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Kejriwal attacks Modi govt: Over Rs 1,000 crore spent on ads for 2-year celebrations
Agencies •Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for overexpenditure on advertisements marking the completion of the central government's two year in office.
Fine line between advertisement and bribery: Jaitley calls 'paid news' an 'aberration' in RS
Ians •Rajya Sabha members on Tuesday expressed concern over 'paid news' and decided to take up the issue for a structured debate.
Puducherry polls: Small local dailies, tabloids under scanner for paid news
Fp Archives •The EC has directed that small local newspapers and tabloids should also be scanned by State and District-level Media Certificate and Monitoring Committees
Why parl committee's paid news recommendations won't work
Fp Staff •A Parliamentary Standing committee has made a range of recommendations on how to curb 'paid' news content. But does it create more problems than solve new ones?
Election Commission proposes making paid news an electoral offence
Fp Archives •It also wants a ceiling on the campaign expenditure of political parties that is used as a ruse to pump in unlimited resources.
Goa: Congress intra-party war takes the media route
Mayabhushan •An English daily in Goa published a front-page banner story headlined ‘Sonia sacks John as GPCC president’, which the Congress denied as paid news later.
Paid news: HC stays EC show-cause notice to Cong MP Ashok Chavan
Fp Staff •The Delhi High Court on Monday stayed an Election Commission (EC) show-cause to former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan.
The Rs 16, 924 poll 'scam': Will Cong lose Ashok Chavan, Maharashtra?
Fppolitics •The first-time MP Ashok Chavan stands to lose his Lok Sabha seat, but it's the Maharashtra Congress that is the bigger loser, going into an election without Vilasrao Deshmukh, with Sushilkumar Shinde having been rejected by his home constituency and most other senior Congressmen beseiged by insecurities.
Will look into issues faced by scribes employed on contract: Javadekar
Fp Archives •Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said that he was aware of increased workload of journalists employed under the contract system.
Centre considering 100% FDI in news media, says Javadekar
Fp Archives •Currently, FDI is allowed only up to 26 percent in news and current affairs media, while 100 percent FDI is allowed in non-news media