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Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023

The Central Government has notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guideline and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023. This notification was issued on 6th April, 2023 and are effective from that same date. These Amendment Rules amend the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. They …

Picture imperfect

AT ITS inception in the 1830s, the photograph was regarded "the pencil of nature'. Photographic images were perceived as direct and unmediated transcriptions of reality. Those were the halcyon days of positivism

Children, adolescents, and advertising

Advertising is a pervasive influence on children and adolescents. Young people view more than 40 000 ads per year on television alone and increasingly are being exposed to advertising on the Internet, in magazines, and in schools. This exposure may contribute significantly to childhood and adolescent obesity, poor nutrition, and …

NEWS SNIPPETS

• Animal rights activists are up in arms over a Halloween contest in New York which offers customers free entry if they eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has denounced the contest. "Insects do not deserve to be eaten alive for …

ONLINE

www.sweatshopwatch.org Chinese checker Since the elimination of global garment and textile quotas on January 1, 2005, analysts have predicted that China will dominate global garment production. However, the question emerges: are Chinese workers "winning' or how much are multinational corporations profiting at their expenses? What are working conditions and wages …

A sick media

in 2004, the British medical journal Lancet published a study conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University of Nursing, usa and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, Iraq. More than a hundred thousand Iraqis had died due to war-related causes in the year following the invasion of their country …

NEWS SNIPPETS

• Footage of Australian naturalist Steve Irwin's death will never be broadcast, his widow Terri has said in her first interview since his death in early September. "What purpose would that serve?' she asked presenter Barbara Walters in an interview with US programme 20/20. "Crocodile Hunter' Irwin was killed by …

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