• Terrestrial free to air or encrypted television
• Satellite television (encrypted or free to air)
• Cable Television
• Direct Broadcast by Satellite Television (encrypted or free to air) i. e. DTH.
• Radio and Internet rights.
• Direct to home television rights.
• In flight home video, video cassettes, video discs, laser disc, optic disc, DVD, CD interative, CD-run, Pay per-view.
• Two way television and multi-media (any form) rights.
• All other broadcast medium including non-theatrical exhibition and close circuit transmission rights and video on demand.

    Prasar Bharati will also have exclusive rights on all the domestic matches including Ranji Trophy, Deodhar Trophy etc.
 
 

    As a first major step towards its goal, the NBRC is organising a three-day international colloquium on brain research, in New Delhi. It will be attended by over 200 delegates from about 13 countries abroad including USA, Canada, U.K. and Japan. The Conference will be inaugurated by noted scientist Prof. M.G.K. Menon tomorrow and theMinister for Science and Technology and HRD Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi will deliver a special address on CONSCIOUSNESS.  The human brain is the most sensitive and complicated single entity in our universe. One of the major challenges facing scientists in the new millenium will be to understand how the human brain works and what goes wrong when it is injured or diseased. The challenge is so enormous that it is often referred to as the last frontier in biology. Though great advances have been made in neurosciences in this decade, declared internationally as the decade of the brain, it is still to be realised the enormity of what is yet to be understood.
 
 

    Speaking on the occasion, Shri Jethmalani congratulated the recipients of certificate and hoped that they would maintain standards of excellence in legislative drafting as all problems of interpretation of legislation and other documents arose out of defective drafting. In this connection, the Law Minister stressed the importance of legal drafting maintaining that it was so important that if properly done, it would reduce litigation by 50 per cent.

    The Institute of Legislative Drafting and Research was established formally in 1989 though its origin could be traced back to the year 1902 when the system of providing attachment to various officials from the Provinces was introduced in the Legislative Department.

    The Legislative Department is one of the oldest Departments of the Government of India set up in 1869.
 
 
 

    The Minister has said that blood donation is a gift of life and it helps a family to survive and many a time save a life, in his message given here today marking the occasion of VOLUNTARY BLOOD DONATION DAY on 1^st October,1999.

    The blood collection system of the Government hospital is fully safe. The blood bags and needles are used only once and then are destroyed. At the time of the blood donation, only about 300ml. of blood could be donated by a donor, that too, after a mini-health check up. A normal healthy person between 18-60 years of age can donate blood four times a year. Blood donation is good to the body as well since it makes up for the donated blood volume in 24 hours.

    The Minister underlined the need for a steady supply of blood to avoid any death for want of blood. The overwhelming response for the blood donation shown during the recent Kargil crisis should be sustained for ever.
 
 

    The Institute is a subordinate body under the control of Union Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. Recently the mandate of the Institute had been enlarged to cover areas of concern to older persons.
 
 
 
 

    Under the project, a total grant assistance of C$ 8.6 Million (approximately Rs.25 crore) in the form of technical assistance and training would be extended by Canadian International Development Agency, an agency of Government of Canada. The reciprocal Indian contribution for this Technical Cooperation Project would be extended in kind, estimated at Rs.4 crore.

    The project will cover selected technical institutions and industry in the western region of the country comprising Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Goa. At the national level, Ministry of Human Resource Development would provide the overall leadership and guidance. The Indian society for Technical Education and Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Bhopal would also be associated with the project. The project will focus on development and effective adaptation of sustainable and replicable industry-institute linkage models at the identified Polytechnics and Engineering colleges with the active involvement of Directorates of Technical Education.
 
 
 

    Based on these MSPs and taking into account the other Statutory and Non-statutory Charges for milling of paddy of the respective States, the Ministry of Food & Consumer Affairs have decided to fix the prices of levy rice for the Kharif Marketing Season 1999-2000 as follows. The State-wise variations are only due to varying tax and free structure obtaining in different States. The orders have been dispatched to the various States by fax and by post. 

    While inaugurating the Conference Smt. Kiran Aggarwal, Secretary, Department of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development said A National Policy for the Empowerment of Women has been drafted after a series of consultation with Members of Parliament, State Government, NGOs and Women Organisations. All SAARC countries participated in the Workshop. Smt. Aggarwal underlined that to ensure that women are not deprived of the fruits of development, India is in the process of persuading all development sectors, ministries and departments to earmark at least 30 per cent of their funds for a women’s component plan an initiative from the Planning Commission. She added that the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) had also been ratified by the country.

    During the Workshop, while recalling Paragraph 45 of the Colombo Declaration of the Tenth SAARC Summit, some recommendations for incorporation in the draft Social Charter were also made on the topics of a) Child Survival and Development, b) Empowerment of Women, c) Improvement of Conditions of Labour, d) Welfare of Elders and e) Communication and Media.

    While proposing the Vote of Thanks, Shri. A.K. Sinha, Joint Secretary (Women’s Development), Department of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development pointed out that the time had come for the SAARC countries to think of observing the next decade as the decade of the empowerment of women. As per SAARC convention, the leader of the Indian delegation,

    Shrimati Rina Ray, Director, Department of Women and Child Development, was elected the Chairperson of the Workshop.