Indian news channels line up outside hospitals in opposition-ruled states, skip BJP’s Gujarat
Republic TV took us to Safdarjung and LNJP hospitals for a medical horror show. NDTV 24x7, India TV, and Mirror Now found patients' families describing 'harrowing experiences'.
Don’t go looking for fire in TV news anchors’ belly. It’s China, not Pakistan
Be it Aaj Tak, ABP News, Zee News, or Republic TV, there was no fire and brimstone, no grand claims of India destroying enemy China, all of which is reserved for Pakistan.
Massive said Republic, gift said Zee News — TV channels outdid all in praise of Modi package
When Modi delivered his lockdown speech and announced a Rs 20-lakh crore package for India, many TV anchors felt their chests swell with patriotic pride.
When Rajat Sharma said corona can’t stop tipplers and Sudhir Chaudhary agreed on Zee News
As Indians stood in queues to buy liquor under relaxed lockdown, TV channels, from Zee News to News 24, saw red as if they had been binge-drinking.
Zee News, India TV, News18 India have OCD. They are still stuck on Tablighi Jamaat
Hindi news channels are not listening to the pleas of Modi and Bhagwat who urged people not to stigmatise any particular community during the Covid crisis.
India is in many good hands, not just PM Modi’s — Covid reveals on TV news
After a long time, the focus of Indian TV news isn’t Delhi Durbar, but virologists, healthcare workers and chief ministers of states from Bengal to Kerala.
How not to report: A lesson from Republic TV, Times Now, ABP covering Bandra migrants
Was the gathering of migrant workers at Bandra railway station the result of a masjid, a conspiracy or is the clue in absent luggage? Indian TV picked all.
DD gets back viewers with Ramayan, Shaktimaan, Byomkesh Bakshi. It’s most watched channel now
Until the lockdown, DD was not the viewers’ go-to destination for entertainment. The telecast of old popular sitcoms may help it get some eyeballs.
Tablighi Jamaat brought out Republic, Zee and Times Now’s fangs that Covid-19 had withdrawn
The unity of TV channels against coronavirus was too good to be true. The Tablighi Jamaat gave most of them the chance to show their true colours.
Zee News to Times Now, TV got Covid coverage right, till it invited Sri Sri and Sadhguru
TV news is normally the butt of our unkindest jokes or violent outrage. It’s time to recognise that it finally did its duty during India’s coronavirus outbreak.
TV debates can improve only when party spokespersons are hired differently
National and regional TV news debates have made political spokespersons the face of their parties, but many do not have real political experience and it shows.
RBI’s March rate cut was biggest surprise in history of monetary policy panel, paper says
India’s rate-setting panel is due to meet in the first week of August as the economy heads toward its first annual contraction in more than four decades.
Defence
Indian Army to order second batch of 72,000 Sig 716 assault rifles from US
The new rifles will replace the existing Indian Small Arms System (Insas) rifles used by the forces and manufactured locally by the Ordnance Factories Board.
Uttar Pradesh is India’s broken heartland, break it into 4 or 5 states
Uttar Pradesh, our largest state by population and most powerful, is also the worst governed. A state with 1-in-6 Indians has no hope because of its size.