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Monday, September 1, 2025
TopicRepublic TV

Topic: Republic TV

Journalist arrested while reporting in Sandeshkhali, sent to 3 days police custody

Republic TV Bangla's Santu Pan arrested based on woman's complaint that 2 reporters from channel barged into her house & started recording. NHRC seeks report from DGP, DIG (investigation).

TV knows what works. Get Rahul Gandhi to speak against Modi and Adani

The debates on the Adani stocks dealt briefly with the impact on stakeholders before the goalpost shifted to theories on the motives behind the Hindenburg report.

TV news has changed in the last 8 years. `Blamegates’ to mahants—it’s the Modi effect

The amount of information being leaked to the Indian TV news media could fill Dal Lake. But it's robbing reporting of objectivity and verified facts.

Indian media ecosystem has problems. Vir Das’ ‘Two Indias’ exposed them

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Video game, fake visuals — It’s a bad week for TV news. ‘Good News Today’ wants to change that

Pakoda party, chai pe charcha, Kashi cruise — Is good news 24x7 really good for India?

Here’s how Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN reported on Afghanistan. And how Times Now, Zee, Republic did

While CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera showed notes of restraint, Indian news channels threw caution to the winds and said, ‘Terror group wins Game of Thrones’.

Arnab conspired to manipulate TRPs, cause losses to Times Now: Mumbai Police charge sheet

Mumbai Police has filed a second supplementary charge sheet, naming Arnab Goswami and 6 others, in the case relating to some TV channels allegedly manipulating TRPs to boost viewership.

Republic Bangla suspends reporter booked for ‘impersonating CBI officer, abduction, extortion’

Avishek Sengupta, who covered CBI for Republic Bangla, and 4 of his accomplices allegedly abducted businessman Ajit Roy & extorted Rs 15 lakh to release him. He is now absconding.

Bombay High Court grants bail to former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta in TRP scam case

Dasgupta was accused of having misused his official position & conniving with ARG Outlier Media, company that runs Republic TV channels, and with Arnab Goswami, to manipulate TRPs.

Not Piyush Goyal or IT ministry — Republic TV is first handle on Koo app’s must-follow list

Ministers and government departments have joined Koo, giving it mileage in popular media. Republic TV had called for editorial partnership with Koo last year.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

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.