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Jharkhand police summons four TV reporters over Hemant Soren’s FIR against ED: Indian Express

The Jharkhand police summoned reporters with four New Delhi-based news channels in connection with a case registered by former chief minister Hemant Soren against officials of the Enforcement Directorate. 

Newslaundry · Mar 6, 2024

Covering Shambhu border chaos, Aaj Tak reporter says ‘hit by bullet’

Covering the chaos at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana, a reporter from Aaj Tak said on camera that he had been “hit by a bullet” on Tuesday afternoon.

Newslaundry · Feb 13, 2024

‘Biggest event of the year’: News channels had ‘historic’ TRPs thanks to Ram Mandir

Since December, your news and social media feeds were probably drenched with updates on the Ram temple’s consecration. Which Bollywood stars were in attendance? What was in the goody bags handed to attendees? What colour was the sanctum sanctorum? How many IAF choppers were co-opted into the celebration?

Newslaundry · Feb 7, 2024

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…

Newslaundry · Dec 20, 2023

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. 

Newslaundry · Nov 29, 2023

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. 

Newslaundry · Nov 6, 2023

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. 

Newslaundry · Oct 12, 2023

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.

Newslaundry · Sep 20, 2023

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.

Newslaundry · Sep 18, 2023

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…

The Hindu · Sep 15, 2023