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The press, including print, television, radio, and internet are nominally amended to express their concerns under the selected provisions such as Article-19 (which became effective from 1950), though it states freedom of "occupation, trade or business" and "freedom of speech and expression" without naming "press" in clause "a" and "g".
According to the estimates of Reporters Without Borders, India ranks 138th worldwide in press freedom index ( The press freedom index for India is 43.24 for 2018). [31] The Indian Constitution , while not mentioning the word "press", provides for "the right to freedom of speech and expression" (Article 19(1) a).
India has a score of 39 on a scale from 0 (most free) to 100 (least free), which places India 20 out of the 47 countries worldwide that were included in the 2012 report. India ranked 14 out of 37 countries in the 2011 report. India ranks third out of the eleven countries in Asia included in the 2012 report.
India is one of the world’s largest media markets. Yet despite its size and diversity, critics say the press is growing increasingly subservient to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
The Press and Registration of Periodicals Act, 2023 is an Act of Parliament of India. The bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha by Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Anurag Thakur on 1 August 2023. The bill seeks to replace the existing 156-year-old Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 legislation from colonial-era. [1]
The State List or List-II is a list of 61 items. Initially there were 66 items in the list in Schedule Seven to the Constitution of India.The legislative section is divided into three lists: the Union List, the State List and the Concurrent List.
The Dispatch (Jammu and Kashmir) currently, operates from Jammu and Kashmir and covers all the happening in the Northern States of India focusing on Kashmir. [19] Newspaper sales in the country increased by 11.22% in 2007. [20] By 2007, 62 of the world's best selling newspaper dailies were published in China, Japan, and India. [20]
This is a chronological and complete list of acts passed before 1861, by the Imperial Legislative Council between 1861 and 1947, the Constituent Assembly of India between 1947 and 1949, the Provisional Parliament between 1949 and 1952, and the Parliament of India since 1952. Apart from Finance Act, there are 890 Acts which are still in force as ...