I&B Ministry awarded for comprehensive web presence

The award was conferred by Minister for Communications and Information Technology and received by Joint Secretary R Jay along with the New Media Wing team of the Ministry, on behalf of I&B Secretary Bimal Julka, a statement released here said.

The award was presented to I&B Ministry for having a significant presence on all social media sites which makes it accessible for users through multiple online platforms, the statement added.

Web Ratna Awards, instituted by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, acknowledge unique initiatives or practices of various states and UTs in the realm of e-governance.

These awards were instituted in the year 2009, the statement added.

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TV channels asked to restrict live coverage of anti-terror operations

In its advisory issued on Saturday, the I&B ministry said that it has in the past issued advisories to TV channels in the interest of national security to not focus on or report location strength, movement, strategy and other related operations followed by security forces engaging with terrorists to avoid any adverse impact on the operations.
  
"Whereas it has again come to the notice of this ministry that some TV channels have covered live ongoing anti-terrorist operations on 20.03.2015," the advisory issued by the ministry to broadcasters said.
  
The ministry's advisory has been issued on a day when a 'fidayeen' squad of militants in Army fatigues stormed a police station in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, killing three security personnel and leaving 11 others, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police injured, early on Saturday.
  
Two terrorists were also killed in the subsequent encounter with security forces that ended around noon.
  
The ministry's advisory asked all TV channels to safeguard innocent lives and to ensure that no operations linked information reaches terrorists and their handlers.
  
It said that in the interest of national security live coverage of counter terrorism operations by security forces should not be telecast.
  
"The media coverage may be restricted to periodic briefing by an earmarked official till the operation concludes," the Ministry said while also referring to the relevant guidelines under the Cable TV (Regulation) Act and rules.

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