Mumbai: Sahara India may not be at the top of the heaps as far as news channels are concerned, but it has cornered an international award.the Indian broadcaster has won the broadcast engineering excellence award in the category of 'newsroom technology and network'.

In a statement issued by Sahara India Media & Entertainment, for the first time this award has been given to an Indian broadcaster.

The CNN (New York) newsroom has been adjudged the runners up in this category. The award has been given to the Sahara Samay newsroom, the electronic media wing of Sahara India Pariwar.
 At present Sahara Samay has six 24 hours news channels on air, besides one entertainment channel. The seventh news channel, namely Sahara Samay Rajasthan is due to go on air shortly.

The other contestant in this category included CNN New York Euro News, White House and CNBC.

The design team that has been responsible for the news room include from sahara people like R.S.Chauhan, vice president engineering and operations; Nitin Raghuvanshi, Raj Yadav, Yamnesh Rastogi, Kalyan
Chakravorthy, P. Venugopal, Arvind kumar, Tarun Dogra Neeraj Singh Chauhan, Rajeev Singh Attri, Tanmoy Sarkar, Niloy Das and Sonia Singh.