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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......

Mahatma Gandhi was 'quite a complicated being': Union minister

The role and contribution of Mahatma Gandhi in India's freedom struggle is well documented and he was "quite a complicated being", Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday. IMAGE:......

'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......

Senior journalist A Surya Prakash appointed Prasar Bharati chairman

Senior journalist A Surya Prakash was on Tuesday appointed chairman of the Prasar Prasar Bharati Board, filling a post which had been lying vacant for the last six months. The appointment, which......

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......

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......

Zee may face trouble over Prasar Bharati feed

The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms may have won the four-year contract to telecast the Board of Control for Cricket in India organised cricket matches, but it is all set to lock horns with......

Cricket telecast: Prasar Bharati eyes ad pie

The government is tailoring its broadcasting policy to not only get private broadcasters to share their feed of events of national importance with Prasar Bharati, but also ensure that the state......

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......

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......

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 will telecast Ind-Aus series: BCCI

In another twist to the row over cricket telecast rights, the Board of Control for Cricket in India informed the Supreme Court on Monday that television coverage of India's domestic series......

Govt grants permission for live uplinking of IPL

IMAGE: Cheerleaders perform during an IPL match. Photograph: BCCI The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has given its nod for temporary live uplinking of the 11th edition of the......

HC gives telecast rights to Prasar Bharti

The Madras high court on Thursday directed Prasar Bharati to telecast the upcoming India-Pakistan cricket series and gave the Board of Control for Cricket in Indiathe freedom to engage any producer......

Prasar Bharti joins fray for telecast rights

Aggrieved by the Board of Control for Cricket in India's decision to award the telecast rights for the India-Australia cricket series to Sony Television, Prasar Bharti said it will challenge the......

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