President suspends Lalli as Prasar Bharti CEO

President Pratibha Patil ordered the suspension of Prasar Bharti's controversial CEO B S Lalli, who is in the eye of a storm facing allegations of irregularities in the country's largest public......

TMC nominates ex-Prasar Bharti CEO Jawhar Sircar to RS

The Trinamool Congress on Saturday nominated former bureaucrat Jawhar Sircar as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha by-election in the state. The Election Commission had on July 16 said......

Prasar Bharti chief, ex-SBI head in Lokpal search committee

The Modi government on Thursday constituted an eight-member search committee, to be headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, to recommend the chairperson and members of......

Prasar Bharti CEO Lalli to face SC enquiry

Prasar Bharati CEO B S Lalli will face a Supreme Court inquiry into charges of administrative and financial irregularities against him following a Presidential reference. The assent to the......

Pay disparity: Prasar Bharti staff on strike

The administrative staff of All India Radio and Doordarshan across the country today went on one-day mass casual leave in protest against disparity in the pay scales in Prasar Bharti.More than......

Prasar Bharti's DTH by Mar 2004

Prasar Bharti's ambitious project to provide television coverage to remote areas via direct-to-home service is expected to begin only by March next year since the earth stations needed for the......

Prasar Bharti nods self-financed soaps

Prasar Bharati has approved a scheme of self financed commissioning under which the outside producers would be required to produce programmes at his own risk and cost, Information and Broadcasting......

Prasar Bharati asked to create more jobs for women

Rapping Prasar Bharati for the dwindling number of women employees in lower categories, a Parliamentary panel has asked it to take appropriate measures to create more job opportunities for the......

Censor Board clears film on JP without cuts

A controversial documentary film on Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan, whose telecast was withheld by Prasar Bharti, has been cleared by the Censor Board "without a single cut," according to the film's......

SC restrains Prasar Bharti

The Supreme Court on Friday restrained the Prasar Bharti from interfering with the telecast of the tri-series cricket in Sri Lanka involving India, the US Open tennis championships, the World Cup......

Prasar Bharti defends CWG telecast deal

Coming out in defence of its deal with UK-based SIS Live for telecast of the Commonwealth Games, Prasar Bharti on Monday said the selection of the company was made with the approval of Minister for......

Prasar Bharti bags telecast rights

The Board of Control for Cricket in Indiaon Thursday awarded Prasar Bharti the telecast rights for upcoming one-day international series against Sri Lanka and South Africa.The state broadcaster......

SC notice to Prasar Bharti, TRAI

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to Prasar Bharti and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on a petition filed by ESPN challenging a Kerala High Court judgement directing it to share its......

Prasar Bharti eyeing four-year rights

After signing an agreement with the Board of Control for Cricket in India for 31 days' cricket telecast rights, Prasar Bharti said on Monday it is ready to work towards getting the four-year......