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Monday, August 18, 2025
TopicIndian Media

Topic: Indian Media

Not just Ramayan, news programmes on TV also topping charts — over 200% jump in viewership

BARC-Nielsen report says average viewership for TV news saw 219% jump for the week between 4 April and 10 April as compared to January figures.

Tell media houses not to fire employees: Congress’ Manish Tewari urges I&B minister Javadekar

Manish Tewari’s letter comes amid reports of various media outlets sacking their employees, sending them on leave without pay or forcing them to take pay cuts.

Indian media is waging a holy war against Muslims. It acts like hyenas

Indian media is not doing journalism. Channels from Zee News, Aaj Tak to Network18 add ‘jihad’ to everything, which bigots on social media then use to target individual Muslims.

Sharp cut in small savings rates was overdue, should remain aligned to bank rates

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Misplaced anger: How media became punching bag for doing its duty — reporting Delhi riots

If someone was killed while being forced to chant slogans, it is the media’s job to report it and not sanitise it to suit someone’s sense of political correctness.

Rajdeep Sardesai to Tavleen Singh, one dilemma during riots: preserve harmony or report hate

Be it Gujarat 2002, Hashimpura massacre or Delhi riots, journalists on the frontline of communal hate have had to fight time, rumours and the police.

On JNU violence, video war on India’s news channels: Times Now aired 10, Republic TV had 7

On India TV, Rajat Sharma used them to suggest Left was as much to blame as ABVP, while Arnab Goswami saw them as ‘proof of Left’s extreme brutality’.

Indian media’s tendency to brand madrasa students as terrorists is ruining institutions

Authors Ziya Us Salam and Aslam Parvaiz have documented how madrasa textbooks are caught up in a time warp but mainstream media not doing its job.

Pawar to Modi-Shah, easy to tell which TV channel Indian politicians will give interviews to

Times Now, NDTV, India Today - Indian channels with usually different coverage of the same news finally found a common ground last week: rape

BJP ensured Modi was in 75% of all photos in newspapers’ front page before 2014 polls

BJP’s visual featuring focused on making sure that at least 40% of all photographs in newspapers were of Narendra Modi.

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History teaching requires revision more than textbooks

The kinds of revisions we’re seeing remove the very skills that make historical thinking meaningful. The result is a citizen who either dismisses history entirely or defends it without support.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

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?