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Prophet remarks row: Navika Kumar moves Supreme Court to quash cases against her

Times Now news anchor Navika Kumar has moved the Supreme Court to quash criminal proceedings against her in connection with the Nupur Sharma row.

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Why Supreme Court’s Nupur Sharma remarks are dangerous

A warped sense of causality often derails public reasoning. The spillover of a deeply flawed cause-and-effect dyad distorts what to assume and where to conclude in other realms too. That’s the key to a number of problems with the observations made by the Supreme Court while dismissing the petition of…

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TV Newsance 177: Kanhaiya Lal’s killing and cheering of Zubair’s arrest

This week, the news of Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s beheading in Udaipur by two extremist Muslim men, Gaus Mohammad and Mohammad Riyaz Akhtari, hit headlines. One would think there was nothing to “debate” about such a crime, but when does news TV disappoint? Times Now, where the entire Nupur Sharma…

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Five takeaways from Supreme Court’s Nupur Sharma hearing

As the Supreme Court Friday said that Nupur Sharma’s “loose tongue” is “single-handedly responsible” for igniting tension across the country, the BJP’s suspended spokesperson had to withdraw her petition, which asked for all cases against her in several states to be transferred to Delhi in view of a threat to…

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Supreme Court slams Times Now, Nupur Sharma over Prophet remarks

The Supreme Court on Friday came down heavily on Times Now and asked why the TV news channel held a debate on a matter that was subjudice, Live Law reported. The court was referring to the infamous May 26 debate where now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma made derogatory comments against…

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News channels lament India’s ‘Talibanisation’ after Udaipur killing, some blame Zubair

Rahul Shivshankar would like you to believe that Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair “enabled” the gruesome killing of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur.

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Why we report on the media

The last two years have been hard on journalists. We’ve had to report on a devastating pandemic, while losing our colleagues to the virus. In the first four months of 2020 alone, 31 media professionals succumbed to Covid, and the toll has since risen to nearly 600, according to a…

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TV Newsance 176: The data on job debates Studio Veers don't want you to see

The political twists and turns in Maharashtra dominated the news this week. Republic reporters chased after news, literally, while big boss Arnab Goswami had some advice on Hindutva for Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray. As allegations of horse-trading, ED raids and even kidnapping flew thick and fast, anchors at Aaj…

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Sansad Watch Ep 38: How does India deal with blasphemy?

After Nupur Sharma’s derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad on a Times Now show sparked an uproar, at home and abroad, the BJP leader was booked by the police in Maharashtra under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code. In the recent past, Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami and standup comedian…

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FIR against TV journalist Navika Kumar for remarks made by Nupur Sharma in news debate

Nupur Sharma had made objectionable remarks against the Prophet during a 'prime time' news show aired by Times Now hosted by Navika Kumar

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Times Now’s Navika Kumar booked for role in Prophet remarks row

Three weeks after a panellist on her primetime news show made derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad, Times Now anchor Navika Kumar has been named in an FIR allegedly for maliciously intending to outrage religious feelings.

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Emerging star to ‘fringe element’: The steep rise and sudden fall of Nupur Sharma

Not all Delhi University Students Union presidents are destined for a mainstream political career. Some quit along the way, while a few plod on with the help of their party’s leadership. Nupur Sharama, recently suspended as the BJP’s national spokesperson after her derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammed on Times Now…

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No 'criticising' any religion, don't get 'agitated': BJP's new rules for news debates after Nupur Sharma row

Use "restrained" language, don't get "agitated or excited", and "stay on the agenda" – these are some of the new guidelines issued by the Bharatiya Janata Party for its representatives appearing on TV news debate.

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‘Yes, you should go’: Times Now panelist pricks Navika’s sarcasm

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Nupur Sharma is small fry. Meet BJP’s actual ‘fringe elements’

Nupur Sharma’s political career was arguably a whimper but it was certainly paused with a bang. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s national spokesperson was suspended on Sunday for making denigrating remarks against Prophet Muhammad on Times Now in May. Her colleague Naveen Jindal was expelled for similar antics. The BJP’s decision…

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Nupur Sharma row: ET, TOI editorials offer opposite takes, but unite in avoiding mention of Times Now

The media has been scrambling to cover the diplomatic row erupting over a BJP spokesperson's comments on Prophet Mohammed. While the government blamed it on "fringe elements", newspapers lined up to offer editorials and reports on how it played out.

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‘Intellectual debate’: How papers and TV covered diplomatic fallout of BJP leaders’ Prophet remarks

India has been forced into diplomatic firefighting as remarks made by two BJP leaders against Prophet Muhammad have sparked outrage in several Arab capitals. On Sunday, the governments of Qatar, Kuwait and Iran summoned India’s envoys and expressed their anger, even handing over diplomatic notes of protest and demanding a…

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Global outrage continues over BJP leaders’ communal remarks

The party on Sunday suspended Nupur Sharma, and expelled Naveen Kumar for communal comments

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In UP, FIR against Alt News co-founder for calling Dharam Sansad case accused ‘hatemongers’

Uttar Pradesh police has registered an FIR against Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair after he called Yati Narasinghanand, Mahant Bajrang Muni and Anand Swaroop “hatemongers” in a Twitter post, the Wire reported.

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FIR against BJP's Nupur Sharma for 'objectionable' remarks on Prophet during Times Now debate

On Saturday, the Mumbai police filed an FIR against BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for "hurting religious sentiments" through her remarks about Prophet Mohammed during a news debate, the Indian Express reported.

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‘From day one, we captured the audience’: How TV9 Bharatvarsh’s war coverage took it to the top

“A real war broke out for the first time in 15 years, and we had planned ahead of others,” said Barun Das, chief executive officer of TV9. “That’s our editorial supremacy – that we could predict the events.”

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TV Newsance 172: Gyanvapi ka Sach, from Param Bhakts on TV news

Is it a Shivling or a fountain? This entire week on TV news was spent debating this question pertaining to the Gyanvapi mosque. Anchors turned kar sevaks and gave us minute details about a leaked report on a survey conducted at the mosque. We had experts like Amish Tripathi on…

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‘News beats noise’: On front page of Hindustan Times, CNN-News18 announces it’s trumped Times Now

News channel CNN News18 has beat Times Now and become the “No. 1 English general news channel”. Not our words, that’s what CNN-News18 claimed in a front-page ad today in the Delhi edition of Hindustan Times. It’s apparently a triumph of “news” over “noise”.

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‘Can’t even describe it’: Times Now journalist allegedly ‘assaulted’ by hospital guards in Bhopal

A journalist associated with Times Now was allegedly assaulted by hospital security on Tuesday in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal. In a video which went viral on social media, Govind Gurjar claimed he was beaten up at Bansal hospital.

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UK media notes optics, Johnson’s JCB connect as his bulldozer visuals draw flak

As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson perched on a bulldozer during his visit to a JCB factory in Gujarat, the visuals came in for criticism on Twitter, and the British media took note of the optics – amid outrage over demolitions ostensibly targeting Muslims in India.

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