The Times Group
Mass media conglomerate in India
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| 2023 | The Times Group discontinued its sports channel 1Sports, which was an English-language sports channel, rendering it defunct in 2023. |
| May 2023 | The Times Group was split into two separate business entities between brothers Vineet Jain and Samir Jain. Vineet Jain retained ownership of radio and broadcast properties, while Samir Jain took ownership of print properties. |
| 2022 | Alt News identified Times Now as one of the most prominent sharers of misinformation in Indian media that year. |
| 2021 | The National Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) found Times Now's debates on the 2020 Delhi riots were not impartial, directing the channel to remove related videos from YouTube and websites. |
| September 6 2021 | Times Now was criticized for a misleading report using a video incorrectly claimed to be a Pakistan Air Force jet over Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, which was actually a US Air Force F-15 jet filmed in Wales. |
| 2020 | Times Now aired controversial debates about the Delhi riots, featuring anchors Rahul Shivshankar and Padmaja Joshi. |
| 2020 | Newslaundry reported that Times Now anchor Shivshankar used dog whistles to negatively portray Indian Muslims. |
| October 2020 | Basu moved the Supreme Court claiming her case was pending with NBSA, prompting NBSA to release a judgment finding Times Now in violation of broadcasting guidelines. |
| September 2019 | Times Group invested $20 million into Square Yards, a real estate platform, along with other investors. |
| March 2019 | Sanjukta Basu filed a complaint with the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) regarding the derogatory remarks. |
| 2018 | Alt News accused Times Now of repeatedly reporting unverified claims, distorted facts, and taking video clips out of context. |
| 2018 | Times Now aired derogatory remarks about activist Sanjukta Basu, leading to a subsequent legal complaint. |
| 2016 | Arnab Goswami left Times Now as editor-in-chief to launch his own news channel, Republic TV. |
| 2016 | Noted as the year until which Times Now was India's most popular and most viewed English news channel. |
| June 23 2016 | The National Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) reprimanded Times Now for biased coverage of the Tablighi Jamaat congregation, violating the Code of Ethics and Broadcasting Standards. |
| November 15 2011 | Supreme Court upheld the Bombay High Court's order requiring Times Now to pay ₹100 crore in a major defamation lawsuit for erroneously showing Supreme Court judge P.B. Sawant's picture in a Provident Fund scandal report. |
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