Arnab Goswami
Arnab Ranjan Goswami is the owner and the founder of Republic TV, the English news television channel. In 1995 he joined NDTV, where he soon became the News Editor, and later Senior News Editor. It was in his next assignment, in 2006, as the Editor-in-Chief of Times Now, another English news channel from the Times Group that he developed a unique anchoring persona, that would go on to define him. He fell out with Times Now and quit the channel in 2016. Within six months, he launched Republic TV, a channel completely built around the Arnab Goswami brand. Goswami has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from The Hindu College in Delhi University and a Master’s in Social Anthropology from St. Antony’s college in Oxford University.
Goswami has been in the midst of controversies as well. His former employers - Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, also known as The Times Group, filed a criminal complaint against Arnab Goswami, accusing him, and Prema Sridevi of theft, criminal breach of trust, misappropriation of property and infringement of BCCL's intellectual property by using their material on Republic TV on May 6 and May 8, 2017. On May 26, 2017, Member of Parliament from Congress Party, Shashi Tharoor filed a defamation case in the Delhi High Court against Goswami in connection with Republic TV's story that claimed that Tharoor was closely linked with his wife – Sunanda Pushkar’s mysterious death.
Arnab Goswami has received various awards as a journalist over the years, some of which are: 2007 – Society Young Achievers Award for excellence in the field of Media,
2010 – Assamese of the Year Award by News Live, 2010 – Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (TV) by the Indian Express Group.
Republic has now launched a Hindi language channel called “Republic Bharat”. Arnab Goswami today is a Director in ARG Outlier Media Asianet News Private Limited, SARG Media Holding Private Limited, SARG Global Digital Private Limited and Asianet News Network Private Limited.
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is the wife of Arnab Goswami, the Director of ARG Outlier Media Asianet News Private Limited and SARG Media holding Private Limited. Samyabrata Goswami holds 23% share at SARG Media Holding Private Limited which holds 99.9% share in ARG outlier media holding Private Limited and ARG outlier media holding Private Limited Holds 100% share at Republic TV.
late father of Arnab Goswami, was an Army officer and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
the uncle of Arnab Goswami, was a Union Law minister in the Vishwanath Pratap Singh-led United Front government in 1989-90.
business partner, is the co-founder of Republic TV. He is an Indian politician and a businessman who was elected as a Member of Parliament to the Upper House of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) from Karnataka in 2006 and 2012 as an independent candidate. In 2018 he joined BJP, won for the third time and is currently in office. He is also the member of various Parliament Standing Committees. In 1994 he founded BPL mobile company and sold it for USD 1.1 Billion in 2005. At present he is the chairman of Jupiter Capital which he founded. Earlier, he was the Director of ARG Outlier Media Asianet News Private Limited. However, after joining BJP in 2018, he officially resigned from his position.
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