German public service broadcasters ARD and ZDF are seeking cable carriage for their 10 new HD channels, which will be launched on April 30 2012, broandbandtvnews.com reports.

Al Jazeera is re-opening its Kuwait office a year after authorities in the Gulf state ordered its closure, rapidtvnews.com reports.

Russia Today, the Kremlin’s English-language TV channel, has forged an unlikely partnership with the founder of WikiLeaks Julain Assange, British newspaper The Guardian reported.

The Indian government is set to expand the reach of national broadcasters, All India Radio and Doordarshan, in tribal areas in the next few years. Most of these areas, affected by Maoist insurgency, will now be served by special programmes in tribal languages like Halbi, Gondi, Munda and Sargujia. The step has been initiated in an effort to reach out to the local population of the backward tribal regions of the country in their mother tongue.

The English language version of Al Jazeera is to become available in Romania, sat-universe.com reports.

Yahoo! India is going  to venture into the online video advertising space. The digital  giant has announced its offerings to leading marketers to reach their target audiences through online video messaging.