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  • Fifty days of Demonetization with CNN-News18 special telethon

    Fifty days of Demonetization with CNN-News18 special telethon

    MUMBAI: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs. 1000 notes and appealed to the masses to support him in his drive against black money and corruption on 8 November, the announcement was met with mixed feelings as no one knew what it entailed.
    As this 50 day period comes to an end, CNN-News18 will be doing a special day-long programme in the form of a telethon on 30 December 2016 from 9 am to 8 pm.
    Led by senior journalist Bhupendra Chaubey, the telethon will analyze the current scenario and try to get all sides of the NaMo’s DeMo story as it currently stands.

    This will include ground reports from various parts of the country along with interaction with Union Cabinet Ministers such as Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Nirmala Sitharaman, M Venkaiah Naidu, Piyush Goyal as well as leaders of opposition parties like Kapil Sibal, Anand Sharma, Shashi Tharoor, and Nitish Kumar to name a few. The channel will also try to speak to well-known commentators on political and economic affairs like S Gurumurthy, Surjit Bhalla, Rajiv Kumar, Anil Bokil and prominent entrepreneurs like Vijay Shekhar Sharma of PayTm and representatives of other mobile wallet companies.

    The channel will also leverage its exclusive partnership with CNN to bring in a global perspective on the issue.

    This special telecast aims to provide an overall perspective on the demonetization exercise and will provide a unique platform for the common man to raise their concerns and voice their opinions.

  • Fifty days of Demonetization with CNN-News18 special telethon

    Fifty days of Demonetization with CNN-News18 special telethon

    MUMBAI: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs. 1000 notes and appealed to the masses to support him in his drive against black money and corruption on 8 November, the announcement was met with mixed feelings as no one knew what it entailed.
    As this 50 day period comes to an end, CNN-News18 will be doing a special day-long programme in the form of a telethon on 30 December 2016 from 9 am to 8 pm.
    Led by senior journalist Bhupendra Chaubey, the telethon will analyze the current scenario and try to get all sides of the NaMo’s DeMo story as it currently stands.

    This will include ground reports from various parts of the country along with interaction with Union Cabinet Ministers such as Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Nirmala Sitharaman, M Venkaiah Naidu, Piyush Goyal as well as leaders of opposition parties like Kapil Sibal, Anand Sharma, Shashi Tharoor, and Nitish Kumar to name a few. The channel will also try to speak to well-known commentators on political and economic affairs like S Gurumurthy, Surjit Bhalla, Rajiv Kumar, Anil Bokil and prominent entrepreneurs like Vijay Shekhar Sharma of PayTm and representatives of other mobile wallet companies.

    The channel will also leverage its exclusive partnership with CNN to bring in a global perspective on the issue.

    This special telecast aims to provide an overall perspective on the demonetization exercise and will provide a unique platform for the common man to raise their concerns and voice their opinions.

  • ‘Mann Ki Baat’ earned Rs 4.78 cr; live streaming & app duds

    ‘Mann Ki Baat’ earned Rs 4.78 cr; live streaming & app duds

    MUMBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s radio address Mann ki Baat has reportedly got mega bucks for the All India Radio (AIR). Apart from getting millions of listeners, the programme, according to the information and broadcasting ministry, has fetched a gross revenue of over Rs 4.78 crore through advertisements.

    Prasar Bharati has informed that, as far as AIR is concerned, only the radio broadcast of Mann ki Baat is monetised and other platforms such as live streaming or app-based service are not, said the minister of state for information and broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore.

    Overall, the AIR registered a revenue growth in 2015-16 of Rs 447.76 crore from Rs 435.1 crore in 2014-15. Mann Ki Baat has also been visually adapted for telecast on Doordarshan channels.

    AIR, owned by the public broadcaster Prasar Bharati, so far aired 26 episodes of Mann Ki Baat. The show was launched in October 2014 and the broadcaster started monetising it by December. It is reported that AIR generates close to Rs 1 crore from Mann Ki Baat.

    According to a report in Livemint, the broadcaster has designated a total of seven minutes (five minutes before the show and two minutes after the show) for commercial revenue from Mann Ki Baat. It also airs self-promotional advertisements in those seven minutes.

    The report suggests that AIR charges an ad rate of Rs 2 lakh per 10 seconds of advertising for the PM’s radio address.

  • ‘Mann Ki Baat’ earned Rs 4.78 cr; live streaming & app duds

    ‘Mann Ki Baat’ earned Rs 4.78 cr; live streaming & app duds

    MUMBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s radio address Mann ki Baat has reportedly got mega bucks for the All India Radio (AIR). Apart from getting millions of listeners, the programme, according to the information and broadcasting ministry, has fetched a gross revenue of over Rs 4.78 crore through advertisements.

    Prasar Bharati has informed that, as far as AIR is concerned, only the radio broadcast of Mann ki Baat is monetised and other platforms such as live streaming or app-based service are not, said the minister of state for information and broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore.

    Overall, the AIR registered a revenue growth in 2015-16 of Rs 447.76 crore from Rs 435.1 crore in 2014-15. Mann Ki Baat has also been visually adapted for telecast on Doordarshan channels.

    AIR, owned by the public broadcaster Prasar Bharati, so far aired 26 episodes of Mann Ki Baat. The show was launched in October 2014 and the broadcaster started monetising it by December. It is reported that AIR generates close to Rs 1 crore from Mann Ki Baat.

    According to a report in Livemint, the broadcaster has designated a total of seven minutes (five minutes before the show and two minutes after the show) for commercial revenue from Mann Ki Baat. It also airs self-promotional advertisements in those seven minutes.

    The report suggests that AIR charges an ad rate of Rs 2 lakh per 10 seconds of advertising for the PM’s radio address.

  • ‘Disruptors’ Bansals named ‘Asian of the Year’ by Straits Times

    ‘Disruptors’ Bansals named ‘Asian of the Year’ by Straits Times

    MUMBAI: Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, founders of Flipkart, have been chosen for the prestigious 2016 ‘Asian of the Year’ by Straits Times of Singapore as part of a group called the ‘The Disruptors’. Flipkart claims to be India’s largest e-commerce marketplace with over with over 60% market share of mobile commerce.

    The Asian of the Year 2016 awards recognises entrepreneurs “operating at the frontiers of technology’s interface with business” who have launched companies that have disrupted traditional business model for the benefit of end consumers. The other disruptors include the founders of Tencent, Go-Jek, Grab and Razer.

    Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, in a joint statement, stated: “It validates our commitment to creating a world-class internet company that is transforming the lives of Indians by making a better quality of life both accessible and affordable to them.”

    Awarded since 2012, the ‘Asian of the Year’ award recognises “a person or people who have contributed significantly to improving lives at home or in the wider region”. In 2014, the award was given to India’s prime minister Narendra Modi and, in 2015, it was awarded posthumously to Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father.

    According to the award citation for 2016, The Disruptors have “made the inevitable march of technology easier to understand and accept by millions of people concerned about their old ways of life yielding to an unfamiliar new one.”

    2016 has been a year of accolades for Flipkart. Earlier this year, Time Magazine put Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal on the list of 100 Most Influential People in the world. In September 2016, Flipkart has emerged as the ‘E-commerce company of the year’ in a nationwide consumer study conducted by Business World Group in association with Nielsen. Flipkart also emerged as the top-ranked Indian brand in the Ipsos study of India’s most influential brands in April.

  • ‘Disruptors’ Bansals named ‘Asian of the Year’ by Straits Times

    ‘Disruptors’ Bansals named ‘Asian of the Year’ by Straits Times

    MUMBAI: Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, founders of Flipkart, have been chosen for the prestigious 2016 ‘Asian of the Year’ by Straits Times of Singapore as part of a group called the ‘The Disruptors’. Flipkart claims to be India’s largest e-commerce marketplace with over with over 60% market share of mobile commerce.

    The Asian of the Year 2016 awards recognises entrepreneurs “operating at the frontiers of technology’s interface with business” who have launched companies that have disrupted traditional business model for the benefit of end consumers. The other disruptors include the founders of Tencent, Go-Jek, Grab and Razer.

    Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, in a joint statement, stated: “It validates our commitment to creating a world-class internet company that is transforming the lives of Indians by making a better quality of life both accessible and affordable to them.”

    Awarded since 2012, the ‘Asian of the Year’ award recognises “a person or people who have contributed significantly to improving lives at home or in the wider region”. In 2014, the award was given to India’s prime minister Narendra Modi and, in 2015, it was awarded posthumously to Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father.

    According to the award citation for 2016, The Disruptors have “made the inevitable march of technology easier to understand and accept by millions of people concerned about their old ways of life yielding to an unfamiliar new one.”

    2016 has been a year of accolades for Flipkart. Earlier this year, Time Magazine put Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal on the list of 100 Most Influential People in the world. In September 2016, Flipkart has emerged as the ‘E-commerce company of the year’ in a nationwide consumer study conducted by Business World Group in association with Nielsen. Flipkart also emerged as the top-ranked Indian brand in the Ipsos study of India’s most influential brands in April.

  • No policy announcements, it’s simply ‘Mann ki Baat’

    No policy announcements, it’s simply ‘Mann ki Baat’

    NEW DELHI: The Government has made it clear that the prime minister Narendra Modi’s monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ broadcast does not cover any public policy or announcements.

    The minister of state for information and broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore said in the Parliament that “Mann Ki Baat is a unique initiative of the prime minister to reach across to the masses through the Radio and connect with the common man on regular basis, inform them about the initiatives of the Government and seek their support in nation building and governance”.

    He added that through this programme the Prime Minister has directly shared his concerns on issues affecting citizens of the country like cleanliness, saving the girl child, welfare of Divyangs, uprooting the menace of drugs and road rage etc. It also provides the listener an opportunity to suggest topics and issues faced by the common man and thus become a part of participative governance.

    The prime minister has now made the broadcast for 26 months.

    All India Radio has commenced the regional language broadcast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ immediately after the Hindi broadcast is over.

    AIR Director General Fayyaz Sheheryar told Indiantelevision.com’s sister concern Radioandmusic.com that this will be in addition to the broadcast on regional kendras that comes at 8.00 pm on the last Sunday of the month when the Prime Minister makes his broadcast. He said that AIR had advertised before this broadcast that listeners can catch the broadcast on the entire AIR network including medium wave and FM Gold and FM Rainbow.

    In addition, the broadcast is carried live on Doordarshan National, DD News, DD Bharati, DD India and DD Kisan.    

    The broadcast can also be heard on the AIR Mobile App ‘All India Radio Live’ on Android, IOS and Windows and also give a missed call on 1922 to listen to the broadcast.

    It is streamed live by pmonradio.nic.in, allindiaradio.gov.in, newsonair.nic.in, and youtube/user/akashvaniair.

    It is also available free to all private television channels and FM channels. Letters can be sent on MyGov.in, and NarendraModi App.

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  • No policy announcements, it’s simply ‘Mann ki Baat’

    No policy announcements, it’s simply ‘Mann ki Baat’

    NEW DELHI: The Government has made it clear that the prime minister Narendra Modi’s monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ broadcast does not cover any public policy or announcements.

    The minister of state for information and broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore said in the Parliament that “Mann Ki Baat is a unique initiative of the prime minister to reach across to the masses through the Radio and connect with the common man on regular basis, inform them about the initiatives of the Government and seek their support in nation building and governance”.

    He added that through this programme the Prime Minister has directly shared his concerns on issues affecting citizens of the country like cleanliness, saving the girl child, welfare of Divyangs, uprooting the menace of drugs and road rage etc. It also provides the listener an opportunity to suggest topics and issues faced by the common man and thus become a part of participative governance.

    The prime minister has now made the broadcast for 26 months.

    All India Radio has commenced the regional language broadcast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ immediately after the Hindi broadcast is over.

    AIR Director General Fayyaz Sheheryar told Indiantelevision.com’s sister concern Radioandmusic.com that this will be in addition to the broadcast on regional kendras that comes at 8.00 pm on the last Sunday of the month when the Prime Minister makes his broadcast. He said that AIR had advertised before this broadcast that listeners can catch the broadcast on the entire AIR network including medium wave and FM Gold and FM Rainbow.

    In addition, the broadcast is carried live on Doordarshan National, DD News, DD Bharati, DD India and DD Kisan.    

    The broadcast can also be heard on the AIR Mobile App ‘All India Radio Live’ on Android, IOS and Windows and also give a missed call on 1922 to listen to the broadcast.

    It is streamed live by pmonradio.nic.in, allindiaradio.gov.in, newsonair.nic.in, and youtube/user/akashvaniair.

    It is also available free to all private television channels and FM channels. Letters can be sent on MyGov.in, and NarendraModi App.

    Also read

    PM’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’: AIR starts regional translation after Hindi