The shortwave schedule of All India Radio’s External Services (Akashvani) on the timelines of your cities: every broadcast with its language, frequencies, target area and transmitter site, shown in your own time zone instead of UTC.
The External Services speak mainly to India’s neighbours. Bengali for Bangladesh and Urdu for Pakistan run for many hours a day, joined by Punjabi, Sindhi, Siraiki and Baluchi for Pakistan, Nepali for Nepal, Tibetan, Dari and Pashto for Afghanistan, and Mandarin, Burmese and Indonesian further east. Farsi and Arabic programs reach Iran and the Gulf, Swahili goes to East Africa, and French to Europe. English and Hindi appear as short bulletins inside the services for Nepal and Bangladesh.
Broadcasts go out from Bengaluru, Jalandhar, Delhi and Kolkata, partly on medium wave for the nearest countries. India keeps the same clock all year, at UTC+5:30, so a broadcast at 15:45 UTC is 21:15 in Delhi but a different hour in every neighbouring country. This calendar follows the current season of the EiBi shortwave schedule, which changes at the end of March and the end of October, and places each broadcast at its local time in each of your cities.
Select a broadcast to see its frequencies in kHz, the target area, the transmitter and the days it airs, with a link to listen on an online SDR receiver.
Yes. The External Services of All India Radio (Akashvani) broadcast on shortwave and medium wave to neighbouring countries, the Middle East, Africa and Europe in about 20 languages.
Shortwave broadcasts use frequencies between 9.6 and 15.4 MHz; programs for Bangladesh and Pakistan also go out on 594 and 1071 kHz medium wave. Select a broadcast on the timeline to see its frequencies in kHz.
Only in short bulletins inside the services for Nepal and Bangladesh. Most of the schedule is in the languages of the countries around India.
From Bengaluru, Jalandhar, Delhi and Kolkata (Chinsurah).
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