Dhanya Rajendran slays Arnab Goswami, Republic TV after it sends legal notice to her website
Bengaluru: Editor-in-Chief of news website The News Minute, Dhanya Rajendran on Thursday took a dig at Arnab Goswami and his channel Republic TV after the latter served a notice of The News Minute over what The News Minute said was an “error”.
Earlier, The News Minute had published a news article titled “Explainer: BARC audit report shows employees colluded to change channel ratings”. The article was published on the website on January 26. In response to the article, the Republic TV sent a legal notice to the website alleging the website tried to “falsely and maliciously concoct a story about findings on Mr. Dasgupta to any specific “exchanges” with Mr. Goswami.”
The News Minute on Thursday posted a corrigendum through their official Twitter handle and wrote “A section in the article said that the BARC Audit report came to a conclusion on the basis of Partho Dasgupta's exchanges with Arnab Goswami. This was an error”.
In another tweet, The News Minute wrote “The conclusion was based on exchanges between Partho Dasgupta and several people in BARC and three emails he sent Arnab Goswami before the launch of Republic TV. The error is regretted”.
Corrigendum: A section in the article said that the BARC Audit report came to a conclusion on the basis of Partho Dasgupta's exchanges with Arnab Goswami. This was an error. (1/2)
— The News Minute (@thenewsminute) January 28, 2021
The Republic TV was quick to seize the opportunity and responded with a reply to the tweet adding that the corrigendum from The News Minute was in response to the legal notice it served to the company.
The Republic replied “This is in response to a legal notice we served today to @thenewsminute through our lawyer Tanmaya Mehta on the false reporting in @thenewsminute trying to falsely & maliciously concoct a story about findings on Mr. Dasgupta to any specific “exchanges” with Mr Goswami.”
This is in response to a legal notice we served today to @thenewsminute through our lawyer Tanmaya Mehta on the false reporting in @thenewsminute trying to falsely & maliciously concoct a story about findings on Mr Dasgupta to any specific “exchanges” with Mr Goswami. 1/n https://t.co/8fZxONY3kx
— Republic (@republic) January 28, 2021
Dhanya Rajendran who heads the news website took a dig at Republic TV and its Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami without naming him and wrote “we are decent journalists who may make small mistakes, but will own up to them, as opposed to bullies with powerful friends in Lutyens Delhi.”
Dhanya further slammed Republic adding “They spew venom, insuinate, gloat over TRPs covering deaths, then serve notices.”
Yes, we are decent journalists who may make small mistakes, but will own up to them, as opposed to bullies with powerful friends in Lutyens Delhi. They spew venom, insuinate, gloat over TRPs covering deaths, then serve notices. https://t.co/BjbaNvckht
— Dhanya Rajendran (@dhanyarajendran) January 28, 2021
The online spat between Dhanya Rajendran and the Republic TV comes amidst the controversy over the alleged leaked WhatsApp chat of Arnab Goswami with Partho Dasgupta, the former Chairman of BARC which has triggered a nationwide outrage against Goswami and his channel.
Goswami in the alleged leaked chat is seen sending text messages to Dasgupta celebrating the dastardly Pulwama attack.
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Online fraud: Hotel chef from Udupi cheated of over Rs 1 lakh by WhatsApp contact
Udupi: Udupi City Police have registered a case of online fraud after a 62-year-old hotel chef was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.13 lakh by a woman who befriended him on WhatsApp, claiming to be based in London.
The victim, identified as Pandu Kariappa Poojary, a resident of Kuthpadi in Udupi, was working at a hotel in Mangaluru.
He reportedly came into contact with a woman identifying herself as Emilda William on WhatsApp. During their interactions, she told Poojary that she planned to start a cosmetics and hotel business in India and would meet him during a visit to Mangaluru.
On April 7, Emilda sent Poojary a flight ticket from London to Delhi via WhatsApp. The following day, Poojary received a phone call from a woman who informed him that Emilda had arrived at Delhi airport carrying a demand draft worth Rs 5 crore along with other items. The caller allegedly asked him to pay Rs 70,000.
Subsequently, Poojary also received a call from Emilda, who was reportedly crying and spoke about the situation. Believing the claims, he transferred a total of Rs 1,13,300 in phases using a scanner. He later realised that he had been cheated.
