Sahara Launches India’s First private, Urdu News Channel

• News will be broadcasted in 54 Countries across the world
• Channel is on air with highly talented and capable team of reporters

New Delhi, 27 December 2010: Sahara India Pariwar, the multi business conglomerate under the aegis of Sahara News Network, today launched ‘Aalami Sahara’- its National Urdu News Channel. Aalami Sahara is the first privately owned National Urdu News Channel in India.
In India where more than 9 crore people speak and understand Urdu, out of which 4 crore happen to be television viewers, Aalami Sahara will prove to be a pioneer in presenting the cutting-edge news for keeping these viewers abreast of the happenings in their own language.
With the highly talented and capable team of reporters of Sahara News Network, Alami Sahara would voice the regional, national and international issues with fairness and precision and broadcast them in 54 different countries including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Brunei, Jordan, Behrain, Oman, Qatar, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey, Bhutan, Nepal, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Macau, Maldives, Fiji, Myanmar, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Singapore, Australia and others.
Sahara News Network already publishes Roznama Rashtriya Sahara (an Urdu daily), Aalami Sahara (a weekly magazine) and Bazm-e-Sahara (a monthly tabloid). They are ruling the roost among Urdu readers for their credibility. Urdu daily, Roznama, publishes 16 editions from 10 centers for its 31.5 lakh readers. There are 5.25 lakh readers of the Urdu weekly, while there are 5 lakhs for Bazm-e-Sahara (Urdu monthly). Sahara News Network has already made its mark in the online news through its presence via online, e-paper and live Broadcasting.
Sahara News Network has one round-the-clock, free to air, national Hindi news channel ‘Samay’ and a bouquet of 36 city specific regional news channels under the brand name ‘Sahara Samay’. Sahara’s News Media is equipped with over 1600 V-Sats for News collection and has 50 Bureaus and 1000 correspondents across the globe.