NDTV India (styled as NDTV इंडिया) is a

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news channel in

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owned by

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. In June 2016, NDTV decided to launch two separate channels called NDTV India and NDTV Spice in the

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History

NDTV was the brainchild of its

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, Prannoy Roy, and his wife and

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, Radhika Roy. In 1988, NDTV produced the news and current affairs show ''The World This Week'' for

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. The show proved to be popular and NDTV established its image as a private news producer. It moved on to become the sole news content provider and producer for India’s first 24-hour news channel,

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. On 15 April 2003, they launched two 24-hour news channels—

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and NDTV India in

Telecast ban

In January 2016, the channel received notice from the Information and Broadcasting ministry over its coverage of the Pathankot terrorist attack for allegedly violating norms. On 4 January 2016, while Indian security forces were still under the counter operations against the terrorist attack committed on 2 January 2016 at the

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, NDTV India's telecast between 1225 and 1231 hours (IST) had allegedly revealed "strategically-sensitive information". On 2 November 2016, the committee set up by the ministry ordered a blackout of the channel on 9 November 2016, prohibiting "transmission or re-transmission for one day on any platform throughout India". The order also stated that NDTV had revealed strategically-sensitive information related to the positions of ammunition and armaments at the airbase along with locations of schools and residential areas in the vicinity, thus endangering civilian lives. The coverage was deemed in violation of the

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that prevent live coverage of anti-terrorist operations. After the channel decided to move to the

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against the order, got a date of hearing on 5 November 2016, and seemed to receive support from public over social media and through protests, the government surprisingly put its orders regarding blackout on hold just before the hearing.

Censorship

Journalists at NDTV have said they face intimidation aimed at stopping them from running stories critical of Prime Minister

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Associated journalists

* Manoranjan Bharti *

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* Manish Kumar * Nidhi Kulpati * Sanket Upadhyay * Akhilesh Sharma * Anurag Dwary * Nehal Kidwai * Himanshu Shekhar Mishra * Neeta Sharma * Kadambini Sharma * Naghma Sehar * Sharad Sharma * Mukesh Singh Senger * Ravish Ranjan Shukla * Saurabh Shukla * Puja Bharadwaj * Parimal Kumar * Aditi Rajputana

References

External links

About NDTV India

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ndtv India 24-hour television news channels in India NDTV Group Television channels and stations established in 2003 Television stations in New Delhi Hindi-language television channels in India