The government has cleared well known journalist Mrinal Pande's name for the post of Prasar Bharati chairperson, a month after the previous chairman Arun Bhatnagar's resignation was accepted by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.
His comments come against the backdrop of a campaign by Opposition parties, including the Trinamool Congress, which has claimed that applying for CAA would turn legal citizens into foreigners.
The public broadcaster accused ESPN-Star Sports of misuse of cricket footage in the ongoing Indian-Pakistan series.
India had been striving for long to get a UNESCO tag for this cultural site located in Birbhum district.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked state ministers to begin a sit-in outside Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's residence in Santiniketan in Birbhum district to protest against the Visva-Bharati's eviction notice, an official said.
Jawahar Sircar says his earnest request to ministry was to help strengthen public institutions.
'People want to do business in the name of the Kedarnath temple.'
anerjee, who reached Bolpur in the second half of the day, visited Sen at his residence and dubbed the accusations made against him as "baseless".
She alleged the incident occurred when she went to the medical officer on July 4 for a certificate.
A paternal aunt of the teenager allegedly involved in the Pune Porsche car crash that killed two IT professionals last month has moved the Bombay high court claiming the boy was in 'illegal' detention and sought his immediate release.
The public broadcaster has ensured Doordarshan gets the feed for all ODIs by signing agreements the top contenders for BCCI's telecast rights.
Cashing in on cricket broadcast and a slew of other initiatives, financially-crunched public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is eyeing an over 20 per cent growth in revenues this fiscal to Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion).
DD Direct Plus, the free-to-air direct-to-home (DTH) service of state-owned Prasar Bharati, stands to lose over Rs 100 crore in 2008-09 due to under-pricing of its carriage fees and underutilisation of its DTH transponder capacity, say experts.
BJP heavyweights Smriti Irani, Arjun Munda, Ajay Mishra Teni and Kailash Chaudhary were among the 13 Union ministers who tasted defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, as stunning losses in three Hindi heartland states forced the BJP to rely on allies to form the government.
A spokesperson of the Democratic Students Organisation (DSO), the student's wing of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), said both the university authorities and the police prevented them from screening India: The Modi Question on a ground by not allowing a projector and a screen inside the campus.
Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said 642 prosecutions were launched for manufacturing, sale and distribution of spurious/adulterated drugs, while 262 persons were arrested.
Sharp differences within the Bharatiya Janata Party surfaced on Thursday on the Women's Reservation Bill.
Doordarshan director-general Navin Kumar is tipped to take over as CEO of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati. \n
Away from the courtroom and legal circles, Nariman was a familiar figure for residents of Hauz Khas who would see him walk regularly, even in the cold winter months of December and January.
The Supreme Court on Monday dedicated a web page containing details of arguments, written submissions and the judgment in the historic Kesavananda Bharati case which laid down the path-breaking concept of the 'Basic Structure' of the Constitution.
Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be the chief guest at the Pravasi Bharati Divas in Jaipur and will be honoured with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award.
IMAGES from the WPL 2024 UP Warriorz and Gujarat Giants match played in New Delhi on Monday
'This is the victory of the people of Gujarat who want real development, not the hype of development.'
The bidding war for Great Offshore ratcheted up a notch with ABG Shipyard saying it would come out with a counter-offer to rival Bharati Shipyard's offer of Rs 560 a share announced on Wednesday after it acquired 3.1 per cent from the open market to take its total holding to 22.4 per cent.
Urging all in the Visva Bharati to take advantage of this, the prime minister said that as a follow-up of the committee's recommendation, the Archaeological Survey of India has completed the conservation work in the heritage buildings in the Ashram and will now restore the four buildings in the Uttarayan complex within this financial year. Earlier, on arrival at the university campus, the PM inaugurated the Debendranath Tagore museum at the restored Sasntiniketan Griha.
Over 65 Union ministers are likely to take oath, going by the visual of the meeting Modi held with his likely council of ministers.
The Congress leader also said that the BJP wants to change the Constitution, and reduce and weaken the rights given to the people through the statute book.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Tuesday remarked that once judges demit office whatever they say is just opinion and is not binding, after former CJI Ranjan Gogoi's comments that the basic structure doctrine was debatable was flagged in the Supreme Court.
Once Aditya L1 reaches its destination, it will help measure various events happening on the Sun for the next five years.
Besides Defence Minister Singh (Lucknow), Minister of Women and Child Development Irani (Amethi), those in the fray are Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishor (Mohanlalganj) and Minister of State of Consumer Affairs Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (Fatehpur).
In a state that usually plumbs for a Dravidian major, three candidates have a chance of delivering for the BJP, observes A Ganesh Nadar.
In 2014, Vardhan had defeated Kapil Sibal, then with the Congress, to win the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat while in the 2019 polls, he trounced Congress' Jai Prakash Agarwal.
Huma Qureshi's Rani Bharti was the ace in the pack, but everything that she does in this season smacks more of script conveniences than careful plotting, observes Deepa Gahlot.
The BCCI told the Supreme Court that television coverage of India's domestic series with\n\nAustralia and South Africa would be produced by it with live feed to Prasar Bharati.
The Congress in Kerala on Friday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) against the decision of Doordarshan to telecast the controversial movie The Kerala Story, saying it was a 'tacit effort' to divide society on religious grounds to further the electoral prospects of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
The new year will witness two unmanned missions under the "Gaganyaan" project, deep ocean exploration project, "Samudrayaan" and many more.
The Bombay high court has passed an ex-parte interim order restraining several entities from operating websites etc claiming to provide PAN card services on behalf of the government-owned UTI Infrastructure Technology and Services Limited (UTIITSL) and noted such an act poses a "national level threat". A single bench of Justice Bharati Dangre, in its order of January 12, said the Union government has made it mandatory for PAN card holders to link the same to their Aadhar Card, which is an acceptable proof of identification. Therefore, any potential misuse of the licence/ authorization to issue PAN cards would be highly detrimental not only to the interest of the company but also to national interest, the HC said.
From massed band's 'Shankhnaad' to Navy's lilting 'Mission Chandrayaan', mellifluous tunes reverberated across the Raisina Hill in the heart of Delhi as India's rich heritage and towering accomplishments were celebrated during the Beating Retreat ceremony on Monday.
'Namaste behno aur bhaiyo, main aapka dost Ameen Sayani bol raha hoon'
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