MUMBAI: ATN International is planning to launch a satellite channel, Ahimsaa from 15 August 2003.

The company has informed the National Stock Exchange that the board of directors, at its meeting held on June 4, has decided to launch the new 24 hour global satellite television channel shortly. The channel will serve as a platform to portray issues on value education like spiritual discourses, environment conservation, animal protection, health care, human rights, gender equality, women's empowerment, racial and economic parity, corruption and unemployment and so on, according to the company statement. 

The channel will be uplinked from India on a global platform tentatively from 15 August and would cover more than 50 countries of the world, the statement says.