Arnab Goswami is an Indian journalist and news anchor. Goswami is the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director of the news channel ‘Republic TV’. Let us know some more interesting facts about Arnab Goswami.
Biography/Wiki
Arnab Goswami was born on October 9, 1973, in Guwahati, Assam, India (47 years old as of 2020). Since his father was an army officer, Arnab spent his childhood attending different schools in different cities. He completed his higher education at Mount St. Mary’s School in Delhi Cantonment and went to Kendriya Vidyalaya in Jabalpur Cantonment to complete his high school education. He became interested in debating when he was in sixth grade. Goswami holds a BA in Sociology from Hindu College, University of Delhi. He earned a master’s degree in social anthropology from the University of Oxford, England.
Arnab was born into a family with a political background, and political genes are in his genes. But he has tried to distance himself from his family’s political connections.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5’11”
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family, caste and wife
Arnab Goswami was born into an Assamese Brahmin family. He is the son of retired army man Manoranjan Goswami. Colonel and Suprabha Goswami. His father also contested the general elections in Guwahati on behalf of the BJP, but lost to Congress candidate Bhubaneswar Kalita. His grandfather, Rajani Kanta Goswami, was a judge, Bhartiya Jana Sangh leader and independent activist. His uncle Dinesh Goswami served briefly as union law minister during Vishwanath Pratap Singh’s government. Arnab’s sister works in the Indian Defense Ministry and his brother-in-law works in the Indian Defense Department.
Arnab Goswami’s father, Manoranjan Goswami
Arnab Goswami as a child with his grandfather and cousins
Arnab Goswami is married to Pipi Goswami and the couple has two children.
Arnab Goswami and Pipi Goswami
Profession
He began his journalism career in 1990 at the Telegraph newspaper. This was the shortest period of his career and he left the company within a year. In 1995, Goswami moved to Delhi and got his first job as a news anchor at NDTV 24×7. He worked as a newscaster at NDTV 24×7 for three years and later became the News Editor there. Arnab hosted his own show on NDTV and even co-hosted a show with Rajdeep Sardesai on DD Metro channel. In 2004, he won the Asia’s Best News Anchor Award for his program “Newsnight”.
Arnab Goswami and Rajdeep Sardesai
In 2002, he published his first book, Fighting Terrorism: Legal Challenges, detailing all the difficulties in developing laws to combat terrorists and terrorism.
Arnab Goswami’s book – Fighting Terrorism: Legal Challenges
In 2006, he became editor-in-chief of the Times Now news channel. He hosts “Newshour,” which airs at 9 p.m., providing live news coverage. Goswami also hosted a special program “Candid Conversations with Arnab” and interviewed Benazir Bhutto, Hamid Karzai, the Dalai Lama, Hillary Clinton and Prime Minister Naren Celebrities like Della Modi. In November 2016, Arnab announced that he was leaving Times Now to start his new career.
On May 6, 2017, he launched his own news channel, Republic TV, which within a week of its launch beat rival Times Now to take the number one spot.
dispute
- He has been criticized by a small section of society for his style of televised panel discussions. Communist Party of India activist Kavita Krishnan criticized him and his channel for labeling rape accusers as rapists and terror accusers as terrorists.
- His channel Republic TV received a notice from the NBSA (News Broadcasting Standards Authority) requiring the channel to issue a full-screen apology for using words such as “vulgar thugs”, “pervert”, “sexist”, “obscene” and “idiot”. ”, “hyena” and “anti-Indian” were words Arnab used against a man named A. Singh during a show.
- In May 2017, The Bennet Coleman & Co. Ltd (also known as Times Now Group) filed a police complaint against Arnab Goswami (former editor-in-chief of Times Now Group), accusing him of theft, infringement of intellectual property rights, and criminal offences. breach of trust and certain other charges.
- On May 26, 2017, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor filed a defamation suit in the Delhi High Court accusing Arnab’s television channel Republic TV of linking Tharoor to the death of his wife.
- In April 2020, he faced charges for using a derogatory term against Sonia Gandhi during a panel discussion on the show about the Palghar lynching in Maharashtra. Due to this act of his, several FIRs were lodged against him.
- On November 4, 2020, he was arrested by Raigad police on suspicion of abetting suicide. Mr Goswami is under investigation for his alleged role in the death of architect Anvay Naik, who designed his studio, according to police. In May 2018, Mr Naik and his mother were reportedly found dead at their home in Alibaug, Maharashtra. According to Mr Naik’s wife, he left a suicide note in which he blamed Mr Goswami for his death. Arnab was arrested from his home in Mumbai on the morning of November 4, 2020, in a joint operation conducted by Raigad police and Mumbai police.
Later, a suicide note written by Naik started circulating on social media in which Arnab Goswami was held responsible for his death.
Arnab Goswami’s name in Anvay Naik’s suicide note
On November 11, 2020, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, Justices DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee, granted him interim bail in the abetment to suicide case.
Awards
- Arnab won the “Best Host at the Asian Television Awards” in 2003.
- In 2007, he won the “Social Youth Achievement Award”.
- In 2010, Arnab was awarded the Assam Award of the Year by News Live.
- In 2010, he was also awarded the “Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (Television)” by The Indian Express Group.
salary
Arnab’s monthly salary is around Rs 1 crore.
favorite thing
- His hobbies include reading, traveling and watching movies.
- He loves listening to the music of Bhupen Hazarika (Assamese playback singer) and considers him as his role model.
- Arnab follows a non-vegetarian diet.
fact
- Arnab’s news channel Republic TV is located at Bombay Dyeing Factory in Worli, Mumbai.
- In 2015, Goswami became the first journalist to ring the BSE opening bell to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the BSE.
Arnab Goswami rings BSE opening bell
- He originally belonged to a village in Assam’s Borpeta district, but his family migrated to Shillong and then settled in Guwahati.
- In March 2015, Goswami noticed a businessman driving a Lamborghini car at high speed on the Bandra Worli Marine Highway and called the Mumbai police to take action. Later, the police arrested the businessman.
- Sonia Gandhi was the first person to be interviewed by Arnab Goswami.
- Arnab Goswami’s full name is Arnab Ranjan Goswami.
- In 2015, during a debate on Times Now, Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra gave Arnab the middle finger.
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