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  • BBC World’s ‘The World Challenge’ shortlists India’s Irula Venom Centre as a finalist

    MUMBAI: The World Challenge – a global competition in partnership with BBC World, Shell and Newsweek which seeks to highlight and reward outstanding examples of community enterprise and innovation – has announced that the Irula Venom Centre has been shortlisted as one of 12 finalists.

    Earlier this year, BBC World received a total of 457 entries with the highest numbers coming from India with a total of 71 nominations. Forty five entries came from the United States, 30 from Nigeria , 18 from South Africa and 17 from Pakistan.
     
     

    A panel of judges, including representatives from the World Bank, TVE and Triodos Bank, chose 12 unique and interesting entries to progress to the final stage. The panel recognised the innovative way in which the Irula Venom Centre (India) has been able to create employment for local tribal people, while protecting the local community from the dangers of venomous snakes.

    The Irula community, not long ago impoverished, is now being employed to catch snakes and carefully extract their venom, before releasing them back into the wild. This venom is used to create anti-venom serum for the treatment of snakebites, which, in turn, protects the local community from harm. The project has been so successful that the Irula Venom Centre now supplies up to 80 per cent of the venom for India’s medical needs.
     
     

    A 15-minute film is being produced on each of the finalists, and these will be aired as six special programmes about The World Challenge to be broadcast globally on BBC World for six weeks from Saturday 20 August (every Saturday at 2 pm and 7 pm). Each project will also be featured extensively in Newsweek.

    Viewers can vote for their favourite project through the website of The World Challenge, at www.theworldchallenge.co.uk. The winning project will be announced in November, and will receive from Shell a grant of US$20,000.

    The other shortlisted projects are: Basket Weaving (Kenya), Bio Power (Malta), Coconuts For Erosion Control (Philippines), Elephant Pepper (Zambia), Men On The Side Of The Road (South Africa), Nguna-Pele Rechargeable Battery (Vanuatu), Real Vision, Real IPM (Kenya), Resin Roof Tiles (Ukraine), Riet Vell Organic Farming (Spain), ROMP (United Kingdom), Weddings That Give Back (United States).

  • BBC World’s deal with Emirates for live in-flight news

    NEW DELHI: Emirates has signed an agreement with BBC World, making the Dubai-based airline the first to offer live BBC news headlines on its aircraft.
    The new service, effective immediately, means that passengers can stay in touch with the latest news, business and sport stories from the www.bbcnews.com website. Information is updated regularly throughout each flight and displayed on overhead monitors or personal video screens, an official statement from the BBC states.
    Headlines are sent constantly from the BBC website and retransmitted to the aircraft through Inmarsat geostationary satellites, positioned 35,600km above earth. The software and communications infrastructure for the service was developed in-house by Emirates.
    BBC World travel distribution head Bill Mould added, “The BBC is renowned for its authoritative, accurate, balanced presentation of the news. This agreement with Emirates means the airline’s passengers can be the best informed, most up-to-date travellers in the skies.”
    Emirates had been presenting a selection of headlines on its brand new Airbus A340-500 aircraft, including the top six news stories and the top four business and sport developments. The new service now becomes available on all A330s and Boeing B777-300s, as well as some B777-200s.

  • BBC World’s Asian viewership up by 15 per cent, channel quotes Pax

    NEW DELHI: The seventh Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX) has found that BBC World has sustained the audience it gained in 2002. It has also shown an annual growth in some of Asia’s biggest urban centres.
    A company release states that BBC World has experienced an increase of 15 per cent in its viewership within Asia – the fastest growth for any international news or business channel.
    Across the original seven PAX markets, BBC World claims to be nearly 60 per cent ahead of CNBC in terms of reach among business decision-makers. The channel has enjoyed particularly large growth in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Hong Kong and Taipei.
    In particular, BBC World’s investment in regional programming is said to have attracted a loyal audience of senior business people. Findings show that more than 24,000 ‘top management’ in Asia tune in to BBC World either every day or almost every day, according to an official statement from the BBC.
    BBC World’s overall audience profile also remains enviably upscale. Among the ten largest international channels in Asia-Pacific, BBC World’s audience includes the highest proportion of frequent business travellers (34 per cent), business decision-makers (27 per cent) and business opinion formers (35 per cent).
    The release quotes BBC World’s head of research and planning Jeremy Nye, as saying, “BBC World continues to maintain its position in Asia-Pacific, attracting upmarket audiences, and cost-effective delivery to advertisers. Across the main nine PAX markets, we are pulling further away from its main competitors, and now reaching more business decision-makers in certain day parts than CNN.”
    The PAX 2003 survey was conducted during the 12-month period from July 2002 to June 2003 among 19,222 respondents in markets in Asia-Pacific. The survey was based on nine markets including Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Taipei, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul and India. In India, it covered Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.

  • BBC World’s new quiz show to challenge students

    MUMBAI: It is time to get into the spirit of testing knowledge in the best brains in the country. BBC World, the BBC’s commercially funded international 24-hour news and information channel, will be introducing a brand-new quiz show University Challenge aimed at students this summer.
    The best quizzing teams from top university colleges will vie for top honours in a head-to-head challenge with each other over 27 programmes. The challenge will aim at searching the brightest and the best-informed college students in the country and will cover the gamut of sports, theatre, technology, industries, film, music, dance, science & medicine, television, advertising, art & literature, destinations, cuisine and many other areas. The show will be similar to the one that has been successfully running in UK for the past 40 years.
    The nationwide hunt for the best college teams starts with BBC World calling for entries from prestigious colleges across India. To take up this challenge college teams could register and download forms by visiting ww.universitychallenge@funtoo.com.
    Commenting on the new programme initiative, BBC World commissioning editor Narendhra Morar was quoted as saying: “With popular quiz shows like Mastermind India, BBC World has always prided itself in being the best in the field. University Challenge is a brilliant quiz format, which will enable Indian college students to experience a truly international level of quizzing. We look forward to announcing the show in a couple of months with British Council through interactive ground events.
     
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  • Rahul Bajaj on BBC World’s ‘HARDtalk’

    In a special interview as part of BBC World’s Emerging Giants season exploring India and China as two of the world’s most dynamic countries, catch the well-known Industrialist Rahul Bajaj in conversation with Stephen Sackur on HARDtalk.

    This special episode of HARDtalk will be transmitted on 23rd May @ 1400 IST with additional appointments to view at 2100 IST.

    The Emerging Giants season, being broadcast globally on BBC World from Monday 22 May to Sunday 28 May, includes hard-hitting news reports and analytical programming to reflect where the economies of the two emerging countries, India and China, are headed over the course of the next 20 years, and their potential impact on the rest of the world.

    (Please give credit to BBC World if you use any part of this release.)

    For further information contact:
    Deeptie Sethi / Neha Sharma
    BBC World
    Email: deeptie.sethi @bbc.co.uk

    Note to editors:
    For more information on the Emerging Giants season, go to bbcworld.com/emerginggiants

    BBC World, the BBC’s commercially funded international 24-hour news and information channel, is owned and operated by BBC World Ltd, a member of the BBC’s commercial group of companies. BBC World is available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, and reaches 279 million households (139 million 24-hour homes) and more than one million hotel rooms. BBC World launched in its present format in 1995 and is funded by advertising and subscription. For further information on how to receive BBC World, download schedules or find out more about the channel, visit www.bbcworld.com.