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Prime-time news debate host Arnab Goswami has resigned as the Editor-in Chief of <keyword id="19470" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Times-now">Times Now</keyword>. 
 
He was the Editor-in-Chief and President, News, of Times Now and ET Now. 
 
In a meeting today that took place between 4:30 pm to 5 pm with his core team of editors and reporters, he announced his resignation. A source revealed that he said 'the game has just begun' at least 15 times. 
 
Goswami said ,"Independent media is going to thrive now." 
 
He told his team he is not looking at quitting TV and the media industry any time in near future. 
 
Sources from within the team told Business Insider he is likely to start something on his own. The move, apparently in favour of turning an entrepreneur and starting his own venture, comes after several days of murmurs about his likely exit. 
 
Sources also revealed exclusively to Business Insider that he is looking at taking along with him he has considered his core team members from the Times Now newsroom. 
 Goswami started his career at The Telegraph in Kolkata. Within a year, in 1995, he joined NDTV where he was one of the more prominent faces along with <keyword id="160167" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vikram-Chandra">Vikram Chandra</keyword> and <keyword id="98566" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rajdeep-Sardesai">Rajdeep Sardesai</keyword>. He later joined Times Now as its Editor-in-Chief in 2006. Arnab created a dedicated viewer base of people who loved his direct interrogative style of debates, and also those who hated him. 
 
Thanks to his high-volume NewsHour on primetime, Times Now was able to sideline a lot of the older players in the English new space. 
 
At the time of publishing this article, a meeting by Arnab with the staff is underway in the Times Now newsroom. 
 
(More details awaited)

Arnab Goswami quits Times Now, likely to start a new venture

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6354616" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitter">Twitter</keyword> said it would defend "freedom of expression" as Indian authorities requested bans. </li><li>But activists and journalists were subject to temporary bans and limitations of their accounts.</li><li>One said Twitter "could stand up to the president of their country but were getting bullied here."</li></ul>Twitter is in a predicament in <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="100" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>. It is caught between the demands of an increasingly authoritarian government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a global outcry - spurred by tweets from <a href="https://twitter.com/rihanna/status/1356625889602199552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1356625889602199552%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld-asia-india-559148584858">singer Rihanna</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1356694884615340037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1356694884615340037%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Findia-news%2Fafter-rihanna-greta-thunberg-extends-support-to-farmers-protest-101612319959694.htmlhtml">climate activist Greta Thunberg</a> - to protect the tens of thousands of farmers who have gathered in Delhi to protest new agricultural laws.As it wrestles with what to do under intense scrutiny, journalists and activists have been among those caught up in the standoff.The Caravan, a prestigious magazine that <a href="https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/the-bjp-and-delhi-police-hand-in-the-delhi-violence">publishes confrontational, longform journalism</a> reflects its predicament. Just one week after Twitter censored the Caravan's accounts at the Indian Government's request, the magazine received <a href="https://thewire.in/media/caravan-magazine-wins-louis-m-lyons-award-for-its-indispensable-reporting-on-india">a prestigious award from Harvard University's Nieman Foundation, </a>that praised its "unique and uncompromising coverage of the erosion of human rights, social justice, and democracy."The standoff grew as worldwide interest intensified. <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_in/topics/company/2020/twitters-response-indian-government.html">Twitter issued a statement </a>on February 10 saying it had banned those who violated its rules but only "temporarily complied" with the Indian Government's specific requests for bans, later restoring those accounts.It added it restricted some accounts but only within India."In keeping with our principles of defending protected speech and freedom of expression, we have not taken any action on accounts that consist of news media entities, journalists, activists, and politicians," Twitter said.Caravan's executive editor Vinod Jose told Insider that the block, which stopped people in India accessing its Hindi and English language accounts, felt "targeted" as the publication has aggressively criticized the government.But he said he was surprised that Twitter had briefly complied given it had <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html">permanently deleted</a> Donald Trump's account for inciting the Capitol Hill riots three weeks earlier.<div type="image" title="Vinod Jose" height="1887" width="2516" msid="81211244" hostid="261"></div>"My first thought was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/twitter-trump-banned-bolsonaro-modi-india-brazil-populists-2021-1">they could stand up to the president of their country</a> but were getting bullied here," he added.He added the ban helped generate publicity for the magazine, which has since launched <a href="https://twitter.com/thecaravanindia/status/1362669498185093120">a subscription drive</a> fronted by Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy.As well as requesting Twitter bans, the Indian authorities have also moved against prominent voices because of their tweets.On January 30, Jose and six other journalists, including top news anchor Rajdeep Sardesai, had complaints filed against them accusing them of criminal sedition for tweeting about the alleged fatal shooting of a protestor, whose death was later revealed to have been an accident. The charge can carry a sentence of<a href="https://devgan.in/ipc/section/124A/"> life imprisonment</a>. Their arrests <a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/sc-stays-arrest-shashi-tharoor-rajdeep-sardesai-and-others-sedition-case-143067">were subsequently stayed by</a> the top court on February 9. This was not an isolated incident. A freelance journalist <a href="https://thewire.in/rights/prashant-kanojia-arrested-tweets-uttar-pradesh-police-transit-remand">spent a month</a> in jail last year over a tweet that authorities said had disrupted communal harmony. On February 15, police charged a 22-year-old <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/climate-activist-disha-ravi-arrested-for-being-the-toolkit-editor-of-indias-farmers-protests/articleshow/80920349.cms">climate activist</a> with sedition for circulating a toolkit that Thunberg had tweeted.Inji Pennu, a Kerala-born tech blogger who lives in Florida and monitors <keyword id="6354632" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="social-media">social media</keyword> trends in India, told Insider it would be a "privilege" for anyone to "post on a social media platform and escape without having a complaint slapped against you."Political commentator <a href="https://twitter.com/sanjukta">Sanjukta Basu</a> also had her Twitter targeted on February 1, when she woke up to see her account was invisible inside India. She told Insider she initially thought a tweet about <a href="https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/02/10/arrested-before-he-could-perform-how-munawar-faruqui-spent-a-month-in-jail">the arrest of a stand up comic</a> must have prompted it. But she deduced from media reports that her account was blocked because she had used the hashtag #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide, that spread the false claim Modi was planning mass murder.Basu told Insider her tweet didn't endorse the claim but was "examining Twitter's illogical trends and had listed some trending hashtags."She believed her vocal criticism of Modi's government had prompted the ban. After her account was restored, she tweeted about the surge in followers she had, saying: "More they bully you, more you grow."Asked how the episode left her feeling about Twitter, she said: "They stood up to the Indian government because of a regime change in the US. It doesn't want to be seen siding with an authoritarian government in a developing country."Raheel Khurseed, a journalist who was Twitter India's head of Politics, Policy and Government from 2014 to 2018, agreed Joe Biden replacing Donald Trump meant there was now a US President who was "ideologically more aligned with Twitter's position on free speech"."The fact that [the Biden administration] would want to hold the same standards elsewhere in the world gives Twitter some amount of immunity as it tries to apply the same standards elsewhere in the world," he told Insider. After Twitter's public statement of defiance, Ravi Shankar, the justice and technology minister, told India's parliament that laws would be tightened to make social media companies more compliant. "We will not tolerate the misuse of social media for fake news," he said."I politely remind the companies, whether it is Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or WhatsApp or anyone, they are free to work in India, do business, but they need to respect the Indian Constitution."Twitter reportedly met with Indian Government officials earlier this month and had taken down 97% of the accounts authorities had requested. The <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/better-communication-with-govt-twitter-to-restructure-india-team-7184892/">Indian Express reported</a> it told authorities it would restructure its India team so there were more senior managers in the country to handle compliance issues.Khurseed said it was an "interesting moment in Twitter's journey in India"."The government, of course, has its own ideas about how these platforms need to run and whether they implement that on a policy level," he said, adding it "remains to be seen" what will change.He said Twitter might make new appointments and restructure its team but added there were discussions since his time there working about "making policy teams immune to government interference".He added: "I think this is the right time to restart those conversations."Twitter declined to comment, referring Insider to its February 10 statement.

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<ul><li>Tejashwi Yadav clocked over 1.24 million engagements in October overshadowing incumbent Bihar CM Nitish Kumar who managed only 133,879 engagements. </li><li>The IPL was the flavour of the season for cricketers where expectedly India captain and expectant father Virat Kohli topped Twitter engagement with 2.4 million engagements. </li></ul>Twitteet, a social media analytics firm released its October analytics report today. This is the first time social media analytics for Twitter engagement by 20 categories have been done on a daily and monthly basis. The categories whose Twitter engagement have been analysed include Politicians (party-wise), Journalists, Business Leaders Founders &amp; Investors), Sportspersons (cricket and other sports), Movies stars (Bollywood and regional), Authors, Chefs, and Comedians. Here are the winners from some key categories: <ol><li>Politicians – Narendra Modi - 72,15,913 Twitter Engagements</li><li>Bollywood – Sonu Sood - 24,36,601 Twitter Engagements</li><li>Business Head – Anand Mahindra - 4,08,882 Twitter Engagements</li><li>Cricketer – Virat Kohli - 24,65,918 Twitter Engagements</li><li>Sports Star (non-cricket) – Vijender Singh - 4,27,006 Twitter Engagements</li><li>TV Star – Sidharth Shukla - 3,90,901 Twitter Engagements</li><li>Journalist – Deepak Chaurasia - 18,88,720 Twitter Engagements</li><li>Founders – Kunal Shah - 60,093 Twitter Engagements</li><li>Comedians – Kunal Kamra - 11,46,111 Twitter Engagements</li><li>Regional Cinema Star – Mahesh Babu - 7,32,964 Twitter Engagements</li><li>Authors – Anand Ranganathan - 5,36,874 Twitter Engagements</li><li>Investor – Mohandas Pai - 99,741 Twitter Engagements</li></ol>Key highlights of the first report include the remarkable rise of Tejashwi Yadav who clocked over a 1.24 million engagements in October overshadowing incumbent Bihar CM Nitish Kumar who managed only 133,879 engagements. Expectedly, Prime Minster Narendra Modi topped the overall Indian Twitter engagement rankings with over 7.2 million engagements. Among Indian Politicians Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is at #2 with 3.5 million engagements, UP CM Yogi Adityanath and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were 3rd and 4th in the Indian Politicians engagement rankings. Surprising inclusions in the top 10 among politicians were BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra at #8 who clocked a 1.1 million engagements; Dr Kumar Vishwas at #5 who got 1.2 million engagements. Sonu Sood’s humanitarian work during the pandemic saw huge resonance on Twitter where even at a Twitter following of a tenth of super star Shah Rukh Khan (Sonu Sood’s 4.6 million followers to SRK’s 41.3 million followers) he topped Twitter engagement among Bollywood Stars with a phenomenal 2.4 million engagements. The Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan was at #2 with 7.3 lakh engagements. Akshay Kumar with 6.72 lakh engagements was at #3, and Anupam Kher with 4.74 lakh engagements was at #4. Former Maharashtra CM, the late Vilasrao Deshmukh’s actor-son Riteish Deshmukh was at #5 with 4.2 lakh engagements. Pooja Hegde was the surprise entrant into the top 10 with 2.51 lakh engagements. In the Business Leaders category, Anand Mahindra towers over others with over 4 lakh engagements. RPG Group’s Chief Harsh Goenka is at #2 with 2.2 lakh engagements. Chinese mobile phone brands India CEO’s Manu Kumar Jain of XiaoMi and RealMe’s Madhav Sheth are at #3 and #4 respectively with 1.5 lakh and 1.1 lakh engagements respectively. Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji with 49K engagements is at #5, Biocon’s Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw with 41K engagements at #6, Marico’s Harsh Mariwala with 24K engagements is at #7, Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma with 19K engagements at #8 and Chairman of JSPL and former MP, Naveen Jindal with 16K engagements is at #9. Google’s Global CEO Sundar Pichai with 15K engagements is at #10. The IPL was the flavour of the season for cricketers where expectedly India captain and expectant father Virat Kohli topped Twitter engagement with 2.4 million engagements. Suresh Raina was at #2 with 1.9 million engagements. Former stars Sachin Tendulkar at #3, Harbhajan Singh at #5, and Virendra Sehwag at #6, actively engage with fans and followers on Twitter with 1.5 million; 6.8 lakh and 6.3 lakh engagements. Aakash Chopra, now a commentator is also hugely popular and ranks #4 with over 9.65 lakh engagements on Twitter in October. Perennial favourite Mahendra Singh Dhoni was completely inactive on Twitter in October despite more than 8.1 million followers. Among Indian sports persons, outside of cricket, Olympic medallist and pro-boxer Vijendra Singh tops with 4.27 lakh engagements. Perhaps the India’s best kept secret in sports is veteran pistol shooter, coach and sports enthusiast 88-year old Dadi Chandro Tomar, better known as ‘Shooter Dadi’ from Baghpat, UP. Since learning to shoot when she was well into her sixties she has attained national fame as an accomplished shooter having won more than 30 national championships. She was at #2 in the non-cricket sports category with a phenomenal 2.84 lakh engagements leaving superstars like Saina Nehwal, Babita Phogat and Jwala Gutta behind! In the intensively competitive Journalists category, News Nation’s Deepak Chaurasia topped Twitter engagement with a whopping 1.88 million engagements. Aaj Tak’s Rohit Sardana was at #2 with 1.1 million engagement followed by Sushant Sinha with 1.05 million engagements. Veteran journalist and India Today’s Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai was at # 8 wit6 6.6 lakh engagements and Rana Ayyub was at #6 with 7.6 lakh engagements. In other categories, Comedians and Start-up founders made their mark. Among comedians, Kunal Kamra topped impressively with 1.1 million engagements, followed by Ashish Chanchlani at #2 with 4.92 lakh engagements, Vir Das at #3 with 3.2 lakh engagements, Atul Khatri at #4 with 2.21 lakh engagements and Amit Bhadana with 1.1 lakh engagements at #5. Cred Founder Kunal Shah lead the Business Founders category with 60K engagements and Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma was next with 23K engagements. Said Twitteet co-founder Sandeep Amar: “Our core objective is to provide social business intelligence, social monitoring and actionable insights to the leaders across various domains and also to businesses and marketers. We run daily analysis of all engagements – which are the total of likes and retweets, collate these every month, across categories; and then slice and dice them to mine actionable insights. At some level a leaders Twitter engagement gives one sense of his connect with his constituents and what are the key issues that matter. We hope to sharpen this data over time and broad base our offerings to other social platforms and geographies.”

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The pitch battle for Bihar elections is on and the tone is that of religious intolerance. When the Congress party this morning, raised the issue of intolerance in India, <keyword id="6354814" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="prime-minister-Narendra-Modi">Prime Minister Narendra Modi</keyword> reminded the opposition party of the 1984 Sikh riots, citing example of another religious riot. 
 
Modi said, "It's ironic that the Congress is now talking about tolerance,” adding “do you remember what happened in Delhi on November 2, 1984? Sikhs were killed. There were serious charges against Congress leaders.” 
 
It’s ironic that the very people entrusted with the job of maintaining and protecting the country’s secularity are poking holes into the ‘secular’ shield that India has for long held as pious to its democracy. 
 
So, on a day when the country’s Prime Minister takes leaders of some regional political parties head-on harping and bringing up brutal memories of some of India’s worst communal activities, to win a state election, an Indian Muslim heartthrob of millions of people worldwide sends out a message of peace that should have ideally been the domain of those puncturing it’s veracity. 
 
During a conversation with renowned journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, in Twitter Town Hall, Shah Rukh Khan, speaking on the occasion of his 50th birthday replied to question on religious intolerance. 
 
“I think there is religious intolerance. The young generation has no time these days and it overreacts and reacts fast on everything. Nowadays there are various mediums to voice your opinion and we can never grow if we don’t silence non-secular voices. We will never be a power if we are not going to believe that all religious and sects are equal,” said Khan. 
 
“Doesn’t matter who is from which region, religion. We all are one countrymen,” said Khan during the Twitter TownHall. 
 
He added that people should end votebank politics and should not divide Hindus and Muslims for mere votes. Khan also suggested the journalist that media should not fan such issues. 
 
WATCH: SHAH RUKH KHAN'S TWITTER TOWNHALL 
 
 
 
 
 
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A <keyword id="9059" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="journalist">journalist</keyword> is a response to the times one lives in. He/she turns into the embodiment of those eyes, ears and all other sensory faculties that the world loses in the daily grind. The collective consciousness of the society today hangs on a thin thread that’s firmly stationed in the million networks of computers connected by the magical word -- Internet. What happened in the absence of Internet? Weren’t we sensitive? Weren’t we expressive? Didn’t we offend anyone? 
 Oh yes, we did. And boy, were we generous at being so! But, the world without Internet probably had more retrospection, space for introspection, had umpteen businesses to take care of; than fall for the bait of spreading falsehood and be a partner in the crime. The world is mourning <keyword id="2675804" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Charlie-Hebdo-massacre">Charlie Hebdo massacre</keyword>. We can call it by any other name, but that’s what it will remain -- a massacre, and genocide of the worst order. The world of expression always breeds more expressions. And any attempt to plug an expression litters more of them. That’s the most sanguine response we see today, while the world reacts to 12 people killed in the wake of mindless violence in France. The country, which was a heady destination of fine living and anything elite and artistic, today has been seeing blood on its roads. Again, Islam has blood on its hands. 
 
The suspected shooters, who ended a dozen lives, triggering a massive outrage of sorts all over the world over cartoons that offended their messenger of god, will probably dig themselves deeper into the manhole. 
 <keyword id="122741" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="freedom-of-expression">Freedom of expression</keyword>, at least in India, is the beautiful wrapper something as mammoth as ‘<keyword id="666728" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Freedom-of-press">Freedom of press</keyword>’ comes wrapped in. And be sure, the wrapper is way too short of what it has to cover inside. Much like a grown up wearing baby clothes – much like a cover, and miserably short of covering the strategic parts. Time and again, press in India has managed to hold on to its space, sometimes at a cost. In a country that has held on democracy, freedom of press is just about the same as expression. Hence, we toe the line without bothering much about what tomorrow might bring in the face of increased unrest and assaults on opinions that seem to speak a language that’s way different from the one certain people like to hear. Fanatics and lunatics almost weigh on the same scale everywhere in the world, and that includes India. A genuine voice is either deemed too ‘dangerous’ or ‘scandalous’ or simply drowned in the need to ‘maintain hierarchy’ to reduce the risks and manage to stay on. Say nothing, speak nothing, hear nothing and never react – these are the mantras that keep majority of the Indian press going till date. Anyone who is ANYONE has known it better by now surviving journalism is like staying afloat while taking home SOME salary. 
 
The case of Rajdeep Sardesai, who is often criticized for his biased journalism and who resigned after a mega business conglomerate took over the television channel he had helped build, had written a very touching farewell letter to his mates talking about the times we were engaging in journalism. It was not about providing expressions to the world outside, but standing tall during stormy times when we were being questioned, our integrity being strip searched. 
 
Terrorists who arrive with blazing guns to silence voices that are much radical over the world they believe in, are something. But, then there are those systematic efforts to silence the journalist in you within the system. How do we even begin to see the light of the day when we are stuck in the process of evolution, somewhere at the deep end from where there isn’t a ray of light visible? Those are dark tunnels that rush to silence us. They gag us and they snatch our eyes, ears and voices. 
 
Some of the India’s celebrated journalists quit in the last few years, turning it a poor battlefield. Today, journalism is not about what you can see; but more about what you can cleverly turn away from. It is not about how sensitive you are, but more about how senseless you can be. 
P Sainath, Rahul Pandita, Qamar Waheed, Sumir Lal – the list will just grow in the years to come. Rahul Pandita probably wrote one of the most frank resignation letters when he quit The Hindu. He said he wasn’t chasing news; he was waiting for a nod from the management to publish news. A reputed journalist that he is, who has covered battles and wars from the field, was tired of waiting for a certain someone to remain consistent for the second consecutive day, and allow the news to be published. Now, battles are raging both inside and outside! Fanatics, you aren’t the only ones we are fighting. 
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