This from Jose Jacob in India may be of some interest as it contains
some info about AIR broadcasts on New Years Eve:

Message: 1
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 06:34:08 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jose Jacob,VU2JOS, India"
Subject: New Year programs, Cricket, Languages

Dear Friends,

1) The following 4 new languages have been added to
the offical languages list by The Government of India
on 22 Dec 2003.

Bodo, Dogri, Santhali & Maithili.

The total number of offical languages of India is now
22.

More details on Indian langauges can be viewed at:
http://allindiaradio.org/language.html

2) Most stations of AlR will have special extended
broadcasts on December 31, 2003 to welcome the new
year. So look out AIR stations on MW and on 90 & 60
meters etc. The latest AIR frequency list is available
at http://www.geocities.com/bcdxnet/sw/

Please note that 0000 Indian Standard Time is 1830
UTC.

Vividh Bharathi on 10330 kHz via Bangalore 500 kw is
expected to be on air till 1900 UTC (instead of normal
sign off at 1740 UTC)

Also lookout on 6085,7140,9575,9425,9470,9835 etc.

3) Most stations of All India Radio will broadcast
live running commentary alternatively in Hindi and
English of the Triangular Cricket Series of One Day
International matches to be played in Australia
between India, Australia and Zimbabwe from 9th
January, 2004 to 10th February, 2004. The schedule of
commentary is as follows:

9 Jan 2004 0300-1130 UTC
11 Jan 2004 0300-1130
14 Jan 2004 2330-0800
16 Jan 2004 2330-0800
18 Jan 2004 0300-130
20 Jan 2004 0300-1130
22 Jan 2004 0300-1130
24 Jan 2004 0300-1130
26 Jan 2004 0300-1130 (might clash with Republic Day
commentry!)

29 Jan 2004 0300-1130
1 Jan 2004 0230-1100
3 Jan 2004 0530-1330
6 Jan 2004 0300-1130
8 Jan 2004 0300-1130
10 Jan 2004 0300-1130

So look out for extended broadcasts on MW & SW as
noted above.

4) For the record the following AIR stations were
noted with extended broadcasts (at around 1830 UTC/
Midnight IST)for Christmas (Live Church Mass etc.) on
the night of December 24, 2004 which continued to
early hours of 25th.

576 Alappuzha
630 Thrissur
666 & 3365 New Delhi
936 Tiruchirapalli
1161 & 5010 Thiruvanthapuram

New Year Wishes to all DX_India members, readers and
well wishers!
=====

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm