lifted the ban

Government has lifted the ban on entertainment channel AXN, six weeks after it was penalised for showing "indecent" programmes.The government had on January 17 prohibited the transmission or re-transmission of the satellite channel with immediate effect, up to March 15 throughout the country. The channel, however, submitted a prompt apology after it was blacked out and the ban was lifted early.The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995, empowers the government to "regulate or prohibit the transmission or re-transmission of a channel on a programme" on all platforms in the name of "public order, decency, or morality."