Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language right-wing[1] news channel owned by Subhash Chandra's Essel Group.[2] It launched on 27 August 1999 and is the flagship channel of the Zee Media Corporation.
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.Zee Media Corporation Limited (formerly Zee News Ltd.) was founded by Essel Group. and it was incorporated on 27 August 1999 as Zee Sports Ltd. it was a subsidiary of the Zee Telefilms Ltd (later renamed to Zee Entertainment Enterprises).The company was reincorporated on 27 May 2004, as Zee News Ltd.[7] It was demerged as a separate company of the Essel Group in 2006.[8] In 2013,[9] Zee News Ltd changed its name to Zee Media Corporation Limited. The chairman of the group is Subhash Chandra, who is a Bharatiya Janata Party-backed member of the Rajya Sabha