Registering unparalleled growth in the TV distribution industry, Doordarshan FreeDish has become the largest DTH platform with reach to more than 43 Million households. With improved auction processes leading to addition of better quality & quantity of channels in various genres, between 2017 and 2022 alone, the Free DTH service of Doordarshan clocked a stellar growth of almost 100% from 22 Million in 2017 to 43 Million in 2022. Recently released FICCI-EY Report 2022 corroborates why and how DD FreeDish continues its strong growth trajectory, “Free Television continued to grow its base to reach an estimated 43 Million subscribers on…
Author: Editor's Desk, Tattva News
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) is on its way to commercialize another Basin – the Vindhyan Basin. This would be the ninth producing Basin of India- the eighth by ONGC. This comes close on the heels of the eighth Indian Basin – the Bengal Basin –dedicated to the nation on 20th December 2020. Exploratory well Hatta#3 was drilled with the objective to establish commercial potential through detailed testing to acquire reservoir-specific data. The Well Hatta#3 is in the Son valley sector of Madhya Pradesh. On testing, the well-produced over 62,044 cubic meters/day gas, thus confirming the production potential…
Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, said that the cultivation of cashew in around 11.25 Lakh ha area having an annual production of 7 Lakh Tonnes. He stated that the area under cashew in the country is the second-largest in the world. S Virtually inaugurating the “Silver Jubilee Building” of the ICAR-Directorate of Cashew Research, Puttur, Karnataka, he said that India is the second-largest country in the production of raw cashew nuts in the world. Highlighting the ever-increasing consumption of cashew in the country, he also stressed the need for setting a goal to fill up…
The media is reporting several incidents of sexual assault of women by Russian army in Ukraine as a weapon of war. Various reports suggests that Ukrainian refugee women and girls are also being raped in the places where they sought safety. Disturbing reports of Russian sexual violence towards Ukrainian civilians have been emerging. As a result sexual assault has remained as a major causality of this war. Women facing risk both from invaded Russian army and also in the refugee camps. Almost all of the 3.6 million Ukrainians who have left Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, 2022, are…
In December 2020, Earth Journalism Network (EJN) began a research project to determine how journalists in Asia who have received grant support and mentorship from EJN include women in their reporting, or fail to do so. A recent report on women’s under-representation in the media, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2020, concluded: “News is produced mainly by men, featuring more men and is consumed by more men.” Researchers at EJN conducted that women are often seen as “less credible” sources than men. Women journalists face safety concerns that can make field reporting more challenging. Men still hold most leadership positions in newsrooms, leading to less…
Keeping in mind the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas and Sabka Nyaya, Department of Justice launched a new website to provide citizens a one stop platform for all digital initiatives of the Department. The revamped website was inaugurated today by Union Minister of Law and Justice, Kiren Rijiju at an event held at Jaisalmer Bhawan. The new website is launched on S3WaaS platform (Secure, Scalable and Sugamya Website as a Service). It leverages technology to generate secure websites using GIGW (Guidelines for Government Websites) compliant templates which are highly customizable and can seamlessly be deployed…
Vice President, M Venkaiah Naidu stressed the need to fast-track empowerment of women educationally, economically, socially and politically for the nation to make further progress on various fronts. Addressing the 38th annual session of FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO) in Delhi, he said that there was an urgent need to remove gender disparity in various spheres. “Everybody from the government to the private sector and civil society must join hands in empowering women”, he added. Naidu also reiterated the need to provide reservations for women in Parliament and State legislatures as a means of empowering them. Women’s empowerment, he said, would…
Last week, hundreds of thousands of girls re-entered classrooms across Afghanistan for the first time in seven months, only to be told a few hours later to go home until further notice. The announcement to close schools for female students above sixth grade quickly drew international condemnation of the Taliban for backtracking on their promise that all Afghan girls would be allowed to resume education. In response, more than two dozen women and girls demonstrated in front of the ministry of education in Kabul on Saturday—the latest women-led protest since the Taliban took control in August 2021. “Afghan women are…
The winter season has drawn to a close, but it has left alarm bells clanging. A new analysis by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), of winter air pollution trends in Delhi-NCR, says that while there had been a minor drop in the seasonal level compared to previous winters, the level is still extremely high, and far from meeting the safety standards. CSE researchers warn that if not acted upon immediately, this trend can worsen in the coming years negating the downward dip of the pandemic years. This analysis of real-time data from monitoring stations in Delhi-NCR for the entire winter period…
Hundreds of tribals of affected villages, protesting against iron ore mining in Rowghat mountains in Chhattisgarh, have blocked the road in village Khodgaon since Saturday night, and are sitting on a dharna. Bhilai Steel Plant received permission from the Environment Ministry on January 25, to mine 3 lakh tonnes per annum ore and transport it through roads. But till date, no Gram Sabha of any affected village has given its consent to this mining project, thereby making the mines illegal. It may be recalled that only two weeks ago, on March 15, when BSP’s contractor Dev Mining Company started iron…