New BBC transmission for South Asia & additional frequencies

With effect from 27th April 2018 BBC has introduced an additional World Service transmission to South Asia  :

1200-1300 UTC on 12065, 15310 kHz (both are from A'Seela).

Also from 27th April 2018 additional frequencies are available at following time slots :

0000-0100 UTC on 7290 kHz (Taskkent)

0100-0200 UTC on 9410 kHz (Tashkent)

1300-1400 UTC on 12065 kHz (Singapore)

(Alok Dasgupta)

BBC Hindi, Urdu journalists on strike

Journalists from the BBC’s South Asian services walked out at midnight for a 24 hour strike protesting over the outsourcing of their jobs to India, Pakistan and Nepal.

Related News:

Standing up for journalism from Keighley to Kathmandu
http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=1136

Motion in British Parliament
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=37953&SESSION=899

PTI Report
http://www.ptinews.com/pti/ptisite.nsf/0/857783C7E65A0DC165257569002FD8E6?OpenDocument

http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/news/story/2009/02/090226_bbc_strike_alk.shtml