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Punjab Police didn’t follow established norms while detaining reporter: Editors Guild of India

Established norms were not followed by the Punjab Police while detaining Times Now reporter Bhavana Kishore on May 5, the Editors Guild of India (EGI) has said.

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TV Newsance 211: TV news drama and importance of free, independent media

This week as India’s top athletes continued their protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar against the Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for alleged sexual harassment, Times Now reporters were running around chasing Arvind Kejriwal’s car, and getting into scuffles. Meanwhile, Sudhir was busy asking not-so-difficult questions to…

Newslaundry

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…

Newslaundry

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Times Now puts out fake news on PM Modi as the ‘biggest contender for Nobel peace prize’

Words of praise for prime minister Narendra Modi by the Nobel Prize Committee deputy leader have been widely reported as his acknowledgement that the Indian prime minister was the “biggest contender for Nobel Peace Prize”.

Newslaundry

NBDSA tells Zee to run tickers on selective data, Times Now to take down ‘Pak slogan’ telecast

Noting that a Zee News broadcast on population growth had “disproportionately focused only on one community, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has asked the channel to air the authority’s observations through 24 hourly tickers between March 6 and March 7.

Newslaundry

After ABVP poster, 3 channels falsely accuse a Newslaundry reporter of JNU stone-pelting

A day after an attempted screening of the BBC documentary on the JNU campus was followed by a power cut, stone-pelting, and a war of words between Left-affiliated student outfits and the ABVP, certain media channels amplified a poster released by a member of the latter, blaming 16 people for…

Newslaundry

Sultanpuri death protests: 3 journalists ‘manhandled’ by Delhi cops

Three journalists – from Mirror Now, Times Now and Republic TV – have alleged that they were manhandled by the police at the Sultanpuri police station in Delhi. The media was present on the spot on Monday to cover protests over a horrific incident, in which a woman riding a…

Newslaundry

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Fake ratings case: CBI files chargesheet against former BARC CEO

The CBI has filed a chargesheet against former BARC CEO Sunil Lulla in a ratings manipulation case, according to news agency PTI.

Newslaundry

‘Tall claim’: Tribune reporter calls out India Today for taking credit for LAC clash report

It could have been just another day in the unexamined life of the breaking news ticker.

Newslaundry

Times Group chief flatters Amit Shah at Times Now summit, wishes for ‘maha Akhand Bharat’

As the Times Now Summit kicked off in the national capital, Times Group vice chairman Samir Jain presented a flattering account of union home minister Amit Shah, who was seated on stage next to Vineet Jain, the group’s managing director and the former’s brother.

Newslaundry

Excise policy: Delhi High Court issues notice to Republic, Times Now and others over reportage

Five news channels have been pulled up by the Delhi High Court for “misreporting” on the investigation into Delhi’s now-revoked excise policy.

Newslaundry

How did India beat Pakistan at Melbourne? Thanks to aliens, says News Nation

All news channels have their pet interests. Times Now and Republic spent months on Sushant Singh Rajput and Rhea Chakraborty. TV9 Bharatvarsh offered wall to wall coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war. And News Nation has quietly devoted itself to aliens.

Newslaundry

TV Newsance 190: Republic vs Times Now. Who won?

Indian news TV operates by the revenue logic of ads. And who gets how many ads is dictated by the logic of TRPs. So when BARC, the TRPs measurement agency, returned with its data earlier this year after a hiatus forced by the TRP scam, so did the barking on…

Newslaundry

Jairam Ramesh calls Times Now a WMD, forces apology out of channel

The Congress’s new social media avatar is clearly swinging into action. In a short span of time, Times Now put out a tweet, deleted the tweet, and, incredibly, acknowledged its error – all after a battalion of Congress leaders had it out on social media.

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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

TRP scam: ED says ‘irregularities vis a vis Times Now’ need to be investigated

In its ongoing investigation into the alleged TRP scam, the Enforcement Directorate has found certain households enrolled to measure TV viewership ratings had been paid to watch India Today and News Nation.

Newslaundry

Did PFI protesters shout ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans in Pune? Police say no

Times Now reported on Saturday that members of the Popular Front of India had shouted “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans during a protest in Pune against the arrest of their comrades a few days earlier. The offending slogans, the TV news channel claimed, were shouted at the collector’s office near Sassoon Hospital…

Newslaundry

Prophet remarks row: SC transfers FIRs against Navika Kumar to Delhi police

The Supreme Court today clubbed all the FIRs registered against journalist Navika Kumar and transferred them to the Delhi police. The FIRs were specifically transferred to the police’s Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations unit.

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Trinamool’s Saket Gokhale sends Times Now legal notice for making ‘false and malicious statements’

Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale has sent a legal notice to Times Now accusing its editor, Rahul Shivshankar, of attributing “utterly false and malicious statements” to him on a show about the Hindu-Muslim tension in Leicester, UK.

Newslaundry

What happened in Leicester, and did Indian media play a role?

As British media coverage remained clouded by an unprecedented boost in sales and record-breaking broadcasts brought forth by a royal funeral, clashes between cricket fans gradually brewed into communal violence and an international story in Leicester.

Newslaundry

TV news channels celebrate BARC ratings, Times Now becomes punching bag

“Others bark, we have bite”, “sensational crash”, “news scores over noise”, “India’s super network”, “leads always”.

Newslaundry

Prophet remarks row: SC says no coercive action should be taken against Navika Kumar

The Supreme Court has granted Times Now's Navika Kumar interim protection in the FIRs filed against her in the Nupur Sharma case.

Newslaundry

Prophet remarks row: Navika Kumar moves Supreme Court to quash cases against her

Times Now news anchor Navika Kumar has moved the Supreme Court to quash criminal proceedings against her in connection with the Nupur Sharma row.

Newslaundry

Why Supreme Court’s Nupur Sharma remarks are dangerous

A warped sense of causality often derails public reasoning. The spillover of a deeply flawed cause-and-effect dyad distorts what to assume and where to conclude in other realms too. That’s the key to a number of problems with the observations made by the Supreme Court while dismissing the petition of…

Newslaundry

TV Newsance 177: Kanhaiya Lal’s killing and cheering of Zubair’s arrest

This week, the news of Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s beheading in Udaipur by two extremist Muslim men, Gaus Mohammad and Mohammad Riyaz Akhtari, hit headlines. One would think there was nothing to “debate” about such a crime, but when does news TV disappoint? Times Now, where the entire Nupur Sharma…

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