The 72-year-old has now been confirmed in the 160,000 pounds per year and four-year term role to take charge as the public broadcaster's first Indian-origin Chair from March 4 and running until March 2028.
Michael Parkinson, a United Kingdom (UK) broadcaster and talk show host, passed away at 88. Sir Michael Parkinson, the legendary British broadcaster and talk show host, has died at the age of 88.
Hours after China barred BBC World News from its television networks and Hong Kong s public broadcaster said it would stop relaying BBC World Service radio, the UK dubbed the move an unacceptable curtailing of media freedom .
China s tit-for-tat step came a week after the UK revoked the license of Chinese state-owned broadcaster China Global Television Network s (CGTN). Its National Radio and Television Administration said BBC World News reports on China had seriously violated a requirement to be truthful and fair , harmed the country s interests and undermined national unity.
The move also came days after BBC News report on systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China s Xinjiang region. The suspension of BBC radio news programming by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), the publicly funded broadcaster in the former British territory, underlines Beijing s tightening grip on Hong Kong extends to media.