Ministry Of Information And Broadcasting  

President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignation of Arvind Sawant and has now handed over the heavy industries portfolio to Union minister Prakash Javadekar. Javadekar is already in charge of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

Union minister Prakash Javadekar said that effective steps need to be taken in ensuring that advertisements in India are not “obscene”.

The ministry of information and broadcasting has advised private satellite television channels not to represent children in inappropriate manner in dance reality shows

Talking to MyNation, Arnab Goswami said, '... the Lutyens’ media must know that I will never apologise to a harasser even if he has the backing of the Congress or of the Lutyens’ media. I will be horrified if anyone expects editors to apologise to lumpen elements who harass and molest journalists... I will say it again: a bunch of vulgar perverts attacked Shivani (Gupta).'

The ministry of information and broadcasting said, 'Whereas Tiranga TV news channel has shown the said media briefing (of Pakistan Army) for a duration of 20 minutes and 45 seconds and during which there was no intervention from the channel on the correctness or otherwise of the claims being made in the said media briefing in order to ensure that there is no violation of the aforementioned Rules'

The Cabinet last week had approved the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting's proposal for introducing the bill.