After Signal chat leak row, Pete Hegseth faces another legal trouble as Pentagon school students sue him: 10 pointsUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing a fresh legal trouble after Pentagon school students have filed a lawsuit against him over book...
16 Apr, 2025, 06.50 PM IST
HC asks Netflix to stop screening Indrani Mukerjea's series, CBI says it may affect investigationThe Bombay High Court has requested a stop in the screening of the series "The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth" and requested Netflix ...
22 Feb, 2024, 12.58 PM IST
'Obscenity in TV shows bad for society': HC issues notice to govts, agencies on PIL against Big BossThe Andhra Pradesh High Court has issued notices to Star Maa Television, Endemol India, CBFC, the state and central governments, and actor ...
27 Jul, 2023, 02.18 PM IST
China's search engines have more than 66,000 rules controlling content: reportThe most diligent censor, by at least one measure, is Microsoft's search engine Bing, the only foreign search engine operating in the count...
27 Apr, 2023, 09.51 AM IST
Even now, questions are being raised on civil liberties and freedom of expression: Amitabh Bachchan at KIFFDuring the speech Amitabh said, "The 1952 cinematograph act set out the stricter of censorship as it stands today upheld by the film certif...
16 Dec, 2022, 01.00 PM IST
Delhi HC calls Mehul Choksi's plea to pre-screen 'Bad Boy Billionaires' an academic exerciseThe court said there was no urgency in the matter, the view supported by Netflix.
14 Jan, 2021, 01.37 PM IST
Choksi plea to pre-screen Netflix series academic exercise, says Delhi High CourtSenior advocate Neeraj Kishan Kaul, appearing for Netflix, said there was only a two-minute reference to Choksi, as the uncle of Nirav Modi...
13 Jan, 2021, 07.43 PM IST
Amazon opposes voluntary censorship code move mooted by industryAmazon will not walk out of the discussions, though, and will continue to engage with its peers, the people said.
12 Sep, 2018, 01.02 PM IST
Karnataka elections 2018: EC explores mandatory approval for print advertisementsEC has asked its special committee to also examine possibilities of pre-certifying print newspaper advertisements during the model code per...
08 May, 2018, 11.29 PM IST
Is pre-censorship of films useless in internet era, asks Supreme CourtA bench decided to hear a PIL filed by veteran actor and director Amol Palekar, challenging the constitutional validity of Section 4(1)(iii...
18 Apr, 2017, 01.35 PM IST
Supreme Court asks Google, Yahoo, Microsoft to prohibit ads on sex-determination testsA citizen has a right to access to internet. We are on a concept of pre-censorship. Court has to be very cautious, a bench led by Justice D...
14 Apr, 2017, 02.24 AM IST
Now you can file police complaint over racy condom adsThe only ads pre-screened are relating to cigarettes, tobacco and alcohol, other ads, whether in print or TV or cable, are a voluntary code...
01 Jul, 2016, 11.18 AM IST
Internet lacks regulatory mechanism, curbs needed: Centre to Supreme CourtCentre told SC that absence of any regulatory mechanism in cyber world demands higher level of restrictions to put checks and balances on s...
25 Feb, 2015, 10.41 PM IST
Political advertisement on autos: High Court reserves judgementDelhi government's standing counsel Zubeda Begum told the court that it cannot remove the word "political" from its recent guidelines.
19 Sep, 2014, 08.12 PM IST
Election Commission to monitor conduct of political parties on Facebook, Twitter and GoogleThe Election Commission, which summoned the social media companies to a meeting last Monday, directed them to cooperate in monitoring conte...
25 Nov, 2013, 10.29 AM IST
- Hackers target MTNL, call protests in 6 cities
The virtual gheraoing of official websites went up a notch on Wednesday, with online hackers Anonymous claiming to have taken down the Maha...
07 Jun, 2012, 07.52 AM IST
- Government faceoff brewing with Facebook, others
Tension is brewing once again between the government and internet and social media companies over the telecom and IT ministry's demands to ...
06 Dec, 2011, 06.25 AM IST