Russia clamped down harder Friday on news and free speech than at any time in President Vladimir V. Putin’s 22 years in power, blocking access to Facebook and major foreign news outlets, and ena...
Russia’s state communications watchdog said on Friday it had blocked the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Deutsche Welle and other media outlets for spreading “fake&...
He had a pet wolf called Boris, named after the former Russian president, Boris Yeltsin. Evgeny’s father, Alexander Lebedev, was once a KGB officer.
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Treasured heirloom
The Repair Shop is a programme on BBC that restores family heirlooms. It has done just that with a painting of the Jain preacher, Rishabhadeva. The artwork had belonged to Mukta Sh...
Britain said on Monday it would freeze funding for the BBC for two years and begin a debate on whether a universal licence fee should continue in the modern television age.
Culture secretary Nadine D...
The Prime Minister was asked by the journalist: “Do you believe that this is a crisis?”
The Prime Minister responded with the old trick of talking non-stop without answering uncomfortable...
Rajni Kaul, a distinguished broadcaster who became the first woman to read a news bulletin in Hindi on BBC nearly 60 years ago, passed away in Faridabad on Tuesday. She was 93.
She was cremated on We...
Russia has told a BBC journalist working in Moscow to leave the country by the end of this month in retaliation for what it called London’s discrimination against Russian journalists working in ...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who was born in Tamil Nadu and grew up in Chennai, said India is deeply rooted in him and a big part of who he is.
In an in-depth interview with the BBC at the Google headqu...
And I have to talk about The Defiant Ones. It’s about the legendary music producer Dr. Dre crossing paths with Jimmy Iovine, creating something that changed how the world conceives contemporary ...