DD News is an Indian state-owned

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news television channel, founded by the

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, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is the flagship channel of

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's only 24-hour terrestrial TV news channel broadcasting solely in

, and formerly in English. The Prasar Bharati Board approved the proposal to start a 24-hour news channel in place of DD Metro, which was closing. This was subsequently approved by the Union Cabinet in a meeting held on 3 October 2003. DD Metro was converted into a 24-hour TV news channel, into DD News, which launched on 3 November 2003. Its terrestrial reach is 21.6% by area and 44.9% by population of India. In 2019, international sister channel DD India become exclusive channel for English News and Current Affairs from

. After that parent body Prasar Bharati's CEO claimed that DD News will be "100% Hindi soon", but is yet to be implemented because of availability of content to be aired. Special feature of the channel includes a

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news show called ''Vaarta''. The DD News mobile app for Android and

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was launched on 7 May 2015 by the then Minister of Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley. The app aims to instantly communicate news on a 24x7 basis.

History

Initially, after experiencing a partnership with CNN,

launched a news and current affairs channel DD CNNi in 1995. DD was catering to an international audience via its DD International channel, and also providing English news, views, current affairs and infotainment programmings to Indian audiences via its DD3 channel. Its

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and DD Metro channels were also delivering news content, and many private producers also had their news programs on DD channels. They converted it to DD Bharati on 26 January 2002. Later DD again launched its DD News channel by replacing DD Metro in 2003 and assured its availability on terrestrial mode. DD News is India's only 24-hour terrestrial news channel. It telecasts over 16 hours of live news bulletins daily in

, English,

, and

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. Regional news units attached to different Doordarshan Kendras also telecast daily news bulletins in regional languages. News headlines and breaking news updates are regular features, and headlines are accessible via SMS. DD News also carries financial information about stocks and commodities, accessing information from the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and the

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(BSE) in addition to leading commodity exchanges including the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) and the MCX Stock Exchange. In January 2019, Prasar Bharati converted it into a Hindi news channel, while DD India was converted into English news channel. On 20 April 2024, DD News announced changing its logo. The old logo, red in color was changed to saffron. The change was criticized by several opposition political parties alleging a move of saffronisation by the ruling party, BJP. BJP denied the claim saying that

originally was launched with a saffron logo in 1959 and that the objection towards it is a display of hate against bhagwa and

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. Prasar Bharti CEO, Gaurav Dwivedi claimed that the new logo is orange in colour and that it is a change of ''"visual aesthetic"''.

Mobile application

Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley on 7 May 2015 launched a mobile application of DD News that will provide DD News a platform to instantly communicate news on a 24×7 basis.

References

External links

DD News site, with live streaming

11 years of DD News: Special presentation & discussion
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History

Mobile application

See also

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