Bbc Hindi

Rediff.com » News » Bbc Hindi

News for Bbc Hindi

News
Business
Movies
Sports

'All India Radio Is No Underdog'

'The largest listenership for Vividh Bharati outside the country is in Spain.''The labourers who go there for the tomato-picking season feel cut off from their country and listen to Vividh Bharati......

'Yeh BBC Hai'. You won't hear these words from Feb 1

For 80 years, news and views aired on BBC Hindi reached audiences in the remotest parts of the country. For millions of its followers, the signature line –‘yeh BBC hai (this is......

Understand satire, but...: Shinde on Kamra's 'gaddar' jab

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has likened comedian Kunal Kamra's jibe at him to taking supari (contract) to speak against someone, and said there should be a decorum while making......

Indira banned BBC, says BJP; End is near, warns Congress

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday accused the BBC of unleashing "venomous" reporting against India and alleged that its propaganda and the Congress' agenda go together. Photograph: Carl......

Cost cutting forces BBC to shut Hindi news service

British Broadcasting Corporation on Monday shut down its Hindi News Service operations in Uttar Pradesh as well as four other Indian states, where the agency had acquired the highest media......

BBC eyes JVs Hindi, Urdu channels in India

The British Broadcasting Corporation on Monday said it was looking for possible joint ventures for their Hindi and Urdu news channels in India."We are launching a 24-hour news channel in Arabic......

BBC's success mantra in the digital age

'We're still of the camp that editors run news organisations. Having said that, we have a lot of technology and business people high up in the decision making.' One of the six TV studios in the......

Pak ready to talk trade with India

In an important policy shift, Pakistan has said it was willing to discuss trade issues with India and would give up its insistence to discuss the Kashmir issue first."India has always said that it......

Why India must create new programming languages...

"Yawn", "Zzzzz... excuse me, I need to nap." Why hasn't India produced a single earth-shaking idea like Python or the World Wide Web, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic......

NDTV to kick off with Rahman theme, helicopters

The Prannoy Roy-promoted New Delhi Television has roped in A R Rahman to compose the signature tune for its Hindi channel, NDTV India. The news and other programmes on NDTV's Hindi channel will......

What Made Geeta Dutt's Life So Tragic

The song that best encapsulates Geeta Dutt's unfairly abbreviated life would probably be: Yaad Karoge, Yaad Karoge, Ek Din Humko Yaad Karoge.On her 95th birth anniversary on November 23, Dinesh......

Manga Fever Takes Over India

'Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Crunchyroll, and Disney+ Hotstar are continuously expanding their Anime libraries.' Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. A Dragon......

'India In 1947 Was Like A Ticking Time Bomb'

'When you watch Freedom At Midnight, I want you to feel like you are sitting on a ticking time bomb.' IMAGE: RJ Malishka as Sarojini Naidu, Sidhant Gupta as Jawaharlal Nehru, Chirag Vora as......

'When He Spoke, The Whole Nation Listened'

'Ameen Sayani was copied by generations. Now everyone is trying to become smaller Ameen Sayanis in their own way.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com In 1960, when the film Dil Apna Aur......

Sector 36 Review: Nightmarish

Sector 36 goes for gruesomeness and shock; watching it needs a tough heart or a quick averting of the eyes, warns Deepa Gahlot. The Nithari Killings of 2006 had pierced India's doesn't-happen-here......

I'm not a drama person, says Abhinav

BBC Hindi India Editor, Sanjeev Srivastava talks with India's Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra. Below are excerpts from the interviewon BBC Ek Mulaqat to be broadcast this Sunday [31 August 2008]:......

ICC considering Ganguly's suggestion

The International Cricket Council (ICC), whichis planning to expand the number of Test playing nations to 16, is considering Indian captain Sourav Ganguly's suggestion of having a two-tier Test......

Ganguly should open in third Test: Bedi

Sourav Ganguly should open the Indian innings with Virender Sehwag in the third and final Test against Pakistan, but Akash Chopra too should not be made a scapegoat, two former cricketers said."If......

Several views on Shoaib's injury

The medical commission, probing the spate of injuries to key Pakistan players during the recent cricket series against India, has said there are "several views" on the injury to Shoaib Akhtar who,......