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A day after US President Joe Biden opted out of the presidential race and endorsed his deputy Kamala Harris, their Republican rival Donald Trump's campaign said it was a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to "defeat not just one Democrat nominee for president, but two in the same year." In a memorandum issued on Monday as Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off her presidential campaign, the Trump Campaign took credit for Biden's decision to drop out of the race and asserted the "'War on Democracy' will be stopped by the man who took a bullet for democracy". Donald Trump survived an attempt on his life on July 13 when a young gunman fired multiple shots at the former US president at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, injuring his right ear. "After being thoroughly decimated by President Trump three weeks ago at the debate in Atlanta, Joe Biden was fired. He was fired by Donald Trump. He has now been turned out to pasture, yet the Biden record of weakness and failure still stands," stat

Artificial intelligence is transforming content formats, tailoring news according to readers' interests and allowing it to seamlessly transcend linguistic diversity, The Times Group Managing Director Vineet Jain said here on Sunday. Addressing Exchange4media's NewsNext summit, he said as newer realms of broadcasting, digital technology and artificial intelligence open up, the challenge would be to uphold ethical standards, put out accurate information to maintain credibility and ensure that algorithms remain unbiased and content trustworthy. Jain said he firmly believed that editorial teams were the best self-regulators in safeguarding hard-fought freedoms against external threats. "Today, we stand on the threshold of a new chapter where innovation is our ally and truth our guiding star. In this narrative, remember that the essence of news endures. We adapt, but our purpose remains unaltered -- to inform, inspire, and empower," he said. As the chief content architect of The Times .

Times Group Managing Director Vineet Jain on Monday called on President Droupadi Murmu to hand over the latest edition of Femina, which features the inspiring story of her life. Jain presented the first copy of the Femina that carries a cover story on the President as a manifestation of women empowerment. Last year, Murmu was elected as the first tribal president, a remarkable rise for the unassuming politician who began her career as a councillor in Odisha. Before joining politics, Murmu worked as a primary school teacher and soon became the junior assistant in the State Irrigation and Power Department.

Sameer Jain's share is believed to account for the media conglomerate's highest revenue-grossing business

Times Internet and Global Broadcasting are not part of restructuring exercise; firm had 26 subsidiaries on March 2021, according to its filings with govt

The funding lines being discussed will be backed by the group's assets and its cash flows, according to the report

Sebi found connected entities holding 91.51 per cent and 94.45 per cent in PNBFIL and CCCL, respectively

Social media company raises $255 mn from Google, Times Group and existing investors

ShareChat (Mohalla Tech) in a statement said it has closed multi-tranche funding round through which it raised a total of USD 520 million and reached USD 5 billion in valuation.

The post-pandemic list tells just one story - that of utter devastation

Times Group chairperson Indu Jain died on Thursday due to Covid-related complications, company sources said.

The notice said BARC should compensate Times Group with Rs 431 crore in damages and also pay back license fees of Rs 21.83 crore which has been paid by the group till date

Bennett Coleman & Company Ltd, India's top newspaper publisher and television channel owner, on Monday said it is mulling legal action against BARC over its alleged role in the manipulation of TV ratings. In a statement, BCCL said it is contemplating legal action against Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) over alleged fraud in declaring rival Republic TV as leading in the English News Genre ahead of the group's Times Now news channel. BARC's Forensic Audit of July 2020, as well as the multiple emails and WhatsApp chats of that period, which has been accessed by Mumbai Police, clearly shows that BCCL's Times Now's TRPs were indeed manually reduced by BARC officials. BCCL, a subscriber of viewership data from BARC for its channels, including Times Now operating under Times Network, said the rating agency had "fraudulently declared Republic TV as No 1, even when Times Now was consistently higher" by a large margin. "Due to this unacceptable and unpardonable act of BARC, Times

Former CEO of BARC, Partho Dasgupta is already in jail along with several top executives of Republic TV - which, as per Mumbai police, benefitted due to the TRP manipulation by BARC top officials

After three months of being battered by a slowing economy and the pandemic, Indian media firms are reacting with frenzied activity

The length of the COVID-19 crisis and the strength of balance sheets and cashflow will determine the intensity of the bloodbath in the media and entertainment industry

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries on Thursday denied reports of selling its news media business to Times Group. Bloomberg early on Thursday reported that Ambani "is in talks to sell his news media assets to India's Times Group, as Asia's richest man plans to unload a business that's been losing money". "Reliance Industries firmly denies (the) story. The story is baseless and false," a company spokesperson said. The report had quoted people familiar with the matter to say that Bennett Coleman & Co, the publisher of the Times of India, is looking to hire advisers for due diligence on the news properties of Ambani's Network18 Media & Investments Ltd. Bennett Coleman's spokesperson couldn't be immediately reached for comments. Reliance had in 2014 bought Network18, which owns and operates 56 local channels spanning news and entertainment, for up to Rs 4,000 crore. Network18 owns TV channels (including CNBCTV18, CNN-IBN, CNN Awaz), websites (firstpost.com, ...

The firm's consolidated net profit had plunged by 50.54 per cent the previous year