sexual harassment<\/a> by filmmaker Nishtha Jain. Dua had denied the allegations but in an unusual initiative, the portal has set up an independent external committee headed by a former Supreme Court judge, to probe the case, which dates back to 1989 when The Wire did not exist. Dua and his accuser have consented to the process.<\/p>\nThe committee head is Justice Aftab Alam and the other members include Justice Anjana Prakash, former judge of the Patna High Court, Professor Patricia Uberoi, former professor at the Institute of Economic Growth and Sujatha Singh, former foreign secretary. Till the committee submits its final report, Dua\u2019s daily telecast, Jan Gan Man ki Baat<\/em>, has been suspended.<\/p>\nAnniversary Special<\/strong><\/p>\nThis year, The Hindu<\/em>, which dominates newspaper readership in south India and has the second largest circulation in the country after The Times of India<\/em>, is celebrating its 140th anniversary and change is in the air. The most obvious one is the masthead which sees a new editor. The current editor, Mukund Padmanabhan, will be retiring shortly and his replacement has already been announced\u2014Suresh Nambath, currently the National Editor of the English daily.<\/p>\nNambath is an old Hindu <\/em>hand, having joined the paper in 1996. He was effectively number two since 2015. The Hindu<\/em> has been through some rapid changes at the top. In July 2011, Siddharth Varadarajan,\u00a0 national bureau chief of The Hindu<\/em>, was appointed editor, a move that triggered the resignations of three members of the founding family from their senior editorial positions: N Ravi resigned as editor, Malini Parthasarathy as executive editor and Nirmala Lakshman as the joint editor. A fourth member of the family, N Murali, announced his retirement a month later.<\/p>\nVaradarajan was the first Editor in nearly 50 years who didn\u2019t belong to the Kasturi family that owns the group. When Varadarajan quit two years later, Ravi was back as editor-in-chief and Malini became editor.<\/p>\n
In 2016, Malini quit, citing personal reasons but a failed attempt to launch the paper in Mumbai was widely believed to be behind her leaving, though, as a member of the extended family, she remains on the board of directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Suing for Silence With his involvement in the Rafale deal creating the most controversy\u2014and subsequently getting the most media coverage\u2014Anil Ambani first tried to gag the press with a bunch of Cease and Desist notices. When more revelations from French sources appeared, the media focus on Reliance Defence and his VIP connections only increased, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6427],"tags":[52651,10100,618,1268,46124],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2018\/10\/27181846\/Sueing-for-Silence.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}