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Red hot chillies spice up poll battle in Guntur

‘It is a fiercely fought battle, like our fiery chillies in Guntur.’ IMAGE: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy holds a fan, the election symbol of YSR Congress Party,......

DD airs The Kerala Story despite protest by CPM, Congress

Despite a strong protest raised by the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Congress in Kerala, Doordarshan on Friday aired the controversial Bollywood movie The Kerala Story. IMAGE: A......

What happened in Ayodhya on the eve of consecration

Invitees to the 'pran pratishtha' consecration ceremony at the Ram temple started arriving Sunday in Ayodhya -- once a sleepy town now resplendent with new infrastructure and gripped by heightened......

How I Nearly Got Scammed!

In the new year be careful online as there are many scamsters lurking in the cloud, warns A Ganesh Nadar after twice escaping being scammed. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The only......

Four quakes rock Nepal, one of 6.2 intensity; north India feels tremors

Four earthquakes, the strongest being of magnitude 6.2, jolted Nepal in quick succession with tremors reverberating through parts of north India including Delhi-NCR, the National Centre for......

Shrinking screens: Is cable TV dying in India?

For years it has been evident that fibre and DTH would give tough competition to cable in India where regulatory overload has mutilated an already warped industry structure. OTT added fuel to the......

FM prods PSBs to implement 'Aatmanirbhar' relief package

The finance minister has emphasised on the quick disbursal of additional loans to MSMEs, to simplify process, formats and documentation. Photograph: ANI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on......

Coronavirus spoils the show for media and entertainment business

Finding enough shows to air, creating content that gets people to pay and watch and wooing advertisers back into the fold are going to be the biggest challenges the M&E industry faces. While the......

More relief for Yes users: Inward RTGS services enabled

Yes Bank users can now make over Rs 2 lakh payments towards loans, credit cards via other bank accounts. Yes Bank on Wednesday said its inward real-time gross settlement (RTGS) services have been......

'India Is Ready For The World!'

'Never in the history of Indian cinema did we have a distribution system for 240 countries, but we have it now.''And if we still keep catering to the B and C-tiers of our country, and not the whole......

Which Is India's Largest TV Channel?

DD Freedish is the 'largest TV platform in India', going to 58 million homes, featuring 70-odd private channels.DD Freedish reaches about 278 million people, and is easily among the top five TV......

Will Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan Be A Blockbuster?

A great story-teller, Mani Ratnam is experimenting with a real-life historical in Ponniyin Selvan, points out N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Vikram as Aditya Karikalan in Ponniyin Selvan. Now that Mani......

Lockdown Effect: New TV channels strike gold!

Dangal's and Shemaroo's entry shows there is ad-supported gold at the bottom of the Indian consumer pyramid if you can keep the costs low.Vanita Kohli-Khandekar reports. Kindly note the image has......

How Dangal TV beat Star and Zee

Is Dangal TV a flash in the pan?Vanita Kohli-Khandekar reports. Photograph: Kind courtesy StockSnap/Pixabay Is it a flash in the pan or the making of a new broadcasting power? In April this year,......

The catalysts of Manu Bhaker's successful Olympics...

Coach Jaspal Rana and confidence made all the difference to Manu Bhaker's Paris Olympics campaign. IMAGE: India's Manu Bhaker finished fourth and signed off from the ongoing Olympics as the......

Kusale's journey from Railways to Olympic bronze

'To be honest I did not see the scoreboard. It was my years of hard work. That is what I kept in mind while shooting.' IMAGE: Swapnil Kusale earned India its first-ever Olympic medal, a bronze, in......

What's Common Between Dhoni And Kusale?

Photograph: Kind courtesy DD Sports/X Swapnil Kusale, India's first Olympic finalist in 50m rifle three positions, shares an unlikely bond with cricket icon Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Both men,......

India at Paris 2024: Your Complete Guide

Photograph: Paris Olympics 2024/X Get ready to cheer on a record-breaking Indian contingent at the 2024 Paris Olympics! With 117 athletes competing across 16 sports and 69 medal events,......

Paris Olympic 2024 Games Schedule

IMAGE: Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal aim for doubles gold! Photograph: Kind Courtesy Carlos Alcaraz/X The world's greatest athletes descend upon Paris as the 2024 Olympic Games begins this......

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