Doordarshan founded by Government of India in 1959 the largest broadcasting organizations in India in terms of the infrastructure of studios and transmitters.

 
The first program telecast on Doordarshan was Krishi Darshan . It commenced on January 26, 1967 and is one of the longest running programs on Indian television.


Hum Log (We People) was Indian television's first soap opera. It began telecast on Doordarshan, India's national network on July 7, 1984, then the only television channel of India, and it quickly became immensely popular. 

The word "Akashvani" was coined by Dr.M.V.Gopalaswamy, a professor of psychology and the principal, Maharaja’s college. 

Mysore was the location of the first private radio broadcasting station in India when Akashavani (voice from the sky) was established in the city on 10 September 1935 by M.V. Gopalaswamy, a professor of psychology, at his house in the Vontikoppal area of Mysore(about 200 yards from AIR’s current location in Mysore), using a 50-watt transmitter.The station was taken over by the princely state of Mysore in 1941 and was moved to Bangalore in 1955.

 In 1957, Akashvani was chosen as the official name of All India Radio (AIR), the radio broadcaster of the Government of India.
The AIR station at Mysore broadcasts an FM radio channel at 100.6 MHz, and Gyan Vani broadcasts on 105.2. BIG FM and Red FM are the two private FM channels operating in the city.
 
Jnanpith Award winner Prof U R Ananthamurthy, who was a student of Dr Gopalaswamy says “He was a man of few words. I remember going and sitting in the parks as a student to listen to music. These were known as radio parks.”

The Mahatma Gandhi Series of banknotes are issued by the Reserve Bank of India as the legal tender of Indian Rupee. As the name suggests, the series is so called because the observe of the banknotes prominently display the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi. Since its introduction in 1996, this series has replaced all issued banknotes.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introduced the series in 1996 with the ₹10 and ₹500 banknotes. At present, the RBI issues banknotes denominations from ₹5 to ₹1000. Printing of ₹5 notes which had stopped earlier restarted in 2009. ATMs usually dispense ₹100, ₹500, and ₹1000 notes.



The obverse design of this series was based on this photograph of Mahatma Gandhi.

Lord Pethic-Lawrence with Gandhi in 1946

In 1826,  Nicéphore Niépce took what is believed to be the world’s first photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family’s country home Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill.

WINNERS:


 

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■Chichen Itza, Mexico ,600 AD  

■Christ the Redeemer, Brazil, Opened October 12, 1931   

■Great Wall of China, China,Since 7th century BC   

■Machu Picchu, Peru. 1450 A       

■Petra, Jordan, 100 BC                    

■Taj Mahal, India, Completed 1648 AD  

■Colosseum, Italy, Completed 80 AD