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  • UNI news agencys Urdu news website launched

    UNI news agencys Urdu news website launched

    NEW DELHI: The Urdu service of the United News of India news agency has been lauded for its efforts to promote the language.

     

    Union Ministers Oscar Fernandes, K Rahman Khan, Srikant Jena and Manish Tewari were speaking after launching the Urdu website of the UNI Urdu service, which remains the only national news agency to have an Urdu service.

     

    The ministers and other eminent speakers resolved to give full backing to the news agency’s efforts to popularise the Urdu language.

     

    The UNI Urdu news service was launched two decades ago for bringing Urdu newspapers into the mainstream, becoming the first in the world to launch a service in that language.

     

    UNI Urdu news service was launched in 1992. The agency disseminates its news services in three languages–English, Hindi and Urdu.

  • Veteran ballet dancer, eminent medico join Prasar Bharati board

    Veteran ballet dancer, eminent medico join Prasar Bharati board

    NEW DELHI: Veteran ballet dancer Mamata Shankar, renowned cardiac surgeon Sunil Kapoor and senior journalist George Verghese have been appointed members of the Prasar Bharati Board with immediate effect.

    The new appointees are part of the six part-time members provided for under the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act 1990 which was brought into force from September 1997.

    Chaired by senior media expert MV Kamath and executive member BS Lalli, the board includes Chitra Mudgal and Bhupen Hazarika as part-time members.

    Verghese, who has been working with news agency United News of India for the last 35 years, will be on the board for five years.