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  • From the Newsroom - November 14, 2020: Akhilesh rules out alliance with Congress, BSP in the next Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls

    In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, Akhilesh rules out alliance with Congress, BSP in the next Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls; Mehbooba Mufti asks India and Pakistan to initiate dialogue; Prime Minister Narendra Modi terms expansionism “mental disorder”; Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa says his government would try to get additional funds from the Centre for the state’s flood-hit districts and Armenia says over two thousand fighters were killed in six weeks of clashes with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

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    4 min
  • From the Newsroom - November 13, 2020: 6 killed in ceasefire violations by Pakistan and Maharashtra warns of a possible second wave of Covid-19 infection

    In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, six people killed in multiple ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control; Maharashtra government has warned of a possible second wave of Covid-19 infection; Congress irked over Rahul Gandhi’s characterisation by former US President Barack Obama as “lacking in aptitude” and “eager to impress” and popular writer in Kannada Ravi Belagere passes away.

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    4 min
  • The Lead: Curtains down on IPL 2020

    In this episode of The Lead from DH Radio, we discuss why Mumbai Indian has had a successful run at the IPL and look at issues including the captaincy of Virat Kohli that is affecting the prospects of the Bengaluru franchise The Royal Challengers Bangalore.


    Sidney Kiran: And just like the snap of your fingers, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is over. Living up to its promise as the best T20 league in the world. The IPL through a riveting entertainment for two months. Cricket fans, especially the ones in India, overfed with news about drugs, Bollywood and all other masala and controversies, finally got to enjoy prime time in a joyful way. Hello and welcome to probably the final episode of DH Radio IPL. In today's episode, I Sidney Kiran and my colleague Roshan Tyagrajan will kick off a discussion on what made the Mumbai Indians win the title a record fifth time, before switching on to the local franchise The Royal Challengers Bangalore. Hi, Roshan. How are you?
    Roshan Tyagarajan: Am well. Thank you.
    Sidney: I want to make an opening statement about Mumbai Indians. Generally, before every tournament starts and even when we write the curtain raisers, we handpick the favourites. Ever since 2011, the unanimous favourites for the IPL have been Mumbai Indians or Chennai Super Kings...

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    57 min
  • From the Newsroom - November 12, 2020:  India announces additional Rs 2.65 lakh crore Covid-19 stimulus package

    In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, India announces additional Rs 2.65 lakh crore Covid-19 stimulus package; Moody's Investors Service says it expects India's economy to shrink by 8.9 per cent in the 2020 calendar year due to the Covid-19 pandemic; Karnataka approves to borrow Rs 7,438 crore for the Bengaluru suburban rail project; Actor Asif Basra found dead in Himachal Pradesh; RJD's Tejashwi Yadav elected leader of the Grand Alliance legislature and a special court rejects default bail plea of businessman Deepak Kochhar.

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    4 min
  • The Lead: Captain G R Gopinath on his entrepreneurial journey

    With us today is the man who got the middle class to fly and created a revolution in air travel. Captain G R Gopinath has worn many hats: An officer in the Indian Army, a silk farmer and an entrepreneur. But he created history by the launch of the first budget airline, Air Deccan. Actor Suriya's must-waiter film "Soorari Pottru" that was released on Amazon Prime releases today is based on G R Gopinath's book "Simply Fly". Let's listen in to what Gopinath has to tell us.

    Nina C George: Sir, tell us a little about your growing up years. You grew up in a small village in Karnataka. From there you reached the global stages. What was the journey like?
    Captain G R Gopinath: I have vivid memories of my village. Very fond ones. The village was well known because my grandmother's brother was a well known short-story writer and novelist called Goroor Ramaswamy Iyengar, who has immortalised a rural Kannda village. So people know that village, much before me. My father was a school teacher in a local school and he also had a landholding there. He was greatly influenced by Gandhi, Tagore and our very own Shivramkarant. He never put me to school until my 5th standard. He said in any case you are bound, regulated and put in a kind of school prison. So he said, learn from home and learn from nature...

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    41 min
  • From the Newsroom - November 11, 2020: Supreme Court grants bail to Arnab Goswami and OTT platforms, online news brought under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

    In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, Supreme Court grants bail to  Arnab Goswami; Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar emphasises on learning the Hindu way of life and adopting ancient practices of wellness; Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal credits Prime Minister Narendra Modi's welfare policies for the ruling NDA's win in the Assembly polls and  government has brought OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ Hotstar besides other online news and current affairs content under the ambit of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

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    4 min
  • Karnataka's defining moments | Episode 2: The colour is green

    In this episode of Karnataka's defining moments, senior journalist and author based in Bengaluru Nagesh Hegde charts the environmental movements in the state.

    Music credits: Changing times by GeriArt.

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    43 min
  • The Lead: Supporting education during the pandemic

    We all know the disparities and hardships the pandemic brought to children's education across the world and those most affected are the ones coming from poor backgrounds. Teach For India with support from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, has announced a three-year commitment to ensure that learning does not stop, and also the funding from the foundation will be used to support close to 80 Fellows across Mumbai, Delhi and Pune over the period.

    In today's episode, Prachi Windlass, Director, India Programs, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation speaks to Ahmed Shariff from DH.

    Hi, Prachi. Welcome to DH Radio.

    Prachi Windlass: Hi, Ahmed.

    Ahmed: It's nice to have you on our show. Prachi, my first question to you is can you tell us more about the foundation and its collaboration to provide better education?

    Prachi: We are the family foundation of Michael and Susan Dell. We have been operating in India since 2006. The mission of the foundation is to improve the lives of children and families living in urban poverty and we do this through improving learning outcomes for children in education, improving access to financial services to the poor and improving their jobs and livelihood opportunities. Amongst these three portfolios, our focus is on to get superior outcomes for our beneficiaries. Specifically, in education, our focus is to improve grade-level competency. We define that and measure through seeing how well kids are doing before the start of the intervention...

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    33 min
  • The Lead: Helping children with congenital heart disease

    In this episode of The Lead from DH Radio, Genesis Foundation's Jyoti Sagar speaks about how his organisation is helping children with congenital heart disease, the number of children affected by this and much more.

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    21 min

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