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Prasar Bharati Bars Employees From Talking To Media Without Permission
Prasar Bharti has barred all the employees of All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD) from interacting with media without prior permission from "the competent authority". Prasar Bharti had issued two such orders earlier also - first in November 2019 and second in February this year. Reportedly, it issued fresh orders after violations of its previous orders came to its knowledge. "This lapse has been viewed very seriously," read the order… read-more
Tags: media, journalist, Prasar Bharati, All India Radio, Doordarshan
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Prasar Bharati To Support Government's Education Scheme; Launches 51 Education Channels
Prasar Bharati signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in-order to support the Government's Education scheme, and will launch 51-educational channels. As per the MoU, 22 Swaymprabha channels, 12 e-Vidya channels for classes 1 to 12 under the NCERT syllabus, 16 Vande Gujarat channels and one Digishala channel will be launched. Reportedly, the channels can be accessed pro bono by… read-more
Tags: MoU, Prasar Bharati, ministry of electronics and information technology
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Prasar Bharati Discontinues Association With PTI, UNI
Citing rationalization of expenditure, Prasar Bharati (PB) has planned to discontinue subscriptions to services of PTI and UNI. Reportedly, current subscriptions were on an ad-hoc and pro-rata basis as contracts with PTI and UNI had ended in 2006. However, fresh bids for digital subscription in multimedia services will be invited. Earlier, PB had warned PTI of cancelling its subscription after Chinese embassy published a truncated clip of PTI… read-more
Tags: Prasar Bharati, Public broadcaster, PTI, UNI, India-China Standoff
Courtesy: Indian Express
