Documents lay bare how efforts by prominent legacy media organizations fed into the government’s eagerness to control digital news media.
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Experts are of the opinion that eliminating the need for NCLT approval could ease the repatriation process for these startups, though taxation remains an issue.
Last week, Union minister Piyush Goyal said that ecommerce was a threat to the very existence of small retailers. But, over the years, these mom-and-pop stores have weathered many a storm.
A breakdown of the government’s expenditure on ads shows a clear shift away from newspapers and broadcasters over the years to social media and its own online publicity arm.