Sudarshan News

Sudarshan News is an Indian right-wing news channel. It was founded in 2005 by Suresh Chavhanke, the chairman and editor-in-chief. Chavhanke is a long-term member of the Hindutva organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and had worked as a reporter of the pro-RSS newspaper Tarun Bharat. He held several posts in the RSS before becoming a full-time reporter. He launched Sudarshan News in 2005 in Pune, Maharashtra and later shifted it to Noida, Uttar Pradesh. He is currently the chairman, managing director and editor-in-chief of Sudarshan News and hosts its flagship TV show Bindas Bol. Chavhanke was also associated with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of RSS. He asserts that he practices ideology-driven journalism and prefers that the news programs on his channel be viewed as opinionated campaigns.

In August 2021, a 26 year old reporter from the channel, Manish Kumar Singh, was kidnapped and murdered in Bihar's East Champaran district. The police arrested three suspects out of which two were journalists, namely Amarendra Kumar and Mohammed Arshad Alam. Police sources said that they suspect a personal dispute to be the cause behind the murder. However the victim's father alleged the murder to be linked to Singh's journalism. In May 2024, another journalist from the channel, Ashutosh Srivastava was shot dead in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. According to his family, the killing was linked to his coverage of the alleged slaughter of cows in the area.

The channel has been widely criticised for blatant anti-Muslim communal broadcasting and has been considered to be a part of pro-Modi government news outlets in India dubbed the "Godi media".