over-the-top (OTT) industry lobby groups have told the government that their OTT platforms are ensuring compliance w...

Currently, OTT platforms have more liberty over their screening practices in the absence of censorship, because it only requires them to co...

Earlier, Thakur had said that 95% of the complaints received by the OTT platforms are settled at the first level of the three-level grievan...

While tech giant Meta (which owns Facebook and WhatsApp) and microblogging site Twitter have been pushing for a self-regulated grievance ap...

The government last year banned a number of Chinese apps, including TikTok, PUBG and AliExpress for being prejudicial to the sovereignty, i...

Several petitions challenging the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, are pendi...

IAMAI said that the GRB will address content grievances pertaining to any of the DPCGC member’s video streaming services. It will function ...

ET first reported on Wednesday that IAMAI had notified the ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) that they were in the process of ...

India tightened its grip on social media firms such as Facebook and Twitter. The rules, called the "Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Med...

Members have asked for time to implement the new rules as it will require opening up the technical architecture of the OTT platforms as wel...

"Had a fruitful meeting with representatives from OTT industry and explained the provisions of the OTT rules. All representatives have welc...

In an office memorandum on Monday, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry said that it had announced on February 25 the Information Tech...

The government has fixed fifty lakh registered users as the threshold for defining 'significant social media intermediary', which will have...

“Most of the OTT (over-the-top) services should not have any problems with self-classification or putting systems in place,” said a senior ...

Streaming platforms would be required to implement parental locks for content classified as U/A 13+ or higher, and reliable age-verificatio...