Dibang (Hindi: दिबांग) is a senior news anchor former host of daily prime-time show 'Jan Man' and weekly show 'Press Conference' on the Hindi news channel
ABP News
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. A member of debate panels of the channel, he is rated among the best Hindi anchors in the industry today.
Career
He is the current anchor of
ABP NEWS
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and was the managing director of
NDTV INDIA
NDTV India (styled as NDTV इंडिया) is a Hindi news channel in India owned by New Delhi Television Limited.
In June 2016, NDTV decided to launch two separate channels called NDTV India and NDTV Spice in the United Kingdom.
Histor ...
, a 24-hour Hindi news channel.
As the Executive Editor, he was the launching face for NDTV India.
Before joining NDTV, he worked for
Aaj Tak
''Aaj Tak'' () is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by TV Today Network, part of the New Delhi-based media conglomerate Living Media group (India Today Group)
Aaj Tak HD
On 14 December 2018, Aaj Tak launched India's first Hindi ...
, a 24-hour Hindi news channel. When Aaj Tak became a 24-hour channel, Dibang was the launching face.
Before joining television news, Dibang was a correspondent with ''The Sunday Times of India'' in New Delhi. He started his career in journalism with ''The Illustrated Weekly of India''.
He anchored the first-ever hour-long Hindi debate show on television, ''Muqabla'' on NDTV India. At the Indian Television Academy Awards 2006, Muqabla won the Best Talk Show Award. This was the first time a Hindi chat show had won such an award in a category consisting mostly of English shows.
Dibang has won many awards for his anchoring and documentaries. He also acted in an Italian film directed by Italo Spinelli. He has worked for several foreign television networks, including
SBS and
ABC
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of Australia,
NHK
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of Japan and
RAI
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Dibang recently acted in the Hindi film ''
Madras Cafe
''Madras Cafe'' is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film directed by Shoojit Sircar and starring John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri with newcomer Raashi Khanna in lead roles. The film is set in the late 1980s and early 1990s ...
'', in which he played an ex-
RAW agent.
A graduate from University of Delhi, Dibang grew up in Arunachal Pradesh in north-east India.
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Among his interests are world music, literature and world cinema.
Filmography
* 2013 Madras Cafe
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- Ex- RAW Agent
* 2016 Pink
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References
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Writers from Arunachal Pradesh
Indian male television journalists
Living people
Indian editors
Indian male journalists
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Indian television journalists
Indian television executives
Indian television news anchors
Indian television talk show hosts
Indian television presenters
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Year of birth missing (living people)