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Indian wrestling loses a champion. Primetime couldn’t care less

There are many women newsroom leaders in the Indian news space. But there was not a single primetime debate on most mainstream channels on the day Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik quit wrestling over a Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh loyalist’s election as the Wrestling Federation of India president.

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Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment: Massive protests, dismal media coverage?

Over the past two decades, several governments in Maharashtra have spoken of giving a facelift to Mumbai’s infamous slum of Dharavi – ostensibly the most thickly-populated area in India. Months after the BJP-Shiv Sena faction assumed power in June last year, the task was assigned to Gautam Adani’s Adani Group…

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How Patanjali rode on the shoulders of Big Media

On television, we’ve seen Baba Ramdev contort, stretch, do headstands, and walk on his hands. We’ve seen him compete in push-up contests with students, and close his eyes dramatically when shown a photograph of a Bollywood actress wearing a bikini.

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Amid polls, Cong leaders snub INDIA bloc ban to give exclusive interviews to ‘boycotted’ anchors

Nearly a month after the opposition’s Congress-led INDIA alliance “blacklisted” 14 anchors for their alleged “hateful” debates and anti-opposition narratives — two top leaders of the Congress have given “exclusive” interviews to two of these anchors.

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Aaj Tak reporter paraglides in Haryana to demonstrate ‘Hamas attack’ in Israel

Amid the escalated Israel-Palestine conflict, videos of “Hamas militants paragliding into Israel” have flooded social media.

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Weeks after alums of his school flagged India Today ‘complicity’, Purie points to ‘diverse perspectives’

Three weeks after a letter by former students of the Vasant Valley School to clamp down on the “hatred” aired on his channels, the institute’s owner and India Today Group chairman Aroon Purie has said that he has “read and duly taken note of” these concerns.

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BJP MP Pragya Thakur again talks of Godse’s ‘patriotism’, this time uninterrupted on Aaj Tak stage

More than three years after she apologised in Parliament for her remarks hailing Nathuram Godse, BJP’s Bhopal MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has again sought to portray the controversial figure as a deshbhakt during an Aaj Tak event in Bhopal.

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Don’t take precipitative action against Aaj Tak and Sudhir Choudhary till September 20: Karnataka High Court tells Advocate-General

The High Court of Karnataka on Friday told the State Advocate-General to instruct the police not to take any precipitative action till September 20 against Aaj Tak Hindi news channel or its consulting editor Sudhir Choudhary based on the First Information Report (FIR) registered against them for allegedly spreading enmity…

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Karnataka High Court says there’s ‘prima facie case’ for investigation against Sudhir Chaudhary

The Karnataka High Court today orally said there’s a “prima facie case” for investigation against Aaj Tak anchor Sudhir Chaudhary, Live Law reported.

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Karnataka police register FIR against Hindi news channel, Consulting Editor on allegations of spreading misinformation about government scheme

Karnataka Police register FIR against Aaj Tak news channel and its Consulting Editor Sudhir Choudhary for spreading false news about State govt's commercial vehicle subsidy scheme.

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‘Deliberate and malicious’ misinformation: Why Karnataka police filed FIR against Sudhir Chaudhary

The Karnataka police filed an FIR against Aaj Tak news anchor Sudhir Chaudhary for spreading misinformation about a commercial vehicle subsidy scheme for minority, SC/ST and backward classes communities.

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Monu Manesar as cattle crusader, Muslims ‘love’ Pakistan: Sudhir Chaudhary’s spiel on Haryana violence

Six people have died in the communal violence in Haryana so far, and our TV news brethren have been all over it. On primetime shows on News18 India, Times Now Navbharat, Republic Bharat and Aaj Tak, anchors grilled Nuh’s Meo Muslims, the police and the administration for the roles they…

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Viral Kuki women’s video: Top primetime anchors give it a miss, it’s frontpage news in print

The whole of yesterday, a video trended on social media, showing two Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur.

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When Muslim dogwhistle fails, Sudhir Chaudhary blames Hindus for being a ‘danger to Hindus’

“In our country, even if there is fake news about attacks on mosques and churches, the country simmers with riots. But when a temple is attacked, there isn’t even a discussion.”

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‘Can’t take chargesheet and affix on wall’: Delhi HC to Aaj Tak on Shraddha Walkar coverage

The Delhi High Court today questioned Aaj Tak on its plea to be permitted to broadcast materials related to the Shraddha Walkar murder case. This is over a month after a Delhi court restrained the news channel from telecasting sensitive information on the case.

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Gendered nomenclatures, dog whistles and everything else Sudhir got wrong about same-sex marriage

If there had to be an exemplar for heterosexual bias in the language around LGBTQI issues on primetime television, it could be a segment about the Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage on Sudhir Chaudhary’s show Black and White on Aaj Tak.

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‘The bullet could’ve hit any of us’: Journalists recall Ahmed brothers’ shootout

They were the unlikeliest of killings, considering live television, heavy police presence and a media frenzy around gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, his family, and associates.

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‘Psychological repercussions’: Court restrains Aaj Tak reportage on Shraddha murder case

A Delhi court has told Aaj Tak not to publish or telecast any material linked to the Shraddha Walkar murder case, LiveLaw reported. It said the channel shall “not utilise in any form any material” related to the FIR till April 17.

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Indian TV channel debuts multilingual news anchor powered by AI

A national media group has unveiled India’s first full-time virtual anchor, a bot named Sana that will present news updates several times a day in multiple languages.

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TV Newsance 207: ‘No. 1’ reporting on TV news

Manisha is back to hosting duties this week, bringing you the worst of the worst from the world of TV news. This week, we saw some ridiculous ground reporting as reporters were on a mission, following the police convoy escorting gangster Atiq Ahmed from Gujarat to Uttar Pradesh. The “reporting”…

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Youth Cong notice to Aaj Tak over Sudhir’s robber analogy for Rahul

A “kaalpnik kahaani” by anchor Sudhir Chaudhary has got real. The Indian Youth Congress has sent a legal notice to Aaj Tak and its anchor Chaudhary for allegedly defaming party leader Rahul Gandhi in a segment featuring the “imaginary story” on primetime show Black and White last week.

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TV Newsance 202: How news anchors justified Income Tax ‘survey’ on BBC

Is the BBC funded by China? Is the BBC losing its credibility in the UK?

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Days after Aditi Tyagi's exit, Deepak Chaurasia joins Zee News

Former News Nation anchor Deepak Chaurasia has joined Zee News as a consulting editor and anchor, according to an email sent to the channel’s staff on Tuesday.

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TV Newsance 197: Aman & Amish’s silence on Sultanpuri, Times Now Navbharat’s Haldwani ‘jihad’

The week started on a sour note. Anjali, a 20-year-old girl, died when she was dragged for nearly 13 km after a car hit her scooty in the early hours of the New Year. And for once, top anchors, from Aaj Tak to Republic, asked tough questions of the Delhi…

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Aaj Tak and India TV air BJP promotional content as news

For observers of television news media’s decline, it may no longer seem odd for Indian news anchors to sit inside the BJP headquarters to host shows airing the party’s propaganda. But what if they telecast bytes and lift videos from a publicity arm of the BJP?

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