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Who Owns Your Media: The highs and lows of the India Today …
WEBJul 18, 2022 · Shambhavi Thakur. Forty seven years ago, in 1975, Madhu Trehan founded India Today magazine, although her father Vidya Vilas Purie had originally envisioned it as a tabloid. Trehan had returned from the United States, where she studied journalism at Columbia University and worked with the UN and India Abroad, among other organisations.
From rich data to dispassionate analysis, Nalin Mehta’s The New …
WEBMar 19, 2022 · Books. From rich data to dispassionate analysis, Nalin Mehta’s The New BJP is a work of empirical ambition. Using innovative statistical measures, it traces the BJP’s historic journey to become India’s largest political party. By: Anand Vardhan.
Who Owns Your Media: Jagran Group and the story of India
WEBSep 19, 2022 · Narendra Mohan’s younger son, as well as the children of the other five brothers, are directors. JPL’s holding company, Jagran Media Network Investment Private Ltd, owns 68.56 percent of its shares. VRSM Enterprises LLP, started by Mahendra Mohan and his son, is also part of the promoter group and owns 0.19 percent.
Bengaluru floods: Anatomy of a drainage system gone horribly …
WEBSep 13, 2022 · A week after the floods, the water has not fully receded in Yemalur. And everyone knows why the drains get clogged – through dumping of solid waste and construction debris. Additionally, the unregulated inflow of raw sewage continues unabated. “When the drains overflow, our drinking water lines get …
Who Owns Your Media: Hindustan Times’s journey from
WEBJul 19, 2022 · Among individuals are Hardik Patel, son of leading equity investor Bharat Jayantilal Patel, who owns 1.25 percent, and Ranga Prasad N who, besides 1.73 percent shares in HTML, also holds 1.61 percent in HMVL. The Hindustan Times Ltd, which holds 69.51 percent of HT Media’s Shares, is largely owned by …
Uttarakhand tunnel collapse highlights Himalayan fragility and the …
WEBNov 20, 2023 · There are mixed opinions on how it happened. SP Sati, a geologist and professor of environmental science at the Uttarakhand University of Horticulture and Forestry, told Newslaundry, “Though construction companies never accept they use explosives in their work, we have seen repeated violations in the past.I am of the firm opinion that the ultimate trigger in the tunnel’s collapse was a ...
With Atideb Sarkar, ABP group gives India her youngest media …
WEB31 Jul, 2021. The ABP group has got a new chief editor and publisher, Atideb Sarkar. This is the formal handing over of the baton to the next generation of the Sarkar family that owns the ABP group, which is celebrating its centenary year. In his mid-30s, Atideb has been serving as the executive director of the flagship company since November ...
In two years, Delhi govt spent Rs 68 lakh on bio-decomposer …
WEBMay 11, 2022 · In two years, Delhi spent Rs 68 lakh on stubble decomposer, Rs 23 crore to advertise it. It also spent a total of Rs 490 crore on ads in 2021-22 alone. In 2020, the Delhi government announced with much fanfare a new strategy to tackle the issue of stubble burning – a bio-decomposer developed by the Indian Agriculture Research Institute (Pusa).
Who Owns Your Media: The saga of NDTV - Newslaundry
WEBDec 6, 2022 · The Adani group’s open offer for additional 26 percent shares of New Delhi Television Limited, or NDTV, that began tendering after over a month’s delay on November 22, 2022, finally came to a close yesterday.Managing to get 31.7 percent of the bid quantity, the group acquired 8.26 percent of NDTV’s shares. As it already had 29.18 percent stake in NDTV, through the media group’s holding ...