New Delhi: After being widely appreciated for his TV show 'Satyamev Jayate', Aamir Khan will now connect with millions of radio listeners in a programme called 'Dil Pe Lagi Aur Baat Bani'. From May 12, the show anchored by the actor will be broadcast every Saturday at 11 am on primary channels of All India Radio covering Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan and West Bengal....
12:21 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday made the first arrest in the bombing of an Israeli embassy car in the capital earlier last month. The police arrested a freelance journalist, accusing him of being part of the conspiracy. The arrest comes just over three weeks after the dramatic bombing of the Israeli embassy car that critically injured a diplomat and two others near the Prime Minister's residence. The freelance...
07:59 AM, Mar 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Google logo takes the form of electromagnetic waves (in Google colours - blue, red, yellow and green) to pay tribute to German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz on his 155th birth anniversary. Hertz was born at Hamburg on February 22, 1857. Hertz was the first to broadcast and receive radio waves. His pioneering work laid the way for the development of radio, television and radar. The unit of...
12:45 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: Taking to social media like Twitter and Facebook in a big way, the Information and Broadcasting ministry posted minute-by-minute accounts of a seminar on Community Radio on five websites simultaneously. As the Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni spoke to the gathering, a tweet flashed on microblogging site Twitter - "Radio is MoIB's flagship programme says Ambika Soni, Union Minster, Minister of Information and Broadcasting." "Lack of financial...
10:49 AM, Feb 19, 2012
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11:32 PM, Feb 18, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The man on the door, who wants to install a radio frequency chip in your house that carries the name of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, is no intruder. In fact, he is there to connect your household to the Corporation main office, enabling the local body to monitor the door-to-door services that it renders, whether that be regarding waste collection or property tax collection. It was as part of a...
09:18 AM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: There was no release of radiation from the sole medical device containing radioactive material in the AMRI Hospital in Kolkata where a massive fire broke out this morning, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board said. A High Dose Rate brachytherapy unit with radioactive Iridium-192 as source was situated in the lower basement of the Kolkata Hospital where the fire broke out, AERB secretary R Bhattacharya said in a statement....
08:41 PM, Dec 09, 2011
London: Here's some good news for energy-conscious music fans - scientists claim to have created the world's first water-powered radio. Its inventor, Vivian Black, who helped turn the Wind-Up Radio into a global success in the 1990s, says his water-proof radio is powered by the motion of water flowing into a shower, The Daily Telegraph reported. The H20 water-powered radio clips onto the water pipe that runs up to a...
03:04 PM, Nov 26, 2011
New Delhi: A website promising to offer clear and non-judgemental information to the young on safe sex, homosexuality and other sex-related issues was launched on Friday. The site has two versions - lovematters.info in English and lovematters.in in Hindi - and was launched by Dutch international public broadcaster Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Apart from the website, people can access the information on their mobiles too. "Before coming to India, we conducted...
02:40 PM, Nov 19, 2011
London: The BBC will soon introduce a new radio website, preliminarily named 'Audiopedia', that would contain the broadcaster's almost entire archives of radio programmes since the 1940s. The service will be launched "within the next 12 months", Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music, was quoted as saying by the Telegraph. As well as searching and listening to the archival material, 'Audiopedia' users will be able to share programmes...
09:38 AM, Nov 04, 2011
Mumbai: Private radio channels have got a respite after the Bombay High Court ruled that they don't have to pay separate royalty to composers and lyricists for broadcasting their songs, but the musicians are unhappy. The high court ruled that the Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS) that safeguards the copyright of music composers and lyricists is not entitled to claim or demand royalty or licence fees from a FM...
05:03 PM, Jul 27, 2011
New Delhi: If you missed WorldSpace - satellite radio network that streamed pre-programmed music 24 hours a day through about 40 genre-specific stations - heres some good news. In September, WorldSpace will be back. You will have the same old stations that you grew to love - Hindustani music on Gandarv, Carnatic music on Shruti, old Hindi film songs on Farishta and so on - very likely anchored by the...
12:11 PM, Jul 20, 2011
Los Angeles: Radio station giant Clear Channel Communications Inc. is revamping its website and mobile products to imitate the personalized music offerings at Pandora, an online service that is growing in popularity. Bob Pittman, chairman of media and entertainment platforms for Clear Channel, said the success of Pandora Media Inc. proves that people like being able to stream songs according to their personal tastes on mobile devices. Clear Channel plans...
08:30 AM, Jul 13, 2011
Tokyo: Japan's crisis-hit nuclear power plant could spill more radioactive water into the sea within a week unless engineers can fix a glitch in a new system to clean up pools of contaminated water, officials said. Tokyo Electric Power Co, known as Tepco, has pumped massive amounts of water to cool three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which had meltdowns after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disabled cooling...
10:16 AM, Jun 17, 2011
Melissa DSilva goes to the library almost every day. For someone who is not a book lover, this is unusual. I dont like to read, she confesses. But I came here to find books on baby care, and things to occupy my mind and time. A few days ago, DSilva had started her maternity leave and boredom was creeping in. So one day, she decided to head to the local...
12:59 PM, Jun 16, 2011
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