On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from zee zees applesauce article title. Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group.

The channel has been involved in several controversies and has broadcast fabricated news stories on multiple occasions. The channel has been subjected to an ongoing criminal defamation case against legislator Mahua Moitra as of March 2020. August 27, 1999 as Zee Sports Ltd. The company was reincorporated on 27 May 2004, as Zee News Ltd.

The chairman of the group is Subhash Chandra, who is a Bharatiya Janata Party-backed member of the Rajya Sabha. 1 billion from the Jindal Group revealed through a sting operation. Two senior journalists Sudhir Chaudhary and Sameer Ahluwalia were arrested. Zee News from him through blackmail by threatening to air stories against his company in the Coalgate scam.

Jindal Steel’s involvement in the scam but filed no charges. 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. On 9 July 2020, Nepal’s satellite and cable television operators banned Zee News and some other Indian privately owned news channels, citing “propaganda and defamatory report against Nepal government”. Sudhir Chaudhary was the former editor-in-chief of Zee News and also the former anchor of the prime time show on the channel. Anchor 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. 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.

Zee News telecasted a show featuring editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary where he claimed that Trinamool Congress legislator Mahua Moitra had plagiarised author Martin Longman in her maiden speech after being elected to the Lok Sabha. Are these tractors a means of waging war with the law? The 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election were held on 8 February 2020. Our Companies: Zee Media Corporation Limited”.