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No bath, no food, no sex: NDTV & Co. push lunacy around blood moon

Sunday is a day of leisure. But not for TV news.  

Newslaundry · Sep 9, 2025

Zero Muslim voices, full volume hate as channels push ‘parlour jihad’

Do you plan on heading to a beauty salon anytime soon for some self care? Beware! That French pedicure or fruit facial you had in mind could just be how you end up supporting jihadis in the country.

Newslaundry · Apr 17, 2025

‘Bid to suppress journalistic freedom’: Rajasthan HC on FIR against Arnab Goswami

The Rajasthan High Court has restrained the Rajasthan police from taking any coercive action against Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami over a 2022 case linked to Republic Bharat’s coverage of the demolition of a Hindu temple in Alwar, Bar and Bench reported.

Newslaundry · Mar 7, 2025

2013 POCSO case: Gurugram court imposes Rs 10,000 penalty on Republic Bharat anchor Syed Suhail

A Gurugram court last week imposed a penalty of Rs 10,000 on Republic Bharat anchor Syed Suhail for delaying its proceedings in a 2013 case registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Eight journalists – including Deepak Chaurasia, Ajit Anjum, Chitra Tripathi and Suhail – are accused…

Newslaundry · Jun 6, 2023

‘We can see cigarettes’: In Delhi hit-and-run, some media questioned victim’s ‘partying’

While the five accused in the Sultanpuri hit-and-run case are suspected to have been drunk at the time of the incident, sections of mainstream TV media on Tuesday instead chose to discuss how drunk the two girls were – one of them died after their scooty was hit by a…

Newslaundry · Jan 4, 2023

Misogyny, bigotry and everything else that went wrong with Shraddha Walkar case coverage

A scant unassuming apartment in the tight lanes of Delhi’s Chhatarpur and the dense neighbouring forest of Mehrauli transformed into a stage to play out a macabre story of murder and madness. Aaftab Ameen Poonawala, a trained chef and Instagram food influencer, used his dexterity with knives on his live-in…

Newslaundry · Nov 19, 2022

Is Aaj Tak’s bet on Sudhir Chaudhary paying off?

Sudhir Chaudhary was the face of Zee News for nearly a decade. So much so that the Hindi TV news channel’s brand, after a point, was indistinguishable from him. So, when he abruptly quit in June 2022, all eyes were on his next move.

Newslaundry · Oct 21, 2022

87 percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top newspapers are men

Eighty-seven percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top English and Hindi newspapers are men.

Newslaundry · Oct 15, 2022

TV Newsance 188: China ‘coup’ and the battle against PFI

This week we look at how social media rumours about a coup in China against Xi Jinping made it to TV news. A satirical thread on Twitter became breaking news on Republic Bharat. India TV and other Hindi news channels joined the fun and received international attention this week for…

Newslaundry · Oct 1, 2022

Republic TV vs Times Now: Who is right about ED’s TRP scam chargesheet?

Republic TV spent much of Thursday’s airtime on one “big story”: the Enforcement Directorate’s chargesheet in the TRP scam. The TV news channel stressed the point, repeatedly, that the central agency had issued a clean chit to Republic TV and found its rival Times Now guilty instead.

Newslaundry · Sep 30, 2022