Only Doordarshan cameras allowed inside at funeral, with footage showing mostly BJP leaders. Congress lambasts govt, police officer cites security for dignitaries, family's concerns.
Former employees say govt scrutiny over Doordarshan and All India Radio only intensified over the last ten years after the Prasar Bharati Act 1990 did the opposite of giving the public broadcaster its long sought-after autonomy.
Doordarshan should be more egalitarian in its Hindu aarti programming. Why stop at Ayodhya? After all, it’s a national election, not Uttar Pradesh assembly election.
A report by Delhi-based think tank Lokniti-CSDS & Germany's Konrad Adenauer Stiftung uses data to show how different communities are consuming news & how the media landscape is changing.
If you watch DD News, you will not feel “the sense of abandonment”, as BBC World termed it, of a people “left to do what the government should have done”.
Why Modi needs such TV exposure when this week’s opinion polls on Times Now, NewsX and Tiranga TV give him a comfortable win in elections, only he can tell.
‘The tirade against capitalism is wholly unfounded. Capitalism as it has shaped during the past quarter of a century is a far better method of developing the economic resources of any country,’ wrote DN Hosali in 1956.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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