News has an essential place reserved in the daily lives of the people. This is more significant with the rural population in the country. And for accessing the news, they prefer News on All India Radio. A small village, Kurnoor in Akkalkot tehsil of Solapur district of Maharashtra bears testimony in this regard.<br />”&nbsp;<br />”AIR correspondent reports that amid the chaos and cacophony of phoney channels reliable and useful news is what matters for the rural listeners. Radio speaks to them, that too, in a conversational style, may it be the news. And this clicks more for them than any other source of information. And for this they will go to the extent of installing loudspeakers on high rise temples to share the news live to villagers in the surroundings.<br />”&nbsp;<br />”The villagers of Kurnoor in Akkalkot tehsil of Solapur district, a settlement of around six thousand residents, have installed speakers on Lord Dutta Mandir and the priest, Dhondiba Dhumale tunes in Regional Marathi news bulletin of AIR Pune. The villagers listen to the news while engaged in their preparations for the day ahead. The activity is going on for last two years and the villagers feel they are getting the real news they need.<br />”&nbsp;<br />”<span style="color: #222222;">The speakers are kept silent when there is any death in the vicinity. Apart from news the temple speakers also provides the villagers important national messages, speeches of Prime Minister and other relevant important programmes.</span><br />