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NDTV: the hostile takeover

Large conglomerates owning media units might crimp editorial independence

The Hindu

NDTV | The outlier in a noisy television news space

The channel that has played a role in modernising India’s TV news reporting and has never shied away from taking critical positions on the government could be controlled by the Adani Group soon

The Hindu

TV Newsance 184: Will Adani take over NDTV?

The big news on TV news this week was about TV news! The Adani-NDTV saga was the talk of the town, but the details were hazy nearly everywhere. Who bought what from whom? What roles do Ambani, Adani and the Roys play? And what are the implications of this game…

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Adani-NDTV tussle intensifies over stake acquisition

Billionaire Gautam Adani-led Adani Group on Friday asserted that no prior approval was needed from market regulator SEBI to acquire 29 per cent stake in NDTV as stated by the media company founded and promoted by Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy. Read more on Dynamite News:

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RRPR bound to allot equity, its contentions legally untenable: Adani Group

Responding to disclosures by NDTV promoter RRPR Holding Private Limited, the Adani Group has said that the promoter’s contentions are “baseless” and “legally untenable”, and it is bound to “allot equity shares as specified in the warrant exercise notice”.

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Adani group asserts RRPR is bound to transfer NDTV shares to VPCL

In a regulatory filing on Thursday, NDTV had contended that the Adani Group may not be able to complete its deal to buy RRPR Holdings as Prannoy, Radhika Roy have been restrained from dealing in securities by a 2020 SEBI order

The Hindu

NDTV may get more time to hand over 29.18 percent stake to Adani

A day after Adani Enterprises announced the acquisition of 29.18 percent stake in NDTV, the TV news network has made two disclosures saying that the Securities and Exchange Board of India has barred its promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy from buying, selling or dealing with securities.

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Adani Group needs SEBI approval to acquire majority stake in the news channel: NDTV

The media company said, Adani Group would need to take approval from market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to complete the transaction. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Adani stake in NDTV | Promoters cite SEBI ban on dealing in shares

Roys signal inability to meet two-day deadline set by Adani group for transfer of shares

The Hindu

Morning Digest | SC to hear plea to revoke remission of 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano case today; Pakistan calls India’s action over missile incident ‘inadequate’, and more

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The Hindu

Congress says acquisition of NDTV is aimed at stifling independent media

Jairam Ramesh refers to PM’s “special friend” and his “over-leveraged company”

The Hindu

Adani stake in NDTV | Two oligarchs taking over entire media, says Delhi Union of Journalists

Cross-media holdings and media monopolies ensure that the views of the government and big business are replicated without deviation across channels, says the union

The Hindu

‘NDTV will change fundamentally’: What the news industry makes of the Adani takeover

All calls to NDTV staff on Wednesday were rather short. Asked to comment on the Adani group’s acquisition of their TV network, they declined to speak, even off the record. Coaxing did not help. Several anchors at NDTV 24x7, the network’s flagship English news channel, said they had nothing to…

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Media freedom fears in India after Modi ally Adani buys 29% stake in NDTV

NDTV, one of the media groups willing to criticise Narendra Modi’s government, faces hostile takeover by country’s richest man

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Move to stifle any semblance of independent media: Congress on Adani's NDTV stake

Adani launched a hostile takeover of NDTV, first with an indirect acquisition of a 29.18% stake in the broadcaster followed by an offer to buy out a further 26% controlling stake

Newslaundry

How Adani is taking over NDTV without consulting the Roys

Through an indirect deal, the media arm of Adani Enterprises, led by Gautam Adani, the fourth richest person in the world, will acquire nearly 30 percent of NDTV’s shares over the next two days. The deal has kicked in an open offer, under which the Adani group is open to…

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Adani group acquires NDTV?

A subsidiary of the Adani group has indirectly acquired 29.18 percent in NDTV and launched an open offer, the Hindu reported today.

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‘Not paid news’: New York Times denies BJP’s claim that AAP paid for frontpage story

A day after the New York Times published a frontpage story on the Aam Aadmi Party’s efforts to improve Delhi’s education system, the American newspaper clarified on Friday that the story was based on impartial on-ground reporting and was not an advertisement or paid for in any way, according to…

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Fact check: As monsoon arrives, misinformation pours

As monsoon rains lash several parts of the country, social media platforms are awash with weather-related misinformation.

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Lawyer, ex-journalist, BJP supporter: Meet the complainant against Ranveer Singh

In the past week, five words have become ingrained in the public consciousness, sprouting memes, songs and music videos.

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Tribunal overturns securities market ban on NDTV founders

The Securities Appellate Tribunal has overturned a verdict against NDTV founders Radhika and Prannoy Roy which barred them from accessing the securities market.

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Protesters take over Sri Lanka's state broadcaster

In dramatic scenes today, protesters in Sri Lanka stormed the state-run TV Rupavahini and took over the broadcast.

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Press meet on Zubair’s arrest: Why journalists need more than just shows of solidarity

The conference hall of the Press Club of India was packed on Monday afternoon. It contained more than 70 journalists who had gathered to discuss, as PCI put it, the “creeping infringement of media freedom and assault on personal liberty of journalists”.

Newslaundry

YouTube singles out Ravish Kumar’s show on UP police brutality for content warning

YouTube has slapped a warning on a recent episode of NDTV India’s show “Prime Time with Ravish Kumar”. “The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences,” the warning reads.

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Indian police charge 30 soldiers over killing of tribal people

Nagaland state’s police chief says the army resorted to ‘disproportionate firing’ that killed six innocent people.

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