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Social Media

Ira Trivedi deactivates her Twitter account after lying to cover-up her anti-Hindu views

OpIndia Staff - 30 July, 2019

Yoga instructor Ira Trivedi had first deleted her old tweets then claimed that the screenshots were fake, a lie that was again exposed by Twitter users.

Government and Policy

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar says Doordarshan will hire ‘creative heads’, hints at lateral entry of professionals

OpIndia Staff - 29 July, 2019

The union minister stated that under the three-year action plan of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, support has been given to Doordarshan to modernize its infrastructure.

Opinions

Ira Trivedi is being forced to lie because the gravy train that rewarded anti-Hindu hate has finally come to an end

Editorial Desk - 29 July, 2019

After hastily purging her Twitter account, Ira Trivedi is now attempting to convince people that the Tweet where she hailed the Quran as progressive and modern Hinduism as regressive, is a fake tweet.

News Reports

Exclusive: DD National instructed to discontinue re-run of series by Yoga instructor Ira Trivedi, other DD channels issued advisory

Nupur J Sharma - 25 July, 2019

The series that was hosted by Ira Trivedi was produced by Doordarshan Delhi as part of a series of different yoga programmes produced to highlight yoga prior to the International day of yoga in 2017

News Reports

Yoga teacher Ira Trivedi takes a u-turn after social media outrage over her anti-Hindu and beef promotion posts, says she loves Hindu Dharma

OpIndia Staff - 25 July, 2019

After social media backlash, a self-proclaimed yoga teacher, Ira Trivedi, who runs a show on national broadcaster Doordarshan, has taken to Twitter today to proclaim that she is a strict vegetarian and respects Hindu religion.

Opinions

Was Editors Guild more upset about arrest of Prashant Kanojia than murder of DD cameraman?

Abhishek Banerjee - 11 June, 2019

An unequivocal, no holds barred, stinging statement spanning four full paragraphs and 291 words for Kanojia. All governments in power need to read this. But for the DD cameraman who was killed by Naxals?

News Reports

Relax, DD’s iconic Satyam Shivam Sundaram logo is not being changed, yet

OpIndia Staff - 22 May, 2019

Prasar Bharti had tweeted saying that it had selected the top 5 designs from the Doordarshan logo contest that had received over 10,000 entries.

Politics

Congress does not respond to request for interview with Rahul Gandhi for a week after accusing Doordarshan of bias

OpIndia Staff - 11 April, 2019

On the 4th of April, chief executive officer of Prasar Bharti, which runs Doordarshan, Shashi Shekhar Vempati had written to the Congress requesting an interview with Rahul Gandhi.

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