The government has banned foreign satellite channel AXN with immediate effect till March 15 for showing 'indecent content,' Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi said on Wednesday.
"It has been decided to prohibit transmission or re-transmission of the channel up to March 15, with immediate effect," Dasmunsi said.
The channel got into the wrong books of the ministry for telecast of a programme World's Sexiest Advertisements "that is against good taste or decency and is likely to adversely affect public morality", he said.
The minister said the programme was "against public morality" and added action was being taken under provisions of Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995.
Dasmunsi said the ban would be applicable across content delivery platforms like cable, DTH or CAS.
"What they have telecast is condemnable and deserves action," he said.