The channel was fined ₹1 lakh and asked to broadcast apologies for fake news regarding Sushant Singh Rajput.

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 a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, for which the channel received condemnation.

Uday Shankar has worked as a news director during the initial years of Aaj Tak. Past anchors have included Rohit Sardana and Surendra Pratap Singh.

Rajdeep Sardesai - Consulting Editor India Today Group.

Aroon Purie, chairman, India Today Group.

Mother-in-law, Daughter-in-law and Daughters). Shows broadcast include 'The Wisden Show' and Saas Bahu Aur Betiyaan ( transl. A channel rebranding took place in January 2021. On 14 December 2018, Aaj Tak launched India's first Hindi high-definition channel, Aaj Tak HD. īy the time the channel came into existence, it had a reach of 52 lakh households and since then it has become the channel to broadcast in 3 crore households and its viewership in news channels is 56%. Aaj Tak was the first news channel in India to use OB vans. That's all the news for today, wait until tomorrow).

The tagline for Aaj Tak was ' Yeh thi news aaj tak, Intzar kijiye kal tak' ( transl. One of the anchors at the time was Surendra Pratap Singh. Aaj Tak came into existence in December 1999 as an independent news channel and then it became the first complete Hindi news channel in the country to be broadcast twenty four hours. This was then broadcast as a news program of 10 to 20 minutes. Aaj Tak is the most watched Hindi news channel in India and also the most subscribed Indian news channel on YouTube.Īaj Tak was first broadcast on DD Metro of Doordarshan (DD) in the year 1995. It is one of the oldest Hindi news channels in India. Till date) is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by TV Today Network, part of the New Delhi-based media conglomerate Living Media group (India Today Group).

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