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Set top boxes, pay channels and free channels
In foreign countries, pay channels are free from advertisements. But in our country pay channels do carry advertisements. India being a huge market place, the earnings of broadcasters through advertisements on satellite channels are ever increasing. Once a suitable amendment is made to bar advertisements in the transmission of pay channels, all the broadcasters will be compelled to declare all their channels as free to air channels.
Mandir-Masjid imbroglio
IN HIS article (Open page, June 3), P. Govindarajan has tried to give a very different perspective on the Babri Masjid dispute, which does not make us any wiser. Neither does it bring us any closer to the solution. His stand that the dispute ...
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