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NEW DELHI: After nearly a quarter of a century with the BBC, Subhajyoti Ghosh is turning a familiar page to start a new chapter. The journalist has...
MUMBAI: BBC Bangla will present a series of programmes and events with audiences in Bangladesh and India to mark 75 years of broadcasting. A part of...
MUMBAI: BBC Bangla will present a series of programmes and events with audiences in Bangladesh and India to mark 75 years of broadcasting. A part of...
MUMBAI: The BBC has appointed Simon Jack as the new business editor. Jack joined the BBC’s Business and Economic team in 2003 and, as BBC Economics...
MUMBAI: The BBC has appointed Simon Jack as the new business editor. Jack joined the BBC’s Business and Economic team in 2003 and, as BBC Economics...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service will be launching a compelling new six-part series titled My Perfect Country teaming up with the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) to build the perfect...
MUMBAI: The BBC World Service is launching a new weekly programme with an all-female line up. The Conversation starts on Monday 27th October (2030 GMT). Each...
MUMBAI: This autumn the BBC World Service will broadcast specially commissioned programmes exploring how the First World War changed the subcontinent. India made an unparalleled contribution...
MUMBAI: In his lecture series, ‘The Future of Medicine’, Atul Gawande will undertake a global examination of the nature of modern medicine: Both it’s progress and...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced that its global audience will get behind the scenes access as part of a special day of live programming on 29 February,...
MUMBAI: BBC will end its Hindi radio service in India after captivating listeners for 70 long years. The transmission, which began in 1940 even before India...
MUMBAI: As Africa plays host to the Fifa World Cup for the first time this June, the BBC’s international news services will offer a global perspective...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has launched a news and current affairs programme for audiences in the Southern and Eastern regions of Afghanistan. Stasu Narray, from the...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service’s weekly radio audience estimate is 182 million listeners a week across its 33 language services – down one million on last year’s...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service’s weekday magazine programme Outlook is doing an interactive drama collaboration that asks listeners to help create a play – Kim’s Game –...
MUMBAI: The heads of BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale, Radio Netherlands Worldwide and the Voice of America have called upon governments to honour...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service Trust has launched a campaign Jo Bola Wohi Sikander, wherein a riddle will be given to get people talking about a taboo...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service will receive a £70 million funding increase from the UK government for the three-year period from 2008-2009 to 2010-2011. The announcement was...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC World Service’s English radio programmes can now be heard on FM for the first time in the Maldives capital of Male. BBC...
MUMBAI: Visitors to Chinese web portal, sina.com.cn, can now learn English with the BBC. The site offers its users direct access to the BBC Learning English...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service now claims to have more listeners than any other international radio broadcaster, with an increase in its audience to a record 183...
MUMBAI: Gwyneth Williams has been appointed director of BBC World Service’s English networks and news. She will be responsible for all the BBC’s international radio programmes...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has announced that BBC Hindi’s six-week Your World, Your Voice campaign in northern India, during November to December last year, connected with...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service, the radio arm of BBC Worldwide kicks of its integrated India Rising season of special programming from 3 to 11 February. Starting...
MUMBAI: BBC Learning English, a division of the international radio and online broadcaster BBC World Service, has signed a deal with Radio Riyadh to provide tailored...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has appointed Vineeta Dwivedi as the business development manager for India. Based in Delhi, she will be in charge of the broadcaster’s...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service will launch a television news and information service in the Farsi (Persian) language for Iran, it was announced today. The service will...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has appointed Uduak Amimo as its senior editorial adviser, supporting the Director of the BBC World Service, Nigel Chapman. Uduak advises on...
BBC World Service on-air editor Steve Martin has been responsible for the present on-air image that BBC’s English Radio Network holds, be it the sound identity...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service Trust, National AIDS Control Organisation (Naco) and national network Doordarshan have joined hands to spread awareness about AIDS through a music album...
MUMBAI: Veteran journalist Ibrahim Helal has been appointed deputy managing director news and programmes of the soon to be launched news and current affairs channel Al...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service now attracts 163 million weekly radio listeners to its 33 language services – a record audience for the world’s best-known and most...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has announced that the online site of BBC Hindi – bbchindi.com – has joined forces with its online partner Webdunia to conduct...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service, the radio division of BBC, has announced that the site bbcurdu.com is launching a series of events in three Indian cities to...
MUMBAI: The BBC World Service is initiating a broad restructuring process as it has set out its plans to launch an Arabic-language television service. The company...
MUMBAI: The BBC World Service has hit the road to meet its many listeners across Uganda and to broadcast programmes live till Thursday 27 October 2005....
MUMBAI: Six months have passed since the natural disaster Tsunami affected Indonesia, The Maldives, Sri Lanka and Somalia. The BBC World Service is launching The Tsunami...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has stated that its weekly audience in Bangladesh has increased by 2.6 million in the past year. Thirteen million Bangladeshis tuned in...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks India has announced a line up of new appointments and promoted some senior executives to bolster its team. Ranjan Narayan has joined as...
MUMBAI:BBC World Service’s new chief operating officer and financial director Alison Woodhams has been appointed. She takes up her post in January 2005. She will be...
MUMBAI: Today the BBC announced that it was responding to listeners’ demand for better radio reception by expanding its medium wave transmissions to India. The beeb...
MUMBAI: Good work will continue on state owned Doordarshan this year. The co-production partnership between the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), BBC World Service Trust (BBC...
LONDON: Maciek Bernatt-Reszczynski has been appointed as head of BBC World Service in Ukraine. He will take up this position on 7 November. Maciek joined...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government may open up FM radio sector to news and current affairs programming as also the content being provided by a foreign...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service Trust is hiring. After a successful run of the first edition of its interactive TV detective series Jasoos Vijay, which airs every...
LONDON: BBC World Service has announced the appointment of new regional heads for Africa, Eurasia, the Americas and Asia and Pacific region. The current head...
India’s new information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is of the opinion that in the national interest, cable operators should desist from re-distributing Pak TV....
MUMBAI: Teachers of English as a foreign language around the world will have a new online resource from 5 December. The result of a joint initiative...
MUMBAI: To mark its 70th anniversary this December, the BBC World Service has organised a global poll to identify the world’s favourite songs. The poll has...
MUMBAI: With the anniversary of the most significant news event of last year nearly upon us, BBC World Service will launch a four-part series exploring international...
