Updated Jan 22, 2021 | 20:05 IST
Multiple attempts from Times Network to get an official statement of explanation from BARC in the last few weeks have been rebuffed. Due to this unacceptable and unpardonable act of BARC, Times Network has suffered huge financial losses (Website)
Mumbai, January 22, 2021: Bennett Coleman & Company Ltd. (BCCL) is a subscriber of viewership data from Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), for its Channels including Times Now operating under Times Network.
Since 2017 and especially after the launch of Republic TV in May 2017, BCCL/ Times Network suspected large scale manipulation of ratings pertaining to illegal usage of multiple LCNs and out of EPG placement by Republic TV. We also found significant abnormalities in Market wise ratings of that channel clearly indicating ground level tampering and/ or deliberate intervention at the raw data level to favour them. Times Network repeatedly complained about these irr
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor demands inquiry into Arnab Whatsapp leaks
Published On 22 January,2021 11:01 am
The reaction came after chats of Goswami revealed that Pulwama attack was a false flag operation
MUMBAI (Dunya News) – Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday has demanded to hold serious inquiry into the leaked Watsapp chats of controversial Indian journalist and Republic TV’s Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami.
Tharoor said, “The leaked WhatsApp chats reveal three reprehensible things requiring serious inquiry: leaking of military secrets to a TV channel for its commercial purposes; a nationalist gloating over the death of 40 soldiers as an attack we have won like crazy”, and a fraudulent manipulation of TRPs.”
New Delhi, Jan 22: The government of India on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was not in favour of granting one more opportunity to those civil services aspirants who could not appear in their last attempt in the exams conducted by the UPSC last year due to the pandemic situation.
The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the Maharashtra government to submit by Monday the medical report of Partho Dasgupta, former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO arrested in the television rating points (TRP) rigging scam. A single bench of Justice PD Naik heard an urgent bail plea this evening, filed by Dasgupta s counsels, seeking interim bail for at least two weeks considering his poor health. Last week, Dasgupta was rushed to JJ Hospital from the Taloja prison, where he is lodged as an undertrial, after his blood sugar levels shot up and he fell unconscious. Dasgupta was discharged this evening, after which his lawyers moved HC seeking an urgent hearing.