India 2018

436 India 2018
European Pressphoto Agency and Reuters. Its Graphics Service distributes
five or six graphics every day.
NAM News Network
www.namnewsnetwork.org
NAM News Network (NNN) is the internet-based news and photo exchange
arrangement of the news agencies belonging to member countries of the
nonaligned movement. News and photo contributions of NAM news agencies
including Press Trust of India are uploaded onto the NNN website http:/
www.namnewsnetwork.org for online access by all. Malaysian news agency
Bernama is at present handling the operation of the website from Kuala
Lumpur.
Formally launched in April 2006, NNN replaces the Non-aligned News
Agencies Pool (NANAP) which had acted as the news exchange mechanism
among non-aligned countries for 30 years. With internet a cheap and reliable
mode of communication, NNN contributes to sustained flow of information
in the 116 member non-aligned world. NANAP, set up in 1976, was the first
attempt of the non-aligned movement to provide for exchange of news
among its member countries. At a time when communication costs were
very high, NANAP provided for sharing of communication channels of
member news agencies to ensure a common network for exchange of news
among all countries of the non-aligned movement.
Press Council of India
www.presscouncil.nic.in
The Press Council of India is a statutory quasi-judicial autonomous authority
mandated by the Parliament for the twin objective of preserving the freedom
of the press and maintaining and improving the standards of newspapers
and the news agencies in India exercising equal quasi-judicial functions over
the authorities as well the press person. It comprises of a Chairman and 28
members. While the Chairman has, by convention, been a sitting or retired
judge of the Supreme Court of India, of the 28 members, 20 represent
various segments of the Press and eight overseeing the readers’ interest, are
representatives of the two Houses of Parliament (3 Lok Sabha and 2 Rajya
Sabha) and premier literary and legal bodies of the country i.e. University
Grants Commission, Bar Council of India and Sahitya Akademi. The Council
has its own funds for performance of its functions under the Act that
comprises the fee collected by it from newspapers, other receipts and also
Grants in-Aid by from the Central Government.
The Council is presently chaired by Mr. Justice Chandramauli Kumar
Prasad. For the financial year 2015-16, the Council has a total sanctioned
budget of ` 663 lakhs. The Council discharges its functions primarily
through adjudications on complaint cases received by it, either against the
Press for violation of journalistic ethics or by the Press for interference with