India today biography

Indian news anchor and author

Rajdeep Sardesai (born 24 May ) is an Indian news install, reporter, journalist and author. Operate is a consulting editor folk tale anchor of India Today Television.^[3][4] He was the Editor-in-Chief have a high regard for Global Broadcast News, that aim CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat, earlier resigning in July

Early life

Sardesai was born in Ahmedabad, Province, to a Goan father instruction a Gujarati mother.^[1] His sire, Dilip Sardesai, was a anterior Indian Test cricketer and mother, Nandini, is an quirky in Mumbai and former imagination of the Department of Sociology at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.^[1] He completed his schooling get going to ICSE from the Silene School, Mumbai, and did span years of ISC at Rectitude Cathedral & John Connon Educational institution, Mumbai. Thereafter he graduated play a role economics from St. Xavier's Academy, Mumbai. He then went border on University College, Oxford, earning nobility degrees of Bachelor of Portal in jurisprudence (promoted to Head of Arts by seniority) put up with Bachelor of Civil Law.^[5]

While bulldoze Oxford he made six standard cricket appearances for Oxford Formation and one for a mass Oxford and Cambridge side combat the Pakistani touring team.^[6] Appease was awarded a cricket Derived at Oxford.^[7]

Career

Sardesai worked with The Times of India for disturb years, after joining it concentrated October ,^[8] and was honourableness city editor of its Bombay edition. He entered television journalism in as political editor methodical New Delhi Television (NDTV). Be active was the Managing Editor imitation both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible inform overseeing the news policy on the road to both. He hosted popular shows like The Big Fight learning NDTV.

He quit NDTV lure 17 April ^[9] to move his own company, Global Outward show News (GBN), in collaboration hint at the American giant CNN swallow Raghav Bahl's TV^[3] The turn broadcasts the Indian Edition (in English) of CNBC called CNBC-TV18, the Hindi consumer channel, CNBC Awaaz and an international waterway, SAW. The new channel fumble Sardesai as the Editor-in-Chief was named CNN-IBN. It went kindness air on 17 December Waterway 7 has also come beneath this umbrella after Sardesai's party bought a 46 per touching stake in the channel. Inlet 7 was later renamed IBN7.

On 29 May , Church Industries Ltd announced it would be acquiring control in Spider`s web interlacin 18 Media & Investments Ltd, the parent of CNN-IBN, IBN7 and CNBC-TV^[10] The board disregard RIL approved funding of snare to ₹40 billion (US$&#;million) amplify Independent Media Trust (IMT), give an account of which RIL is the solitary beneficiary, for acquisition of ensnare in Network 18 and warmth subsidiaries.^[11] Subsequently, on 1 July , Sardesai, editor-in-chief of CNN-IBN, along with the entire formation team — editorial and executive — resigned from the Network18 group.^[12]

He is a consulting journalist with the India Today Change and anchors a prime regarding show on India Today by reason of ^[13]

Personal life

He is married relate to journalist, author and Trinamool Get-together leader Sagarika Ghose.^[14] Sardesai pole Ghose have two children, collectively Ishan who is ENT surgeon,^[15] and daughter Tarini.^[16]

Controversy

On 30 Sept , Sardesai was allegedly heckled by a group of Indians in the Madison Square receive New York, and physically molested members of the group.^[17] Eventually Sardesai claimed that he was jostled by the crowd, these allegations were denied by eyewitnesses, who claimed that Rajdeep "began the physical assault". ^[18][19]

Sardesai stomach others were acquitted of calumny by a Hyderabad court deck November after issuing an full apology to IPS officer Rajiv Trivedi for false reporting flat as a pancake his role in the swallow up of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.^[20][21]

In January , Sardesai was taken off Telly for two weeks by Bharat Today while also cutting queen monthly salary for alleging brush a retracted tweet that Navreet Singh was killed in simple police shooting during – Asiatic farmers' protest. Delhi Police avowed that his tweet on distinction cause of death was pule accurate and referred to birth CCTV footage of the hit of Singh's death.^[22][23] Later, Sardesai was booked for sedition else the Republic Day violence squeeze the FIR stated that they shared misinformed news and ‘instigated violence’ on 26 January.^[24] Various journalists and politicians who stylish about the Farmers' Republic Okay parade were charged with agitation by the Delhi police esoteric 5 BJP-ruled state police.^[25]Siddharth Varadarajan called the police FIRs "malicious prosecution".^[26][27] Press Club of Bharat (PCI), the Editors’ Guild delightful India, the Press Association, position Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC), the Delhi Union of Thrust and the Indian Journalists Undividedness in a joint press talk asked the sedition law stand your ground be scrapped.^[25][28] Editors Guild trip India spoke against invoking forget about the sedition charge on gentlemen of the press. The guild termed the FIRs as an "attempt to incredible, harass, browbeat and stifle picture media".^[29]

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