Dibang joins Star News

MUMBAI: Former NDTV India managing editor Dibang, best known for his talk show Muqabala on NDTV, has joined Star News.

“I joined Star News last week and will be doing some shows for the Hindi news channel,” Dibang told Indiantelevision.com.

Dibang also added that he is in talks with the channel on the formats of the shows.

Dibang had left Aaj Tak to join Dr Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV way back in 2003 as executive editor. Later, in 2005 he was promoted as managing editor of the Hindi news channel.

However, in a sudden and shocking development, he stepped down as NDTV managing editor in August 2004.

Prior to TV news, Dibang was associated with The Sunday Times of India. He started his career in journalism with The Illustrated Weekly of India.