• ●What was repealed: the Standards of Quality of Service (Duration of Advertisements in Television Channels) Regulations, 2012 (15 of 2012) of 14 May 2012, which capped advertising at twelve minutes per clock hour; the repeal takes effect from the date of notification in the Official Gazette.
• ●Why: MIB's Gazette notification of 21 August 2026 omitted sub-rule (11) of rule 7 of the Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994, removing the cap on grounds of changed market conditions, competition, consumer choice and ease of doing business.
• ●Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: statutory body established with effect from 20 February 1997 under section 3 of the TRAI Act, 1997; headquarters New Delhi; chairperson Anil Kumar Lahoti, who took charge in January 2024; it regulates telecom tariffs and quality of service, and also broadcasting and cable services.
• ●A 2000 amendment to the TRAI Act created the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT), which took over TRAI's adjudicatory and dispute-settlement functions and hears appeals against its orders.
• ●The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 governs cable transmission; its section 6 requires every advertisement carried on cable to conform to the prescribed advertising code, which the Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994 set out.
• ●The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), a self-regulatory body founded in 1985 and registered as a non-profit company, frames the Code for Self-Regulation in Advertising; rule 7 of the 1994 Rules bars cable advertisements that violate the ASCI code, giving it indirect statutory force.
• ●Ministries to keep apart: TRAI is under the Ministry of Communications, while the content and advertising rules for television come from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

Which body, created by a 2000 amendment to its parent Act, took over the adjudicatory and dispute-settlement functions of India's telecom regulator?