The committee also picked 19 sportspersons for the Arjuna Award, including the likes of cricketers Ravindra Jadeja and Poonam Yadav, track and field stars Tejinder Pal Singh Toor, Mohammed Anas and Swapna Barman.
Ten Sports on Friday said it has offered to show Indo-Pak cricket series on low powered transmitters of Doordarshan in non-cable areas, but Prasar Bharati has not accepted this deal.
Amid the controversy over conditional access systems, Doordarshan on Tuesday announced that its direct-to-home services carrying 30 free-to-air channels would be launched by March next year.
'The feeling that we were Olympic champions only dawned on us when we reached India.'
The campaign sought to highlight the achievement and policies of the Congress-led UPA government in electronic and print media.
Prasar Bharati CEO K S Sarma told reporters that the proposed DD news channel will be principally news driven and\n\nwill focus on in-house production.
The five-match ODI series will be played between November 16 and 28 in India.
Sasha Chhetri, the Airtel 4G girl, is a better known face across India than most Bollywood starlets, says ad guru Sandeep Goyal.
'My chowkidar and the paanwala near my house have seen Mirzapur.' 'They may have missed Delhi Crime but they have seen Mirzapur.' ''Delhi Crime won Emmy, people know me from Mirzapur'Sometimes I feel I have done so much work, why do people know me only by this role?'
Deepa Malik produced her best effort in her fourth attempt, a 9.67 metre throw to win the bronze medal.
Andhadhun is a stunning, comic, grisly, absurd, intense, cold, crazy and must-watch, raves Sukanya Verma.
India and China on Friday signed a record 24 agreements in key sectors
'A woman, with her clothes on, can be more sensual than a naked woman.'
By becoming the first woman ever to contest a Lok Sabha election in Mizoram, Lalthlamuani has already made history.
Vikram Kothari's Rotomac stares at a loan default of Rs 369 crore
Girish Karnad lived several lives not only on the stage but also as a scholar, theatre personality, an actor and director in a career spanning over five decades.
Bangalore-based couple Sneha Sundaram and Bharath Bevinahally tell us how Kutuki, an early learning app, will change the way 200 mn kids in Indian will access education.
The Election Commission on Friday announced 25 hours each of free telecast and broadcast time for the six national parties on Doordarshan and the All India Radio for campaigning.
The Trai order is expected to change how consumers pay for cable or DTH services. This will result in disruption within the TV viewing market.
'I have done so much work after the Mahabharat, but people still remember me as Duryodhan.'
Unlike the Olympics that was widely covered, the Rio Paralympics set to begin tomorrow will not have any television coverage in India as it failed to attract any national broadcasters after a city-based NGO on Tuesday highlighted the "discrimination" of the para athletes. With no television coverage, a city-based NGO who works with the para athletes today highlighted the plight of the para athletes in India and appealed for proper media coverage to give the athletes their due credit
Satyajit Ray's fabulous use of fantasy to condemn fascism and Shah Rukh Khan's gift of enthralling oratory, Sukanya Verma's fantastic filmi week.
The telecom companies have also been asked to urgently improve their infrastructure, as the government aims to digitise a host of services.
Had it been an election of digital campaigns, the cost of the 2019 election would have been far less than what it actually is.
In the Modi government, he was the mentor -- he groomed half a dozen of those who became ministers. Some remembered, others did not -- Jaitley seemed to care little. Aditi Phadnis reports.
Can the Election Commission step up to the plate and exert its Constitutional powers with non-partisan conviction, asks Mitali Saran.
'I am learning good things and trying to avoid the bad. I am moving ahead with a positive attitude. That is my biggest achievement.'
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has been summoned by a court in the United States over his alleged controversial slogan in 1984 following the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
For the last 40 years, Modi fasts during Navratras devoted to Ma Amba. He drinks lukewarm water and sometime he eats a fruit a day.
Appropriate policies will increase connectivity much more than spectrum auctions, says Shyam Ponappa.
'Our aim is not to earn money through the film.'
Indian journalists, who went to cover the SAARC Home Ministers' conference in Islamabad, had to face hostile Pakistani officials.
'My main concern was that a proper Sardar would not fit in the acting world, but things are changed now.'
Display of Jayalalithaa's portrait in the Republic Day tableaux in Chennai has stirred up a row
