Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday launched DD Direct Plus, India's first free direct-to-home broadcast service, hailing it as a "landmark event" in the history of broadcasting and communication of the country.
The EC noted that the chief executive officer of Prasar Bharati has assured it that the model code of conduct will be\n\nfollowed in letter and spirit by Doordarshan.
Prasar Bharati's Direct-to-Home project would bring about a 'revolution' in television coverage with 60 per cent of the potential viewers in North-East to be brought under the project, which would also open up self-employment opportunities, its chief
Vajpayee will visit the museum into which burglars broke into at Rabindra Bhawan, Vice-Chancellor Sujit Basu said in Kolkata.
It overruled the Maharashtra government's stand that it had the authority to regulate admissions to colleges run by Pune-based Bharati Vidyapeeth, which was granted deemed university status in April 1996.
Congress spokesman described the two as an 'integral part' of the party.
'I don't like any boy.' 'I want to be with Malini,' says Veronica.
The deputy prime minister's comments come after the prime minister's remarks that he was 'fit and ready' for elections.
In an apparent initiative to curtail the monopoly of cable operators, Prasar Bharati will launch its Direct to Home facility from August enabling viewers to get 40 free channels, including 23 private ones, under one platform, Information and Broadcas
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Among other scrips, which would be shifted to the trade-to-trade segment include 3i Infotech, Bartronics India, Ramky Infrastructure and Zenith Birla (India) Ltd.
Three motorcycle-borne men joined Atal Bihari Vajpayee's motorcade when he was returning to his Race Course Road residence after an appointment with his dentist in Khan Market.
The badly mutilated bodies of the in-laws of Vibha Bharati, MLA from Rupauli, were recovered from the bank of a river at Bankaghat in Purnea district on Friday.
The Samajwadi Party stormed to the power with 224 of the 403 assembly seats.
This followed a revision petition by six BJP and VHP leaders.
The CBI suspects that an area around the Steel Authority of India Limited guest house in Shantiniketan was the place where the planning of the theft of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel prize and other articles had been made.
Even as politics engaged him more, he never hid his way of life. On one occasion, Morarji Desai pleaded with him to stop drinking publicly. "You stick to your pissky and I'll stick to my whisky'' he is supposed to have told him.
Prasar Bharti has already swiped that amount as advertising revenue for 31 days' telecast of India's Test matches with Australia and South Africa and an ODI with Pakistan.
