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Akashvani: A voice from the sky, and a name that stuck
July 12, 2026 1:24 am
Celebrating 90 years of Akashvani, is technically inaccurate. The institution may have been called only Akashvani since 2023, but what has turned 90 is what generations of Indians have known as All India Radio.
Ex-Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati to be the new CBFC chairperson
May 08, 2026 3:32 pm
The Indian Express, last week, reported that a new CBFC chairperson is set to be appointed soon, following the appointment of Prasoon Joshi as the Prasar Bharati CEO.
Over a year of tenure left, Prasar Bharati Chairman Navneet Kumar Sehgal resigns
December 04, 2025 8:56 am
A retired Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer, Sehgal had been appointed as the chairman of the public broadcaster on March 16, 2024. He had retired as Additional Chief Secretary for Sports and Youth Welfare in Uttar Pradesh in 2023.
Prasar Bharati set to finalise Rs 15-crore deal with anchor Sudhir Chaudhary for DD show
March 21, 2025 12:46 pm
The show by Sudhir Chaudhary will likely get a prime-time slot on DD News and is expected to air from May.
Prasar Bharati: Out of joint
May 17, 2024 11:44 pm
Prasar Bharati's rewording of Opposition speeches shows disconnect with public discourse, wilful incomprehension of poll process
Ex-UP bureaucrat Sehgal is Prasar Bharati head
March 17, 2024 3:34 am
Sheyphali Sharan appointed as PIB Principal D-G
Navneet Sehgal’s journey: From UP bureaucrat for all seasons to Prasar Bharati chairman
March 16, 2024 10:04 pm
Having served in almost all key posts in govt, Sehgal had been a popular bureaucrat with every UP CM cutting across party lines since 2002, even as he was known to be Mayawati’s most trusted officer
Retired UP bureaucrat Navneet Kumar Sehgal is named Prasar Bharati chairman
March 17, 2024 1:41 pm
The post is being filled after a gap of 4 years. Sehgal, a 1988-batch retired Uttar-Pradesh cadre IAS officer, has handled key assignments in Yogi Adityanath government.
News-sharing service by Prasar Bharati launched, content to be ‘free of copyright’
March 14, 2024 7:26 am
Unveiling PB-SHABD (Prasar Bharati-Shared Audio Visuals for Broadcast and Dissemination), in Wednesday, Union I&B Minister Anurag Thakur said it will be offered as a “free service for one year to all news organisations registered with the ministry”.
Govt cuts farm airtime: Kisan Ki Baat, Kisanvani 3 days a week
July 31, 2023 7:38 am
The programmes, sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, will now be aired on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
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Shriya Pilgaonkar on Swara Bhaskar’s jauhar remark: Easy to judge context of another time
Entertainment42 min ago
Swara Bhaskar’s comments on the climactic jauhar sequence of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 2018 blockbuster period war drama Padmaavat has reentered the discourse after the actor justified her objection to the archaic practice. Swara had claimed that as a woman, she felt “reduced to her vagina” while watching the climax, when Deepika Padukone’s character of Rani Padmini leads women into self-immolation.
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