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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicIndian TV news

Topic: Indian TV news

TV news must do what it’s advising BJP after 2024 results—introspect

A warning to traditional news media: change or the public will go for a changeover—people are looking for more than what you are offering.

TV news did during 2024 election what it has been doing for 10 years—be in Modi’s corner

'We’ve never seen a PM like this before,' exclaims a News Nation editor. An ABP News anchor introduces Modi as the man without whom you couldn't dream of a ‘Viksit Bharat’. Times Now promotes itself as ‘The channel PM Modi trusts'.

Both Modi and Priyanka Gandhi are now on TV—only one of them is asked follow-up questions

Almost all of Modi's TV interviews follow the same pattern: compliments, praise, and topics he has addressed in his rallies. No tricky or difficult questions are asked.

From roadshows to studio shows, Modi ‘interviews’ are everywhere—what has changed?

PM Modi has opened himself up to questions in the middle of his campaign—he’s less formal, more spontaneous. He’s on a boat with TV 18 India, strolls in a garden with India Today correspondent, and walks inside a building with India TV. 

For once, TV news chose sensitive over sensational—Uttarakhand tunnel rescue coverage shows

The government deserves compliments for placing a barrier between the public and the rescue mission. Or news channels would have done everything to enter the tunnel.

SubscriberWrites: Debate which no one in nation wants to know – Dynamic landscape of Indian TV news debates

With a diverse array of topics, passionate panellists, and a massive viewership, Indian TV news debates have evolved over the years, both in terms of content and impact.

From Haryana to ‘terror’ on train, TV news is shy to identify victims when they are Muslim

Policemen can be seen marching in Haryana’s Gurugram after the communal violence as if they are going to war. Just days ago, an RPF constable gunned down four people on a Mumbai-Jaipur train.

Blood on camera turns news channels into revellers. Atiq’s murder gets non-stop coverage

Hindi and English news channels replayed Atiq Ahmed’s murder on live TV for over 72 hours, in slow-motion shots too. Nothing was blurred, except perhaps the line of decency.

Khan Market, George Soros gang, bulldozer politics – TV news just can’t stop these phrases

Politics is everything — that’s the drumbeat on TV news. Everything is a battle, ‘face off’; it’s always ‘Sisodia vs BJP’, ‘AAP vs Centre’, Yogi vs Mafia Raj’.

In week of BBC documentary, Parchi Baba and his ‘chamatkar’ was ‘breaking news’ on Indian TV

Whether Dhirendra Shastri is a 'con man or a god man', he has definitely become an overnight TV and social media sensation through carpet coverage on India's news channels.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.