It gives us immense pleasure to tell you that All India Radio has launched a multimedia website for its external service.  The website airworldservice.org is presently available in English, Hindi and Urdu languages.  The content consists of rich bouquet of news, current affairs, programmes on culture, heritage, music, art, tourism, health-care, issues relating to economy, investment, development, education etc. The website which has a blend of text, pictures, video and audio components also features live streaming of radio programmes.  It also has a segment on “Radio On Demand”.

As you may be aware, over the years, the External Services of All India Radio has been broadcasting in 27 languages (15 foreign and 12 Indian) reaching out to more than 140 countries through medium and short wave.  Our broadcasts are aimed at Indians living abroad as well as others worldwide. The programmes of AIR have wide following as is evident from large number of letters, e-mails received by the different language services.   

The launch of the website i.e. airworldservice.org  shall give a further fillip to the external broadcast of All India Radio by helping it to reach a much wider audience/viewers.  We take this opportunity to request you to kindly take some time out and visit our website and offer your valuable suggestions to enable us to further enrich its content.  We shall also be grateful if you could circulate and popularise the website among your peers through the social media platforms used by you.  We shall also appreciate, if institutions, organisations etc connected with Indian Diaspora are also notified about this website.  This will help us in making this website an authentic reference point about India.  Looking forward to your kind support and hearing from you.

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