Senior journalist Barkha Dutt had filed a case demanding Rs 74 lakh in damages after Kapil Sibal and wife Promila Sibal shut down Tiranga TV in July 2019.
News channel Tiranga TV shut down in July, 6 months after launch. Barkha Dutt's plea claims she was assured channel would function for at least 2 years.
The name change happened after TDSAT granted the channel interim relief on 14 February, but it’s still not allowed to use the colours of the Tricolour.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Chor chor mausere bhai
A case of two scorpions trying to eat each other!
How such a talented journalist gave in to political forces and indulged in quid pro quo baffles me.