The Central Government has notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guideline and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023. This notification was issued on 6th April, 2023 and are effective from that same date. These Amendment Rules amend the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. They …
The uk's Committee for Advertising Practice (cap) on April 11 decided to widen restrictions on food and drink advertising which are targeting under-16-year-olds. The new rules will cover non-broadcast media also. The new restrictions state that products should not "condone or encourage poor nutritional habits or an unhealthy lifestyle in …
The uk's government-funded Carbon Trust has launched a carbon reduction labelling scheme for consumer products. The label on the product will detail the amount of carbon emitted during its production. This will help companies make commitments to reducing the carbon impact of their product. Products with the label will face …
any inkling of danger to Indians in other parts of the world is often enough to send the country's media into a panic overdrive. Sometimes understandably so. Most non-resident Indians retain family ties, and the media could justifiably argue that it is duty-bound to report their well-being
A report by human rights watchdog Amnesty International released on March 29, unveils the sinister role that global Internet service providers have played in China to help the government curb freedom of expression. The report, "Undermining Freedom of Expression in China: The role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google', says these …
Here's bad news for Coca-Cola, from Bolivia this time. The soft drink giant may have to drop the word coca from its brands, if Bolivia's coca leaf farmers have their way. The peasants have said that the leaf is part of Bolivia's cultural heritage and the name needs protection. They …
Cambridge University has published the diaries of Emma Wedgewood Darwin, the wife of eminent evolutionist Charles Darwin. The diaries documenting Darwins' six decades of family life add to an online collection of Darwin's works, journals, field notes and images. Emma's notes add a different aspect of Darwin's life. "Across decades …
Readership surveys in India are becoming controversial. The Indian Newspaper Society (ins), for example, has decided to conduct surveys challenging the Indian Readership Survey (irs) by the Media Research Users Council. The latter claimed newspaper readership is declining in India. ins cites increasing sales figures to counter this. Figures of …
On March 28, Greenpeace activists beamed huge slides on to the cooling tower of the National Thermal Power Corporation Plant at Dadri, to spread a message on climate change. "Stop Climate Change-Energy (r)evolution now!', read the slides. The giant coal-based power plant is located in Uttar Pradesh's Gautambudhnagar. It uses …
Acting together http://www.OneClimate.net The uk chapter of the OneWorld Network has launched an interactive website on climate change. Designed as an online platform, the portal allows people to create their own space on web and interact on climate change issues. Users can post pictures, videos, reports and podcasts. "It's our …
An open-access portal to provide information about climate change will soon hit cyberspace. Climate experts who attended a workshop on community-based adaptation to climate change in Dhaka in February came to an agreement to launch the portal. The aim is to share ideas, said Saleemul Huq, director of the climate …
>> Viacom on March 13 slapped a billion-dollar lawsuit against Google and its affiliate YouTube in New York. It accuses the video-sharing website of massive copyright infringement. It alleges that almost 160,000 unauthorised clips of Viacom's programmes are available on YouTube, which recently said it would remove more than 100,000 …
Sports and fashion magazines in the us are into serious issues now. Sports Illustrated, ELLE, Outside Magazine and The Atlantic Monthly are coming up with features on climate change. The cover of Sports Illustrated's March 12 issue tells sports buffs how a warming world will change the state of play.
India's first radio station on disaster management will be on air in a few months. Kalanjiam, a community radio network will begin broadcast from Chennai. The radio station will have programmes produced from Vizhundhamavadi, a coastal village in Nagapattinam district
India's Tsunami Early-Warning System in the Indian Ocean is close to completion, but authorities are clueless about how to circulate alerts. An interim system has been in place since July 2005 and the new information network got commissioned in October 2005. The National Disaster Management (ndm), which looks after the …
