September – Doordarshan-India's national state-owned broadcaster established.
Along with a television documentary on the history of Indian cricket broadcast on Doordarshan, India's Test cricket captains were honoured during the 2nd final at the Eden Gardens in Calcutta (now Kolkata) – from the then 86-year old Lala Amarnath to the then-captain, 24-year old Sachin Tendulkar.
The government is very particular against broadcasting such advertisements on its channel, Doordarshan, whereas most of the private channels still broadcast surrogate alcohol advertisements.
It so happened that a quiz contest aired on Doordarshan in February 1967, in which participants could easily answer questions pertaining to Greek mythology, but were unable to reply to the question "In the Ramayana, who was Rama's mother?".
Doordarshan aired a Hindi serial named "Anandi Gopal" based on Anandibai's life.
In addition, he has also written a book on state television broadcaster Doordarshan — "Sorry, Not Ready", published by Harper Collins.
He worked as Reporter in Eenadu Telugu news daily from 1989 to 1993, later he worked as Script Writer in State Institute of Education Technology (SIET), Doordarshan (a UNESCO aided Educational Project).
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He did his diploma in Journalism (Eenadu Journalism School), and Diploma in Screenplay writing in Doordarshan Kendra, Ramanthapur, Hyderabad.
Often referred to by the title Pandit (from a very young age), he is an All India Radio (AIR) staff artist, Indian National Television Channel (Doordarshan) artist and also a stage performing artist.
Amitabh Bachchan's Kaun Banega Crorepati (Season 1), featured Chicken 65 as a Buhari invention as did Siddarth Basu's Quiz Time on Doordarshan in the 90s.
In the late 1970s, Dhirendra Brahmachari promoted the benefits of yoga in a weekly broadcast on Doordarshan, the state-owned television network.
Besides his writing career, Nazki has also headed the Doordarshan broadcasting service in the state and retired as its Deputy Director General.
Films Division has produced mainly for the state-owned TV channel, Doordarshan.
During the year 2003-04, a series based on the mythological stories of Goddess Gayatri was aired on Doordarshan, the national TV channel of India on prime time (10 AM, Sunday).
The training and placement cell arranges vocational training and placement for students at organizations like L&T, VECC, Air India, Doordarshan, BSNL, DRDO, WBPDCL, WBSEDCL, Eastern Railways (India), NTPC, DVC, CLW, Simplex, Bridge & Roof, KMDA, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, Gannon Dunkerley & Company.
It provides a feed of news articles from Doordarshan, offers press releases sourced from the Press Information Bureau and a list of announcements contributed by central and state departments.
To communicate the exact time to the people, the exact time is broadcast over the state–owned All India Radio and Doordarshan television network.
The national broadcaster Doordarshan allegedly attempted to stop crowds from participating in the demonstration by telecasting the blockbuster movie Bobby.
He also performed for Sangeet Natak Academy, Sahitya Kala Parishad, All India Radio, Doordarshan, Punjab Heritage Festival, Rajasthan Sangeet Natya Academy, Rajeev Gandhi Kala Mandir (Goa), Shri Ram Bhartiya Kala Kendra, European Union Cultural Week, National Center for Performing Arts (Mumbai), etc.
The most notable of these include National Sangeet Sammelan programmes on All India Radio in 1997 and 2000, AIR National Programme of Music in 2004 and National Programme of Music on Doordarshan, in 2008.
By late 1970s, he had made his first short TV film the “Jamuna Bazar”, near river Yamuna in Delhi, and soon switched to television scriptwriting, and eventually became the 'Additional Director General' of Doordarshan, India's national television channel, (1980–82), during his tenure, in a matter of 24 months, the entire nation was connected with television network.
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He hosted a popular talk show on Doordarshan, Parikrama, started a weekly literary show, Patrika, and also produced and directed several television programs and investigative documentaries on social and political issues for Doordarshan.
and the preparation of a documentary film for the Indian television (Doordarshan).
Maharashtra Institute of Technology in collaboration with Doordarshan also organizes Robocon India, an interesting game- cum- intellectual exercise for budding engineers and their enthusiastic instructors, determined to innovate and create machines for producing desired results.
Her serials include Lady Detective, Sangarshana, Pelli Chesukundam & Jwaala for Etv, Dairy of Mrs Sharada & Kotha Bangaaram for Gemini, Maanasa for Maa TV, Vaidehi for Doordarshan, Chinna Kodalu for Zee TV, and Naagamma in Tamil for Sun TV.
The estate was later used by the national television broadcaster Doordarshan.
Clients who have signed up of this service include Gas Authority of India Ltd, DuPont, Reckitt Benckiser, Sona Steering, Doordarshan, Singer India, National Stock Exchange and Transworld.
He conducted bodybuilding programmes that were telecast in the Doordarshan.
He worked in AIR and Doordarshan in several capacities- as Announcer and Newsreader for over 7 years, besides doing various programs.
Mrs. Balbir Singh was also the first cookery expert to be commissioned by India’s public service national television network, Doordarshan, to present a series of instructional cooking segments and shows.
He has also worked as a screenwriter in the Tamil film industry, and also for Paramapadham, the first Tamil-language "mega-serial" to be shown on Doordarshan.
Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan (TV show) - a Hindi TV show on Doordarshan featuring Tabassum interviewing famous film and TV personalities which aired for 21 years and was the 1st Bollywood show from 1972 to 1993.
In the late nineties, he first appeared in his own acting/directorial venture in a detective serial in Doordarshan's Telugu channel.
A television series based on Rajatirangini named "Meeras" was begun in 1986 in Doordarshan Srinagar.
Karandikar has conducted opinion polls for Indian Parliamentary elections and state assembly polls for Doordarshan, TV Today, Network 18, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, etc.
Rama Ravi has performed in Sangeet Sammelan recitals, and has also appeared in national programs on Doordarshan and All India Radio.
Doordarshan the official TV station of the Government of India commissioned and showed a documentary on the eve of his birth centenary in 1984 produced by Kusum Chaturvedi and Mukta.
One of his famous novels Kab tak pukaroon (How Long Do I Call) was made into a television series by Doordarshan.
He also gave music in a Telefilm named Bindia which was produced by Doordarshan and was directed by Uma Vasudeva.
In a significant deviation, India's state television Doordarshan, did not telecast the launch live.
Vannakolangal created a sensation as it was re-telecast eight times in Doordarshan.
In the 70’s, she became very popular on the television with her show What’s the good word? ran for a record 15 years on Doordarshan.
She is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, formerly of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) 1960 batch, erstwhile Director General of Doordarshan, the Indian public television network.
This method of subtitling is used by national television broadcasters in India such as Doordarshan and in China.
The station manager Gulshan Dhingra, previously worked for Doordarshan and the Sunrise Radio Group.
Alekar scripted the National Film Award winning Marathi feature film Jait Re Jait in 1977, directed by Jabbar Patel, and later he directed a 13-part Hindi TV serial Dekho Magar Pyarse for Doordarshan in 1985.
Sharma Bandhu have been associated with India's Public broadcaster Doordarshan since 1975 and rank among The most popular artists on Doordarshan and telecast till date.
Shiladitya Patranobis (1967 – 7 November 2008) was prominent Indian TV and Bengali film actor.He began his acting career with the Doordarshan serial Sonar Sansar in the early 1990s.
It was one of the first dance dramas to be shot and relayed by Delhi Doordarshan.
In 2004, Sona has received the Best Actress Award in the "Kaveri Film Critics Television Awards" for her role in a telefilm Rachiyamma, telecasted on Doordarshan.
Documentaries on their lives were prepared and shown on Doordarshan.
The show, "Ek Tha Rusty", named after the author's nickname, was aired on Doordarshan.
He was noticed when he started directing TV serials for Doordarshan.
The book became the basis of the 53-episode Indian television series Bharat Ek Khoj (1988), directed by Shyam Benegal, first broadcast in 1988 on state-run Doordarshan channel.
This song, also composed by Raju Singh, was originally a part of the TV serial Swabhimaan aired on Doordarshan in 1995.
In 1986, Birkinshaw went to India where he directed an award winning film on the life of Jawaharlal Nehru, entitled But I Have Promises To Keep, which had been commissioned by Rajiv Gandhi and was made for the Government of India via Doordarshan, the national television network of India.
She also had a short stint as announcer on All India Radio, Mumbai and later as a news reader on Mumbai Doordarshan (India's National broadcaster), and presenter of Saptahiki.
A separate DTH service in C-Band with a bouquet of 10 channels has also been provided by Doordarshan exclusively for Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which is also Free to Air.
Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad was inaugurated by the then President of India, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy on 23 October,1977.
He has recited his poetical works for All India Radio and Doordarshan ans delivered several lectures at seminars/conferences conducted by the Central Sahitya Akademi and other prestigious organizations.
Idea Jalsa was first telecast on Doordarshan followed by Zee TV and now in 165 countries worldwide.
Munshi Premchand Ki, based on the writing of Premchand, starring Pankaj Kapur and Surekha Sikri, directed by Gulzar and produced by Doordarshan.
Gul Gulshan Gulfaam was a 1991 Doordarshan television serial directed by Ved Rahi and produced by Prem Krishen (Cinevistaas).
He established IT Division of All India Radio, formulated and piloted the proposal for establishment of Broadcast Engineering Consultants India, a public sector undertaking of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, established AIR Resources, a wing for sharing infrastructure of All India Radio and Doordarshan with private broadcasters, among others.
She was first seen in Lifeline (Jeevanrekha) a Hindi TV serial on life of doctors, along with Tanvi Azmi over doordarshan.
She has held various positions like the Vice-President of the Karnataka State Industrial Bank Ltd., Member of Programme Committee, Doordarshan, Bangalore, Member of ZRUCC, Southern Railways, Member of Advisory Committee, All India Radio, and Memberof the Family Planning Association of India.