India today ended a 60-day ban on Fashion TV satellite channel

In January, the government had banned the satellite television channel AXN from the airwaves for two months for broadcasting supposedly lewd content.
India's Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi had objected to AXN, a unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment, broadcasting the show 'The World's Sexiest Advertisements', which the minister said was "indecent content" that was "against good taste or decency and is likely to adversely affect public morality".
India today ended a 60-day ban on Fashion TV satellite channel following an assurance that it would not broadcast programs "which lack decency and are likely to adversely affect public morality", a government statement said.

The statement said FTV.com India Channel has regretted its error and assured that any programming considered inappropriate by India's Information and Broadcasting Ministry would be immediately removed.

The ban, imposed in March, followed broadcasts of programs such as Midnight Hot which showed scantily-clad models.

India is deeply conservative when it comes to any sexual content in television and film. Until recently, even kissing was unacceptable.