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the grass root level. Soon as a protest against editorial interference from the Govt. he decided to sacrifice his TV career at its prime. A magazine TV & Video World reported, "It may sound surprising, but men of principles, willing to take tough stand and unwilling to compromise on basic ideals, still exist in our society. When, in April 1987, one of his programmes in the Sach Ki
Parchhain series was arbitrarily stopped by Doordarshan authorities, its producer, TV and newspaper journalist Vineet Narain vowed never to present anything on the government-controlled network until it was made autonomous and functioned more democratically.
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Narain. In 1996 for the first time in Indian history, several
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After exposing the
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In 1980s he anchored Yuv Manch a youth TV show on government controlled only TV channel i.e. Doordarshan. In 1986–87 he anchored the first ever investigative TV show on
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Director of the CBI should be appointed on the recommendations of a committee headed by the Central Vigilance Commissioner, the Home Secretary and the Secretary in the Department of Personnel as members. The committee should also take the opinion of the incumbent Director CBI before
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in New Delhi. His father was an academician and served as the Vice-Chancellor of two prominent universities in U.P. He fought against interference of the political masters in the admission procedure of some of the professional courses in the state. His mother, a
Gandhian social worker and highly
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Narain brought out a series of land scams involving the sitting chief justices of India. As a result, contempt of court proceedings were initiated against him not in Delhi but in J&K. He remained underground for 18 months (2000–2001) before finally fleeing the country. No one from the Bar,
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authorities, its producer, TV and newspaper journalist Vineet Narain vowed never to present anything on the government-controlled network until it was made autonomous and functioned more democratically." He has been honoured by the life membership of
International Film And Television Club of
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In 1989 he launched the first Hindi-language video news magazine 1989 named
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in 1980. TV & Video World reported, "It may sound surprising, but men of principles, willing to take tough stand and unwilling to compromise on basic ideals, still exist in our society. When, in April 1987, one of his programmes in the Sach Ki
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In July 1997, Mr. Narain compelled the Chief
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Vineet Narain writes a syndicated column in over 22 national dailies on a weekly basis. Vineet Narain gives a weekly news report from India on telephone to SBS Radio, Australia and also contributes to weekly columns in two dozen popular dailies of India.
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independent Hindi TV news. In 1990 Narain challenged this law in the Delhi High Court and led a nationwide campaign for the independence of TV news in India.
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