Niraj Sharma

With advertisers and agencies dependent on ratings for planning, pricing and performance claims, any prolonged blackout could further weaken linear broadcasting and accelerate its decline

IBDF is slated to meet I&B Secretary Chanchal Kumar on Monday, but industry observers say the call on ratings resumption will finally rest with the minister

IBDF is slated to meet I&B Secretary Chanchal Kumar on Monday, but industry observers say the call on ratings resumption will finally rest with the minister

The issue is not whether the Nijjar murder should be investigated. The issue is why India was publicly implicated before the prosecutable case pointed to organised crime networks

Islamabad helped Trump look like a peacemaker after Operation Sindoor. Its silence on Iran now shows the limits of that transaction

The government argued that the SC dispute concerns TRAI’s power over channel placement, while Kerala proceedings concern how landing-page exposure is treated in ratings

Jain has called for a shift from channel-based media planning to a six-part screen planning model focused on consumer context, creative sequence and business outcomes

Yes. A 2007 Leh administration notice used the label while accusing Wangchuk of foreign links, land occupation and fund misuse, years before BJP rule

Mainstream newsrooms must correct their proximity to power, but opposition politics and aligned digital media cannot use that failure to turn every reporter into a legitimate target

The protests may have begun with political support, but their spread across the country shows genuine public anger that can no longer be dismissed