Indian national broadcaster All India Radio’s (AIR) News page has crossed a record two million likes on Facebook.

AIR is one of the largest broadcasting organisations in the world and its News Services Division (NSD) disseminates news and comments to listeners in India and abroad.

According to a statement by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry: “Facebook insight data shows that AIR’s News Service Division (NSD) is reaching almost 10 million people in terms of posts on an average per day across the length and breadth of the country including the overseas diaspora.”

AIR News also has a large number of followers are from countries like Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, USA, UK and Singapore.

Within India, it is also followed by people from smaller towns and cities like Srinagar, Bhopal, Jaipur, Patna, Indore, Kanpur, Surat, Coimbatore and Dehradun besides big metros.

It also has 5,07,800 followers on Twitter alone, including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, various government and media organisations, politicians and celebrities.