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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
TopicAaj Tak

Topic: Aaj Tak

NDTV, Aaj Tak watch Sachin Pilot’s ‘open revolt’, India TV on Covid entering Bachchan home

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

Bhujiya, bicycle, bathroom: TV news scripts potboiler story of Vikas Dubey before UP Police

Aaj Tak anchor Anjana Om Kashyap seemed to be auditioning for a dialogue writer's role. Channels not satisfied with police-criminal nexus went looking for gangster Vikas Dubey's wife.

Delighted over ban on Chinese apps, news channels put Modi speech on back burner

Deepak Chaurasia chanted 'mein bhi sainik', India Today celebrated China App-o-calypse but it was ever-so-predictable Arnab Goswami who stole the show.

Sushant Singh Rajput: How not to cover a death, starring, Aaj Tak, News Nation, ABP

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

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'.

Hindi news anchors such as Rubika Liyaquat and Sayeed Ansari are like Muslim leaders of BJP

India's Muslim anchors of ABP News or Aaj Tak are caught between many identities, unlike Hindu anchors who can be communal off-stage too.

Hey, Mr postman — Aaj Tak praises ‘daakiya,’ Zee News on dangers of being a Hindu in India

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

Prime time delivers pizza: ABP, Aaj Tak, Zee News on #CoronakiHomeDelivery

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

Tablighi Jamaat scare: Arnab calls it deliberate, ‘whole country in danger’ says Liyaquat

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

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 Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?