Pratidin Time

Logo of Pratidin Time, Pratidin is written in Assamese script and Time is written in Latin script
Country	India
Broadcast area	India
Headquarters	Guwahati, Assam, India
Programming
Language(s)	Assamese
Picture format	4:3 (576i, SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Yash TV Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Key people	Nitumoni Saikia
History
Launched	1 April 2015; 9 years ago (2015-04-01)
Links
Website	pratidintime.com

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 network of Assam, weekly newspaper Sadin, daily newspaper Asomiya Pratidin and women's magazine Nandini.

Associated journalists

• Nitumoni Saikia, editor-in-chief of this channel.
• Mrinal Talukdar, senior journalist

Controversies

• 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.^[1][2] 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^[3] for airing a news related to his wife Aimee Baruah^[4]

Programs

• Prime Time
• Pratidin@5
• Abhimat
• Bishleshan – Let's Debate
• The Big Hour
• Morning Prime
• Geet