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Tuesday, Jun 29, 2004

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Foreign publication: two officials transferred

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUNE 28. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry today transferred two senior-most officials of the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) in the wake of the controversy over the printing and publication of the International Herald Tribune (IHT) from India.

The RNI Press Registrar, G. D. Beliya, was transferred to the Research, Reference and Training Division as its Director. He will be replaced by the Additional Principal Information Officer at the Press Information Bureau (PIB), Deepak Sandhu. The RNI Deputy Press Registrar, Uday Morey, was transferred to the PIB as Deputy Principal Information Officer.

The RNI has been at the centre of the controversy over the printing and publication of the paper from India since the end of last month. It cleared the IHT's application to register the title. The Ministry, however, claims to have been kept in the dark and insists that the publication violated both the Cabinet Resolution of 1955 and syndication guidelines.

Over the past month, the Ministry has written to the newspaper thrice asking it to stop publication but till date it continues to be published from the Deccan Chronicle Press in Kondapur near Hyderabad by T. Venkattram Reddy on behalf of Midram Publications Private Limited.

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