<span style="color: #222222;">World Radio Day (WRD) is being celebrated across the Globe today. The day was proclaimed by the member states of UNESCO in 2011 and subsequently adopted by the United Nations General Assembly as an International Day.  According to UNESCO, radio is a powerful medium for celebrating humanity and constitutes a platform for democratic discourse.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Radio has the ability to reach out to the widest audience, in the process having the ability to shape a society's experience of diversity and providing a platform for everyone to be represented and heard. The theme of World Radio Day 2021, "New World, New Radio", will highlight the services rendered by the radio medium throughout the crisis.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has greeted people on the occasion of World Radio Day. Mr Naidu said, Radio is a popular medium of communication and a major source of information and entertainment.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">On World Radio Day, the Vice President called upon all the stakeholders to utilize the medium to impart knowledge in areas such as education, agriculture, culture, science and technology, and empower the listeners.</span><br />''<br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Radio is a fantastic medium that can create positive impact. In a tweet message on World Radio Day, the Prime Minister has greeted all the listeners of radio and congratulated all those who keep the radio buzzing with innovative content and music.</span><br />''<br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He praised the Radio as a fantastic medium, that deepens social connect. Mr Modi said that he had personally experienced the positive impact of radio, thanks to the MannKiBaat programme aired on All India Radio, every month.</span><br />''<br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has extended his greetings to all on the occasion of World Radio Day. In a tweet, Mr Javadekar said, the expansion of radio is continuously increasing.</span>