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ne of the press releases that we received to be run onour PR Wire Service spoke of launch of a new website-

trackthisnow.com. Tiny flags sprouted at various locationson the world map or of country when you want the websiteto search a certain story. We typed PTI and hit the enterbutton. The map, to begin with was of India and wow, inan instant, India’s map was full of tiny flags….balloonsyou may call them, kept sprouting in various nooks andcorners of the map. What the search engine looked for werenews items credited to PTI and various datelines. So if theweb crawler found a news item, sayfrom Guwahati, it would plant a flatat Guwahati in the map. Trackthis..thus showed the wide network ofPTI. Click on the world map and thatyields mixed results the crawler doesfind PTI world over but the abbre-viation in some cases may just standfor Philadelphia Training Instituteor something similar.

As the world takes wings in thecyber space web crawlers track evenindividuals. If you had a by-linedstory going on our wires, type yourname in the the search box and hitthe ‘enter’ key on the Google websiteyou would know in an instant whereall your story has been picked upby the web crawlers- millions of them- that work roundthe clock sifting through tonnes (terrabits to be correct)of data that is uploaded on the Internet- dishing out onyour desk top or lap top, palm top or your mobile- whatyou are looking for. And remember, these crawlers have notbeen commissioned by us, they are freelancers (so to say).Technology can ensure we build special mechanism to trackin which part of the world, which media PTI stories appear.The results, we are sure, would be mind boggling. And weare not talking of other languages where in your stories aretranslated, Indian and foreign. With their decliningpopulations, as the world looks up to India and China forbusiness, the business is increasingly turning to the locallanguage to maximize reach. Look at Microsoft- Bill Gateshas long jumped into developing softwares that make MSproducts in Indian languages. Websites like Google, Yahoo,Wikipedia have pages in Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi....

The next chapter of the World Wide Web will not bewritten in English alone says Daniel Sorid in the New YorkTimes. Asia already has twice as many Internet users asNorth America and by 2012 it will have three times as many,he wrote in article titled ‘Writing Web’s future in many lan-guages”. Already more than half of Google’s queries comefrom outside the US, he says. Nowhere are the obstaclesand rewards more apparent than in India whose online popu-lation is poised to become the third largest in the worldafter China and the US by 2012. Indians may speak one

language to their boss, another totheir spouse and a third to a par-ent. Microsoft has built its WindowsLive bundle of online consumer serv-ices in seven Indian languages andWikipedia now has more entries inIndian local languages than inKorean.Want to know how technol-ogy has made it easy to write in yourmother tongue on an English keyboard? Go to Quillpad. Type on theEnglish key board what is phoneti-cally closer to your own language-It appears in your own language onthe screen!

How prepared are you to take aplunge into this vast ocean?

The print is caving in, giving wayto online. The world is going digital. In India there is stilltime before the country is overtken by the digital mediabut the day is not far. You can see the guard at your societygate, your maid servant and your pavement vegetable ven-dor using mobile phones. They may not be reading anynewspaper today but coming days, the digital media wouldcater to this segment too- read out the news from theirhome state, in their own language. Opportunities areaplenty.

Its time you try and measure your presence in the cyberspace. See if your story appears in the ‘most read’ or ‘moste-mailed’ section of any news portal. See where you stand,amend your style to suit the new digital citizen who isglobal, has his/her own style that is crisp, to the pointand easily understandable language.

— Editor

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NEWS AGENCIES

The signs are everywhere: the world is globalizing. Whatstarted as a simple economic trend of outsourcing has ex-ploded into a worldwide phenomenon of global curiosity, cul-tural barrier breaking and emigration - all fueled by wide-spread communication. As a news agency, Press Trust of In-dia’s purpose is providing information, and thus the PressTrust of India (PTI) has an obligation of sorts to go global, tolet the world know of the current events in one of the mosttalked about countries in the world. For an international au-dience of non-resident Indians (NRIs) and the internationallycurious, PTI’s articles should have clear context, obvious rel-evance and broad accessibility.

Knowing how to write for an international audience startswith knowing how an international audience will read. Formost international readers, Indian news will not take top pri-ority when compared to their national or local news. Due tothis lack of immediate importance, readers will read incon-sistently - either by chancing on an article or, in a specialcase, by actively seeking information on India. No mattertheir motivations for reading, what is important to recognizeis that the international community - NRIs included - liveswithout the inherent context to Indian affairs that residentIndians have.

Taking the above into account, each article must not justbe informative, but attractive to an inconsistent, passive fol-lower of Indian events. An article should not only focus onthe specific current event that sparked the article, but howthe news reflects the broader background, implications, andtrends in India and internationally. Essentially, each articleshould be carefully written to have clarity and relevance.

An article’s international clarity will be enhanced by pay-ing important attention to context explanation, language, andsmooth-reading style. As stated before, non-residents of In-dia lack the national ambience that Indian residents take forgranted, and certain details must be taken into account tocompensate. Because the Indian news source abroad is lim-ited, it should serve as a rule that any article should be self-sufficient, that is, anyone should be able to read and under-stand the isolated article. The article, therefore, should nothave unexplained references to events or people, and eachproper noun should be given a brief introduction that is rel-evant to both the story and the perspective of the interna-tional reader.

Internationally-run articles must be as clear and lean aspossible to avoid any confusion for the reader. As a non-In-dian resident, the reader will be hit with a lot of new informa-tion with each article, not just the current event that propels

The International Potential of PTI, a View Point from Americaby Anita Sengupta

the article, but the background, explanation, and implicationssurrounding it. So articles must be carefully and smoothlywritten so that they do not end up as a jumble of informa-tion. For enhanced clarity, technical elements of languageshould also be taken into account. If being sent to the UnitedStates, the stories should be rewritten in American StandardEnglish instead of Indian Standard English. Monetary amountsshould also be written in Indian rupees and US dollars (or anyother relevant currency).

Because articles from India do not immediately take toppriority, articles should showcase the relevance of the storyto the reader. Essentially, each story should pass the “so what?”test . If a reader is to ask “so what?” about the current eventin an article, the article should answer the question by ana-lysing the relevance of the story. This can be achieved byputting the article in proper framework. Articles should besent out under five broad categories that encompass mostreaders’ interests. International, National, Economic, Sports,and Entertainment. Stories that are selected for the interna-tional audience should be slightly refocused so that they up-date the reader not only on specific current events, but alsoon the context and implications on category within which thestory falls. The reader then gets specific facts and the broadscope of things, increasing overall comprehension of India’scurrent affairs. This characteristic would particularly appealto NRIs who look to stay updated on the pulse of India.

All articles released by PTI should be easily accessible forthose who seek information on India. PTI should work withlarge newspapers in countries with large NRI populations, suchas the United States and Britain to publish internationally-edited articles. Because the Internet is so prominent, PTIshould have an international website separate from the na-tional PTI site where only internationally-edited stories areposted. For those who would like more information - mostlikely NRIs - a subscription should be available to get accessto all (non-internationally-edited) articles. For ease and per-sonalisation, subscribers should be able to set up preferencesthat direct them to articles surrounding their interests, forexample, PTI articles out of a specific region, regarding aspecific topic, or with a specified keyword. This personalisa-tion would give PTI an edge over other Indian news sources.

PTI is a news agency of great potential that is currentlymet with a situation of great potential. Because of its sizeand dexterity in journalism, PTI is in the position to becomea leader in addressing the rising widespread appeal of Indiathroughout the world - from the NRIs to the internationallycurious.

As an NRI or an Indophile, how would you expect a news story to be written to be of interest to the ‘global Indian’? MsAnita Sengupta, an NRI student from USA, on an internship with PTI, New Delhi, was assigned a project to write on this.Following is the summary of her project report: — Editor

PTI HOUSE JOURNAL - MARCH 20093 ! ! ! ! !

WELCOME 2009

A Welcome ‘Year Ender’Of the numerous year enders that all of us get involved in as a year draws to aclose, one year ender everybody looks forward to eagerly is the new year eveparty. Its time to unwind. To let one’s hair down, or more appropriately, toshake a leg, after the hard leg work of the year. The Photos show it all. Its noseniors or juniors. No bosses or the new comers. Its time to mingle and enjoy.So the CEO & EIC, general managers, editors are pulled by colleagues to jointhem for a jig to the tune of the DJ belting out the latest Punjabi songs or popnumbers. We have some photographs of the new year eve parties from Mumbaiand Kolkata too. Chennai also held a party but no pix.


WELCOME 2009

and in PTI Mumbai ........

Prof Kevin Warwick is a Cyborg - part-machine and part-human. Inthe late 90’s, he had chips implanted in his forearm that couldtransmit sensory impulses from his nervous system to the comput-ers running his office. It meant that every day, when he walked intohis office at Readings University, the doors would automaticallyswing open, the room would light up, the air-conditioners and com-puters would switch on, and the gas burner would warm him acuppa, just in the way he liked it!

I met Prof Kevin in 1999 during a show organised by the BritishCouncil Division in New Delhi. He had just finished taming somehostile questions from people unsure of whether he was being un-ethical or whether he was trying to be God. They, however, seemedready to conclude that they were seeing technology take over lives.One person, I remember having the felicity for some big words andgrandstanding, was blunt to the point of calling the professor aFrankenstein and a monster-maker.

Prof Kevin was never the kind to be harried, and thankfully forour Mr Wordsworth, he was not about to be meeting the professor.Because, only a few years later, Prof Kevin was to convince his wifeto become a Cyborg with an advanced sensor that could make themrelate through chip and computer on the affairs of their life to-gether. There is the 1993 sci-fi thriller, Demolition Man, starringSylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock, where a relationship of asimilar kind is depicted.

Prof Kevin and his wife are a case for serious discussion, be-cause, believe it or not, in some remote labs and extra-ordinaryhomes of the world, cyborgs, invisible men, human clones androbocops are beginning to walk. These are yet only the closet crea-tures of frontier science, but much before the director of DemolitionMan imagines, they may be out on the street with you and me.

Will the new world catch us yawning?The reason why I am bringing this up now is that technology is

leading us on and pacing us like no other time in the past. In ourown immediate world and domain, technological innovations arelooking us in the eye, challenging our practices, our ethics and ourcultural standards. In the previous issue of HJ, you may rememberthe CEO had talked about the breed called citizen journalists whohave armed themselves with the power that media organizationsconceded to them, pressed on by the coming of age of the Internet.

Citizens can give opinions. They can’t conduct journalism. Be-cause when citizens assume the role of journalists, neutrality andobjectivity become instant victims. The fact, however, is that theInternet world is less to do with facts and more to do with opin-ions, because the truth is that when the time came, the journalistswere just not there to fight the battle for the Net.

Today, technology ushers revolutions every day. We can fear thetechnology, we can remain set in our ways, we can be the frog inthe well and we can let the ocean wave swallow us! Otherwise, wecan recognize the technology, grasp it, master it and set it on acourse on which we want it moving!

Must we become like the frog in the well? The other day I wasout with a friend, talking about how difficult it is to maintain adriving speed of 50 kmph. He had an answer, which quite fits intothe context we have here. He said: “We move at 50, because thelawmaker doesn’t see beyond the Ambassador.”

Before I end, let me say, I owe it to Prof Kevin to clarify that heis not quite the guy his audience made him out to be at the semi-nar. To know more about him and his work, I would recommend hisbook, I Cyborg, to you. It speaks of the man living out the argumentI have tried to make here – master technology before it masters us!

— Shali IttamanConsultant, New Media

in PTI Kolkata...


the news room. Was it true or not true. We spoke in hushed tones.Time was ticking by to update the lead. But a quick confirmation byour team settled the lead for us and the story turned on its head.

Around 2AM, the final lead of the death toll at 80 on the firstnight of the terror attack was moved and was bang on target as

reflected by the newspaper leads. Butthe CEO was still doing the works atthat (unearthly !) hour. We werealerted on how the first pictures ofthe face of a terrorist was beingshown on a TV channel. Our photog-rapher in Delhi who was leaving of-fice was quickly summoned back andwe had a TV grab which was the pic-ture of the night.

It was 3.26 AM. The telephonerang. It was the CEO on the line againto check if everything was updated.Boss said he was retiring for the day(or night) but with a suggestion thathe must be woken up if any needarose. As Ratan Tata said later whilecriticizing the authorities over thehandling of terror attacks in the ini-tial hours, “There should be leader-ship in knowing what to do.” But forPTI, the charge was led from the top.

And the wheels cranked flawlessly through a neat relay drill in de-ploying manpower till the Mumbai siege ended, 60 hours after thefirst bullets were fired by the terrorists.

— G Sudhakar NairNew Delhi

Charge of the News Brigade on 26/11STORIES BEHIND STORIES

reaking News’ to right of us, ‘News Alerts’ to left of us, ‘NewsJust In’ in front of us. Volley’d and thunder’d. Storm’d with

telephone calls.It was the Charge of the ‘News’ Brigade at PTI’s Central News-

room at New Delhi on the night of 26/11 when the agents of deathstruck with impunity at Mumbai in anunprecedented terror strike.

When the first news of gunfire atMumbai’s main rail terminal —Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal, popularlyknown as VT — trickled around 10 PM,none had an inkling that a horrifyingstory was unfolding which tested thePTI news machine.

Suddenly, news alerts broke aboutan attack at Mumbai’s Leopold Café.Then reports of taxi blasts. It was notan isolated incident or two. A stac-cato of newsbreaks on attacks at Tajand Oberoi hotels and a torrent of in-formation and it was slowly turning outto be a blood soaked night in the coun-try’s financial capital. Our reporters inMumbai swung into action while thephotographers froze many a frame.

The Mumbai team relentlessly fedthe Central Newsroom while in Delhireinforcements were rushed and “took positions” to fire stories. Allthe afternoon shifters stayed back and chipped in with inputs. No‘byte’ on TV screens was missed. Every bit was sacred to give fleshand develop our stories.

And it was just a matter of time or minutes before our CEOdonned the role of Team Leader for “Project Mumbai”. The game-plan was like a full-court press, to use a Basketball term, and noth-ing was left uncovered. Our news wires blazed away to glory.

The cogs of the standard editorial drill during coverage of majorevents moved with clinical precision. The ‘must have’ news menuwere quickly dished out. Our editorial and reporting teams backedby a foolproof technical network did not blink even for a second.

As the hours passed by, every detail from brave attempts bypolice officers to neutralize the gunmen to eye-witness accountsand the trauma at hospitals was being covered. We led the pack togive an updated figure of 60 deaths backed up by actual bodycount when the Mumbai siege entered the fourth hour at a timewhen most papers were about to ‘Close Press.’

The CEO was directly involved in churning out two stories —both events of major significance — thanks to diligent monitoringof a tsunami of TV newsbreaks.

One was about how the attackers at the Taj Hotel, which borethe brunt of the carnage, specifically yelled for Americans and West-erners to target them and gun them down. This gave a clue to thepossible motive of the terrorists in the first few hours of the attackwhen the picture remained hazy.

The second related to the dramatic event of how one terrorist— who turned out to be Kasab, the lone surviving gunman — wascaptured at the Girgaum-Chowpatty area after he tried to escape ina hijacked police Qualis vehicle. Both reports sailed through ourwires quickly and were runway winners in the next day’s papers andprominently highlighted.

News of ATS chief Hemant Karkare possibly being killed stunned

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HEALTH MATTERSe must the first, we are sure, and would be the last, we aredoubly sure, to have climbed onto the table to address

PTI journalists in the Seminar Room that has hosted the vir-tual who’s who in the political, corporate glitterati, litterateurset al over the years. Baba Ramdev measured the strength ofthe oval shaped table in the Seminar Room, satisfied himselfthat it could hold his weight and climbed onto it with anathlete’s ease- comfortable in his famous “Padmasan” pose,to speak to the journalist and non-journalist staff on Yogaand, yes, Politics!

The Baba, who has demystified Yoga to reach the ancientIndian health science to almost every household in the coun-try, demonstrated ‘Pranayam’ and fielded queries from theaudience- everything on record- with a request before leavingto tell people that he was not and would never be with anypolitical party including the BJP.

Ramdev had answers for all questions- from cures to stressspecific to the fast paced life of journalists to the controversyrelated to contents of medicines that his ‘Patanjali’ institutemanufactures (generated by Vrinda Karat of the CPI-M). Hewas equally at ease to respond to questions on his supposedtilt towards the saffron brigade. The media, he lamented, ig-nores when “I am with politicians of the Congress. They go totown when I am seen with the BJP leadership,” he said.

Coupled with the earlier visit of Dr. Upendra Kaul, it wasfitness in the air in PTI. Dr Upendra Kaul speaking to PTI staff on heart, ‘the most efficient pump’.

Staffers lined up at different counters during the two-day medical campthat Dr Upendra Kaul organised for the PTI staff in PTI.

Baba Ramdev in PTI with an audience overflowing into the hall.

Down the memory lane ...

Meanwhile, Dr.Kaul, having told the PTI staff in Delhi onthe wonderful machine called heart, followed it up with atwo-day medical camp. He sent a team of doctors andparamedics with hi-tech equipment for a health check up ofthe staff. The response was enthusiastic. People lined up,filled forms and answered queries of the friendly doctors whogave instant analysis and also advice.

We all know that with our heart and soul in the profession,we tend to ignore what should be a routine for everyone. Ahealth checkup. What both Dr.Kaul and Baba Ramdev con-veyed was let us learn to carry out the day to day work andtake care of health too.

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General Manager (Admn) M Shakeel Ahmed digging with a pickaxe duringthe Bhoomipujan ceremony of the PTI Bangalore Building in the southernmetropolis on March 16, 2009.

Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi laying the foundation for the agency'smulti-storeyed building in New Delhi


NEWS AGENCIES

Argentina to host third world congress of news agenciesrgentine capital Buenos Aires will host the third World Congressof news agencies in October 2010, representatives of the World

Council of News Agencies agreed in a meeting in Madrid in October2009. Argentine news agency Telam will organise the 2010 event,its president Martin Granovsky told the meeting held at the head-quarters of Spain’s EFE news agency, and stressed that the congresswould underscore “commitment to freedom of speech, diversity andthe role of news agencies around the world”.

Granovsky stressed the “fair play” that was operative in theelection of Buenos Aires as the setting of the congress and relatedit to a tacit agreement among agency heads that “there will be nocompetition among us but rather collaboration”. “Not only is thereroom for everyone, but also if we don’t collaborate news agencieswill end up as museum pieces. None of those that were here want tofeel nostalgia for news agencies, we want a project with a future,”the Argentine journalist said.

PTI CEO Razdan was among those who attended the meeting inMadrid which also included top executives from Australia’s AAP,Agence France Presse, the Associated Press, Italy’s ANSA, AgenciaEFE of Spain, and Russia’s Itar-Tass among others.

EFE CEO Alex Grijelmo, as president of the World Council of NewsAgencies, opened the meeting and underscored the work done up

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to newswires. Many others, having cut their own newsrooms, havebecome more dependent than ever on regurgitating agency copy.The proliferation of news websites, hungry for content, but lackingstaff to produce it themselves, has also boosted the agencies. Lastyear printed newspapers contributed only 25% of AP’s revenues,says its boss, Tom Curley, down from 55% in 1985. Mr Pleitgen saysthat in developing regions, such as the Gulf, new television sta-tions, websites and even newspapers are springing up, compensat-ing for the newswires’ loss of customers elsewhere.

But if newswires are thriving and newspapers are making evermore use of wire copy, why don’t the wire services supply newsdirect to the consumer? The risk that newspapers will bedisintermediated is noted in a new report by, of all people, theReuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.In some ways, it is already happening. Reuters and Bloomberg offertheir top stories direct to consumers on advertising-financedwebsites.

And as more people consume news via smart-phones and othermobile devices, the newswires are providing it there, too. NormanPearlstine, a senior Bloomberg executive, says the firm’s applica-tion for the Apple iPhone has been downloaded over a million times.Its service is free “for now”. AP which is owned by its main sub-scribers, is treading carefully; it has struck deals with 1,200 Ameri-can newspapers to create mobile websites, for which AP providesnational and international news and they provide local news.

Nobody yet knows which business model, if any, will work formobile news. Mr Pearlstine notes that mobile users happily pay fora new ringtone, so why not for news? It is unclear how good newsagencies will be at marketing direct to consumers. But as they con-tinue building their worldwide news bureaus and providing morecomprehensive coverage, they may more likely to survive in thelong term than those newspapers which, through constant roundsof cuts, risk becoming ever less distinctive.

— Courtesy: Economist, London

With newspapers in crisis, newswires may learn to live without themThis is an article which appeared in the February 12th issue of theLondon Economist. It is being reproduced here for its relevance to us.

— Editor

Where does news come from? The answer, much of the time, isfrom newswires. Many of the stories in newspapers, on television,radio and online are based on dispatches filed by the big newsagencies. The biggest international newswires, Associated press (AP)and Reuters, date back to the expansion of the telegraph in themid-19th century, when rapid newsgathering first became possible.The agencies have usually been wholesalers of news; newspapers,broadcasters and websites act as retailers, repackaging and sellingnews to consumers alongside material generated in-house.

Some, such as AP ( a co-operative-owned by its subscribers)and the state-backed French News Agency (AFP), have stuck to thatmodel. But Reuters, like the Dow Jones newswire (which grew outof the Wall Street Journal), has developed a huge business provid-ing information to financial-services firms, for which rapid, accu-rate news is highly valuable. A more recent arrival, Bloomberg, startedout as a provider of such information but has turned into a newsagency as well, creating a worldwide network of bureaus and syndi-cating stories to newspapers.

The financial crisis is taking a terrible toil on both financial-services firms and newspapers, so you might expect the news agen-cies that serve them to be in trouble too. Not so. Christoph Pleitgen,a senior Reuter executive, says the big newswires have been staff-ing up in the past year. The Journal’s owner, News Corp, announcedjob cuts at the newspaper earlier this month, but said that the DowJones newswire was adding journalists at its bureaus, especially inIndia. Likewise, Bloomberg’s recent announcement of around 190job cuts at a foreign-language television venture got more atten-tion than its promise to create 1,000 jobs elsewhere, including inits news bureaus. And CNN, a television-news network, plans to setup a new international agency to rival AP and Reuters.

A few struggling newspaper groups have stopped subscribing

to now “to contribute to a greater awareness of the role and theimportance of news agencies”. He emphasised the need to “dealwith the rapid growth of globalisation, the impact of the Internetand digital media” as well as continuing to do professional journal-ism not entangled with political interests.

The group’s first world congress was held in Moscow in 2004while the second was held in the southern Spanish town of Esteponain 2007.


Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnanlooking at photographs of PTI’s Chairmenin the agency’s Board Room in New Delhi.

PHOTO GALLERY

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan withsome of the members of the Legal Bureauwhen he visited PTI in Delhi.

CEO & EIC Razdan greets Yoga guruRamdev when he visited PTI for alecture-demonstration.


PHOTO GALLERY

Razdan with External Affairs MinisterPranab Mukherjee when he visited PTI.

Corporate Affairs Minister Premchand Guptawith CEO Razdan when he visited PTI for a

question-answer session on mattersconcerning his Ministry.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjeespeaking to PTI journalists in New Delhi.


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nks vDrwcj ds ckn ls lathouh dk vkuan mBkus okys ljdkj dks

dksl&dksl dj d”k yxk jgs gksaxs--- xe xyr djus dk bruk vklku

vkSj lLrk mik; tks muls fNu jgk gSA

oSls gekjs n¶rj esa ^^/kweziku nafMdk^^ fcjknjh ds ca/kq vc [kqyh gok

dk lsou djus dks etcwj gks jgs gSaA n¶rj ds xsV ls ckgj vDlj

nksigj ckn ;k “kke dks vkidks os ofj’Btu rd ogka utj vk tk;saxs

tks vkerkSj ij vius dsfcu ;k dEI;wVj ls vyx dgha fn[krs gh ugha

FksA pyks bl cgkus cspkjs jkst de ls de dqN le; ds fy;s gh lgh

ekSle ds nhnkj rks dj gh ysrs gSaA gks ldrk gS fd bl cgkus gh lgh]

muds ruko Hkjs psgjksa esa tc rc dqN :ekfu;r Hkh >yd tk;s vkSj ge

tSls dfu’B ;g;ksxh cs[kkSQ mudh utjksa dk lkeuk dj ldsaA

d”k&e&d”k esa gS d”k yxkus okyksa dh ftanxh/kweziku ij jksd ls ,d vkSj cM+k cnyko gqvk gSA /kweziku fcjknjh

ds yksxksa dh iapk;r ftl ialnhnk txg ;kuh ^^ckyduh** ij yxrh

Fkh] vktdy og fojku iM+h jgrh gSA Áfrca/k yxus ls iwoZ ;g ckyduh

ges”kk xqytkj jgrh Fkh vkSj dHkh&dHkh rks blesa bl dnj HkhM+ gksrh

Fkh fd Mj yxrk Fkk dgha NTtk gh u fxj tk;s vkSj nwljksa dh [kcj

cukus okyh ihVhvkbZ dks viuh gh [kcj u cukuh iM+sA

ckyduh dk egRo fdruk Fkk] bldk vanktk blh ckr ls yxk;k

tk ldrk gS fd dksbZ dke ds cks> ls nck gS rks ckyduh ij tkdj

d”k yxk ysrk Fkk] fdlh ds ikl dke ugha gS rks ckyduh ij d”k yxk

jgk gksrk Fkk] dksbZ u;h LVksjh lksp jgk gS rks ogha [kM+s gks dj d”k ij

d”k yxk jgk gS] fdlh dks fe= yksxksa ds lkFk pqVdqyk “ks;j djuk gS

rks ogha igqap jgk gS] fdlh dks xe Hkqykuk gS rks og Hkh ogha igqaprk Fkk-

-- ^,d iaFk nks dkt^ tks gks tkrs FksA

ckyduh dk Hkjiwj mi;ksx djus okys vius ,d lkFkh us ml fnu

cMs “kk;jkuk vankt esa dgk ^^vc rks ckyduh dks ns[kdj yxrk gS fd

og vius xqtjs fnukas dh ;kn dj vkalw cgk jgh gSA**

lkFkh us vkgsa Hkjrs gq, dgk] ^^ckyduh ij /kweziku D;k can gqvk]

^vanj dh [kcjsa* rd feyuh can gks x;haA v¸;kjksa ls ;gha rks irk pyrk

Fkk fd fdl c‚l us fdldks MkaVk] fdldks iqpdkjk] fdldh [kkV [kM+h

gqbZ vkSj fdldks eykbZ feyhA Áfrca/k ls iwjk dk iwjk lwpuk usVodZ gh

/oLr gks x;k gSA**

esjk rks ekuuk gS fd iwjh nqfu;k dk cks> vius da/kksa ij mBkdj

pyus okys i=dkjksa dks Áfrca/k ls ijs j[kk tk;s ;k fQj fe;ka xkfyc ds

“kCnksa dh Vkax rksM+rs gq, ^^tkfgn chM+h Qwadus ns] ihVhvkbZ esa cSBdj] ;k

fQj oks txg crk ns tgka---A**

& /kesZUnz dqekj jk;

^^vcdh rks ekj fy;k eSnku cPpw---**

yacs vjls rd nks cts ls lk<+s vkB cts dh f”k¶V djus ds ckn tc pkVZ

esa vxys g¶rs ekfuaZx f”k¶V esa viuk uke ns[kk rks jkgr dh ,d yach

lkal yh vkSj eu gh eu lkspk ^^vcdh rks ekj fy;k eSnku cPpw---A**

njvly yacs le; ls esjh nks cts dh f”k¶V gh yx jgh Fkh vkSj

nksigj dks xkM+h ysdj csleasV esa utj nkSM+k dj dgha dqN xqatkb”k ns[k

LVs;fjax eksM+k ugha fd vkokt vkrh Fkh] ^^vjs eSMe] D;k dj jgh gSa] oks

rks Qyka lkgc dh txg gSA vPNk b/kj vkb,] FkksM+k vkSj vkxsA gka] gka]

FkksM+k ck,a--- gka] vc ,dne ihNs] ogka dksus esa pys tkb,---**

tjk dqN cksyus ds fy, eqag [kksyus dks gksrs rks fQj ;gh lquk fn;k

tkrk] ^^vki rks jkr esa gh tk,axh] fQj vkidks D;k fpark gS \**

vc vxys dks D;k crkÅa fd esjh fpark flQZ ;gha rd ugha gSA ihNs

dksus esa ys tkdj ikdZ djus esa vkSj fQj Åij rd igqapus esa tks ikap

nl feuV chr tk;saxh] mudk eSa D;k fglkc nwaxh \

leL;k ikfdZax rd gh jgrh rks xuher FkhA tgka nks cts ;k pkj

cts dh f”k¶V esa vk, rks xsV esa ?kqlrs gh fny dh /kM+dusa rst gks tkrh

gSaA eu gh eu Hkxoku ls ;gh ÁkFkZuk djrs gSa fd tYnh ls txg fey

tk,--- ojuk ikfdZax esa nl feuV yx x, rks x, dke lsA Åij ,UVªh

xsV ij tks u;h e”khu yxh gS] og rks ^^lc tkurh gSA** tgka maxyh

j[kh ugha fd le; crk nsrh gSA e”khu dqN cksyrh ugha gS ysfdu ,slk

yxrk gS fd ml ij yxh ?kM+h ekuksa dg jgh gks ^^vkt rks brus feuV

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“Metro in Press” enclosure atDelhi Metro Museum

The Delhi Metro museum at Patel Chowk Metro station recordsthe contribution of print news reports and journalists who cov-ered the DMRC’s journey since its nascent days. A plaque featur-ing PTI’s June 11, 2007 copy in a newspaper on the start ofdisable friendly features in Delhi Metro is distictly illuminatedunder arc lights at the “Metro in Press” enclosure of the mu-seum.

PTI reporters who have covered the Metro at some point oftime have also been immortalised with their names inscribedon a separate platform along with other scribes and news re-ports. The inscriptions not only highlight the important streakof PTI stories but surely are a reporters delight too !!

—Neelabh SrivastavaNew Delhi

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vkSj jk’Vªh; ifj’kn dh cSBd dks doj djus ds fy, ukxiqj tkuk gSA

vkfQl us gh Vsªu dk fVdV Hkh dVok fn;kA rfeyukMq ,DlÁsl ls

tkuk Fkk tks Hkksiky ls gksdj tkrh gSA

jokuk gksus ls ,d fnu igys Hkksiky ds eSustj vjfoan “kekZ dk Qksu

vk;k] ^^gka th] gekjs “kgj ls gksdj xqt+j jgs gSaA lqcg lkr cts rd

igqapsxh vkidh xkM+h gekjs “kgj esaA uk”rs ds lkFk gkftj jgwaxk LVs”ku

ij eSaA**

eSaus gSjkuh trkbZ] **“kekZth vkidks dSls irk pyk \** vius [kkl

vankt esa vV~Vgkl yxkrs gq, mUgksaus dgk] ^^cM+k rst+ pSuy gS viu

dkA** eSaus dgk] **“kekZth] feyus vkb,] ij uk”rs dh tger er djsaA**

mUgksus ckr chp esa dkVrs gq, dgk] ^bl ckjs esa vki u cksysa] eSa rks uk”rs

ds lkFk gh vkÅaxkA**

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**cznj vkSj t‚;**A og [kq”kh ls cksys] **okg] okg et+k vk x;k! eSa rhuksa dk

uk”rk ysdj ikap ¼Qjojh½ dh lqcg vki lcls Hkksiky LVs”ku feyrk gwaA**

vkSj lqcg lkr cts tc ge rhuksa Hkksiky LVs”ku ij mrjs rks “kekZth

uk”rs ds iSdsV ds lkFk ekStwn FksA mUgksaus rhuksa dks xys yxk;k vkSj

uk”rs dk iSdsV Fkekrs gq, cksys] ^losjs&losjs vki yksxksa dh HkkHkh us cuk

dj Hkstk gSA** xje xje iwfj;ka] vkyw dh lCth] vpkj vkSj fcNkus ds

fy, iqjkus v[kckj--- lc Fkk uk”rs ds iSdsV esaA gekjs ikl d`rKrk

O;Dr djus ds “kCn ugha FksA Vªsu ftruh nsj [kM+h jgh] “kekZth ds

vV~Vgkl LVs”ku ij xwatrs jgsA vkl&ikl ds reke yksxksa dh utjsa ge

ij FkhaA

Vªsu us pyus dh lhVh ekjhA “kekZth Vsªu ds lkFk pyrs gq, cksys]

^^vc ykSVus esa nl ¼Qjojh½ dh jkr dks feysaxsA jkr vkB cts vk,xh

VsªuA eSa fMuj ysdj vkÅaxkA** bl Áse Hkjs vkxzg dks ge Bqdjk ugha

ldsA

tek fy;kA esjk p;u ve`rlj esa 12 tuojh ls 16 tuojh rd

vk;ksftr gq, jk’Vªh; ;qok mRlo ds fy, gks x;kA

jk’Vªh; Lrj rd igqapuk blfy, egRoiw.kZ

gS fd ;gka rd dbZ pj.kksa esa lQy gksus ds

ckn gh igqapk tk ldrk gSA Cy‚d Lrj ij

tks ÁfrHkkxh ÁFke vkrs gSa] mUgsa ftyk Lrj

ds ;qok mRlo esa Hkkx ysus dk ekSdk feyrk

gSA ftyk Lrj ij ÁFke vkus okyksa dks jk’Vªh;

;qok mRlo esa “kkfey gksus dk volj feyrk

gSA

bl ckj ds jk’Vªh; ;qok mRlo dk

mn~?kkVu verlj esa mijk’Vªifr gkfen valkjh

rFkk [ksy ea=h ,,l,l fxy us fd;k tgka

ns”k dh cgqvk;keh laLd`fr dh NVk ns[kus dks feyh tks esjs Le`fr iVy

ij vkt Hkh vafdr gSA

jk’Vªh; Lrj ij bl ckj eSa cs”kd rhljs ik;nku ij jgk] ysfdu

vxyh ckj eq>s ÁFke vkus dh mEehn gSA

& us=iky “kekZ

;qokvksa ds egkdqaHk esa eq>s Hkh feyk ekSdk viuk gquj fn[kkus dk

jk’Vªh; ;qok mRlo oSls rks ns”k ds ;qokvksa dk egkdqaHk gksrk gS ysfdu

;fn bls ÁfrHkk dk ijh{k.k LFky dgk tk, rks vfr”k;ksfDr ugha gksxh

vkSj blh ijh{k.k LFky ij eq>s Hkh viuh

Hkk’k.k dyk dk Án”kZu djus dk ekSdk feykA

bl dlkSVh ij [kjs mrjus ds fy, fiNys

dbZ lkyksa ds fd;s tk jgs esjs Á;kl ml

le; lQy gq, tc eq>s Hkk’k.k ¼rkRdkfyd½

fo/kk esa fot;h ?kksf’kr fd;k x;kA

;qok ekeys ,oa [ksy ea=ky; }kjk gj

lky vk;ksftr gksus okys bl mRlo rd

igqapus ds fy, eSa Hkh fiNys dbZ lky ls

Á;kl dj jgk FkkA eSa vius dks HkkX;”kkyh

gh le>waxk fd eq>s jk’Vªh; Lrj dh bl

Áfr;ksfxrk esa igqapus dk lkSHkkX; ÁkIr gks x;kA

;qok mRlo esa oSls rks ukVd] u`R;] xk;u vkSj oknu tSlh dqy 18

fo/kk,a “kkfey gksrh gSa ysfdu eSa bldh Hkk’k.k ¼rkRdkfyd½ fo/kk esa Hkkx

ysrk vk;k gwaA bl ckj fdLer esjs lkFk Fkh vkSj fiNys uoacj esa gq,

jkT;Lrjh; ;qok mRlo dh O;k[;ku ¼rkRdkfyd½ Áfr;ksfxrk esa eSaus

gfj;k.kk ds 22 Áfr;ksfx;ksa dks ihNs NksM+dj ÁFke iqjLdkj ij dCtk

t; gks ihVhvkbZfxjh !

nl dh jkr Hkksiky igaqpus ij “kekZth fMuj ds lkFk ekStwn FksA

ijkaBs] jksfV;ka] vkyw&xksHkh dh Hkkth] vpkj vkSj Hkksiky dh [kkl feBkbZ

ds lkFkA

galh&et+kd vkSj xIisa py jgh FkhaA blh chp Vsªu us lhVh ctk dj

pyus dk b”kkjk fd;kA Nqd&Nqd pyrh Vsªu ds lkFk j¶rkj feykrs gq,

“kekZth us jkt+ [kksykA uk”rs ds fy, eSaus vkidh HkkHkh dks ugha mBk;k

FkkA cgqr losjk Fkk ukA eSa [kqn vius gkFk ls mls idk dj yk;k FkkA

gekjs ikl dgus ds fy, “kCn ugha FksA ge njokts ij [kM+s gkFk

fgykrs jgsA “kekZth ds vks>y gks tkus ij cznj us dgk ^^t; gks

ihVhvkbZfxjh !**

& tyhl ,glu


MEDIA SCANTo ensure ‘self-regulation’, Govt forms media committee

Government has formed a media consultative committee to en-sure regular exchange of views between the administration and thevarious media panels in the wake of criticism over the coverage ofMumbai terror attacks. According to a government notification, thecommittee will meet at least twice a year or “as and when neces-sary”. The notification said the 20-member committee would workunder the chairmanship of secretary, IB ministry with members drawnfrom various professional panels.

“The committee was formed to assist the media in observingself-regulation. In none of its mandates, it seeks to gag the me-dia,” an IB ministry official said. The committee, formed in thebackdrop of recent debates on the need for guidelines for the mediawhile covering incidents related to national security among othersensitive issues, will periodically discuss concerns of media houseson various regulatory, policy and procedural matters.

Govt okays facsimile edition of foreign newspapers; WSJallowed

The government for the first time has given approval for publi-cation of facsimile editions of foreign newspapers by allowing ‘TheWall Street Journal’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal Asia’ to publish inIndia. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry said the newspa-pers will be brought out by Wall Street Journal India PublishingPrivate limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Jones and Com-pany Inc, USA. Earlier, the government had granted permission forForeign Direct Investment worth Rs 2.16 crore, it said.

Media, entertainment industry to cross Rs 1,00,000 cr markby 2013

The media and entertainment industry is likely to grow at 12.5per cent over the next five years to cross the Rs 1,00,000-croremark, according to a FICCI-KPMG report on the industry . “Over thenext five years, the industry is projected to grow at 12.5 per cent toreach the size of Rs 1,05,200-crore by 2013,” the report released inMumbai on February 17 said.

The Indian media and entertainment industry stood at Rs 58,400crore in 2008, up 12.4 per cent over the previous year. The reportadded that the economic slowdown has affected advertising rev-enues of segments like television, print, radio and outdoor, particu-larly in the last quarter of 2008. The market environment has be-come increasingly challenging and could affect the industry thiscurrent year too, it said. The projected 12.5 per cent growth for themedia and entertainment industry will be driven by factors like fa-vourable demographics, long-term fundamentals of the economy,expected rise in advertising to GDP ratio and increasing media pen-etration, the report said.

Of the different segments of the industry, television forms thebiggest chunk with revenues worth Rs 24,100 crore in 2008, a growthof 14.2 per cent over 2007. Revenues from television is projectedto grow to Rs 47,300 crore by the year 2013, the report said.

The film industry grew 13.4 per cent in 2008 over the previousyear and posted revenues of Rs 10,900 crore. It is projected toreach the size of Rs 16,800 crore by 2013.

The print media grew 7.6 per cent in 2008 over 2007 with rev-enues of Rs 17,000 crore. The industry is expected to grow to Rs26,600 crore by 2013. Segment of radio, which was worth Rs 840crore in 2008, is expected to double in the next five years.

The Indian animation industry is minuscule compared to theglobal industry but it has been on the growth path, the report said.The report estimated the size of animation industry in India at Rs1,700 crore and said it could grow to Rs 3,900 crore by 2013.

The report was also bullish about the gaming industry which is

the largest money-churner in the global market and gaining promi-nence in India too. The report said the Indian gaming segmentregistered revenues of Rs 400 crore in 2008 and could reach Rs940-crore mark in 2013.

The Out-of-Home segment is estimated to have touched Rs 1,600crore in 2008, and projected to be at Rs 2,900 crore by 2013, thereport said. Music is the only industry to have registered de-growthdue to drop in sales of audio cassettes and compact discs over thelast couple of years. It was estimated to be worth Rs 700 crore in2008 and projected to cross Rs 1,000 crore by 2013.

Christian Science Monitor to discontinue daily printedition

The century-old Christian Science Monitor said on October 28,2008 that it would discontinue its daily print edition in April andmove almost exclusively to online publication, becoming the firstmajor national newspaper to abandon a daily paper-and-ink format.

The move, which had been expected by industry professionalsand the Monitor staff, will cut annual costs by millions of dollarsfor the money-losing newspaper, which is subsidised by the Chris-tian Science Church. The publication’s management and some staffmembers also contend that the online format will make the reportmore timely to subscribers, most of whom receive the Monitor bymail a day or two after the paper goes to print.

But the change will present considerable risks. Unlike most dailynewspapers, the five-day-a-week Monitor receives the bulk of itsrevenue from subscriptions, not advertising. The Monitor plans anew weekly magazine to maintain its print presence, but that isexpected to bring in only a fraction of the $9.7-million circulationrevenue it receives annually. To compensate, the publication willhave to increase online advertising dramatically.

The Monitor may also face a delicate balancing act in present-ing itself almost exclusively via a new technology.

Pak second deadliest place for scribes, India not farbehind

Pakistan was the second deadliest place for journalists in 2008with India following closely behind, according to a new report by aglobal press freedom watchdog that showed Asia has replaced Mid-dle East as the most dangerous region in the world for mediapersons.Though more journalists were killed in Iraq (14) than any othercountry last year — for the sixth year in a row — Pakistan camesecond with six deaths as “chaos gripped the country’s politics andconflict spread along the border with Afghanistan,” the Interna-tional Press Institute (IPI) said. India followed with deaths of fivejournalists, remaining at the third spot with Mexico and the Philip-pines, the Vienna-based group said in its annual ‘World Press Free-dom Review’ which focussed on Asia this year.

“Impunity remains a contagion in the region, particularly inthe Philippines and Sri Lanka, but the murderers of journalists arealso escaping prosecution in leading democracies such as India,”IPI Director David Dadge said. “Those who want to stifle free ex-pression and frighten journalists into silence and self-censorshipare succeeding because of impunity,” he said releasing the report.

The IPI, a global organisation of editors and media executives,recommended that an “apparent lack of political will to protectjournalists needs to be addressed” by India, especially in areasplagued by political conflict.

“The state must commit to prosecute those who compromisethe freedom of the media” and “enact legislation to preserve thediversity of the media and to prevent monopolies from developing,”it said.


An SMS doing the round in media circles: Ten reasons why I joined the media

1. I hate to sleep2. I’ve enjoyed my life in childhood3. I can’t live without tension4. I want disturbed family life5. I believe in Geeta-” Karm karo, phal ki kaamna na karo”6. I don’t want to spend time with my family members7. I want to take revenge on myself8. I desperately need breakup from my dearest friends9. I want social boycott

10. I love to work on holidays.......!!!!!!

Sukh Ram? He could only be a constable, No?Well we could say results of the first gallup poll on outcome of

the impending general elections are out. Majority of the journalismstudents who were given a written test for recruitment in PTI re-cently felt the UPA had a better chance of returning power. Some,however, saw BSP’s Mayawati heading a new coalition at the centre.Some saw the CPI supporting a BJP led coalition. One optimist evenfelt that the Congress and the BJP could come together and forman alliance. Well in politics anything is possible!!

The students, at the same time, had interesting views of theworld as reflected in their answers. Some tidbits:

UPA stands for United Provinces AllianceNDA stands for Non-Democratic AlliancePTI was formed by some NGOsMIA stands for Ministry of Internal AffairsIllicit means to give wrong informationEmigrate means to return to one’s countryDifference between news agency and a newspaper: a newspaper

goes to sleep every day. Agencies remain awake - never sleep.Dhawal Kulkarni: A police officer killed in the recent Mumbai

terrorist attacks. (We wish Dhawal a long life and lots of cricket.) Loose: When something becomes bigger than the normal size. Sukh Ram: He fought very bravely during the recent terror at-

tacks in MumbaiBhimsen Joshi: Well known Sitar playerPinarayi Vijayan: CBI chief of KeralaJustice Saumitra Sen: He was beaten up by the police during

clash with lawyers.

Mishaps of technologyHow much dependent have we become on the tiny gadget called

the mobile that has almost become an appendage? A forlorn col-league recently was restless that her mobile was lost and alongwith it all her contacts, photographs, songs and what not. Its noth-ing less than getting lost in a jungle without a guide map. You areincomplete without your mobile- you are just willing to suffer theloss of privacy, the crank sales calls and the unwanted SMSs. Thesetiny gadgets cause funny situations sometimes as a colleague real-ized. Supposed to send a message to a party confirming next day’smeeting, the colleague sent the SMS by mistake to another party.And remember, the SMS does not say ‘wrong number’. To add to theconfusion, the same colleague sent a message to a wrong personstating that he was waiting on the first floor. The receiver keptwondering for long as the building he was in at that moment hadno first floor!

NB: Contributions welcome for this column. Confidentialityassured!

— Editor

Some anecdotesMany times while discharging professional duties we come across

situations, instances, happenings, people that we cannot reportbut that nonetheless get etched in the ‘off beat’ pages of our memory.The ‘Stories behind the Stories’ column gives us an opportunity toshare with colleagues some such experiences. There are also tidbits- one liners, we may call them - that cannot be woven into longpieces but are hilarious. One such instance was pointed out at arecent Saturday editorial meeting in Delhi and we share the samewith you. The other two are from editor’s own collection. We lookforward to your experiences for the next issue.

“Aisa Bhi Hota Hain!”At a recent press conference, the organisers, aware of journos’

tendency to leave the place even before a press conference is over,announced that those scribes who would stay put till the end of thepress conference would be presented with a pen drive as gift. (Thisone came from a colleague. We didn’t ask him whether he stayedback till the end!!)

When you jump the security to be with the Prime MinisterOnce upon a time when security was not that strict and one

could really see a prime minister from very close, a colleague out-smarted the police to accompany Prime Minister Mrs.Indira Gandhiat a function where media was not invited. It was A.K.Ramanujam(AKR) in Mumbai assigned to cover Mrs.Gandhi’s visit to the Princeof Wales Museum. As the place was small, authorities did not issuepress invitations. Having been ordered to cover the function, AKRwas not the one who would wait for an invitation. When pointedout by officials at the gate of the Museum that media was notallowed, AKR waited patiently for the PM to arrive.

The moment Mrs.Gandhi stepped out of her car, AKR opened hisumbrella, held it dutifully over Mrs.Gandhi and walked with herright into the museum. It was too late when security officials fromDelhi and those from Mumbai realised that AKR belonged to noneof them but by then he was already in the museum and the brieffunction would not permit them to whisk him away.

A triumphant AKR returned to office to write the one take storyonly to confront a media delegation wanting PTI to join their boy-cott of the coverage as media had not been invited. The boycottplea was, however, not accepted.

Press Trust of India or is it President of India?The call was put through with speed one is not used to when

dealing with government offices. Looking for reaction from the Presi-dent’s office, the call was made to the PABX number and I simplyintroduced myself as calling from The Press Trust of India. The SriLankan President had a week before returned from a visit to Indiaand that seemed to add to the ‘alertness’ of the operator who pickedup the phone and I could overhear her whispering into the ears ofher colleague, ‘ It’s from President of India.’ before forwarding thecall to, may be, another extension. It took several minutes (seemedlike ages) and a silence at the other end of the line before anothervoice came on the line and, without caring to listen to me, said“Sorry for the delay, Sir. We are putting your call through.” Anotherspell of silence and as minutes ticked by yet another voice ex-pressed regrets for the ‘delay’. Finally, another female voice cameon the line..”This is the personal secretary to the President. May Ihelp you please?” “Yes, I (heaved a sigh of relief) and said I am theColombo correspondent of Press Trust of India. We wanted the Presi-dent’s reaction to....”. The voice at the other end went silent for awhile before announcing with profound seriousness, “Yes sure. ThePresident’s Press Secretary will get back to you....”

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Name Grade / Designation CentreRanjit Kumar Sinha Chief of the Legal Bureau New DelhiSagar Kulkarni Journalist Group II New DelhiBinod Kumar Singh Attender NJ V RanchiHabul Barman Attender NJ V GangtokB Basu Attender NJ V KolkataSatey Pal Singh Senior Durban New DelhiMeharwan Singh Rawat Attender NJ V ChandigarhArjun Singh Attender NJ V LucknowJaibir Singh Rawat Attender NJ V New DelhiIshwar Singh Sweeper NJ V New DelhiApparao Laxman Kale Attender NJ V AurangabadSuhas S Khanvilkar Attender NJ V MumbaiKrishna L Naik Attender NJ V MumbaiSatyawan Narayan Kadam Attender NJ V MumbaiD N Thamanna Gowda Attender NJ V BangaloreK Muralidharan Attender NJ V KozhikodeM Ashokan Attender NJ V ChennaiV P Radhakrishnan Attender NJ V ChennaiRaghubeer Singh Attender New DelhiDeepti Saxena Journalist Group II DehradunJayanta Bhattacharya Journalist Group II AgartalaSuresh Mishra Senior Operator New DelhiAshwini Yatin Rane Assistant Accountant MumbaiJames Jose Attender-cum-Pantry

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OFFICE NEWSHJ readers would notice a small change in the front pagelayout. The logo in the centre has the figure 60 attachedprominently to it. PTI completed sixty years of its operationson February 1, 2009. This logo, which you may have alreadynoticed on the desk calendar that we brought out this year, isa token acknowledgement that we are sixty years young andgrowing.

The landmark achievements during the period since thelast issue include completion of the building project in Kolkataand PTI going ahead with a similar project in Bangalore.

PTI Audio Wire as also a premium entertainment packagecomprising text, images and video are in the pipeline. A videoservice in Indian languages in collaboration with the Associ-ated Press (AP) is also on the anvil.

Name Designation Centre MonthA R Chidambaram Regional Engineer Chennai SeptemberStanley J Miranda Regional Manager (South) Chennai OctoberG K Gulati Sr Transmission Incharge New Delhi OctoberSwapan Chakraborty Senior Regional Engineer Kolkata NovemberVed Prakash Yadav Regional Engineer New Delhi February

TRANSFERS

Name Designation From ToRaghavendra News Editor Beijing Chennai

NEW APPOINTMENTS

Name Designation CentreKaveri Ghosh Sub-Editor New DelhiRajeeb Mukherjee Senior Sports Journalist New DelhiResham Mukherjee Senior Journalist New DelhiBijay Shankar Patel Economic Researcjer New DelhiAbhishek Shukla Senior Correspondent New DelhiNirmal Anshu Ranjan News Coordinator New DelhiVikash Bhargava Senior Economic Correspondent AhmedabadD B V Suryanarayana Principal Political Correspondent HyderabadAjit Kumar Dubey Senior Correspondent New DelhiManish Gupta Principal Finance Correspondent New DelhiNisha Sharma Journalist New DelhiRuchi Kapoor Economic Reporter New DelhiSandeep Dahiya Correspondent JaipurSchweta Chaturvedi Senior Sub-Editor New DelhiMahesh Langa Principal Correspondent AhmedabadShamshad Ahmad Khan Sub-Editor New DelhiRajendra Mohanty Principal Correspondent RaipurStuti Roy Economic Reporter New DelhiVivek Malik Sub-Editor New DelhiUddalok Bhattacharya Principal News Coordinator New DelhiVijay Gangadhar Malepu Journalist MumbaiMohd Mazhar Saleem Journalist - Bhasha New DelhiSumangala Secretary to CAO New DelhiAbhishek Bajpai Correspondent LucknowUmesh Singh Chauhan Economic Journalist - Bhasha New DelhiAnkur Mishra Business Development Manager New DelhiRitika Kumar Probationary Journalist New DelhiManohar Singh Principal News Coordinator

(Bhasha) New DelhiNamita Tewari Principal Economic Correspondent New DelhiArjun Sen Consulting Associate Editor New DelhiAdeel Ahmad Khan Engineer - Projects New Delhi

CONFIRMATIONS

Name Grade / Designation CentreMahender Kumar Steno-Secretary New DelhiGeeta Gupta Accounts Clerk New DelhiAmit Aggarwal Accounts Clerk New Delhi

Name Grade / Designation CentreMukulendu Dirghangi Journalist Group IB KolkataRakesh Pandey Journalist Group IB-Bhasha LucknowNand Kumar Singh Photo Journalist Lucknow

SPECIAL INCREMENTS

NEW DESIGNATIONS/REDISGNATIONS

Name Grade / Designation CentreS Ramaswamy Acting Regional Manager (South) ChennaiVilas Tokale Chief of General Bureau in Mumbai MumbaiRajkumar Leishemba Chief Corporate News Coordinator New DelhiAnjanaa Daas Chief Communication &

IT Correspondent New DelhiSreekumaran N Principal Coordinator (Eco News Desk) New DelhiNamita Tewari Principal Economic Correspondent New DelhiManoj Rammohan Principal Business Analyst New DelhiPrabhudatta Mishra Principal Agriculture &

Commodities Correspondent New DelhiCharanjit Singh Senior Corporate Correspondent ChandigarhDeepak Goel Senior Corporate Correspondent New DelhiPiyali Mandal Communication & IT Correspondent New DelhiShruti Srivastava Finance Correspondent New DelhiTanu Pandey Finance Correspondent New DelhiRajesh Rai Industry & Commerce Correspondent New DelhiKamal Narayan Omer Deskperson cum Reporter New DelhiSaurabh Chaturvedi Deskperson cum Reporter New DelhiWasfia Jalali Deskperson cum Reporter New Delhi


OFFICE NEWS

Best Story Awards

Ever since it was launched in October 2005, a total of 353 colleagues have been given awards for best stories in various categories,best editing and best photographs.

The editorial panel that evaluates the stories looks forward to more response from journalists from various centres. If you feel youhave put in an extra effort to get a story or as a sub editor to give a story a good intro that was hidden may be in the second take, sendyour stories (in case of editing, both the original and the edited versions) to Vijay Satokar, Dy.Editor in Delhi.

If you have won an award but your photo has not appeared in the HJ, send us a passport size photograph along with details of thestory/photograph for which you bagged the award.

— Editor

Master Arnur Mishra of Class 5 DPS Noida,won the first rank in school and fourthrank in state in the National Cyber Ol-ympiad. Arnur, son of Uma Mishra ofBhasha, who topped with 98% in allgroups in DPS Noida was declared the‘Wiz Kid’ by the school.

Adarsh, son of SudhirBehera of Berhampur, wonthe junior boys individualchampionship for the sec-ond year in succession atthe 2008 annual sportsmeet of his school, St Vin-cent Convent School.Adarsh secured four firstand three second posi-tions in different events.

RM (W) Sudhaman and Mumbai Sports Club office bearers with some ofthe winners of the Club’s TT and Carrom tournaments which were held inJuly-August 2008.

Ved Prakash Yadav retired as Regional Engineer in Delhi on February 28after 23 years of service.

G K Gulati, seen in pic being garlanded by Federation General SecretaryM S Yadav, retired as Transmission in Charge in New Delhi on October 31,2008.

Regional Manager (South) S Miranda with the PTI Chennai staff on theday of his retirement.


ON THE NEWS BEAThe PTI juggernaut rolls on. India’s commercial capital - Mumbai- again became target of terrorists. We had one Mumbai col

league after the train blasts writing in HJ, ‘Not Again’. Well, newsbreaks will happen. Although one would wish no mayhem of thiskind happens again, one can, may be, only pray. So Mumbai teamincluding the photographers rose to the occasion and ensured weremained on the top. We have a piece on the coverage by Editor,G.Sudhakar Nair on the operation.

Then there was anotherincident that shook the coun-try and the world on theeconomy front. There wasSatyam in the South withRamalinga Raju making aclean breast of the fraud thatSatyam played on theinvestors.The business teamgeared itself and came outwith flying colours. Followingwas the deployment of forcesin and out of the country. Webegin with the Photo Depart-ment:

Sr. Editor, Photo,Subhash Malhotra was in USin November with PM,lensman Vijay Joshi was inJapan and China again withthe PM, Shubav Shukla wielded his camera to provide photo cover-age of President Pratibha Patil from Bhutan, Kamal Singh flew withthe media team that accompanied President Pratibha Patil on thethree nation tour while Atul Yadav took a detour from his usualtours with Rahul Gandhi to go to Dubai, Qatar and Oman in sepa-rate tours, Shahbaz Khan was in Myanmar with Vice President HamidAnsari, Deputy Editor Pallab Bhattacharya too was in the mediateam. Vijay Varma was in the Maldives with the Vice President,Manvender was in the US with the PM’s entourage, Atul Yadav ofcourse continued to accompany the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

From the bureau, Subhasis Mittra (in strict confidence) says hemisses the stewardship of Shivraj Patil as Home Minister. He there-fore, went to Bhutan to cover the coronation of the new King. M.V.Meenakshisundaram flew into the island nation of Maldives to re-port on the swearing-in of the new President. Meenakshi was alsoin Indonesia and Vietnam with President Pratibha Patil, SagarKulkarni went to Dhaka with External Affairs Minister PranabMukherjee, Ajay Kaul headed towards Iran and Afghanistan withthe media team that accompanied External Affairs Minister Pranabda.

Nearer home the places the staff criss-crossed were Shillong(Sagar Kulkarni - Science Congress), Guwahati (Subhashis with newHome Minister P. Chidambaram) Ajit Kumar Dube was in Bangaloreto report on the aero show. Assembly polls saw Anand Mishra andAmitabh Roychowdhury touring Chhattisgarh and Dey and NAB vis-iting Rajasthan, Sunil Gatade and Santosh Joy were in Nagpur tocover BJP’s National Executive.

The frequent flyers of the Business bureau were globe trottingwith Sunil Kumar Batra visiting San Francisco and then Barcelona,Indivjal Dhasmana was in Geneva, M.Karthikeyan was in Canada,Manish Gupta in USA, Ammar Zaidi went to Oman and Qatar, PrakashChawla was in Paris, Anjanaa Daas was in Barcelona, RajkumarLeishemba flew to Paris while Sukanya Mahapatra went to Australia,Piyali Mandal was in London and Deepak Goel in Japan. PranjalPratim Bhuyan went to Germany. They visiting places in India too.Ammar Zaidi went to Jaipur, Prabhudatta Mishra went to Goa, Deepak

Sharma went to Badaun and Lucknow while Rajesh Kumar Roy trav-elled to Agra, Piyali Mandal went to Kochi and then to Hyderabad,Saurabh Chaturvedi went to Alwar, Megha Manchanda to Barodaand then to Jhajhar, Banikinkar Pattanayak went to Chandigarh andShriti Srivastava went to Thiruvanthpuram, Kamal Kishor Shankarwas in Lucknow and then in Jhajhar, Sukanya Mohapatra was inRajasthan, Laxmi Devi went to Bhatinda, then was in Gurajat andthen in Orissa, Stuti Roy went to Nainital, Tanu Pandey was in

Jaipur, Ruchi Kapoor was inAmritsar and Namita Tewariwent to Surat.

Deskperson cum ReporterWasfia Jalali went to Jaipur tocover the literary festivalthere. Bedika of the Entertain-ment Desk went to Bangkok tocover shooting of a film song,Snehesh Philip and Sumir Kaulwere specially sent to Mumbaiin the aftermath of the terror-ist attacks to do special sto-ries.

From the Sports Desk,Philem Dipak Singh was in Goato cover the ManchesterUnited Premier Cup under 15football tournament, DigantaBiswas covered 70th National

Table Tennis Championship in Patna. He also went to Hyderabad tocover the Indian Cricket League. Amlan Chakraborty was in Mohalito cover the India vs Australia 2nd test, then in Kanpur for the 3rd

test and in Mohali again to cover the India vs England 2nd test.Richa Tyagi was in Tokyo for ‘Namaste India’ festival, Anil Chakradevwas in Hamburg covering India week by the German city, Ajay Kaulwas in Afghanistan for the handing over of the 215-km Delaram-Zaranj highway to Afghan authorities by External Affairs MinisterPranab Mukherjee, Anil Bhat was in Chakan-Da-Bagh on October 21to cover cross border trade in Kashmir across LoC in the Poonch-Rawalkot sector, M.I.Jehangir was in Salamabad covering theSrinagar-Muzaffarabad sector; Amitabh Shukla was with Rahul Gan-dhi touring Utttarakhand, Archana Jyoti was in Manas (Assam) toreport on three one-horned rhinos being released back into thewild by the wild life department, N.C. Bipindra was in Kochi toreport on the keel laying ceremony for India’s first indigenous air-craft carrier by the Defence Minister A.K. Anthony.

We have report from Kolkata from where : Tapan Mohanta (Sen-ior Sports Correspondent) visited Cuttack for coverage of the Chal-lenger Trophy cricket championship, Amitava Roy (Senior Reporter)went to Srinagar and other places of Jammu and Kashmir during avisit sponsored by J and K Tourism, Sunil Mukherjee (Senior Re-porter) was in Salbani in West Bengal to cover the foundation lay-ing ceremony of JSW Steel Ltd, Pradip Chakraborty (Senior PoliticalCorrespondent) accompanied Mamata Banerjee to Singur, TapanMohanta (Senior Sports Correspondent) visited Cuttack to cover theIndia-England one day match, Bisheswar Malakar (Business Reporter)travelled to Simla on an Amway-sponsored trip, Dibyendu Chakraborty(Senior Business Correspondent) visited Andaman and Nicobar Is-lands on a SBI-sponsored trip, Shyamal Baran Roy (Senior Reporter)visited Santiniketan to cover the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’sprogramme, Saibal Gupta (Reporter) visited Nandigram in West Ben-gal from January 4-5, 2009 to cover the byelection to the Assemblyseat.

CEO Razdan and Executive Editor Chandrasekar interviewing Army Chief,Gen. Deepak Kapoor.

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