 Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and we're all set to rock and roll. My name is Superna Chadda I'm the curator for these awards and another editorial consultant with the exchange for media group and as Many of you who would have attended other awards or conferences that have curated or anchored I'd like to start with invoking a higher power Whatever it is the higher power that you believe in and as mr. And Ram pointed out through the jury meet Maybe you're an atheist and do not believe in an a higher power But I do believe and it has held me in good stead So I would like to start by reciting the Saraswati Vandana The essence of which is to dispel the darkness of ignorance through the light of knowledge in case you are well Worst with it. Please join me. Yeah, Kundendu Tushar Haridhavala Shubra Vastravrita, Yavinavaradanda Manditakara, Yashweta Padmasana, Yabrahmachutta Shankar Prabhutibi, Deyvai Sadavandita, Samampatu Saraswati, Bhagavati Nishesh, Jadya Paha We received an overwhelming response this year We had over close to around 350 entries that came in from across 17 news channels Across the country broadcasting in either English or Hindi, of course There has been discussion about having regional channels and being you know an end bar awards for regional channels But that in itself is a huge task in terms of curation in terms of identifying the right kind of jury who Understand the specifics of the various parts of the country and we are well on our way to hopefully launch that soon too But as of tonight, we are going to be felicitating only the channels broadcasting in Hindi and English Whether they're national or regional Irrespective of that and ladies and gentlemen for our first subcategory of course we've got four main categories and 37 subcategories that we are going to be awarding There's going to be one particular Metal that's going to be given away. There is no gold silver or bronze But it was the jury's discretion to give away joint awards as well And they have been judicious in giving away some joint awards in specific categories But they have also eliminated some categories without acknowledging or felicitating any particular shortlisted nominee or Entrant in that particular category because they wanted to set a benchmark for the future So our very first category under the Programming sector is best current affairs program English and to do the honors may invite on stage mr. Rishi Suri editor international affairs the daily mill up and mr. Niladri Dutta corporate marketing head LG electronics request you both fine gentlemen to please come up on stage We are going to be awarding A show on current affairs and analysis of news events the show should be of minimum 20 minutes Duration it could be in the form of on-spot reportage background reports Interviews and or panel discussions. Could we have the shortlisted nominees, please? Apparently I've been told by my team that Hashtag and by 2015 is already trending in Delhi go ahead tweet about what you like What you don't like and who you think should be awarded? We have our first winners for the night. Yeah, let's find out who the winners are So can we hear it out loud for the joint winners of our first subcategory? NDTV 24 7 and India Today television, please come up on stage Like I mentioned there were joint trophies as well given so the very first subcategory Acknowledged NDTV 24 7 India Today television keep the applause mr. Niladri. Where are you going? We'll not leave Before I say you leave All right, our next subcategory is of course the same in Hindi best current affairs program Hindi could we have the shortlisted nominees, please Best current affairs program India