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Shruti Sharma on Office Office: A good comedy show is the need of the hour

Actor Shruti Sharma and playing Anokhi Lal Mussaddi in DD show Office Office: Chali Mussaddi Ki Beti, a spinoff of the Pankaj Kapur's cult show Office Office

Updated 33 days ago

FIR filed after Doordarshan building’s falling debris injures employee

Photo for representation (Shutterstock)

Published 44 days ago

‘PM Modi’s address to nation violated MCC’, CPI MP writes to CEC

‘PM Modi’s address to nation violated MCC’, CPI MP writes to CEC

Published 84 days ago

Movie bug bit when I was seven: Ramesh Sippy looks back at 'Sholay' and how it all started

Movie bug bit when I was seven: Ramesh Sippy looks back at 'Sholay' and how it all started

Published 100 days ago

Neena Gupta’s nostalgic post on TV serial Dard strikes a chord

Neena Gupta's nostalgic post about her first TV serial, Dard, drew responses from fans reminiscing about classic Doordarshan shows.

Published 127 days ago

She taught us how to speak to a nation: Shammi Narang writes on DD legend Sarla

Veteran Doordarshan news anchor Sarla Maheshwari recently passed away, at the age of 71. Her ex-colleague Shammi Narang paid tribute to her, as did the national broadcaster.

Updated 149 days ago

Who was Sarla Maheswari? Veteran Doordarshan anchor dies at the age of 71

Doordarshan news anchor Sarla Maheshwari, 71, passed away on Thursday.

Updated 150 days ago

90s nostalgia: When Doordarshan’s Republic Day broadcast united families

90s nostalgia: When Doordarshan’s Republic Day broadcast united families

Updated 168 days ago

‘Rabada ka kabada kar de’: Ravi Shastri's swag soaked motivation for IND batter

Mumbai Cricket Association urged to commemorate Ravi Shastri at the Wankhede Stadium.

Updated 259 days ago

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on Doordarshan and the early era of television in India and a volume that traces how India attempted huge transformations even as it stayed democratic. (Akash Shrivastav)

Published 262 days ago

Doordarshan's foundation day: Delhi gets a date with TV’s OG broadcasters

Former Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Indian television journalist and director, Salma Sultan along with guests released a book, Doordarshan Diaries: The Golden Era of Television by Sheila Chaman.

Published 299 days ago

From censorship to arrests, when culture, artists came in crosshairs

Movies like Kissa Kursee Ka and Aandhi, which had characters that seemed to be based on then PM Indira Gandhi and peopleclose to her, were banned after Emergency was imposed. (IMDB)

Published 385 days ago

Deepika’s fashion slip at WAVES 2025 fixed by Mira Kapoor in unseen video; watch

Deepika Padukone's fashion slip at 2025 WAVES summit goes viral as Mira Kapoor

Published 438 days ago

Remembering Bharatnatyam dancer and producer Kamalini Nagarajan Dutt

Kamalini Nagarajan Dutt.

Published 440 days ago

Spice of Life | Benegal redefined cinema with passion for his craft

Shyam Benegal had the unique ability to narrate a socially relevant story without sounding preachy. (HT File)

Updated 559 days ago

Gauahar Khan on making TV debut with Fauji 2, following Shah Rukh Khan's legacy

Gauahar Khan on her fiction TV debut with Fauji 2

Published 581 days ago

Vicky Jain reveals what Ankita Lokhande said about his acting debut in Fauji 2

Vicky Jain on Ankita Lokhande, Shah Rukh Khan's reaction to Fauji 2

Published 632 days ago

Wagle Duniya merges television and web format: Showrunner JD Majethia

Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Duniya Naye Kissey premiered in 2021 on Sony SAB.

Published 669 days ago

‘Anything could go wrong’: Anchors recall early days of TV in India

Siddhartha Basu with co-host Komal GB Singh on the sets of the TV show India Quiz in 1989. (Image courtesy Siddhartha Basu)

Updated 794 days ago

MK Stalin attacks BJP over 'saffron' Doordarshan logo, says 'such fascism...'

Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin shows his fingers marked with indelible ink after casting his vote for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections.

Published 813 days ago

Doordarshan anchor faints during live news reading: ‘I could no longer see’

Lopamudra Sinha fainted while reading live news.

Published 813 days ago

Pooja Bhatt: Some OTT makers are going back to casting big names first

Pooja Bhatt was last seen in Big Girls Don't Cry

Published 822 days ago

Doordarshan airs The Kerala Story, Dhruv Rathee's video screened to counter

The story of ‘The Kerala Story’ movie revolves around the lives of three girls from the state who narrate their ordeal of being trapped in marriage after converting to Islam and taken to Afghanistan where they are forced to join terrorist outfit ISIS. (File Photo)

Updated 828 days ago

CM Vijayan asks Doordarshan to withdraw screening of ‘The Kerala Story’

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan

Updated 829 days ago

Dehave Degula: The game-changing ideas of Basavanna

Basava, so the story goes, rejected the trappings of his caste and left home as a boy to seek guidance at the feet of Ishanya Guru at Kudalasangama (AFP)

Updated 909 days ago

Agri expert dies after collapsing on live Doordarshan show in Kerala

Dr Ani S Das.

Published 912 days ago

When Ram appeared before us all

Ramanand Sagar’s TV show Ramayan is based on Valmiki’s Ramayana and Tulsidas’ Ramcharitmanas.

Published 913 days ago

Madhukar Thote passes away at 93

After retiring as a chief engineer of Doordarshan and AIR in 1988, Thote was associated with the Savitribai Phule Pune University for 22 years as head of the department for communication studies, and director of the Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC). (HT PHOTO)

Published 922 days ago

Vidhu Vinod Chopra reveals he once refused to work with Amitabh Bachchan

Vidhu Vinod Chopra recalls the time Amitabh Bachchan offered to work with him before his debut.

Published 984 days ago

The way we were: Poonam Saxena looks back on the magic of Star Trek

There was a sense of people being the best they could be, on board the USS Enterprise. As Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the others travelled through space, there were a number of firsts on board too, including the interracial kiss between Kirk and communications officer Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) in 1968.

Updated 1024 days ago

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