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It's not All India Radio anymore but Akashvani: Prasar Bharti makes it official

Public broadcaster Prasar Bharti has decided to drop references to its radio service as 'All India Radio' and substitute it with 'Akashvani', as mentioned in the law. Image used for......

'We are not a one language country'

'This obsession with 'one' is not good for a country like India.' Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. Aatma Nirbhar Bharat, Amrut Mahotsav, Tika Utsav, Raksha......

Combative Smriti Irani is!

The combativeness reflects her insistence not to meekly acquiesce to what has been going on in Raisina Hill for years or decades, observes Kartikeya Tanna. In the murky world of......

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......

Irani turns giant-killer, dethrones Rahul on home turf

Smriti Irani, whose meteoric rise in the Bharatiya Janata Party saw her become the human resource development and information & broadcasting minister before being divested of these portfolios, on......

Rajiv Takru is the new Financial Services Secretary

Senior IAS officer Rajiv Takru on Friday took charge as Secretary in the Department of Financial Services,A 1979-batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer, Takru was previously Prasar Bharti CEO, replaced D......

Govt should not enter broadcasting: TRAI

The government - Centre or state - and its departments, state-run enterprises, their joint ventures and government funded companies should not enter into the business of broadcasting and......

Zee dethrones Times Group

Zee, in the news over the past week for various wrong reasons, can take heart from becoming India's largest media group, dethroning the longest-running number one, the Times Group.And, by the end......

FM radio: Phase-3 okayed, AIR news on pvt channels

The government on Thursday cleared guidelines of the much-delayed FM Radio Phase III expansion that will allow private radio channels to broadcast news of All India Radio and enable revenue......

Prasar Bharati staffers to repeat stir next month

Television viewers watching Doordarshan might see their screen go blank for a second time next month, when employees of the country's largest broadcaster, government-run Prasar Bharati, intend to......

Veteran actress Zohra Sehgal cremated

Family and friends bid farewell to veteran actress Zohra Sehgal, who was cremated in Delhi, today. The last rites of the 102-year-old actress, who died on July 10, were performed at the......

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......

DD slashes CWG ad revenue target by half

The official broadcaster for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, Doordarshan, is understood to have cut its advertising revenue target by half to Rs 100 crore from the 12-day long event due to poor......

CWG 2010 to be covered in HDTV

In a first for Commonwealth Games (CWG), next year's edition of the sporting extravaganza in the Capital would be covered in High Definition TV (HDTV), to ensure better image resolution, by British......

Private channels told to pay for Olympics feed

State-owned broadcaster Prasar Bharti is believed to have issued a show cause notice to private news channels for 'unauthorised' usage of its Olympic footage while asking them to pay for the same.......

No relief for BCCI, Nimbus

The Delhi high court on Friday refused to grant interim relief to the Board of Control for Cricket in India and sports broadcaster Nimbus Communication which challenged the Centre's policy......

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