Newspapers In India

Reddy succeeds Mohit Jain of the Economic Times at INS, the apex body of publishers of newspapers, magazines and periodicals in the country

The govt will propose the Registration of Press and Periodicals Bill, 2019 with the changes before the Union Cabinet soon, says a media report

According to Siddaramaiah, the tax on printing paper for RNI registered agencies before GST implementation was at three per cent, and it was increased to five per cent under GST system

According to INS, news media houses are completely kept in the dark on the total advertising revenue collected by Google

The CBI has booked unnamed government officials and three individuals for empanelling their newspapers for government advertisement on the basis of forged documents

The survey also said amid the pandemic, legacy print brands and government broadcasters, DD News (Doo­rdarshan) and All India Radio, retained high levels of trust among consumers in India

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Friday

The pathetic state of India's news media - particularly news TV - leaves it at the mercy of international media and a few Indian brands that have the capacity to cover a story like the pandemic

INS has said that news websites of traditional papers follow the same stringent guidelines for publication as followed by newspapers, and should be exempt from the new IT Rules

The commerce ministry's investigation arm DGTR has recommended the imposition of antidumping duty on newsprint

HT Media reported 54.08 per cent fall in consolidated net profit at Rs 9.43 crore for the quarter ended December 31

Newsprint cost has jumped in the last three months due to demand-supply imbalance post pandemic

Lionel Barber, the former editor of the Financial Times, London, from 2005-2020, spoke of all these and more in an interview podcast on the Indian Journalism Review

The company had posted a profit after tax of Rs 65.75 crore during the April-June period a year ago, Jagran Prakashan Ltd (JPL) said in a BSE filing.

Parthasarathy was co-chairperson of The Hindu Group of Publications and editor of The Hindu newspaper from 2013 to 2016

The state said that newspapers are not an essential item and hence prohibition on its doorstep distribution cannot be said to be infringing upon any fundamental rights

The curb will be in force only in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and Pune city, both Covid-19 hotspots

History is replete with examples of states reserving wide powers to themselves during an emergency - only to not give up the powers even when the crisis receded

He said some housing societies have not allowed newspaper vendors to enter

Naidu stressed that if a newspaper is run by a political party, it should clearly mention so