CBI booked RRPR Holdings, the Roys, NDTV, ICICI Bank officials for allegedly causing bank loss of Rs 48 crore in 2017. Closure report comes after a 7-year-long investigation.
Both accounts were restored Saturday after the news agencies said earlier in the day that their main Twitter accounts had been locked, without specifying a reason for the suspensions.
Prannoy Roy was on NDTV 24X7 making predictions for 2023. Gautam Adani twice appeared on TV news since his NDTV takeover. And Prince Harry was incisive with his takedown of the British royal family.
As the Roys have shown, dignity and respect for facts are the best equity in today's news bazaar. It's with this satisfaction that they must walk away, leaving NDTV in new hands.
ThePrint's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta recounts his experiences with TV & anchoring an iconic programme in introduction to his 2017 book, 'Walk the Talk: Decoding Politicians'.
In all these years of covering elections on NDTV, I do not recall a single occasion when I was asked or even hinted to say or not say something. I disagreed with Prannoy Roy off-screen and on-screen and that was never a problem.
I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
The same CBI which is getting the flak ” caged parrot” of BJP Govt has given clean chit- so hereafter will Dot Alliance stop calling CBI ” caged parrot” .As far as allegations r concerned when Banks were saddled with NPAs and RBI was scrutinizing all NPA accounts, naturally some suspicion arose wrt benefit of Rs48 cr given to Roys by ICiCI bank.So CBI had to investigate.
It’s simple and plain abuse of power by the Union govt. The Roys can be many things but they most certainly are not corrupt. Just because they are on the opposite side of the ideological divide, the govt agencies went after them.
The process is the punishment. And they have succeeded as the Roys have been forced to sell NDTV to Adani.
The same CBI which is getting the flak ” caged parrot” of BJP Govt has given clean chit- so hereafter will Dot Alliance stop calling CBI ” caged parrot” .As far as allegations r concerned when Banks were saddled with NPAs and RBI was scrutinizing all NPA accounts, naturally some suspicion arose wrt benefit of Rs48 cr given to Roys by ICiCI bank.So CBI had to investigate.
It’s simple and plain abuse of power by the Union govt. The Roys can be many things but they most certainly are not corrupt. Just because they are on the opposite side of the ideological divide, the govt agencies went after them.
The process is the punishment. And they have succeeded as the Roys have been forced to sell NDTV to Adani.