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Ex-Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar takes oath as RS member

Former chief executive of Prasar Bharati and Trinamool Congress leader Jawhar Sircar on Wednesday took oath as a member of Rajya Sabha. He was elected unopposed to the Upper House of Parliament......

Prasar Bharati CEO rejects BBC invite over 'one-sided' riot coverage

Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati has turned down an invitation from the BBC to attend an awards function for Indian sportswomen, citing the British broadcaster's 'one-sided' reporting on......

'Autonomous' Prasar Bharati rejects I&B ministry's diktat

I&B Ministry, Prasar Bharati are in tussle over ministry's directives, reports Shreya Jai and Arindam Majumder. Calling the directives of the ministry of information and broadcasting......

Part-time Prasar Bharati board member Vempati becomes its new CEO

Shashi Shekar Vempati, a part-time member of the Prasar Bharati Board, was on Friday appointed as the chief executive officer of the public broadcaster for a period of five years. A three-member......

Prasar Bharati CEO wants to quit prematurely, writes to govt

Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar has written to information and broadcasting ministry expressing his desire to quit before his term expires next February. Sources said Sircar, who was appointed on......

Former MyGovIndia chief Gaurav Dwivedi is new Prasar Bharati CEO

Senior IAS officer and former MyGovIndia chief Gaurav Dwivedi was on Monday appointed the Chief Executive Officer of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati. A 1995-batch officer of Chhattisgarh cadre,......

Navin Kumar to be Prasar Bharati CEO

Doordarshan director-general Navin Kumar is tipped to take over as CEO of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati. A 1975-batch Bihar cadre officer, he takes over from K S Sarma, who demitted office......

Prasar Bharati chief rubbishes talks of rift with I&B Ministry

Prasar Bharati chairman Jawahar Sircar on Tuesday said there was no rift between him and the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry, following a controversy over a letter he had written to the......

Prasar Bharati to sue TAM next week

Government-owned Prasar Bharati, the country's largest broadcaster, had decided to sue the Television Audience Measurement (TAM) agency, citing an alleged inaccurate representation of data on......

Takru named acting CEO of Prasar Bharati

Public sector broadcaster Prasar Bharati has appointed Rajiv Takru, additional secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, as the chief executive officer.The move followed the recent......

Ramayan makes a comeback on DD National

Doordarshan will telecast Ramanand Sagar's television series Ramayan from March 28, Union I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on Friday. Social media users had asked that the Ramayan and B R......

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......

Prasar Bharati challenges HC order

Prasar Bharati on Wednesday challenged Delhi High Court single bench order of telecasting live the Indo-West Indies cricket series deferred by seven minutes from that being shown on rights holder......

Prasar Bharati in tie-up with ESPN-Star, Zee

Despite not being a favourite to bag the four-year telecast rights floated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has ensured Doordarshan gets the feed for......

Prasar Bharati drags ESPN to court

Prasar Bharati has taken ESPN-Star Sports to court, accusing it of illegally using the ongoing Indo-Pak cricket series footage and raking in huge money by unauthorized booking of advertisements on......

ESS threatens to sue Prasar Bharati

Denied the opportunity to telecast match highlights of the high-profile India-Pakistan cricket series, sports broadcaster ESPN-Star Sports (ESS)said on Friday it was "prepared to use all other......

Prasar Bharati won't share highlights

After getting exclusive terrestrial rights for the India-Pakistan series, public broadcaster Prasar Bharati said there is "no question" of it providing special match highlights to any......

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