News time Assam banned for 1 day (off air on 9th November)

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After NDTV India, Assam channel to be taken off air for a day over ‘violations’


After NDTV India, the government has ordered that an Assam-based television news channel be taken off air for a day following the recommendations of a high-level panel that felt the channel had “violated” programming guidelines on more than one occasion.

An information and broadcasting ministry order dated November 2 has sought that the channel, ‘News Time Assam’, be taken off air on November 9.

 

[Vicky]

[font=Georgia,]Assam-based channel too banned for a day[/font]

[font=Georgia,]An I&B Ministry order dated November 2, has sought that the channel ‘News Time Assam,’ be taken off air on November 9.
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[font=Georgia,]After NDTV India, the government has ordered that an Assam-based news channel be taken off air for a day, following the recommendations of a high- level panel which felt it had “violated” guidelines on more than one occasion.[/font]

[font=Georgia,]An I&B Ministry order dated November 2, has sought that the channel ‘News Time Assam,’ be taken off air on November 9.[/font]

[font=Georgia,]One of the allegations against the channel is that it revealed the identity of a minor who had been brutally tortured while working as a domestic help. Observing that the visuals telecast by the channel appeared to compromise the privacy and dignity of the child, while also exposing him to harm and stigma, a showcause notice was issued to the channel in October 2013.[/font]

[font=Georgia,]Having listened to the channel’s version, the Inter Ministerial Committee which looked into the matter felt that the channel may be taken off air for a day. According to the order, the matter was reconsidered as some other channels had also shown similar content for which they had been issued warnings, but the IMC looked at all the circumstances and again recommended taking it off air for a day.[/font]

[font=Georgia,]The same order also lists two other cases of alleged violations by the channel which were considered by the IMC.[/font]

[font=Georgia,]One of them related to telecast of gory visuals of bodies for which a recommendation was made to take off the channel for a day.[/font]

[font=Georgia,]In another case the channel telecast a programme which appeared defamatory towards women and was in bad taste. The IMC had asked the channel to run an apology scroll but since it did not comply, in this regard, taking it off air for a day was recommended.[/font]

[font=Georgia,]Assam-based channel too banned for a day - The Hindu[/font]

 

[Sarkar]

Vicky bro your post is not showing in dark mode. Plz see it
http://dreamdth.com/showthread.php?tid=135529

 

[Thakur]

The Indian government continues with its caning of TV news channels. After NDTV India, it is now the turn of Pratidin Time or News Time Assam to be told to go off air on the powers-that-be’s favourite date 9 November for gross and multiple programming code violations. Pratidin Time has been accused of revealing the identity of a minor victim, showing images of mutilated bodies, and making derogatory statements about women in shows.



The violation that has been gravely objected to is the one relating to a minor boy for which the day-long ban is being issued. The ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) issued an order dated 2 November saying that the channel revealed the identity of a minor who was brutally tortured while working as a domestic servant, thus compromising his privacy and dignity and exposing him to harm and stigma.

A high level inter-ministerial committee (IMC) took the decision to compel the channel to turn off its signals for a day after hearing its defence.

The MIB says that Pratidin Time has time and again being showing images of bodies of dead victims. It has also not being complying with earlier MIB orders which asked it to apologize for airing a show which appeared to be derogatory towards women.

The MIB in its current order has stated that Pratidin Time that all the three cases will be covered under the one day ban. It has further explained that under the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, it "orders to prohibit the transmission or retransmission of News Time Assam TV channel for one day on any platform throughout India with effect from 00:01 hours on 9th November, 2016 till 00:01 hours on 10th November, 2016."

Assamese news channel Pratidin Time banned for one day, once again | Indian Television Dot Com

 

[im_dude]

Care World tv is also banned for a week.

 

[Shantanu]

Care World tv is also banned for a week.

Why?