In the November 1995 interview, which was watched by a record 22.8 million people, Diana detailed her collapsing marriage to the heir to the throne.
November 19, 2020The interview, where the Princess admitted to having had an extra-marital affair and where she said famously that there “were three of us in the marriage, so it was a bit crowded”, had shaken Britain’s royal family to its core. Within a year of the interview, the royal couple had divorced and a year later, the Princess had died in tragic circumstances in Paris.
November 11, 2020Afzal has also contributed to the music of the Atul Kulkani-starrer "Black Bud", besides "DNA Of Love" starring Adhyayan Suman.
October 23, 2020Radio 4 programme 'In Business' will shut down, as will the 'Business Live' page on the BBC News Website.
July 18, 2020In response, social media platforms have announced actions to limit the spread of false content.
August 29, 2019BBC 'Hardtalk' on Twitter clarified that the recorded interview was too long for the broadcast slot and so had to be edited.
December 15, 2018BBC’s popular TV series, ‘Citizen Khan’, has completed its sixth year. It’s the first comedy series on the Asian immigrants in that country; the title inspired by the popular Hollywood thriller ‘Citizen Kane’ (1941). In the series, Mr. Khan is a Pakistani immigrant to Britain who lives with his family at Sparkhill, East Birmingham, which, …
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September 7, 2018BBC Test Match Special has secured rights to broadcast ball-by-ball coverage of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, to be held in England and Wales next year. Test Match Special will be broadcast to fans on multiple platforms across the UK, including on BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra, Radio 4 Long Wave and the …
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May 25, 2018British television series Criminal Justice and The Office will get a ‘desi’ twist with their Indian adaptations. BBC Worldwide India has announced a partnership with Aditya Birla Group’s Applause Entertainment to develop and produce Indian versions of iconic BBC formats. For starters, they will work together to develop Indian versions of Criminal Justice and The …
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January 19, 2018A project in the Belgian capital is pioneering portable cardboard tents for homeless people to sleep in, a media report said on Saturday. The cardboard tents, known as the ORIG-AMI project, can be transported by users on their backs as they seek shelter, reports the BBC. In Brussels, normal tents are forbidden, meaning that homeless …
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December 30, 2017The BBC has apologised after showing two clips of the wrong person while reporting the death of veteran Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor. On Monday’s News at Ten, two video clips were played as presenter Huw Edwards announced the death of the 79-year-old Bollywood star, who died the same day at 5.20 p.m. But neither of …
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December 6, 2017Senior journalist Vinod Verma, who was arrested on Friday on charges of blackmailing a Chhattisgarh minister will be produced before a court in Raipur on Saturday, officials said. A Ghaziabad court had on Friday granted the Chhattisgarh Police transit remand of Verma. The senior journalist was then taken to Raipur where he will be presented …
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October 28, 2017Bill Nighy, Catherine Keener and Matthew Goode have been tapped to star in BBC's three-part mini adaptation of Agatha Christie's “Ordeal by Innocence”. Production on the drama will begin in Scotland this month, with Sandra Goldbacher directing for producers Mammoth Screen from Sarah Phelps' script, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Further joining the cast are …
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July 7, 2017Smoking causes one in 10 deaths worldwide, half of them in just four countries — China, India, the US and Russia, a new study revealed on Thursday. The Global Burden of Diseases Report was based on smoking habits in 195 countries and territories between 1990 and 2015, the BBC reported. It found that nearly one …
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April 7, 2017Kaziranga National Park, known as a success story across the globe in the conservation of the one-horned rhinoceros, suddenly got shocking news from abroad stating that a tribal rights body has given a call for boycott of the world heritage site claiming that it has turned into a killing field of innocent tribal people in …
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March 12, 2017A British journalist with the BBC faces up to five years in a Thai jail after a lawyer brought a criminal defamation case against him over an investigation into fraud on a popular tourist island. Rights groups say the case is the latest example of how Thailand's broad defamation and computer crime laws shut down …
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