Eyes on the ground
It always helps to have your own correspondent posted in the other South Asian countries. While most channels struggled for information from the ground on the hostage crisis in a leafy restaurant in the diplomatic area of Gulshan in Dhaka, it was only ABP Ananda that scored with a view from the ground as their reporter Quddus Afrad was reporting from Dhaka . Most Indian and western channels had journalists commenting on the situation from Delhi, Washington etc. Well done ABP! Some journalists were even reporting on the Dhaka hostage crises from Hong Kong !