“Today is your last day. Please submit your resignation.”

That, according to Anmol Kumar Mahto*, is what he was told last Wednesday, about an hour before his shift ended at the TV Today Network Limited office in Noida’s Sector 16. He had spent two years on the Hindi website team. He says he was called to a ground-floor cabin where his manager and an HR representative, Babita, were waiting.

Anmol claims HR already had his full-and-final settlement papers ready and he was told that the move was linked to a restructuring exercise. He submitted his resignation, surrendered his laptop and ID card, and left.

Employees say roughly 120 staff across company verticals were asked to resign between July 20 and July 24. Most of those affected were from the Aaj Tak Hindi website team, according to staff. Others were from camera operations, video editing, graphics, fact-checking, the Data Intelligence Unit and Aaj Tak Radio. Employees claim some in the India Today English web team were affected too.

Most of those approached resigned at the instance of HR and their........

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