Mumbai: Partho Dasgupta, a former CEO of TV ratings agency BARC who was arrested in the Television Rating Points rigging case, has been admitted to the ICU of a hospital here after his sugar level shot up, officials said on Saturday. Dasgupta, 55, a diabetic, was rushed to the state-run JJ Hospital from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai …
The Uddhav Thackeray government on Wednesday withdrew the general consent extended by Maharashtra to the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe cases in the state. Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray okayed the order to withdraw general consent to the CBI after the central agency registered a case relating to the TRP scandal. Officials said the Maharashtra government’s decision would not …
Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Thursday urged Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar to take urgent steps to ensure transparency in the TRP system. Chaturvedi met Javadekar on a day when the Broadcast Audience Research Council temporarily suspended weekly ratings of news channels across languages. In the immediate consequence, the BARC has also suspended TRP system for the next …
The groundbreaking ceremony for a new Ram temple in Ayodhya earlier this month was aired on 198 channels and watched by 163 million people, Broadcast Audience Research Council said on Thursday. According to the data, the body said, there is a trend of general entertainment channel audiences shifting to news channels, and the coverage on Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput's …
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