Centre forms panel to review guidelines on television ratings

Days after an alleged TRP scam came to the fore, the Centre on Wednesday constituted a committee to review the guidelines on television rating agencies in India and asked the panel to submit its......

TRP scam: BARC pauses news channels' ratings

Following the fake Television Rating Points scam, the Broadcast Audience Research Council on Thursday announced a temporary suspension of weekly ratings of news channels across languages. The......

Ex-BARC CEO played 'vital role' in TRP scam: Court

A Mumbai court, while rejecting the bail plea of Broadcast Audience Research Council's (BARC) former CEO Partho Dasgupta, has observed that he played a 'vital role' in the alleged......

Parl panel on IT to take up 'fake TRP' issue: Sources

Amid reports of manipulations in Television Rating Points (TRP) by some channels, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, has decided......

GST: Success And The Way Forward

No longer a discretion of the tax administrator, the audit of returns filed by taxpayers is now based on a selection by algorithms, notes Tarun Bajaj, former Union revenue and economic affairs......

Increase sample size, suggests panel on TRP

The committee set up by the information and broadcasting ministry to review the television rating point system, which evaluates the popularity of television programmes, has recommended increasing......

Govt sets up panel to review TRP system

The Union ministry of information & broadcasting has constituted a committee headed by Amit Mitra, secretary general, FICCI, to review existing television rating point system (TRP) in India and......

I & B minister up in arms against TRP

Television channels may come under the government scanner, with Priyaranjan Das Munsi, Union minister for Information and Broadcasting, openly criticising the television rating point system of......

Review: The Adventures of Tintin lacks imagination

There is spectacular animation and some gorgeous staging but no heart and imagination in The Adventures of Tintin, writes Raja Sen.There is a gorgeous moment in Steven Spielberg's Tintin -- and let......

Asian Games to act as Paris Olympics qualifiers

IMAGE: As per the qualification procedure for the 2024 Paris Games laid down by the FIH, 12 teams each among men and women will participate in the Olympic Games. Photograph: Hockey India/Twitter......

Why BCCI boss Thakur is angry with former chief selector Patil

- 'Any organisation, if they hire Patil, will think 10 times that after leaving the organisation, he will  speak about the organisation.' IMAGE: BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur (right) with......

Bindra questions award of production rights to TWI

Former Board of Control for Cricket in India president I S Bindra has questioned the granting of telecast production rights for the money-spinning India-Pakistan cricket series to Trans World......

Race for Green jacket hots up at Augusta Masters

Tiger Woods appears to be unmatchable in appeal, even when he does not play well as at this year's Masters.Siddharth Shriram reports from the Augusta National Golf Club IMAGE: Tiger Woods on the......

Gavaskar seeks to up the one-day tempo

There is an irony in Sunil Gavaskar's call for a more exciting brand of one-day cricket.The opening batsman, one of the game's Test greats, was not himself an instant success in the shorter form of......