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  • India TV’S ‘Chunav Manch Up’ creates national headlines

    India TV’S ‘Chunav Manch Up’ creates national headlines

    MUMBAI: India TV’s UP election conclave made national headlines when Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister gave his first and frank reaction on reports of family feud. Akhilesh Yadav chose AapKi Adalat at India TV’s full-day mega conclave Chunav Manch – Uttar Pradesh to state that he wants the final say on selection of candidates of his party for the coming assembly elections. His assertion created thunderous & rippling national headlines.

    Riding on the towering scale of execution, enviable line-up of participation, precise timing & India TV’s editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma himself leading the charge with a series of power packed Aap Ki Adalat – Chunav Manch Specials, compelled rival news channels to cut India TV Mega Conclave live.

    While the Hyper-Political Uttar Pradesh continued riddling the fervent political watchers and the most able national media, India TV yet again triumphed in delving top-end and exclusive content right from the epicenter of activity, Lucknow, that was picked up by none but all of the National Media at real time.

    While UP’s first family showed no signs of recouping from the feud it has found itself into & while speculations were at its peak, India TV Chunav Manch saw UP CM Akhilesh Yadav & his Uncle & Senior SP Leader Shivpal Yadav in two separate exclusives, those had the entire nation, including the top media organizations glued.

    Other big headlines came from no less than BJP National President Amit Shah, BJP State President Keshav Maurya, Congress State President Raj Babbar, Cabinet Minister Anupriya Patel, SP MP Naresh Agarwal amongst top National & State Politicians like Congress MP PL Punia, EX- UP BJP Chief Laxmikant Bajpai, Maharashtra SP Chief Abu Azmi, BJP MLA Sangeet Som, Congress Leader & Former MoS Home Affairs RPN Singh, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Congress MLA Pramod Tiwari, BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj, SP Leader Ambika Chaudhary, BJP MP Jagdambika Pal, Congress Leader & Former MoS HRD Jitin Prasad, SP Spoksperson Gaurav Bhatia, BJP Spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, Congress Leader Akhilesh Pratap Singh amongst others.

    India TV MD & CEO Ritu Dhawan on the success of India TV Chunav Manch conceded, “Though we were sure that we will raise the bar for our industry peers with sheer scale & concept of execution itself, but we are elated to be able to match our audiences high expectations in terms of power content created through the effort.”

    “We compete only with ourselves” She added while highlighting the strategic punctuation of a couple of Aap Ki Adalat Chunav Manch Specials.

  • India TV’S ‘Chunav Manch Up’ creates national headlines

    India TV’S ‘Chunav Manch Up’ creates national headlines

    MUMBAI: India TV’s UP election conclave made national headlines when Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister gave his first and frank reaction on reports of family feud. Akhilesh Yadav chose AapKi Adalat at India TV’s full-day mega conclave Chunav Manch – Uttar Pradesh to state that he wants the final say on selection of candidates of his party for the coming assembly elections. His assertion created thunderous & rippling national headlines.

    Riding on the towering scale of execution, enviable line-up of participation, precise timing & India TV’s editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma himself leading the charge with a series of power packed Aap Ki Adalat – Chunav Manch Specials, compelled rival news channels to cut India TV Mega Conclave live.

    While the Hyper-Political Uttar Pradesh continued riddling the fervent political watchers and the most able national media, India TV yet again triumphed in delving top-end and exclusive content right from the epicenter of activity, Lucknow, that was picked up by none but all of the National Media at real time.

    While UP’s first family showed no signs of recouping from the feud it has found itself into & while speculations were at its peak, India TV Chunav Manch saw UP CM Akhilesh Yadav & his Uncle & Senior SP Leader Shivpal Yadav in two separate exclusives, those had the entire nation, including the top media organizations glued.

    Other big headlines came from no less than BJP National President Amit Shah, BJP State President Keshav Maurya, Congress State President Raj Babbar, Cabinet Minister Anupriya Patel, SP MP Naresh Agarwal amongst top National & State Politicians like Congress MP PL Punia, EX- UP BJP Chief Laxmikant Bajpai, Maharashtra SP Chief Abu Azmi, BJP MLA Sangeet Som, Congress Leader & Former MoS Home Affairs RPN Singh, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Congress MLA Pramod Tiwari, BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj, SP Leader Ambika Chaudhary, BJP MP Jagdambika Pal, Congress Leader & Former MoS HRD Jitin Prasad, SP Spoksperson Gaurav Bhatia, BJP Spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, Congress Leader Akhilesh Pratap Singh amongst others.

    India TV MD & CEO Ritu Dhawan on the success of India TV Chunav Manch conceded, “Though we were sure that we will raise the bar for our industry peers with sheer scale & concept of execution itself, but we are elated to be able to match our audiences high expectations in terms of power content created through the effort.”

    “We compete only with ourselves” She added while highlighting the strategic punctuation of a couple of Aap Ki Adalat Chunav Manch Specials.

  • UNESCO, Indian newspersons condemn killing of mediapersons

    UNESCO, Indian newspersons condemn killing of mediapersons

    NEW DELHI: UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today called for an investigation into the killing of journalists Akhilesh Pratap Singh and Rajdev Ranjan who died in separate attacks in northeastern and central India respectively.

    “I condemn the murders of Akhilesh Pratap Singh and Rajdev Ranjan,” the Director-General said. “I call on the authorities to investigate these killings to prevent impunity for crimes against freedom of expression and freedom of information from taking root.”

    On 12 May, unknown assailants shot Akhilesh Pratap Singh, a correspondent for Hindi-language broadcaster Taaza TV, who was also known as Indradev Yadav, in the Chatra district of the state of Jharkhand in the northeast of India.

    Senior reporter Rajdev Ranjan was shot on Friday 13 May in Siwan in the central Indian state of Bihar. He was the bureau chief of the Hindi-language national daily Hindustan.

    Earlier, the Press Council of India also held a meeting to condemn the killings and called upn the Government to ensure security of newspersons in their line of duty.

    The issuance of the UNESCO statements on the killing of media workers is in line with Resolution 29 adopted by UNESCO Member States at the Organization’s General Conference of 1997, entitled “Condemnation of Violence against Journalists.” These statements are posted on a dedicated webpage, UNESCO condemns the killing of journalists.
     

  • UNESCO, Indian newspersons condemn killing of mediapersons

    UNESCO, Indian newspersons condemn killing of mediapersons

    NEW DELHI: UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today called for an investigation into the killing of journalists Akhilesh Pratap Singh and Rajdev Ranjan who died in separate attacks in northeastern and central India respectively.

    “I condemn the murders of Akhilesh Pratap Singh and Rajdev Ranjan,” the Director-General said. “I call on the authorities to investigate these killings to prevent impunity for crimes against freedom of expression and freedom of information from taking root.”

    On 12 May, unknown assailants shot Akhilesh Pratap Singh, a correspondent for Hindi-language broadcaster Taaza TV, who was also known as Indradev Yadav, in the Chatra district of the state of Jharkhand in the northeast of India.

    Senior reporter Rajdev Ranjan was shot on Friday 13 May in Siwan in the central Indian state of Bihar. He was the bureau chief of the Hindi-language national daily Hindustan.

    Earlier, the Press Council of India also held a meeting to condemn the killings and called upn the Government to ensure security of newspersons in their line of duty.

    The issuance of the UNESCO statements on the killing of media workers is in line with Resolution 29 adopted by UNESCO Member States at the Organization’s General Conference of 1997, entitled “Condemnation of Violence against Journalists.” These statements are posted on a dedicated webpage, UNESCO condemns the killing of journalists.