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President suspends Lalli as Prasar Bharti CEO

President Pratibha Patil ordered the suspension of Prasar Bharti's controversial CEO B S Lalli, who is in the eye of a storm facing allegations of irregularities in the country's largest public......

It's not All India Radio anymore but Akashvani: Prasar Bharti makes it official

Public broadcaster Prasar Bharti has decided to drop references to its radio service as 'All India Radio' and substitute it with 'Akashvani', as mentioned in the law. Image used for......

Prasar Bharti CEO Lalli to face SC enquiry

Prasar Bharati CEO B S Lalli will face a Supreme Court inquiry into charges of administrative and financial irregularities against him following a Presidential reference. The assent to the......

TMC nominates ex-Prasar Bharti CEO Jawhar Sircar to RS

The Trinamool Congress on Saturday nominated former bureaucrat Jawhar Sircar as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha by-election in the state. The Election Commission had on July 16 said......

Prasar Bharti chief, ex-SBI head in Lokpal search committee

The Modi government on Thursday constituted an eight-member search committee, to be headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, to recommend the chairperson and members of......

Pay disparity: Prasar Bharti staff on strike

The administrative staff of All India Radio and Doordarshan across the country today went on one-day mass casual leave in protest against disparity in the pay scales in Prasar Bharti.More than......

Prasar Bharti's DTH by Mar 2004

Prasar Bharti's ambitious project to provide television coverage to remote areas via direct-to-home service is expected to begin only by March next year since the earth stations needed for the......

CWG: Prasar Bharti earns Rs 58.19 cr

Belying expectations, Prasar Bharti has earned only Rs 58.19 crore (Rs 581.9 million) as revenue during the Commonwealth Games last month. The gross revenue earned by PB on account of......

Prasar Bharti nods self-financed soaps

Prasar Bharati has approved a scheme of self financed commissioning under which the outside producers would be required to produce programmes at his own risk and cost, Information and Broadcasting......

TRAI keeps off cricket telecast row

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is unlikely to intervene in the tussle between Prasar Bharti and Ten Sports over the issue of live telecast of Indo-Pak cricket series on the ground that it......

'The Girls Said I Want To Play Football'

'When the girls said they want to play football, the mothers were encouraging.''It was the fathers who were against the idea.' For documentary filmmaker Vijayeta Kumar, Kicking Balls tackles the......

Censor Board clears film on JP without cuts

A controversial documentary film on Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan, whose telecast was withheld by Prasar Bharti, has been cleared by the Censor Board "without a single cut," according to the film's......

Prakash Jha on the JP controversy

Filmmaker Prakash Jha is angry.Last year when the National Democratic Alliance government asked him to make a movie on Jayaprakash Narayan, he saw it as an opportunity to tell the story of a leader......

Veteran actress Zohra Sehgal cremated

Family and friends bid farewell to veteran actress Zohra Sehgal, who was cremated in Delhi, today. The last rites of the 102-year-old actress, who died on July 10, were performed at the......

SC restrains Prasar Bharti

The Supreme Court on Friday restrained the Prasar Bharti from interfering with the telecast of the tri-series cricket in Sri Lanka involving India, the US Open tennis championships, the World Cup......

Prasar Bharti defends CWG telecast deal

Coming out in defence of its deal with UK-based SIS Live for telecast of the Commonwealth Games, Prasar Bharti on Monday said the selection of the company was made with the approval of Minister for......

Prasar Bharti eyeing four-year rights

After signing an agreement with the Board of Control for Cricket in India for 31 days' cricket telecast rights, Prasar Bharti said on Monday it is ready to work towards getting the four-year......

BCCI gives telecast rights to Prasar Bharti

The BCCI and Prasar Bharti have signed an agreement giving the terrestrial and satellite rights for the telecast of all the Test matches and one-day internationals in the coming months involving......

Prasar Bharti bags telecast rights

The Board of Control for Cricket in Indiaon Thursday awarded Prasar Bharti the telecast rights for upcoming one-day international series against Sri Lanka and South Africa.The state broadcaster......