Source: Business Standard | Press Trust of India | New Delhi
August 7, 2013 Last Updated at 13:48 IST
Late Rituparno Ghosh's last film, an impressionistic documentary on the life of Rabindranath Tagore, will have its television premiere tomorrow.
"Jeevan Smriti: Selected Memories", produced by the Ministry of Culture, will be screened on Doordarshan national network, coinciding with Tagore's death anniversary.
The film is divided into chapters arranged chronologically but not as a continuous flow. It focuses on some key journeys in Tagore's life that evolved and enriched his quest to re-imagine a new India, which would rise above narrow patriotic concerns prevailing in the country of the time.
"This is not a truncated biography; nor an attempt to deal with the..........................................
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Source: The Indian Express | Sankhayan Ghosh :
Wed Aug 07 2013, 03:36 hrs
The banner of Bharat Ek Khoj outside Doordarshan Kendra at Worli is proof that Shyam Benegal's epic television series, even after more than 20 years, remains one of the best advertisements of Indian television of the yore, when DD defined television for India. A screen adaptation of Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India, it is one of the last achievements of the state-run channel that lost out to privatisation over the years. It was also Benegal's last television project.
Now, however, Benegal will return to Indian television with Samvidhan, on yet another state-run channel, Rajya Sabha TV. A mini-series, it is, as its name suggests, based on the Indian Constitution.
"Many of us take the Constitution for granted, complain about it. There have been amendments but no major change. Instead, .................................
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Source: Business Standard | IANS | New Delhi
August 6, 2013 Last Updated at 19:52 IST
Taking its endeavour to provide qualitative edutainment to its listeners, All India Radio Tuesday announced the launch of its new serial "Priya", which aims to spread the message of women empowerment, as well as educate rural masses about various government welfare schemes they can avail.
"Priya" is a story of a poor but courageous young woman who fights against all odds to get educated and create awareness and progress in her village.
"It is a story of a young girl who grows up to be a well-aware citizen and aims to illuminate her village using non-conventional energy through wind power. How this girl fights all evils and creates awareness for the villagers, forms the story," Laxmi Shankar Bajpai, ......................................
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Source: Business Standard | Press Trust of India | New Delhi
August 6, 2013 Last Updated at 21:24 IST
All India Radio will broadcast a serial which will highlight merits of UPA government's schemes through its narrative.
"Priya" will be the second such serial as the AIR is already broadcasting "Jamunia" which too follows a similar theme.
In a statement issued here, AIR said that "Priya" is a story of a poor but courageous young women protagonist, who fights against all odds, bringing the village folk together, generating awareness in them in the modern context.
The objective of this serial is to make rural people aware of various welfare schemes like MNREGA, mid-day meal, educational loans, property rights of women, digitisation of land records, rural health schemes, ..........................................
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Source: The Telegraph | SUMI SUKANYA
Saturday , August 3 , 2013
New Delhi, Aug. 2: Doordarshan (DD) has lined up a Hindi regional channel each in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan with sources saying they are part of the Centre's efforts to reach out to the Hindi heartland ahead of elections.
Assembly polls are due in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan later this year, followed by the general election next summer, and the 24X7 channels will help public broadcaster Prasar Bharati spread word about the UPA government's "policies and schemes" among the people, the sources said.
While the channels in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh have already gone on air, the other two will start on August 15.
DD officials, however, denied ..................................
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Source: KASHMIR TIMES | KT NEWS SERVICE
News Updated at : Saturday, August 03, 2013
JAMMU, Aug 2: Vijay Kumar Sharma, Assistant Engineer Doordarshan Kendra Jammu, has been elected as State secretary of the Association of Radio and TV Engineering Employees (ARTEE) in its Executive members of Association of Radio & TV Engg (ARTVE) held at New Delhi.
Result of the elections were declared in national capital New Delhi here on the other day in which Asstt Engineer (AE) Doordarshan Kendra Jammu has been elected as State Secretary (J&K) of Association of Radio & TV Engg (ARTVE) for the term 2013-15.
According to the press statement issued today stated that result of ....................................
Source: Times of India | Zinia Sen, TNN
Aug 1, 2013, 12.00AM IST
Jeevan Smriti (Selective Memories) will be premiered on Doordarshan on August 8
"It has taken me longer than any of my feature films. And it's not been an easy period for me â€" I had to be admitted to hospital while I was stillfilming. It was almost as if I was alive because I had to complete the project. It's a feeling I've never had before..." This is what RituparnoGhosh had told CT in an interview last August after completingJeevanSmriti (Selective Memories), his docu-fictionon Tagore.
Source: SI (sportsillustrated.cnn)
Published on Wednesday July 31, 2013 12:34 PM
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The IOC has sold broadcasting rights in India for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, even as the country is suspended from the Olympic movement.
The International Olympic Committee says STAR India acquired exclusive rights in India, plus Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The value was not disclosed.
The package includes the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and the 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China.
For the 2012 London Games, Indian public broadcaster Doordarshan had rights.....................
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Source: indiantelevision.com | Indiantelevision.com Team
31 July 2013 6:32 pm
NEW DELHI: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has decided to hitch on to DD Direct Plus, the country's only free to air direct-to-home platform. The channel has also decided to collaborate with Prasar Bharati in other fields like archives and indigenous and classical music for both television and radio.
This was stated by both Prasar Bharati chief executive officer Jawhar Sircar and ABC CEO Lynley Marshall during a discussion prior to the formal signing of a memorandum of understanding with Doordarshan.
Source: The Economic Times| By PTI | 30 Jul, 2013, 11.15PM IST
NEW DELHI: Australian channel ABC InternationalBSE -2.91 % will now be available to viewers of Doordarshan's Direct to Home (DTH) platform after Prasar Bharati and the Australian network signed an agreement today.
Australian channel ABC International will now be available to viewers of Doordarshan's Direct to Home (DTH) platform.
The channel is the international service of the Australian public service broadcaster and is beamed to more than 40 countries in Asia and the Pacific.
Officials said that ABC International will be available on DD Direct Plus from November 1.
Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar and Lynley Marshall CEO of ABC International.............................
Source: Business Standard | Press Trust of India | New Delhi July 30, 2013
Australian channel ABC International will now be available to viewers of Doordarshan's Direct to Home (DTH) platform after Prasar Bharati and the Australian network signed an agreement today.
The channel is the international service of the Australian public service broadcaster and is beamed to more than 40 countries in Asiaand the Pacific.
Officials said that ABC International will be available on DD Direct Plus from November 1.
Prasar Bharati CEO.............................
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