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'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......

Cong accuses govt of mismanagement in Manmohan funeral, BJP hits back

The Bharatiya Janata Party has accused the Congress of politicising the death of former prime minister Manmohan Singh and levelling "baseless allegations" of disrespect and mismanagement at his......

Man sends 'bribe' by DD; stuns municipal authorities

Vexed over the delay in getting a birth certificate, a man here hit upon a bizarre idea of sending a demand draft for Rs 100 as bribe to a local body, stunning the municipality authorities who made......

TN governor, CM in spat over missing line in Tamil anthem at Hindi event

Singers missed a line from Tamil Nadu's state anthem during its rendition in an event presided by Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi in Chennai on Friday and it led to a war of words between Chief......

'Adipurush' makers under fire over 'tapori' language

Several parties, including the Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress and the Shiv Sena (UBT), on Saturday criticised filmmaker Om Raut's Adipurush for hurting the sentiments of the people with the......

Shrinking screens: Is cable TV dying in India?

For years it has been evident that fibre and DTH would give tough competition to cable in India where regulatory overload has mutilated an already warped industry structure. OTT added fuel to the......

Will Delhi's Master Plan '21 solve its woes?

If you live in a large Indian city, be it Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad or Chennai, can you visualise a time in the future when your city would be free of traffic chaos, parking......

Why some things work in India, and some don't

'The two-word answer is: Proper oversight,' says T N Ninan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The India of the 1980s and 1990s had many dreams: Private TV by satellite or cable, instead of......

Data reveals true story about Modi govt's pet initiatives

While the government has claimed significant increase in funds for farm credit, facts show a different story, explains Manoj K. Image: Narendra Modi being presented a "Plough" as symbol of......

'India Is Ready For The World!'

'Never in the history of Indian cinema did we have a distribution system for 240 countries, but we have it now.''And if we still keep catering to the B and C-tiers of our country, and not the whole......

How Dangal TV beat Star and Zee

Is Dangal TV a flash in the pan?Vanita Kohli-Khandekar reports. Photograph: Kind courtesy StockSnap/Pixabay Is it a flash in the pan or the making of a new broadcasting power? In April this year,......

Will Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan Be A Blockbuster?

A great story-teller, Mani Ratnam is experimenting with a real-life historical in Ponniyin Selvan, points out N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Vikram as Aditya Karikalan in Ponniyin Selvan. Now that Mani......

Summoned by Kolkata Police, Shami stuck in Kolkata

'The DD team left around 3pm but Shami could not board the flight as he faces a summon from the Kolkata Police.' IMAGE: Delhi Daredevils fast bowler Mohammed Shami. Photograph: BCCI Delhi......