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Network18 beats competitors again as News18 India, CNN-News18 and CNBC-TV18 get top ratings

In the English General News segment, CNN-News18 beat Republic TV, Times Now and India Today Television for the top spot, while in the Hindi General News segment News18 India trumped Aaj Tak and Republic Bharat

BARC Recruitment 2022: Register for 89 Stenographer, Driver and other posts; check official notice here

Candidates can submit their applications from 1 to 31 July. Through this recruitment drive, BARC aims to fill up a total of 89 vacancies

Centre tells BARC to release news ratings for news channels with 'immediate effect'

This comes after over a year of suspension of television news ratings following the controversy surrounding the alleged TRP (television rating points) scam which came to the fore in October 2020

TRP scam case: Times Group sends legal notice to BARC, demands Rs 450-cr as compensation

The company contended that the ratings agency 'wilfully and deliberately' did not take action on the findings of a July 2020 report commissioned after whistleblower allegations about TRP manipulation

TRP 'scam': Ex-BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta hospitalised in Mumbai after blood sugar levels shoot up

Dasgupta' daughter, Pratyusha Dasgupta, took to Twitter to allege that he was tortured in prison, and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others to 'save his life'

Fake TRP case: Won't take coercive action against Arnab Goswami till 29 Jan, Mumbai Police tells Bombay HC

ARG Media had filed several pleas and interim applications in the HC urging the court to transfer the probe in the case to CBI, stay any further investigation in the case, and to restrain the police from taking any coercive action

TRP scam: Court rejects bail plea of former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta, says he played 'vital role'

The material collected by the investigating officer shows that Dasgupta manipulated TRP for particular channels by using his office as the CEO of BARC, the court observed

TRP scam case: Mumbai court rejects former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta's bail plea

Mumbai Police's crime branch had argued that Dasgupta, in connivance with another senior BARC official and ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd's owner Arnab Goswami, manipulated the TRPs of Republic TV and Republic Bharat (Hindi)

Mumbai Police arrests Partho Dasgupta, ex-CEO of rating agency BARC, in TRP scam case

Dasgupta is the fifteenth person to be arrested in the case related to alleged rigging of television rating points by some television channels

TRP scam case: Former COO of ratings agency BARC Romil Ramgarhia arrested in Mumbai

This is the 14th arrest in the case. On Sunday, the Mumbai Police had arrested Republic Media Network's Chief Executive Officer Vikas Khanchandani in connection to the scam