MUMBAI: The ninth edition of International Radio Festival (IRF) will be held from 29 October to 4 November 2018. This radio galore will be held at Valetta, Malta, which is Europe’s cultural capital for 2018.Having the niche of being the world’s first and sole conference, IRF’s first outing was at Z...
NEW DELHI: Senior Indian Administrative Service officer Ajay Mittal is to take over as Secretary in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.
He will succeed Sunil Arora, who is retiring on 30 April 2016.
Mittal, a 1982 batch officer, is currently based in his home cadre state Himachal Pradesh. Arora is an IAS officer from Rajasthan from the 1980 batch.
Arora joined the ministry on 31 August last year just as the ministry was making preparations for the Digital Addressable System Phase III and was in the midst of the Phase III auctions of FM Radio.
His successor will have the onerous task of overseeing the implementation of the last phase in DAS which will cover all remaining urban and all rural areas of the country.
Born on 24 February 1958, Mittal is a law graduate and also has a masters degree in rural development.
His first posting was as principal secretary to the then chief minister of Himachal Pradesh and in the Information and Public Relations wing in the state.
Mittal was empanelled as Secretary in December last year when he was Additional Chief Secretary, Transport, Social Justice and Empowerment Department, Shimla.
MUMBAI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting have gone onto sending an advisory to all private satellite TV channels asking them to be cautious about content that may encourage or incite violence or contains anything against the maintenance of law and order or which promote anti-national
MUMBAI: Today, Indian Performing Right Society Limited (“IPRS”) and Dataclef are pleased to announce a significant expansion of their services agreement, growing their business relationship from claiming and reports processing to comprehensive back office and rights management services including
MUMBAI: Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL), India’s largest collective rights management organization, has been monetizing Muzik 247’s public performance rights and radio rights across India since 2013.
