Takeover of NDTV by India’s richest man worries journalists

For years Indian television company NDTV pursued an independent line critical of the government even as others embraced strident nationalism. Now a proposed takeover by tycoon Gautam Adani’s conglomerate has raised fears that one of the country’s last bastions of free media is under threat. NDTV is seeking to block the bid by Adani, who is India – and Asia’s – richest man, citing regulatory restrictions related to what it called an “entirely unexpected” move .NDTV, founded in 1988, blazed a trail for independent broadcasting in India as the country opened up to free market enterprise.