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Navika praises PM Modi, Rahul Kanwal’s excited over satellite images, Ravish calls out babus

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

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New Delhi: Most anchors praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the withdrawal of Chinese troops, and also criticised China for its ‘slow retreat’. All news channels used satellite imagery to show how China had retreated from position it had earlier occupied.

Republic TV’s anchor Arnab Goswami lashed out at China with the hashtag ‘#DragonWithoutFire’.

Times Now anchor Navika Kumar waxed eloquent about the PM.

“Right from day one, PM Modi has been resolute and it has been his government’s resolve, determination and commitment which has forced the Chinese to publicly admit that they were pushed back in the Galwan sector,” she said.

This was in reference to Times Now’s ‘exclusive’ news where it claimed that a Chinese broadcaster had admitted that China was “pushed back” from the Galwan Valley.

Kumar explained this apparent ‘admission’ by China — “After days of denial and days of hemming and hawing, Beijing made the admission on national TV in China.”

“In fact, the state broadcast in China put out a report that not only said that the Indians had not seceded one inch of land but also said that the tipping point came when PM Modi made his speech. His speech showed the resolve of not just India’s forces but its political leadership led by the PM himself,” she added, triumphantly.

Moving from one speech to another, on Zee News, anchor Sudhir Chaudhary explained how the Chinese troops cleared the site of the Galwan Valley face-off with ‘CCTV footage’. He actually meant satellite imagery.

Comparing satellite images from 28 June and 6 July, Chaudhary explained that China had earlier set up tents in the valley area, but now the area had been cleared.

He added, “While the Chinese tents and camps cleared the area and are backing away, what is not backing down is the propaganda. Something else altogether is going on in China.”

He noted that the Chinese were suggesting that it was India who had breached the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the Chinese were merely guarding the posts.

On India Today, anchor Rahul Kanwal’s excitement regarding ‘exclusive’ satellite imagery was unmatched.

“I give you the first visual proof of what the Galwan Valley looks like now after the Indian and the Chinese armies announced that there was a pullback. The pictures that you’re about to see haven’t been seen by anyone,” he declared dramatically.

Defence expert Ajai Shukla was much more sombre. Kanwal asked Shukla, “These images suggest that on 6 July, in the area of confrontation, there are no Chinese armies present. Your initial take on this?”

Shukla explained, “If there has been a de-escalation and even if the Chinese have pulled back just one km, I think that’s a massive step forward.”

However, he still cautioned against celebrating prematurely, “At the same time, I would endorse that the Chinese are not to be trusted. They need to be verified, these so called disengagement and pullbacks. There has been no word on the negotiations in the Pangong centre. We want pullback on all sectors, not just these tactics of one step forward and two steps back.”

CNN News 18’s Anand Narasimhan focused on Pakistan, more specifically Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. But China was a major player here as well.

Narasimhan revealed, “Pakistan’s worries against India in PoK have driven it to seek Chinese help. China is now helping Pakistan deploy radars in the PoK area across 20 locations.”

He also claimed that Pakistan was China’s ‘vassal’ state’ and that the two countries were “collaborating militarily in the area”.

“China cannot officially enter this entire region so it is using its vassal state that is Pakistan to build up fortifications,” said Narsimhan.

He added, “Chinese engineers, Chinese radars, Chinese troops being installed in 20 locations.” Okay, we get the point.

Ravish Kumar, on NDTV India, remembered that we are in the middle of a raging pandemic. He talked about ICMR’s controversial directions asking scientists to develop a vaccine by 15 August.

In his characteristic sardonic manner, Kumar noted, “We know and understand our researchers and scientists a lot less than our babus and politicians… The babus are managing to conduct press conferences, when actually our researchers and scientists should be conducting them. The last time ICMR held a press conference was on 11 June.”

Professor Anant Bhan, a researcher in bioethics, global health and policy, also explained the entire procedure behind the development of a vaccine, the work that goes behind it and the time it is likely to take.

And the actual due date of the vaccine was nowhere close to 15 August, according to Bhan.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. News channels are finishing themselves. They have turned into mouthpieces of different organisations and interpret everything according to the policy of organisation. They have become useless, simply. Only exception, according to me is DD News. My suggestion to everyone is that they should view DD News.

  2. Very good coverage of different media at a single platform as usual we all the ndtv bugger is a traitor NDTV trp rating is going down
    Further Rahul and Navika are real newsgiver Times keep it up
    Aranab shout is not working

  3. These pro modi babus are virus in the indian society. They knows to target opposition with loud voice with muting their mic and speakers. Fake nationalism is in BJPs sangh blood specially during elections so to tarnish bjps all fekusim oppositionustust win and clean the slate.

  4. Sometimes, when I bored with useless and often contentless discussons/debates on most of the tv channels as anker talks and comments than the panelists, I turn to CNN or BBC or WION. There is discipline. Penalists don’t shout or abuse other panelists. They anker puts a question and asks for response. The response is NOT by spokes persons of political parties but people who hold responsible positions in State Or Federal Govt.

  5. Sometimes, when I bored with useless and often contentless discussons/debates on most of the tv channels as anker talks and comments than the panelists, I turn to CNN or BBC or WION. There is discipline. Penalists don’t shout or abuse other panelists. They anker puts a question and asks for response. The response is NOT by spokes persons of political parties but people who hold responsible positions in State Or Federal Govt.

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