Some better news from the BBC World Service - radio news in Hindi has got a year-long reprieve, at least in the form of a daily one-hour bulletin, which will be carried on short-wave as well as mobile and online. It needs to find commercial support within that year, or it then shuts in March 2012. Indian regulations don't allow news services directly from overseas broadcasters on FM.
It's not clear how many jobs this will keep going - but it's an import lifeline for some staff working in one of the world's most significant languages. It would very strange to invest in news in Urdu, whilst closing Hindi.
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