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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
TopicAll India Radio

Topic: All India Radio

AIR’s Tibetan service off air since Dec, no fresh content on website and YouTube too

Former staff point out 'lack of qualified professionals' to run Tibetan World service, but AIR says move part of an operational revamp.

The underground Congress radio during freedom struggle and 22-yr-old woman behind its voice

In an essay in ‘Our Freedoms’, Aanchal Malhotra writes about Usha Mehta and the Congress Radio set up in 1942 to counter the British-controlled AIR.

Pakistan is DD, AIR’s 2nd-largest online audience as Prasar Bharati records 100% digital growth

Channels across Doordarshan and Akashvani clocked over a billion digital views and over 6 billion digital watch minutes in 2020, I&B Ministery has said.

Stop talking to media without permission — Prasar Bharati tells employees for the 3rd time

Fresh missive was issued on 3 December after similar orders in November 2019 and February 2020. Prasar Bharati said it had taken lapses ‘very seriously’.

Saeeda Bano, first woman Urdu news reader who got marriage offers and ‘go to Pakistan’ letters

Saeeda Bano landed the job of news broadcaster for All India Radio’s Urdu service with some help from Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, a keen supporter of women’s rights.

India’s Galwan commentary through AIR not reaching China as it has ‘jammed’ radio signals

Radio experts say China has been jamming frequencies carrying AIR Chinese service with music & other noise. Meanwhile, India is yet to counter Nepal’s ‘anti-India’ broadcasts.

India uses AIR Chinese service to broadcast commentary on Galwan ‘transgression’ by China

The service, which mostly broadcasts cultural events in Mandarin, ran a commentary Thursday detailing the “unnecessary transgressions” by Chinese troops at the LAC.

‘Thank you PM Modi’: Govt’s flagship schemes get publicity on DD amid Covid-19 crisis

Govt official says both All India Radio and Doordarshan are keeping people informed about Covid-19 developments.

How DD & AIR are helping bust fake news around COVID-19 and creating awareness

AIR has been broadcasting programmes with doctors, while informative COVID-19 videos have been set as default on DD Free Dish channels.

Prasar Bharati tweets on WSJ journalist latest in its criticism of ‘biased’ foreign press

Prasar Bharti has time and again accused foreign media of “biased” and “fake” reportage, with CEO Vempati saying such coverage creates wrong perception of India. 

On Camera

Trump has called Delhi a big abuser of tariffs. India-US economic ties are about to change

How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.

How Adani halving power supply to Bangladesh could land the country in ‘dire straits’

Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.

Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020

Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.