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Al Jazeera, India TV ink deal to share news
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Mr Wadah Khanfar, Managing Director, Al Jazeera, exchanging documents with Mr Rajat Sharma, Chairman, India TV, after signing an agreement in the Capital on Thursday. - Kamal Narang
New Delhi
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Sept. 2
QATAR-BASED news network Al Jazeera on Thursday signed an exclusive news bulletin-sharing agreement with Hindi news channel India TV, which would give the channels exclusive rights to telecast each other's bulletins.
The agreement, signed by the Al Jazeera Managing Director, Mr Wadah Khanfar, and the India TV Chairman, Mr Rajat Sharma, also provides for an exchange of real-time news updates from the respective regions.
The telecast of the Al Jazeera bulletins, dubbed in Hindi, would begin from Friday night. Later speaking to newspersons, Mr Khanfar said the channel was keen to establish a full-fledged bureau in New Delhi and was also talking to other broadcasters for similar content-sharing agreements.
Mr Khanfar said: "Al Jazeera has provided Arab audiences with a much-needed platform for interaction and debate, something that was quite unfamiliar in this part of the world.
"India holds an important audience base for us, and this agreement will enable us to provide India with news about the Arab world and vice-versa."
"By signing this agreement with Al Jazeera, alongside providing in-depth and composite international news to our viewers, India TV will also provide an additional picture of events and current affairs in the Arab world to our viewers in India," Mr Sharma said.
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