On Left, Right & Centre: After protesting for several weeks, 220 resident doctors and about 300 nursing staff of Delhi's municipal corporation-run Hindu Rao hospital have withdrawn from duties over non-payment of salaries for the last four months. Doctors are leading the COVID-19 fight, but they are abandoned by the system?
The Mumbai Police says it has busted a 'TRP scam', wherein Television Rating Points (TRP) were being manipulated. Republic TV, owned by Arnab Goswami, has been named in the scam for now but more channels are expected to be involved. Tonight on Left Right and Centre we ask, is this just a tip of the iceberg? Is this the beginning of the end of Hate-for-Profit media?
Dr Abhishek Singhvi, senior, third-term MP; former Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee; Senior National Spokesperson, Congress and eminent jurist, spoke exclusively to NDTV's Sanket Upadhyay on the fake ratings row. He said that the matter was an institutional issue.
Actor Rhea Chakraborty's lawyer Satish Maneshinde speaks to NDTV after his client was released today on bail from Mumbai's Byculla jail. "Hate campaign was launched against Rhea and she was hounded because she was Sushant Singh Rajput's girlfriend. The agenda was to target celebrities one by one and the media was hounding Rhea for TRPs," Mr Maneshinde told NDTV. He also spoke on why Rhea was targeted and what would be the next step legally.
Actor Rhea Chakraborty left Mumbai's Byculla jail this evening after being granted bail by the Bombay High Court, 28 days after her arrest on drugs-related charges in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. With the court saying that there should be no special liability or privilege for celebrities and role models before court of law, will the media now seize their trial and stop looking for a new villain in the Sushant Singh Rajput case?
On Left, Right & Centre: BJP leader Dilip Ghosh said Bengal has mafia raj like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. With yet another foot-in-the-mouth moment, is BJP's Bengal chief questioning his own governments?
On Left, Right & Centre: Associate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan, Joyojeet Pal speaks to NDTV about a study conducted by him and his team, where they look at the political influence on social media in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.
Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh speaks to NDTV about the Sushant Singh Rajput death probe and says "a fake narrative started in the media that Mumbai police did a bad job- we faced a lot of abuse. We were always sure of our investigation."
Senior Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Jayant Chaudhary speaks to NDTV about the Hathras case and Uttar Pradesh cops' lathi charge on his party's workers. "I am not a criminal. We were there for a good cause - people will see the video and think how can common citizens be safe if an MP (former) can be hit in a brutal manner," he says.
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