{"id":24461,"date":"2020-11-05T00:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/04\/india-tv-anchor-arnab-goswami-arrest-escalates-feud-maharashtra-state"},"modified":"2020-11-05T00:32:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:32:57","slug":"indian-tv-anchors-arrest-escalates-feud-with-maharashtra-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24461","title":{"rendered":"Indian TV anchor&#8217;s arrest escalates feud with Maharashtra state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnab Goswami\u2019s arrest follows claims that his BJP-backing TV channel smears opponents<\/p>\n<p>One of India\u2019s most famous and polarising television journalists has been arrested in connection with a 2018 suicide case, escalating an ongoing feud between the conservative news anchor and the Maharashtra state government.<\/p>\n<p>Arnab Goswami, the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/oct\/24\/hype-india-march-to-war-media-24-hour-news-culture-coverage-pakistan\">rightwing channel Republic TV<\/a>, was arrested at his home in Mumbai early on Wednesday. It prompted a chorus of anger from the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), including from the home affairs minister, Amit Shah, who called it a \u201cblatant misuse of state power\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/04\/india-tv-anchor-arnab-goswami-arrest-escalates-feud-maharashtra-state\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnab Goswami\u2019s arrest follows claims that his BJP-backing TV channel smears opponentsOne of India\u2019s most famous and polarising television journalists has been arrested in connection with a 2018 suicide case, escalating an ongoing feud between the cons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,454,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-mumbai","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24462,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24461\/revisions\/24462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}