Ramesh Sippy moves SC over Sholay rights
New Delhi: Bollywood producer Ramesh Sippy today approached the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the release of the 1975 blockbuster movie ‘Sholay’’s 3D version made by his nephew Sasha over a copyright dispute. A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam, before whom the matter was mentioned for an urgent hearing by senior advocate Shyam Divan, agreed to list the case for hearing Friday. Sippy moved the apex court challenging the Bombay High Court’s order refusing to stay the release of the film which is scheduled for tomorrow.
EC hearing on SC/ST seat readjustment
New Delhi: As part of its proposal for readjustment of seats for representation of SCs and STs in Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, the Election Commission will hold a public hearing at Jhansi on Friday for any objections. The EC has proposed to reserve the Mirzapur parliamentary constituency for Scheduled Castes and dereserve Robertsganj seat in its place in Uttar Pradesh.
Security clearance for PB members ‘must’
New Delhi: The Information and Broadcasting ministry is mulling making security clearance mandatory for candidates before appointment as Prasar Bharati board members in the backdrop of sexual assault charges against Tarun Tejpal, who had been selected for the post. After the alleged assault came to light, Vice-President Hamid Ansari had asked the Ministry to immediately cancel Tejpal’s name from the list finalised for part-time members in the board. Tejpal’s name was finalised in a selection committee meeting headed by Ansari on November 19, 2013, a day before the scandal became public.
New Delhi: Senior IPS officer R R Verma has taken over as the new chief of the National Crime Records Bureau, the national repository of data of crimes and criminals. Verma, a 1978-batch officer of Bihar cadre, took over the charge yesterday after incumbent Shafi Alam retired from the post of Director General, NCRB, on December 31. Till recently, Verma was serving as Special DG in central paramilitary CISF.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to the Centre on a PIl seeking establishment of an independent regulatory authority to govern broadcast media. A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam also sought response from News Broadcasters Association, Association of Radio Operators for India and Advertising Standards Council of India. The court passed the order on a PIl filed by NGO Mediawatch India alleging that the regulatory body is needed as the Centre has failed on the content regulation front of the broadcast media.
New Delhi: The Centre has refused to share copies of reports sent to it by the Uttar Pradesh Governor and the government on Muzaffarnagar communal violence saying it would impede probe, apprehension or prosecution of offenders. In reply to an RTI query, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said that so far as the recent communal violence in Muzaffarnagar is concerned, an “incident happened in Kawal town on August 27, 2013 in which three persons were killed over alleged eve teasing of a girl which culminated into a major communal riot in Muzaffarnagar and its adjoining districts”.