The Prasar Bharati Board approved the proposal to start a 24-hour news channel in place of DD Metro, which was closing.

[1] After that parent body Prasar Bharati's CEO claimed that DD News will be "100% Hindi soon",[2] but is yet to be implemented because of availability of content to be aired.

The DD News mobile app for Android[3] and Apple[4] was launched on 7 May 2015 by the then Minister of Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley.

[5][6] Initially, after experiencing a partnership with CNN, Doordarshan launched a news and current affairs channel DD CNNi in 1995.

[citation needed] It telecasts over 16 hours of live news bulletins daily in Hindi, English, Sanskrit, and Urdu.

BJP denied the claim saying that Doordarshan originally was launched with a saffron logo in 1959 and that the objection towards it is a display of hate against bhagwa and hindus.