MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Confirming a report filed by indiantelevision.com yesterday, Arabian satellite news channel Al-Jazeera this afternoon announced an alliance with Rajat Sharma's India TV that would involve an "exchange" of shows.

According to the agreement reached between the two news channels, Al-Jazeera's prime time news bulletin dubbed into Hindi would air daily on India TV.

The announcement was made at the media briefing today detailing Al-Jazeera's plans for entering the India broadcast news marketplace.

The Qatar-based channel came into the limelight through its coverage of the first two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which offered an Arab perspective on the conflicts and broke the virtual monopoly Western news media had uptill that time over reportage from the region.