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Union Budget 2018 LIVE streaming: Here's how to watch FM Arun Jaitley's speech, experts' analysis

Watch experts analyse Budget 2018 before and after it's tabled in the Parliament as well as FM Arun Jaitley's speech streaming live on Firstpost.com

DD India to become English news channel, bilingual DD News to air only Hindi news

Public broadcaster Doordarshan's DD India is all set to turn into an English news channel, while the bilingual DD News may soon air only Hindi news.

Guess who broke the norm while reporting Gurdaspur terror attacks? DD News

The Indian Express reported that the ministry found DD news to have violated the guidelines during its coverage of the recent terror attack in Gurdaspur in Punjab.

Modi govt wants to turn DD India into India's BBC, but doesn't want crime stories telecast

While the Narendra Modi-led NDA government wants to turn Doordarshan news into a news channel like BBC, such plans are unlikely to be successful with the government's control on the news organisation Prasar Bharati.

Another blooper: DD News tweets Modi's cabinet meet picture saying 'Santa feeds monkeys'

DD News tweeted out a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his cabinet ministers including Amit Shah, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Rajnath Singh captioning it "A man dressed as Santa Claus feeds monkeys ahead of Christmas."

Watch: From governor of India to achche din, DD News anchor brings you IFFI live from Goa

But, if you want to watch the IFFI coverage on TV, this may probably be the one you should.

People are fed up with private channels, chance for DD News to draw viewers: Prasar Bharati

People are exasperated with "content and slanging matches" at prime time on private channels and that gives a chance to DD News to pull viewers towards it.