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TopicPrasar Bharati

Topic: Prasar Bharati

Sri Lanka sends goodwill via radio, airs Buddhist chants to bless India’s Covid patients

SLBC, earlier known as Radio Ceylon, began a week-long broadcast of ‘Ratana Sutta’ on 6 May. It’s available on medium wave transmitters & online every evening.

Prasar Bharati income nearly halved in 3 yrs over govt ad cut, pro bono campaigns: MPs’ panel

The Parliamentary panel says Prasar Bharati needs to make more efforts to monetise content available with the organisation in order to generate revenues.

Accounts of Prasar Bharati CEO, Caravan, actor Sushant Singh among those ‘withheld’ by Twitter

Twitter spokesperson says accounts are withheld if company receives a 'properly scoped request from an authorised entity’. The accounts were likely withheld on govt request.

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.

Doordarshan stops telecast of popular animated series criticised for ‘mocking’ saints

Airing of Sheikh Chilli and Friendz was stopped Friday. Prasar Bharati officials say the show was going to end in the third week of December & the remaining episodes were repeats of past episodes.

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’.

AIR set to undergo major structural revamp as it looks to cut costs & be ‘competitive’

Plans include each state having its own service and restructuring of news & current affairs programmes to cater to a global audience.

Prasar Bharati signs MoU with IT ministry to launch 51 education TV channels

It will include channels for Classes 1 to 12 of NCERT among others. The services will be available free of cost for all DD FreeDish viewers.

Editors Guild says govts & agencies acted ‘vindictively’ in Prasar Bharati-PTI, Odisha matters

The Editors Guild of India says Prasar Bharati cancelling its PTI contract & police picking up Odisha journalist ‘threaten & undermine’ independence of media.

TRP is manipulatable, needs to change, say I&B Ministry, Prasar Bharati & PCI to House panel

Amid the ‘fake TRP' row, the three agencies & parliamentary panel on IT were unanimous in their views that TRP isn’t a ‘robust system & has become dated’.

On Camera

SC’s stray dog order lit a match in Delhi. Are they a menace or companions?

The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?