{
  "id": 15382583,
  "title": "'Disgracing A Woman For TRP Is Shameful': Kangana Ranaut Backs Folk Singer Neha Singh Rathore In ABP News Controversy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/disgracing-a-woman-for-trp-is-shameful-kangana-ranaut-backs-folk",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-18T08:46:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/disgracing-a-woman-for-trp-is-shameful-kangana-ranaut-backs-folk-singer-neha-singh-rathore-in-abp-news-controversy"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut defended Bhojpuri folk singer Neha Singh Rathore against accusations of defaming her for the sake of TRP ratings. Ranaut criticized the alleged defamatory coverage of Rathore by ABP News, stating that tarnishing a woman's reputation for television ratings is a shameful act. Despite Rathore's political views often contrasting with her own, Ranaut maintained that defaming a woman without cause for the sake of TRP was wrong. She urged the head of ABP Network to take responsibility for the report. The controversy began when Rathore accused ABP News of publishing defamatory and inaccurate content about her, alleging she had been portrayed as a call girl and prostitute. ABP Network later issued an apology for the factual error, but Rathore rejected it, insisting that publishing defamatory content and later apologizing was insufficient to rectify the harm caused.",
  "summary": "BJP MP and Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut on Sunday criticised the alleged defamatory coverage of Bhojpuri folk singer Neha Singh Rathore by ABP News, saying that tarnishing a woman's reputation for television ratings was a \"shameful\" act. Responding to Rathore's post on X, in which she sought the BJP MP's reaction to the controversy, Kangana said that although the singer's political views and…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}