Passage 1
Raising concerns about the proposed Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023, the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), has said, in a submission to the Information & Broadcasting Ministry, that the Bill may potentially result in control and over-regulation of the broadcast and digital media.
The NWMI urged the government to refrain from going ahead with the Bill without holding exhaustive consultations with all stakeholders. It warned that the Bill could drastically alter the media landscape in the country.
In a statement, the NWMI said that it had made a detailed submission to the Union government regarding the proposed Bill that was recently published by the Ministry for the purpose of receiving feedback from the public and stakeholders.
Source – https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/
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Passage 2
India and France have announced a “defence industrial roadmap” for cooperation on defence production, for future collaboration on “co-design and co-development” of military hardware, as well as key agreements on space cooperation, officials said. The roadmap was part of a number of agreements between the two countries that were sealed during talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron in Jaipur on January 25, that will also bring some parity with the India-U.S. defence production plan finalised last year.
However, differences over some of the language on the roadmap held up a “joint statement” between them for several hours on January 26 before it was released.Mr. Macron was in Delhi as part of a short 30-hour visit to India, and was accompanied by a delegation of 40 officials, including his new Minister for Foreign Affairs Stéphane Séjourné, and Ministers of Defence and Culture.
Source- https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/
