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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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Parliament breach: Papers profile unemployed suspects, Sudhir, Arnab say terrorists, andolanjeevi

It was a security breach at the Parliament complex on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack, and it was also a protest against “dictatorship”. While some voices, such as BJD MP Bhartruhari Mehtab, cautioned that the incident could not be compared to the terrorist attack, hawkish faces on television…

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Rizwan dedicates Pakistan’s cricket win to ‘brothers and sisters in Gaza’

The Pakistani cricketer has faced backlash for dedicating his team’s Cricket World Cup win to the people of Gaza.

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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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Police register FIR against news anchor

TV anchor Sudhir Chaudhary accused of spreading misinformation, creating communal disharmony. FIR registered by Seshadripuram police under Sec. 505 & 153A. Complaint by State minority Development Corporation officer Shivakumar S. alleging Chaudhary's report claiming govt. scheme only for minorities, not Hindus, promoting enmity.

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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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TV Newsance 224: ENBA Awards, OCCRP’s report on Adani and NDTV’s defence pitch

This week was celebratory for India Today as 111 awards were heaped on the group at the ENBA Awards – 109 if you listen to Anjana. To our bemusement, the usual suspect at TV Newsance, Sudhir Chaudhary, won the ‘Maverick of The Year’ award. Anjana Om Kashyap was awarded for…

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Anjana lauded for bulldozer reportage, Sudhir ‘maverick’: All about ENBA Awards

It was another pinnacle of on-ground reporting. Aaj Tak’s Anjana Om Kashyap atop a bulldozer eulogised the “crackdown on illegal construction”, mostly belonging to Muslims, in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri in April last year. Days before her “historic reportage” on the then BJP-led Delhi municipal body’s “bulldozer action”, the area had witnessed…

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‘De-fund hate, genocidal content on TV’: IIM Bangalore faculty write open letter to India Inc

“The risk of genocide in India is no longer close to zero,” read an open letter by 17 current and former faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, urging the leaders of corporate India to “de-fund” the misinformation and hate speech spread through news channels and social media.

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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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Before viral video, little primetime space for Manipur, few ground reports by big anchors

Cornered by Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi on the lack of debates on Manipur until the emergence of a viral video, Times Now chief editor Navika Kumar on Wednesday denied the allegation and also promised to send her “links” of the channel’s coverage.

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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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TV Newsance 210: Tucker Carlson and Fox News part ways, we found his lost brother in Indian media

This week, we turn the focus on Godi media’s contemporary in the US, Fox News. While Fox settled a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion over its spread of false news, we take a closer look at the similar charades our usual suspects get away with – week in and week…

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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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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 205: Who’s the real Lutyens Gang? Outrage over Rahul Gandhi’s speech in UK

This week on TV Newsance, we found the card that Sudhir Chaudhary encashes every night on his primetime show. As two Indian movies won big at the Oscars this week, none of which were called Kashmir Files, poor Vivek Agnihotri had to settle forTimes Now hashtag. Meanwhile, many top BJP…

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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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Newsance 194: India-China border clash and why it’s all Nehru's fault

TV Newsance is back after a break! And guess what, nothing much has changed when it comes to the world of TV news. The big news of the week was the clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, and we saw news anchors tripping over each other…

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‘Understanding between people and AAP to pocket money’: Sudhir Chaudhary on MCD election result

It could have been the old school journalism approach towards understanding voter concerns while dissecting poll results. But for Sudhir Chaudhary, the consecutive electoral victories of the Aam Aadmi Party in the national capital appear to be opportunities to either demonise the Delhi voter or accuse her of indifference towards…

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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…

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TV Newsance 192: Finding nuclear war in a lunar eclipse as Himachal prepares for polls

TV Newsance is back, and this week we analyse TV9’s loony show on the lunar eclipse, which the channel thought could be a sign of impending doom with inputs from defence experts. Chitra Tripathi, back to Aaj Tak from her brief spell at ABP, also hinted at a dangal in…

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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.

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As ‘Garba jihad’ becomes news TV’s latest bogey, News Nation champions vigilante violence

The hypermasculine Muslim is back as the scheming villain in the Hindu Rashtra programming of Indian news TV. But the script, at the risk of sounding repetitive, has moved far beyond the mob lynching years to cast itself around “garba jihad”. The anchors are at it again: almost championing vigilante…

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Alt News calls out Shiv Aroor, Chitra Tripathi, Sudhir Chaudhary, Rajat Sharma’s misinfo on Indian Navy ensign

India Today anchor Shiv Aroor did a show the other day outraging that Manmohan Singh’s government had the Indian Navy bring back a colonial ensign after it was banished during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s rule.

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