Mumbai Entertainment network Viacom18 has extended its flagship Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) 'Colors' to the regional markets by rebranding five of its regional GECs from the ETV stable. Prism TV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TV18, broadcasts five regional GECs -- ETV Bangla, ETV Marathi, ETV Kannada, ETV Oriya and ETV Gujarati. With this branding, ETV Marathi, ETV Gujarati, ETV Kannada, ETV Bangla and ETV Oriya will soon don the Colors identity, Viacom 18 said in a stateme...Read More

Ahmedabad, 22 October 2013 Siddharth Varadrajan, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, who announced his resignation from the newspaper had given instruction to news desk not to take any stories of Narendra Modi on page one. This has been revealed by N.Ravi, the new editor-in-chief. In this article in Mint, Ravi is quoted as saying, “news desk was given standing instructions not to take any stories on Narendra Modi on page one. The Hindu has always been anti-Hindutva, bu...Read More

Ahmedabad, 23 May 2013 Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Modi will launch Ahmedabad Edition of Business Line newspaper on 24th May 2013 at 10:30 AM in Ahmedabad. Business Line, a business newspaper is published by the same publishers who publish The Hindu. Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, the executive co-chairman of Infosys will be present at the occasion. There will also be a presentation on the journey of Business Line newspaper during the programme. The launch event will be t...Read More

Ahmedabad, 21 February 2013 And here are the headings in the newspapers published from Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Gujarat budget 2013-14. Gujarat Samachar, the highest circulated newspaper in Gujarat says, "OMG 1,14,450 crore size of budget of Gujarat!" Gujarat Samachar also highlights Rs 58,500 crore annual expenditures, Rs 76000 crore for development, Rs 245 crore relief in taxes, Rs 289 crore new taxes, Rs 840 crore surplus and Rs 20000 crore fiscal deficit in sub headin...Read More

Ahmedabad, 25 December 2012 Speaking at Gujarat BJP's legislative party meet at Gandhinagar today, Gujarat Chief Minister took a dig on Gujarati news TV channels for their special programmes suggesting possible faces in new Narendra Modi cabinet. Modi said: "I was not able to watch TV during the election time, but recently I watched some TV channels and I watched that they have turned all 115 BJP MLAs into ministers. This is because every news TV channel is attempting...Read More

Read this piece in Gujarati here By Japan K Pathak Ahmedabad, 29 September 2012 Gujarat Congress recalls its TV advertisement CDs Recently, Gujarat Congress sent Gujarati news TV channels a video of 10 to 15 minutes duration for broadcasting. In this video a play was performed in which the protagonist was in the getup of Narendra Modi. The co-actors were shown in the getup of Modi's ministers Anandiben Patel, Saurabh Patel and others. In many Congress organizes r...Read More

Gandhinagar, 29 August 2012 Gujarat BJP's media workshop will be held on Thursday, 30th August in Gandhinagar at Sardar Khand Bhawan. The workshop will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The workshop will be concluded by Gujarat BJP prabhari and MP Shri Balbir Punj. Shri Parshottam Rupala, V.Satishji, Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani, Vinay Sahastrabuddhe, IK Jadeja will address the workshop. BJP's state leaders, district media incharge and invited pa...Read More

Gandhinagar, 26 August 2012 Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today criticized Congress party for boycotting a satellite news channel TV9. Modi asked Election Commission to seek explanation from Congress for its act to suppress the media ahead of the election. Modi said this in his address to Gujarat BJP women's cell convention in Gandhinagar(in video above). "I have been under attack of all kinds of falsehoods for last twelve years. The basic thing needed in democra...Read More

By DeshGujarat News, Ahmedabad, 1 April, 2012 Come 1st April, and Gujarati vernacular dailies would not miss a chance to mark the day with a news item attempting to make readers fool. To mark the 1st April this year, leading Gujarati daily Gujarat Samachar published a news item on porn-actress Sunny Leone's Ahmedabad visit. The news item informed the readers that Sunny would be in Ahmedabad's Karnavati club at 10.00 am and would judge the performances of local entertainers....Read More