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Abetment case: Arnab Goswami moves Supreme Court
NEW DELHI: Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami has challenged the Bombay high court’s order dismissing his petition for interim bail in the 2018 abetment to suicide case in the Supreme Court.
Goswami, who remains in 14-day judicial custody, was refused interim bail by the Bombay HC on Monday stating that no case was made out for the exercise of extraordinary jurisdiction by the high court under Article 226 of the Constitution when the petitioners have the alternate remedy of seeking regular bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
"Rejection of interim application shall not be construed as an impediment to the petitioner seeking alternate remedies. Observations are prima facie in nature confined to the present application only," the bench said in its order yesterday.
The journalist has also filed a regular bail application in the Alibaug sessions court seeking his release from judicial custody.
Read our coverage of the 2018 abetment case
Goswami and two others were arrested on 4 November in relation to abetment to a suicide case of an interior designer and his mother for non-repayment of dues by the accused.
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News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
