NDTV Raid

At the bourses, NDTV has been one of the best performing stocks. In the past three months, the counter has gained nearly 140 per cent, as compared to 8 per cent rise in the S&P BSE Sensex

Over the past week, NDTV and its founders have become mascots of press freedom. After Central Bureau of Investigation raids on the houses and offices of founder Prannoy Roy, and particularly after the agency's clarification that showed not much work had been done on the case, the who's who of the capital's media have come out in support. This is not new for both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the media. Writing in Lokmat Times, senior Mumbai journalist Sujatha Anandan has described the sharp difference between the Congress approach to journalists and that of the BJP. She recalls how the late Pramod Mahajan threatened her with "breaking of arms and legs" on a story describing BJP cadres' visit to Kamathipura (the red-light locality of Munbai), while on a trip to the city for a party conference in 1995. She compares it with a more docile response from Congress cit head Murli Deora when a similar story was done a decade earlier. An ordeal closer, perhaps more severe, to ...

Media community rallies around NDTV, criticises attack on free press

Chavan also said that what was happening today was like an 'undeclared emergency'