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Tablighi Jamaat brought out Republic, Zee and Times Now’s fangs that Covid-19 had withdrawn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.
After COVID-19, Times Now goes to Shaheen Bagh & Zee News confident India will ‘beat’ virus
From News X to Al Jazeera, all TV anchors have become experts overnight on coronavirus, social distancing and flattening the curve.
Not just Scindia’s BJP move, TV channels also kept a tab on Rahu kaal, muhurta, Range Rover
Republic TV didn't let go the car with Scindia-Amit Shah in it out of its sight. ABP News gushed over BJP's ‘foolproof planning’. It was gala coverage.
From ‘one peg a day’ to Ramdev’s recipe — all that TV channels served to fight coronavirus
While reporting on coronavirus, news channels experienced Hamlet’s dilemma, as they tried to tread fine balance between inducing ‘panic’ and reducing ‘panic’.
On Delhi riots, TV channels finally reported news. Then the anchors swooped in
Questions such as "Was this a deliberate, calibrated attempt to 'malign the image of India' during Trump’s visit?" undercut good reporting by news channels.
ABP News forgot lessons from Mumbai terror attack in its Trump visit coverage
ABP was so impressed by the security preparations for Trump's India visit that it revealed many particulars that should perhaps have remained secured.
Qureshi’s Saudi criticism on Kashmir hints shift in Pakistan’s strategy for the Islamic world
20 years ago, during a meeting at the PPP office in Islamabad, Qureshi had told this writer that he was from Multan where Kashmir had no resonance.
PM launches new faceless I-T assessment & appeal, charter to make tax process ‘painless’
Modi says the reforms are meant to reduce govt interference in taxpayers' lives and encourage more people to pay their taxes. The charter & faceless assessment are effective from today.
Defence
Submarines, AK 203 rifles — two Make in India projects Modi govt set to push on priority
Tenders for the submarines are expected to be issued ‘soon’ while the Indo-Russian AK 203 rifles could be finalised by October.
Modi redefined secularism with Ram Mandir as Hindu voters were fed up of Sonia-Left version
Assumptions that Indian secularism died with Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan are bunk. It is enshrined in the Constitution, and is worth preserving.