India bans Fashion TV for 'Midnight Hot' show

New Delhi, Mar 29 (UNI) FTV today became the second foreign channel to be banned by India in the last few months.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the programmes teleacst by the channel were ''against good taste and decency, and denigrated women''. Such shows were likely to adversely affect public morality, it said The transmission or re-transmission of this Channel on all platforms has been prohibited with effect from April 1 to May 30 under Sub-Section (2) of Section 20 of the Cable Television Networks Regulation Act, 1995.

The Ministry especially mentioned FTV programmes like the 'Midnight Hot' in which ''skimpily dressed and semi naked models are shown that are against good taste and decency, and which denigrate women.'' In the recent past foreigh TV channel AXN had been banned for its programme 'The World's Sexiest Advertisements'. The ban was, however, lifted after the channel apologised to the government.

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