25 January 2017 The DRM Consortium, in collaboration with BECIL, is organising and hosting a high level round table meeting in New Delhi on January 31. Its aim is to update...
22 November 2016 Indian Minister for Information & Broadcasting M. Venkaiah Naidu said that All India Radio (AIR) as a medium of communication had played a significant...
8 June 2016 June 8 marks 80 years since India’s public broadcaster All India Radio, officially known as Akashvani, started its broadcasting operations. The word Akashvani is...
2 May 2016 During a session on Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) at Radio Asia, Fayyaz Sheheryar the Director General of All India Radio said all PSB broadcasters...
22 April 2016 The Board of India’s national broadcaster Prasar Bharati is contemplating shutting down the shortwave service of the External Services Division (ESD) of All India...
30 June 2015 Young professionals on their way to work listen to All India Radio for western music. Military men at their outposts listen to Hindi film...
20 March 2015 India’s public broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) has decided to start FM services throughout the country in a phased manner, according to Indiantelevision.com. The plan...
23 February 2015 India’s national broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) has placed its Vividh Bharti channel in Chennai on FM mode in order to reach a larger audience,...
8 January 2015 India’s public broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) is marking a century of Mahatma Gandhi’s return to the country from South Africa with a 100-episode series....
6 January 2015 The Indian government has decided to ramp up national broadcasters All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan television in border areas to counter propaganda from neighbouring...
16 December 2014 According to a survey by India’s public broadcaster All India Radio (AIR), its medium wave (AM) and FM channels cover 99.2% of the population and...
11 December 2014 Public broadcaster All India Radio has found a unique way to celebrate the birthday of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The broadcaster...
24 October 2014 India’s public broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) has stopped airing 37 educational channels of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) due to non-payment of dues,...
3 October 2014 A speech by new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made history as the first current affairs broadcast by private radio in the country. News...
15 September 2014 India’s national broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) has restored services of its Radio Kashmir channel, which was disrupted due to unprecedented floods over the last week. The...
10 August 2014 A member of India’s national broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) in the state of Kerala has been questioned on suspicion of broadcasting messages supporting Maoist...
4 August 2014 The Indian government won't allow private radio stations to source their news from the Press Trust of India (PTI) after all, reports Business Standard. The...
31 July 2014 The Indian government has set aside more than $65 million (Rs 3.93 billion) to digitise the national broadcaster All India Radio (AIR), according to radioandmusic.com....
12 June 2014 Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan once dreamed of becoming a radio presenter and even had an audition at the Mumbai studio of All India Radio (AIR)...
10 June 2014 India’s state-owned public radio broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) could soon see a revamp, reports the daily The Hindu. New Minister for Information and Broadcasting...
9 May 2014 There is a strong case for the Indian government to supervise the functioning of Prasar Bharati, the public broadcaster that runs All India Radio, according...
21 February 2014 Amethi in Uttar Pradesh is the latest city to get an FM station from public broadcaster All India Radio (AIR). The new channel, which...
14 February 2014 As reported last week, Fayyaz Sheheryar has taken over the charge of Director General, All India Radio – India’s national radio broadcaster. According to a...
3 February 2014 Having worked with India's national public radio broadcaster, All India Radio (AIR), for 26 years, R.Venkateswarlu retired on Jan 31 as Director General, a position...
19 January 2014 India's public broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) has denied the decision to launch an FM station in politican Rahul Gandhi's constituency was politically motivated. Gandhi...
2 January 2014 As India's general election draws near, All India Radio is to vie with the country's dozens of TV news channels for premier coverage, reports The...
23 December 2013 India's main public broadcaster is set to receive US$516 million shot in the arm to pay for new broadcast infrastructure, according to local media. The...
15 December 2013 India's public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has an army of almost 300 consultants on its books, many earning five figure monthly salaries, local media reports. The...
7 December 2013 India's public broadcaster All India Radio has opened an FM station in the city of Rae Barely in Uttar Pradesh, the constituency of Congress president...
14 November 2013 R Venkateswarlu has been appointed director general of public broadcaster All India Radio. He moves from the position of DG South Zone where he oversaw...