India bans faked report channel
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An Indian news channel is taken off air after broadcasting a false "sting" which led to riots and a woman being jailed.
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Today on BBC World Television, a fake Dow spokesperson announced fake plans to take full responsibility for the very real Bhopal tragedy of December 3, 1984.
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A ban on TV adverts for casinos, betting shops and online gambling will be scrapped under new rules.
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Phony Facebook profile of Bilawal Bhutto Zardawi is taken down after prank is exposed.
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(InfoWorld) - Indiaâs National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has asked U.K. broadcaster Channel Four Television to provide information from a news documentary that it plans to air Thursday evening about alleged data theft in India. Channel 4's "Dispatches" program will feature the results of a sting operation in which an undercover reporter was offered credit card information for customers of U.K. banks that have outsourced processing work to India. The men offering the information claim to have got it from staff at Indian call centers and business process outsourcing (BPO) operations, according to newspaper reports. Acting through a law firm, Nasscom has asked Channel 4 to provide it with details of the allegations it plans to air, together with evidence and any other supporting documentation, Nasscom said. It asked the broadcaster to cooperate "immediately, fully and wholeheartedlyâ with Indian authorities, to help them prosecute the alleged data thieves in India. As of late Monday in India, Channel 4 had refused to provide the information, according to Nasscom. Several sting operations by newspapers and TV channels have attempted to expose faults in the Indian call center and business process outsourcing (BPO) industries. Last year the U.K. tabloidÂ The Sun reportedÂ that its undercover reporter was sold secret information on 1,000 bank accounts by an employee of a call center in Delhi. Indian police said theyÂ could not make an arrestÂ unless a formal complaint was made by the cell centers companies involved, the banks or their customers. Some of the banks named in the report said their data had not been compromised. Nasscom's president, Kiran Karnik, accused such sting operations of goading people into committing crimes that otherwise might not have been committed. Sting operations like the one by Channel 4 sometimes go beyond uncovering wrongdoing and actually induce crimes that are then recorded and aired, he said in a statement Monday. In this case, one of the alleged criminals has said that the data he offered for sale was fake, according to Karnik. India has had its share of data theft cases, however. Earlier this year, an Indian back-office and customer support operation of the British bank HSBC Bank PLC complained that an employee had stolen confidential data, and used it to defraud 20 of the bank's customers in London to the tune of Â£233,000 ($425,000). The employee has been prosecuted by Indian police. HSBC described the incident as a one-off. Sunil Mehta, vice president of Nasscom, argued that the incidence of data theft and data privacy breaches is lower in India than in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Text of report in English by Thai newspaper The Nation website on 19 February  The Campaign for Popular Media Reform yesterday [18 February] demanded the government free Channel 11 from state control after it permitted media tycoon Sondhi Limthongkul to use the station for broadcasts.
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The BBC has been tricked into broadcasting a false report that the US company Dow Chemical admitted blame for the Bhopal disaster and set up a massive compensation fund.
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The &amp;quot;Da Vinci Code&amp;quot;, which opened to packed houses in New Delhi last weekend, has been banned in a fourth Indian state following street protests by Christians, officials said.
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The name of Court TV is getting disbarred.
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The phony Facebook profile of Bilawal Bhutto Zardawi was taken down after the prank was exposed.
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Chandigarh, Oct. 25 (PTI): The Reserve Bank of India today rubbished reports that 25 and 50 paisa coins have been withdrawn from circulation.
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China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos Â including those posted on video-sharing Web sites Â to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government.
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HONG KONG -- China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos _ including those posted on video-sharing Web sites _ to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government.
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Indian officials say exports to Iran that could be used in the country's nuclear programme have been banned.
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The BBC's international TV news channel  apologized on Friday after being duped into airing an interview  with a fake Dow Chemical spokesman who said the U.S. company  accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster.
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China's broadcasting watchdog bans all "sexually suggestive" advertising on television and radio.
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New directives ban reports that 'undermine national unity' and set fines on outlets that use unauthorized material.