Asianet Suvarna News: Now on air in a new, bold, exciting avatar - Asianet News Newsable

Asianet Suvarna News: Now on air in a new, bold, exciting avatar - Asianet News Newsable


Asianet Suvarna News: Now on air in a new, bold, exciting avatar - Asianet News Newsable

Posted: 30 Nov 2020 06:36 AM PST

Karnataka's favourite news channel, Suvarna News, with over 12 years of successful regional news broadcasting excellence, is being rebranded as Asianet Suvarna News.

With this announcement, the Asianet News Network signals its intent to bring Asianet News' long standing regional and national equity to Suvarna News. 

With its tagline, 'Straight, Bold and Relentless', the rebranded channel,  with a slew of new programs, aims to build further gains in the fiercely fought leadership race in the Kannada news broadcasting industry.

Abhinav Khare, CEO of Asianet News Media & Entertainment Private Limited, said: "Suvarna News has rapidly emerged as a strong player in the region and established its leadership in the news broadcasting space. The brand has been pivotal in the state and its people, empowering the citizens through insightful and impactful reporting." 

"With the addition of Asianet News in its identity, Asianet Suvarna News will derive better recall, leverage Asianet News Network's national advantage and more importantly it will establish stronger credibility that is unmatched in the region."

Ravi Hegde, Editor-in-Chief of Asianet Suvarna News, said: "The new identity has triggered an exciting, revamped look and feel along with introduction of new shows during the prime time which will be a game changer in the Karnataka News genre. This is not a one day rebrand excitement for us. We will pay the same attention to detail serious journalism requires. In a copy-cat news media market, we will differentiate ourselves with credible, verified visual presentation true to our tagline Straight-Bold-Relentless."

Rajesh Kalra, Executive Chairman of Asianet News Media and Entertainment Private Limited, pointed out the lack of programming differentiators across the news broadcasting business.

He said, "We are witnessing a shift in consumer behaviour over the recent past. It is important for news broadcasters to be sensitive to this shift. With shrinking attention span and ever evolving viewership behaviour, presenting well differentiated verified content will be the key to better engagement. Asianet Suvarna News is doing exactly that and will continue to deliver on the back of its well-researched content strategy."

Asianet News Media & Entertainment is amongst India's most pre-eminent media conglomerate with a portfolio of marquee brands within its fold. 

Asianet News is the flagship property of the network, the undisputed No.1 Malayalam Broadcast News Channel for over two decades. In Karnataka, Asianet Suvarna News is a distinct leader at the regional level news genre. 

Kannada Prabha newspaper boasts of a 50 year legacy of credible print journalism in Karnataka. Indigo Music.com is the first international radio station in India with its presence in Bengaluru & Goa with a new digital platform. 

With over 1 Billion monthly page views and presence in 7 languages (Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu & Bangla) Asianet News Network's digital property www.asianetnews.com is acknowledged to be fastest growing vernacular platforms in the country. 

The rebranding of Suvarna News to Asianet Suvarna News will bring in best practices and deliver editorial excellence that is unmatched nationally.
 

Bangladesh signals shift towards China, Pakistan: report - Newspaper - DAWN.com

Posted: 26 Jul 2020 12:00 AM PDT

NEW DELHI: A prominent newspaper of Bangladesh has said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina did not meet India's high commissioner despite repeated requests for a meeting in the last four months, one of several signs of strained relations with New Delhi and a shift for closer ties with Pakistan and China.

The Hindu on Saturday quoted Bhorer Kagoj, a prominent daily, as reporting that all Indian projects have slowed down since the re-election of Prime Minister Hasina in 2019 with Chinese infrastructure projects receiving more support from Dhaka.

"Despite India's concern, Bangla­desh has given the contract of building an airport terminal in Sylhet to a Chi­nese company. Indian High Commi­ssioner Riva Ganguly Das tried for four months to get an appointment with the prime minister of Bangladesh but did not get it. Bangladesh has not even sent a note of appreciation to India in response to Indian assistance for the Covid-19 pandemic," said the newspaper's editor Shyamal Dutta in an article.

The Hindu said it showed a recent tilt of Dhaka towards Pakistan and China. A similar move was recorded in Iran recently, which has decided to go ahead without India in a Chabahar Port railway project that the two countries had agreed to undertake together.

The Bhorer Kagoj report also follows a widely noted unusual call by Prime Minister Imran Khan to his Bangla­deshi counterpart on Wednesday.

The Bangla paper said the Beijing Urban Construction Group (BUCG) has received the contract for building a new terminal in MAG Osmania Airport of Sylhet that borders India's northeastern region and is, therefore, considered a sensitive area for New Delhi.

A diplomatic source from the Bangladesh High Commission here confirmed to The Hindu that the Indian envoy had sought an appointment with Ms Hasina but it did not materialise. However, neither India's High Commission in Dhaka nor the Ministry of External Affairs responded to questions from the paper.

A diplomat from the Indian mission said Ms Ganguly Das has gone out of Dhaka on a tour.

The comments about the state of bilateral ties are timely as Ms Hasina received a phone call from Prime Minister Khan on Wednesday.

Though Dhaka refused to give details of the conversation between the two leaders, Pakistan's official news agency reported that Mr Khan informed Ms Hasina about the situation in occupied Kashmir and sought "resolution" of the dispute.

India, in response on Thursday, appreciated Bangladesh saying that Dhaka considers Kashmir an internal matter of India, The Hindu said.

Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2020

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