Opinion

May 18, 2019 2:28 PM

General Elections Coverage by Prasar Bharati – DD & AIR

Here’s a glimpse of our extensive coverage of the elections so far and preparations for counting day on May 23rd.  Leveraging the wide network With the campaign for the 2019 General Elections drawing to a close, and one last phase of voting remaining, teams across @DDNewsLive and @airnew...

April 26, 2019 11:56 AM

Glimpses of Lok Sabha Election 2019 – A coverage by DD News and AIR

HImachal Pradesh: 3,200 students from different educational institutions participated to form 'Human Chain' in Kullu district to create awareness on the need to vote. It was organised under EC's SVEEP programme. Rajasthan: Electoral officials demonstrate the functioning of EVM...

April 3, 2019 12:09 PM

Mission Shakti – Going Beyond Pokharan

The kinetic kill that saw a low earth orbit satellite being taken down in a matter of few minutes by an indigenously ballistic missile defence interceptor, also saw several shibboleths being taken down both domestically and internationally as India announced its entry into an elite club of handful o...

April 3, 2019 12:00 PM

Disinformation Campaign to Re-Hyphenate

A clinical analysis of the reportage, commentary and related conversations on social media reveal a concerted campaign to dis-inform and discredit but more importantly to re-hyphenate a battered Pakistan with an assertive India. From state media in the extended neighborhood to global news wire agenc...

March 4, 2019 1:27 PM

New India’s Strategic Doctrine

For the first time Pakistan sponsored terror saw a pre-emptive strike from India that imposed costs on the Pakistani Deep State inside its territory to send a loud and clear message across the globe that its pursuit of Jihad under the nuclear shield was no longer tenable.  This shifting of the O...

February 13, 2019 11:01 AM

Message of Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati on Word Radio Day

Interestingly, Radio has evolved as a platform for people to connect across regions of India, across cultures, in a manner that you probably had not foreseen sometime back. A great example is the Prime Minister's Mann Ki Baat which has brought Radio back to the national discourse as a medium, e...