Tag: Dipankar Gupta

  • The Election Battle

    The Election Battle

    MUMBAI: As the Assembly Elections in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram enter the final phase, CNN-IBN & IBN7, in partnership with THE WEEK, brings you ‘Battle For The States – Election Tracker’ & ‘Mera Vote Meri Sarkar – Post-Poll Survey’, a comprehensive post-poll study conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS).

    Time and again, the IBN Network has proved to be accurate when it comes to predicting election results and trends. This special programming will try to capture the mood of the electorate in each constituency, likely voting trends and patterns, and give seat projections. An expert panel of analysts including Swapan Dasgupta, Dr. Ramchandra Guha, Manini Chatterjee, K S Sachidananda Murthy, Dr. Sandeep Shastri, Dr. Suhas Palshikar, Kumar Ketkar, Dipankar Gupta and Prof. Rajeeva Karadikar on CNN-IBN, and Harivansh, Sanjay Kumar, Rakesh Sinha, Vivek Kumar and Purushottam Agrawal on IBN7 will discuss the key factors that are going to impact the polling results and government formation.

    Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat, said, “When it comes to the elections programming, IBN Network has been a front runner. It is our endeavour to give our viewers the most accurate voting percentage and trends through this post-poll survey.
    Ashutosh, Managing Editor, IBN7 said, “Our scientific and comprehensive post-poll survey will help the viewers understand the present political and social scenario and the voting trends in the poll-bound states.”

    Philip Mathew, Managing Editor, THE WEEK, said, “THE WEEK is known for its unbiased and insightful political coverage. Our poll predictions, over the years, have always hit the bull’s-eye. I am sure our successful partnership with CNN-IBN will deliver yet another hit with this exit poll.”

    To know the findings of this survey, tune-in to ‘Battle for the States – Election Tracker’ on CNN-IBN and ‘Mera Vote Meri Sarkar – Post-Poll Survey’ on IBN7, on Dec 4 @ 6 PM to 10 PM & Dec 6 @ 8 PM to 10 PM.

    You can also read the detailed results and analysis of the survey in the issue of THE WEEK, hitting the stands on Dec 6, 2013.

  • NBSA to examine complaints against Zee News Ltd channels relating to coal blocks

    NBSA to examine complaints against Zee News Ltd channels relating to coal blocks

    NEW DELHI: The News Broadcasting Standards Authority has taken suo moto cognizance of the complaint filed by Jindal Steel Ltd. regarding telecast of news with regard to allocation of coal blocks and other issues on Zee News, Zee Business and Zee UP (channels of Zee News Ltd.).

    The NBSA took the decision on the basis of the material placed before it and considering the seriousness of the complaint.

    The complaint had been forwarded by the Press Council of India (PCI) as the complaint does not fall within the ambit of the Council as it relates to electronic media.

    Meanwhile, the NBSA set up by the News Broadcasters Association has been reconstituted, though former Chief Justice and National Human Rights Commission Chairman J S Verma remains the Chairperson.

    After the reconstitution on 2 October, the other members are:

    Members representing eminent persons category:

    1. Nitin Desai, Economist and former Under Secretary General of United Nations

    2. Dipankar Gupta, former Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University

    3. Mrs Chokila Iyer, former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

    4. Dr. S Y Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, and former Director General of Doordarshan

    Members representing Editors’ category:

    1. Rahul Kanwal, Managing Editor – Headlines Today

    2. Vivek Law, Editor, Bloomberg TV India

    3. Ajit Anjum, Managing Editor – News 24

    4. Johny Lukose, Director, News – Manorama News

  • CNBC-TV18 launches new series with Nandan Nilekani

    CNBC-TV18 launches new series with Nandan Nilekani

    MUMBAI: CNBC TV18 is launching a special weekly series Imagining India & Nandan Nilekani from 13 June. The show will air every Saturday at 10 pm and on Sundays at 7 pm.

    The show marks Nilekani, following on his bestselling book ‘Imagining India,’ as guest anchor with CNBC TV18 executive editor Shereen Bhan.

    The pair will be joined by guests from a gamut of fields including business leaders, venture capitalists, economists, writers, sociologists and thought leaders to discuss issues ranging from Indian infrastructure to globalisation and India, the Indian demographic dividend to primary education and more.

    Some of the guests are Godrej Group chairman Adi Godrej, author Sanjeev Sanyal, Feedback Ventures chairman Vinayak Chaterjee, HT Media chairperson Shobhana Bhartia, scriptwriter Jaideep Sahni (Chak De India and Khosla Ka Ghosla), Future Group chief economist and strategist Roopa Purshottam and sociologist and author Dipankar Gupta.

    CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaaz VP marketing Neel Chowdhury said, “Nilekani is clearly a visionary leader, as was evident from the success of his book. We’re happy that India’s sharpest minds chose CNBC TV18 as a platform to debate the most powerful ideas that can change the course of the nation. We hope that this series will be an important reference point for policy makers and all stakeholders in the journey to collectively realise India’s dream of a successful and stable future.”