Pratidin Time is a 24-hour Assamese news channel. The programs of the channel include various infotainment, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, showbiz, fashion, and education.[citation needed]
History
Pratidin Time, is a 24-hour Assamese satellite news channel of Assam, India. It launched on 1 April 2015.[citation needed] Pratidin Time is a unit of Yash TV Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.[citation needed] The Channel is a sister concern a media [1] network of Assam, weekly newspaper Sadin, daily newspaper Asomiya Pratidin and women's magazine Nandini.[citation needed]
In August 2015, Pratidin Time was slammed on social media for airing a report on "scantily clad" women, calling them a summer-time nuisance that went against the local culture. After the massive outrage online, Pratidin Time pulled down the video from its official YouTube channel which was uploaded in May 2015. However, a copy of it with English subtitle went viral on social networking sites.[2][3] There has also been an online petition to the Assam's Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to enforce responsible journalism, supported by many including Adil Hussain, Rajni Basumatary
In April 2021, a phone call recording went viral where Minister Pijush Hazarika found threatening a Journalist of Pratidin Time[4] for airing a news related to his wife Aimee Baruah[5]
