AAJ Tak - owned by Aditya Birla Group
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Aaj Tak is one of the most popular Hindi language news channels in India. Aaj Tak is an Indian Hindi language news channel owned by TV Today Network which is part of Living Media Group (India Today Group) which is owned by Aditya Birla Group. Aditya Birla Group had a revenue of approximately US$44.3 billion in year 2018, it is the third-largest Indian private sector conglomerate.
In November 2015, a video came online showing an Aaj Tak reporter bribing a kid with money to purchase liquor in order to convince him to give a negative statement against. Aaj Tak broadcasted obscene videos to character assassinate His Divine Holiness and even uploaded it on it’s Youtube channel. It has not removed the content in spite of High Court Orders.
The Times Media Group
Bennett Coleman and Company Limited, commonly known as The Times Group, is India's largest media conglomerate. It was started in 1838. It's newspaper - The Times of India had the largest circulation of any English-language newspaper in the world, with 33,21,702 (Over 33 lac) average qualifying sales. The company is a family business of the Sahu Jain family. The Times Group has over 11,000 employees and revenue exceeding $1.5 billion (~ Rs. 10 thousand crores INR).
Times Group is known to justify mob-lynching of ethnic minorities
In 1984 - A genocidal massacre was executed on minority Sikh community - 2,800 Sikhs were killed. As a justification of the ethnic cleansing, the Times Media Group, published articles such as, “De-Turbaning of Sikhs”. As an eyewash, the Chief editor was eventually fired, terming his views as “extremist.” For their justification of violence on the Sikh community, extremist-Hindu media houses were criticized in the United States House of Representatives. (Congressional Record volume 142, issue 137, September 28, 1996).
Owing to their Justification Propaganda - even after 34 years - no justice to the victims of genocide
Even 34 years later, no justice was given to the families of the victims. In January 2018, the Supreme Court of India decided to form a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) of its own to probe 186 cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Times Now news channel - owned by The Times Group
Videos aired by Times Now have incited several mob lynching incidents directed against His Divine Holiness.