Times Now

Indian English language news channel

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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 Newslaundry reported that Times Now anchor Shivshankar used dog whistles to negatively portray Indian Muslims.
2020 Times Now aired controversial debates about the Delhi riots, featuring anchors Rahul Shivshankar and Padmaja Joshi.
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.
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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