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    Indian broadcasters rally behind WAVES 2025 after initial reservations

    • 14.04.2025
    • BestMediaInfo

    Direct interventions from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw galvanise support from Indian M&E players

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    EU eyes taxes on Meta, Google as leverage against Trump’s tariffs

    • 14.04.2025
    • BestMediaInfo

    The move comes as Trump’s 20% tariffs on EU goods, announced on April 2, threaten to disrupt transatlantic trade, prompting the EU to pause its retaliatory measures for 90 days to seek a “balanced” deal

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    As top stars fail to deliver, theatres may have to rationalize ticket prices

    • 14.04.2025
    • Mint

    Theatres are re-evaluating ticket prices as star power no longer ensures box office success.

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    Maharashtra, MIB to sign MoU for 240 acre creative hub development in Mumbai

    • 12.04.2025
    • StoryBoard18

    This ambitious project follows the announcement of the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) at Dadasaheb Phalke Film City in Goregaon.

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    JioStar vice-chair Uday Shankar on surge in streaming subs, trade tariff challenges

    • 12.04.2025
    • Indian Broadcasting World

    JioStar Vice Chairman, Uday Shankar, says the group’s streaming platform JioHotstar has reached 200 million paying subscribers in India just months after its launch, a Bloomberg interview has stated.

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    Ashwini Vaishnaw calls to harmonise Aadhaar Law with DPDP Act

    • 11.04.2025
    • Medianama

    At the Aadhaar Samvaad event held in Delhi, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw underscored the government’s push to modernise digital identity governance by aligning the Aadhaar framework with India’s recently passed Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act, 2023).

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    Public disclosures under RTI will continue despite new data law: Ashwini Vaishnaw

    • 11.04.2025
    • Best Media Info

    The minister came up with the clarification through a post on a social media platform in response to opposition Congress leader Jairam Ramesh's letter seeking "to pause, review and repeal" section 44(3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023

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    China curbs Hollywood films’ imports in US tariff war

    • 11.04.2025
    • Indian Broadcasting World

    China said yesterday it would immediately restrict imports of Hollywood films in retaliation for President Donald Trump‘s escalation of US tariffs on imported Chinese goods, though analysts say the impact is likely to be minimal.

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    LG research: viewers keen to spend and shop through the connected TV screen

    • 11.04.2025
    • Indian Television

    American couch potatoes poised to shop without getting up, and advertisers are taking notice.

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    INDIA Alliance Urges Repeal of DPDP Act’s Section 44(3) Over RTI Concerns

    • 11.04.2025
    • Medianama

    Around 120 members of the INDIA Alliance wrote a letter to Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Ashwini Vaishnaw, asking the government to repeal the provisions that go against the RTI Act in the name of privacy protection.

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