{"id":50781,"date":"2022-12-01T22:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/01\/indian-billionaire-gautam-adani-ties-to-narendra-modi-to-control-independent-news-group-ndtv"},"modified":"2022-12-01T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:39:06","slug":"billionaire-modi-ally-on-verge-of-taking-over-independent-indian-news-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50781","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Modi ally on verge of taking over independent Indian news channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Adani\u2019s takeover of NDTV is \u2018serious threat to democracy\u2019 in India, says news anchor<\/p>\n<p>One of India\u2019s few remaining news channels known for independent reporting is about to be taken over by a billionaire ally of the prime minister, Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, NDTV (New Delhi Television) has earned a reputation as one of the last bastions of independent journalism among India\u2019s mainstream media, which have increasingly been put under pressure to toe the government line under Modi, who came to power in 2014.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/01\/indian-billionaire-gautam-adani-ties-to-narendra-modi-to-control-independent-news-group-ndtv\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Adani\u2019s takeover of NDTV is \u2018serious threat to democracy\u2019 in India, says news anchorOne of India\u2019s few remaining news channels known for independent reporting is about to be taken over by a billionaire ally of the prime minister, Narendra Modi.I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[630,6,62,238,433,54,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adani-group","category-business","category-india","category-media","category-narendra-modi","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50781","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50782,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50781\/revisions\/50782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}