Close X
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
ADVT 
International

Bangladesh Court Bans Use Of Indian Films Songs As Mobile Ringtones

IANS, 10 Jul, 2015 01:40 PM
    DHAKA—A Bangladeshi court today barred mobile phone users from using film songs from India and other nations in the sub-continent as ringtones or welcome tunes, in a ruling likely to affect the country’s 121 million subscribers.
     
    The High Court directed “abstention” from the use of songs and tunes from Hindi movies, Indian Bangla movies and movies from any other country in the Indian subcontinent as Value Added Services (VAS) of the mobile operators, bdnews24 online reported.
     
    The bench of justices Farah Mahbub and Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo issued the order with a rule after hearing a writ petition.
     
    Petitioner’s lawyer Mehedi Hasan Chowdhury said the court issued the rule asking as to why the use of these songs and tunes as VAS offered by mobile operators should not be declared illegal.
     
    Secretaries of culture, information, home and law ministries, BTRC chairman and all mobile operators in the country were asked to reply within four weeks, he said.
     
    Music Industries Owners Association President AKM Arifur Rahman and General Secretary SK Shahed Ali filed the writ petition in June.
     
    Following the order, Chowdhury said: “Import policy bars the import of Indian or sub-continental films to Bangladesh. That is why songs of those (films) can’t be used as welcome tune or ringtone.”
     
    The total number of mobile phone subscriptions in Bangladesh stood at over 121 million in January this year, according to data available on the website of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.

    MORE International ARTICLES

    US Lawmakers Move To Speed Up Visa Approvals For Indian Doctors

    US Lawmakers Move To Speed Up Visa Approvals For Indian Doctors
    Citing a shortage of physicians in the US, two lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan legislation to speed-up visa approval for Indian and Pakistani doctors slated to work at US hospitals.

    US Lawmakers Move To Speed Up Visa Approvals For Indian Doctors

    Over 1,800 Dead in Nepal Earthquake; Fresh Tremors Rock Delhi, Northern India

    Over 1,800 Dead in Nepal Earthquake; Fresh Tremors Rock Delhi, Northern India
    An Indian meteorological official said here the epicentre of the fresh tremors also lay in Nepal, where a powerful earthquake on Saturday killed nearly 2,000 people.

    Over 1,800 Dead in Nepal Earthquake; Fresh Tremors Rock Delhi, Northern India

    155 Killed As 7.9 Earthquake Rocks Nepal, Shakes India

    155 Killed As 7.9 Earthquake Rocks Nepal, Shakes India
    At least 155 people were killed and many were left bloodied when a massive earthquake shook Nepal and India, causing widespread devastation. Buildings collapsed, roads cracked and phone lines snapped as the earth trembled.

    155 Killed As 7.9 Earthquake Rocks Nepal, Shakes India

    Islamic State Kills 10 People, Shoots Down Plane In Syria

    Islamic State Kills 10 People, Shoots Down Plane In Syria
    Islamic State (IS) militants killed 10 people, many of them Kurds, in northern Syria on Friday and shot down a military aircraft in the south of the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, or SOHR, reported.

    Islamic State Kills 10 People, Shoots Down Plane In Syria

    P.E.I. Doctor Rescues Disabled Man Who Fell Onto Subway Tracks In Washington

    P.E.I. Doctor Rescues Disabled Man Who Fell Onto Subway Tracks In Washington
    A Charlottetown doctor says he didn't hesitate because there was no time to waste when he jumped from a subway platform in Washington, D.C., earlier this week to rescue a disabled man whose wheelchair had toppled onto the tracks.

    P.E.I. Doctor Rescues Disabled Man Who Fell Onto Subway Tracks In Washington

    'America's Doctor' Vivek Murthy Recounts 'Improbable Rise'

    'America's Doctor' Vivek Murthy Recounts 'Improbable Rise'
    Son of Indian immigrant parents, Dr. Vivek Murthy says his rise to the position of "America's Doctor" was improbable but he got where he was by standing on principle.

    'America's Doctor' Vivek Murthy Recounts 'Improbable Rise'