R. Bangla, officially Republic Bangla, is a

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the FTA Receiver, appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring ...

Indian

Bengali-language Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of t ...

news channel News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or televis ...

, launched on 7 March 2021, by

Arnab Goswami Arnab or Arnav is a first name popular in India, and means "ocean" in Sanskrit. It also means "rabbit" in Arabic. Notable people with the name include: * Arnab Basu, game designer, video-games producer; known for Tomb Raider series * Arnab Chakr ...

Republic Media Network Republic TV is a free-to-air Indian right-wing English-language news channel launched in May 2017. It was co-founded by Arnab Goswami and Rajeev Chandrasekhar, before the latter relinquished his stake in May 2019, leaving Goswami as the maj ...

. The channel was announced with the slogan "''Kotha Hobey Chokhe Chokh Rekhe''" (কথা হবে চোখে চোখ রেখে) (we will now see eye to eye). The channel is the third launched by Goswami, after the launches of

Republic TV Republic TV is a free-to-air Indian right-wing English-language news channel launched in May 2017. It was co-founded by Arnab Goswami and Rajeev Chandrasekhar, before the latter relinquished his stake in May 2019, leaving Goswami as the major ...

in English and

Republic Bharat Republic Bharat or R. Bharat is a free-to-air Indian Hindi-language news channel, launched on 2 February 2019. Arnab Goswami is the owner and editor-in-chief of Republic Bharat. It is also available on DD Free Dish. It is a sister channel of Rep ...

in Hindi. Goswami himself has spoken of his ambition to launch channels in all states and regional languages across India.

Hosts

The main hosts of this channel are

, Mayukh Ranjan Ghosh, Swarnali Sarkar, Meenakshi Dev Biswas, Samadrita Mukherjee, Renaissance Chakraborty

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* Bengali-language television channels in India Television news in India 24-hour television news channels in India Television channels and stations established in 2021 Television stations in Kolkata 2021 establishments in West Bengal Republic Media Network {{India-tv-station-stub