Zee News telecasted a video with the claim that the slogans of Pakistan Zindabad were raised at a rally in Alwar presided over by the Indian National Congress politician, Navjot Singh Sidhu. The presence of "nano GPS" in the currency notes has been classified as a hoax being spread on social media. The Reserve Bank of India has also given a statement that no such chips are present in the currency notes. The Minister of Finance, Arun Jaitley dismissed the report as being rumours. GPS Chips in ₹2000 currency notesĪnchor Sudhir Chaudhary ran a Daily News and Analysis program announcing that the Indian 2000-rupee note issued after the 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation by the government have GPS chips which will allow the government to track currency, thereby reducing corruption. Sudhir Chaudhary, editor and prime time anchor of the channel however on a telecast made a statement saying "our channel only showed what was happening there, whatever we have shown is 100% authentic." A forensic report of the Delhi Police however later stated that the footage was doctored. The footage on the newscast of Zee News had formed the basis of charges filed by the Delhi Police. In a letter Vishwa Deepak, a journalist working at the channel gave a statement that "our biases made us hear Bhartiya Court Zindabad (Long live Indian courts) as Pakistan Zindabad." Vishwa Deepak later resigned from the channel after expressing reservations over its "biased coverage". Zee News reported that students from the Democratic Students' Union (DSU) raised "anti-India" slogans such as Bharat ki barbadi (Destruction of India) and Pakistan Zindabad (Long live Pakistan) in an event on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus. Main article: 2016 JNU sedition controversy Cases of fabrication Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition controversy In July 2018, the Jindal Group withdrew the case against Zee News and both parties to the litigation stated that an out of court settlement had been reached which remains undisclosed. Zee News denied the charges and made counter claims of Jindal offering them ₹200,000,000 (equivalent to ₹350 million or US$4.6 million in 2020) to halt their investigations against Jindal Steel's involvement in the scam but filed no charges. Naveen Jindal had accused the two journalists of trying to extort ₹1,000,000,000 (equivalent to ₹1.8 billion or US$23 million in 2020) in advertisements for Zee News from him through blackmail by threatening to air stories against his company in the Coalgate scam. The two were sent to 14-day judicial custody in Tihar jail and were ultimately released on bail. Two senior journalists Sudhir Chaudhary and Sameer Ahluwalia were arrested. The channel was tried for allegedly extorting ₹1 billion from the Jindal Group revealed through a sting operation. involved in many Controversies as they trying to create and broadcast fake news through its news platforms mainly it's Hindi news channel called Zee News. It was primarily circulated in Mumbai and discontinued on 9 October 2019 citing recurring losses. It was launched on 30 July 2005 and branded under the Daily News & Analysis (DNA) program of Zee News. The Daily News & Analysis was an English-language broadsheet newspaper owned by the Zee Media Corporation Limited. : English and Hindi language news website owned by ZMCL.WION Website: English language online news coverage service of World is One News.Zee5 Website: Streaming service which hosts ZMCL news channels.It is branded under the DNA program of Zee News. Daily News & Analysis Website: English language online news coverage service.Zee News Website: English and Hindi language online news coverage service of Zee News.The World is One News (WION) channel operates its own WION website. The Zee5 Website which is owned by the Zee Entertainment Enterprises is used to platform coverage of other ZMCL channels. Zee News operates the Daily News & Analysis and Zee News websites to provide online coverage of the channel. The Zee Media Corporation Limited (ZMCL) operates a number of other channels, some in regional languages with the stated intent of providing a pan-Indian reach.