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Policemen carry cans of spurious liquor recovered from a field at Harkhua Khajurbari village in Bihar’s Gopalganj district on August 17, 2016 after several people died after consuming hooch.
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Nine persons were awarded the death sentence and four life imprisonments on March 5, after being held guilty by a local court in Gopalganj district in the Khajurbanni hooch tragedy in which as many as 19 people had died and six had lost their eye-sight. The local court of Additional District Judge-2 of Gopalganj district held all 13 accused persons guilty in the case and awarded death sentence to nine of them and life imprisonment to four women.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar. File
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Replying to a Zero Hour mention, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said a lot of suggestions and complaints on the regulation of OTTs have been received. The government will soon issue guidelines for regulation of Over The Top (OTT) platforms that will address issues such as sensitive content, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Replying to a Zero Hour mention, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said a lot of suggestions and complaints on the regulation of OTTs have been received. “Guidelines and direction are almost ready. It will be soon be implemented,” he said in his brief submission.
He did not specify who has lodged the complaint.
Deshmukh also said the Centre should come up with a law to regulate content on the OTT platforms to ensure no caste-based discrimination or communal divide is caused due to any content available there.
The minister downplayed questions about the Uttar Pradesh Police visiting Mumbai in connection with an FIR against the web series.
He said the Maharashtra Police personnel also go outside the state to conduct probes. They (UP police) had informed us that an FIR has been registered there and they will be coming here for an investigation, he added.
The newly declassified 2018 Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific, made public by the Trump administration in its last week in office, underlines how prominently what it describes as “strategic competition between the U.S. and China” set Washington’s regional policy over the past four years, as well as President Donald Trump’s mixed record in effectively addressing that challenge.
At its meeting on textbook reforms on Wednesday, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education heard presentations from right-wing organisations and educationists, including the man at the centre of a debate on the “saffronisation” of textbooks under the Vajpayee government. They argued that Mughal history is being whitewashed in Indian textbooks, and crowding out space for history from the Vedic era.