DD News

DD News is an Indian free-to-airHindi-languagepublic broadcast television news channel, owned and operated by Doordarshan, one of the two divisions of Prasar Bharati under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. It was launched on 11 November 2003 as the nation's first 24-hournews channel to be available on both cable and terrestrial platforms to replace DD Metro. The proposal of its launch was subsequently approved by the Union Cabinet in a meeting held on 3 October 2003.

DD Metro was converted into a 24-hour TV news channel, into DD News, which launched on 3 November 2003. During its initial years, its terrestrial reach was 21.6% by area and 44.9% by population of India.

In 2019, international sister channel DD India became the exclusive channel for English News and Current Affairs from Doordarshan. After that parent body Prasar Bharati's CEO claimed that DD News will be "100% Hindi soon", but is yet to be implemented because of availability of content to be aired. Special feature of the channel includes a Sanskrit news show called Vaarta.

The DD News mobile app for Android and Apple was launched on 7 May 2015 by the then Minister of Information and BroadcastingArun Jaitley. The app aims to instantly communicate news on a 24x7 basis.