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On the day Vodafone Idea opted for govt bailout, Aditya Birla group donated Rs 10 CR to BJP.
11 months later, no sign of bailout.
So 6 days later, Birla donates another Rs 100 crore. The bailout happened within 2 months.
For
#ProjectElectoralBond
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My
@newslaundry
colleagues and I have been sued by the
@IndiaToday
group, which has sought Rs 2 CR in damages + permanent injunctions.
I've been made a part of the suit for 2 stories I did on the media group over 2 years. They are...👇
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Shot this at a Meerut crematorium today. A grieving family unhappy with the govt’s handling of covid pandemic were interrupted by a man (white shirt) who defended the govt.
Watch:
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If embarassment were a tweet
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Delhi Police to
@newslaundry
:
1)
@IndiaToday
's claim of two madrasas in Mandanpur Khadar “hiding” children was incorrect.
2) Contrary to
@IndiaToday
, Jabir and Shaique neither had any links with the Tablighi Jamaat nor had they visited Nizamuddin.
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Javed Akhtar's masterclass in Lahore on the problem with the idea of a 'pure language'.
@Javedakhtarjadu
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A video of a mattress shop in Moonga Nagar -- opposite Tahir Hussain's home -- being looted last week. Owned by a Muslim.
"It was sacked by Gujjars and Bajrang Dal men," says Rajesh Gupta, the neighbouring shopowner, "the owner is very good man, I wish they hadn't attacked it."
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Well known anchor and towering news personality 'dusra kon tha Navika ke saath'.
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An old man I met in a Haryana village today told me that life under BJP had become worse.
"But we vote for BJP because every night you mediawalas say that the country is progressing under Modi, even when reality in our village is the opposite."
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Dainik Jagran sent 4 vans to travel around UP to promote Yogi's schemes. It carried reports on farming in UP that were picked from speeches of BJP ministers – without attribution.
Advt revenue from Modi govt to Jagran: 100+ crores.
@newslaundry
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Story coming on
@newslaundry
today: how the Sangh captured one of India's most important research institutions by filling it up with relatives of Sangh ideologues with dubious qualifications, undermining a competitive recruitment process.
WATCH this space.
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"No one should broadcast anything that goes against our national interests"
Sounds familiar
Mujahid says they want all media outlets to continue their activities. They have three suggestions: No broadcast should contradict Islamic values, they should be impartial, no one should broadcast anything that goes against our national interests.
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BIG: Caravan story says
@rahulkanwal
took former India Today reporter
@TanushreePande
off air after she broke Hathras victim's cremation on Twitter. She was called back.
This is after IT editors did not respond to Pandey's WA alerts on the incident. WOW!
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Since
#JNUtapes
show that the Left was involved in shutting down the internet server on Jan 4, it did not delve into the violence at ABVP members indulged in over the internet that day.
Here's Aditya Chaudhary (ABVP) attacking other students with a rod. BA 1st year, German.
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Arnab's resignation from
@IndEditorsGuild
makes no difference. He never attended any Guild meeting since he joined in 2008-09.
It’s like an intern storming out of a newsroom & announcing his departure through a press release.
My take on
@newslaundry
:
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The 4-acre land was leased to Republic TV on February 24, 2022 – as UP elections were underway. On the same day, 600 kms away, Arnab Goswami was throwing soft questions at Yogi Adityanath in Ayodhya.
Exclusive for
@newslaundry
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Joginder Singh, 75, fought the 1965, 1971 wars against Pakistan. He received President's medal in 1988. Today, he says he's fighting his 3rd war – to repeal the farm laws.
"If we are naxalis, why would we fight for the country?"
@newslaundry
Read more:
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Hello
@amitmalviya
, you seem out of touch. But worry not, here's a useful thread of ground reports that
@Basantrajsonu
and I did on Covid in the model state of UP after travelling in 7 districts over 2 weeks. 👇
(1/7)
Uttar Pradesh is a model state when it comes to managing Covid.
It is testing approx 3 lakh cases per day. Test positivity ration down to just 2.4%. Daily new cases down to approx 7,000 from a peak of 37,000 only 25 days back.
Will the campaign of calumny against UP stop now?
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Modi govt's picks for the Central Media Accreditation Committee: Navika Kumar, Smita Prakash, Vikas Bhadauria, Shiv Aroor, Shishir Gupta, Nistula Hebbar, Palki Sharma, among others. Two picks from RSS mouthpieces Organiser and Panchjanya.
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Baba Ramdev on TV: Our covid centre has 150 beds.
Reality: Only 50 functional.
Baba: We have ICU beds.
Reality: No doctors, technician. Don't function.
Baba: Come, get treatment.
Reality: Not if your SPO2 is below 70
Report from the facility:
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In June this year,
@Basantrajsonu
and I broke the
@newslaundry
story of how a BJP mama-bhanja duo have been part of murky land deals in Ayodhya...all in the name of the upcoming Ram temple.
The temple trust, nominated by Modi govt, is also involved.
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.
@ANI
couldn't report correctly on Covid cases in my Noida neighborhood. And I'm supposed to believe their sources from the LAC.
Would rather wait for official comment from the Indian army.
Indian intercepts reveal that Chinese side suffered 43 casualties including dead and seriously injured in face-off in the Galwan valley: Sources confirm to ANI
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This was the first story.
This Jan, after Sardesai was penalised for flawed reporting on farmer protests, I had argued why
@IndiaToday
shud extend same standards to other less-than-stellar anchors.
In court, India Today claims the article is "vicious".
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A video from last week. It is shot from opposite Ankit Sharma's street. The mob here is a Hindu mob, chanting Jai Shri Ram.
When Sharma's brother stated this simple fact to WSJ, it caused a furore.
But seems he was quite right, and residents grant this.
#DelhiViolence
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.
@OpIndia_com
claims:
-- A Muslim mob climbed onto the roof of a Shiv temple
-- mob captured the temple
-- mob vandalised the temple
-- mob stone-pelted on the Hindus from temple terrace
I and
@Basantrajsonu
ask the temple priest if they're true 👇 (1/2)
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"We're feeling helpless."
A video message from journalist
@Samriddhi0809
, who, along with colleague
@Jha_Swarnaa
, has been detained in Karimganj, Assam.
@newslaundry
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My 2nd
@newslaundry
story mentioned in the lawsuit.
In it, I had scrutinised a hate-filled segment by anchor Gaurav Sawant, calling him a "known culprit in the fake news department", backing claim with multiple sources.
@IndiaToday
says this is false.
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In the chats, Goswami told Dasgupta that “Rathore” had kept the complaint against Republic in the ministry “aside”?
It pertained to "Dish FTA", he said, a likely reference to the multi-crore corruption case involving Republic, Zee, Dish TV.
@newslaundry
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How our media — including the noble liberals — misreported a comment by
#SunilGavaskar
without a simple verification and fact-check.
No one watched it, and so it became “distasteful”, “sexist”, “obscene” and “unsavoury”.
My report in
@newslaundry
:
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EXCLUSIVE: Ayodhya BJP mayor's nephew – a BJP party worker – bought land adjacent to the Ramjanmabhoomi for 20 lakh in Feb this year.
In May, he sold it to the Mandir trust for 2.5 cr.
@newslaundry
Ground report by
@Basantrajsonu
and I:
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Muslim settlements in a slum in Ganga Vihar, Gokulpuri has been scorched. The Hindus -- whose settlements were spared -- told us that men chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' came around 9:30 pm and set fire to the Muslim households.
Police stands by, helpless.
@newslaundry
#DelhiViolence
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FACT CHECK: Usual suspects on TV news are telling us that PFI protesters raised 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogan in Pune.
But the Pune police told
@newslaundry
this is false.
By
@tweets_prateekg
.
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STORY: Prashant Kishor's I-PAC hasn't paid its former staffers and vendors in months, even years. Instead of addressing their concerns, its management has chosen to go incommunicado. It now faces their wrath.
And much more in
@MorningContext
:
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How the Modi govt's amendment to the Electoral Bonds scheme in 2022 helped it rake in nearly 600 crore within 14 days.
The biggest donors in these 14 days — Reliance-linked firms and Vedanta.
A thread. (1/4)
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.
@IndiaToday
,
@aajtak
and
@ABPNews
have reported on
@newslaundry
's break on Ayodhya land deals but with no credits.
@NewsX
even ran it as an exclusive :P
Big media can learn a thing or two about attribution :)
@sardesairajdeep
@supriyapd
@awasthis
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An interfaith wedding function in Maharashtra's Vasai was cancelled today after Sudarshan News's Suresh Chavhanke tweeted the invitation alleging 'love jihad'.
Breaking on
@newslaundry
.
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Tripura ground report: The state government and police's sacred games – a mosque is not a mosque.
Mosques in Gomati and North Tripura were burnt down, contrary to govt claims, so the police now calls them a "prayer hall", not a "mosque".
@newslaundry
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.
@IndianExpress
editor asked CM Yogi about sedition against journalists, love jihad "fixation".
Yogi's answers: We have to do this to protect people of UP; prevent riots.
Express editor: Alright. Next question.
No counter/ follow up.
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Among other things,
@IndiaToday
has asked Delhi HC to restrain me and my colleagues at
@newslaundry
from "writing...tweeting or publishing" anything "defamatory" on India Today channels and its anchors.
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Believe it or not, Aaj Tak journalists are playing antakshari on air.
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Last year,
@ZeeNewsEnglish
told us that Asif Iqbal Tanha had confessed that the Delhi carnage was "a premeditated conspiracy". Now the HC has granted him bail.
Fake news reports risked sabotaging a fair trial and misinformed viewers on an outrageous scale.
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Tuesday was my last day at
@newslaundry
. Began just as an internship cuz I failed an entrance exam and had nothing to do.
And now four and half years have gone by. Saw and reported on some of the most tumultuous events. Made me a reporter for life. Feel lucky, grateful. 🙂
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Months before Ram temple inauguration, a firm linked to BJP politicians bought land in Ayodhya, 5 kms from the temple.
Weeks later, it sold it to the Adani group – for a big profit.
A
@scroll_in
investigation:
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Gaurav Sawant,
@IndiaToday
says in the lawsuit, has written a children's comic, has "impeachable reputation" and is the "credible face" of the media group.
yeah sure 😆👇
C'mon Gaurav. Check your own work. You've spread enough misinfo and bile on television in your time to lose internet for a whole election cycle.
Who gave space to hate-mongering jawans on primetime?
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Sea of phone cameras as
@BhimArmyChief
speaks at
#JantarMantar
.
#JusticeForHathrasVictim
@newslaundry
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It's been 48 hours since we sent a set of questions to
@OpIndia_com
for this story. No response – very unlike a loud, shrill and pugilistic website that wants the last word on everything.
A small thread on the questions we asked. (1/5)
@newslaundry
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So
@SudarshanNewsTV
tells us that Manmohan Singh had links with ISIS, Osama Bin Laden and Pakistan – all to make sure that more Muslims get into Indian bureaucracy.
This is what Modi govt wants everyone to watch.
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What the heck is going on at
@News18India
!? 🤣🤣
Sambit Patra to Congress spokie: "TUM PAKISTANI HO! DALAL HAI RAHUL GANDHI!"
All this inside a car...
#nlprimetime
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[Thread]
Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs
@OpIndia_com
.
He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs
@tfipost
. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP 👇🏽
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The Times group split was finalised last night at the Lutyens bungalow of the Jain brothers, rounding off with a family prayer.
Samir Jain gets print and its online titles with half of the real estate assets.
Vineet Jain gets broadcast and radio businesses + cashout from print.
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Room no. 46, Morrison Hostel,
#AligarhMuslimUniversity
. A tear gas lies on the bed here, fired by the RAF last night when 3 students were present in this hostel room. The room caught fire.
Three of them have been detained and no one has a clue where they are.
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Came across this quote attributed to Subhash Chandra Bose in
@vikramsampath
's piece on Savarkar for
@ThePrintIndia
().
Surprised that Bose would shower such fulsome praise on Savarkar, I tried to look for a source. There's a hyperlink in the article...
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In 2019,
@vikramsampath
quoted Netaji's dubious praise for Savarkar on Twitter and sourced it to the "Testament of Subhas Bose".
In his book, he quotes the same bit and writes that "nowhere does [it] appear in the 'Testament of Subhas Bose'".
Which Sampath should we believe?
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When Yogi Adityanath visited Sunder Singh's family in Moradabad, most of the media reported that CM was "taking stock of health facilities".
Hardly anyone pointed out that covid +ve Sunder has to go to a jungle at 4 am to defecate.
A peek behind Yogi's Covid PR in UP 👇🏽
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The Vishwa Hindu Parishad runs the biggest cow shelter in the Aravallis in Faridabad, Haryana. It's an encroachment on forest land and illegal.
But more so, the shelter dumps tonnes of cow dung into the natural lakes of this ecologically sensitive forest.
@newslaundry
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a cat just climbed a shed at the Delhi press club and peed on few journalists having a merry time. terror, ruckus, outrage.
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In a UP village, CM Yogi met a family under quarantine. Elderly member who tested +ve goes to a jungle at 4 am to defecate. He told CM this, but cut out from the govt video.
Interaction splashed across media as Yogi's great grassroots management.
Story out soon.
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The SBI today removed the 'electoral bond' section from its website.
The section had FAQs and guidelines on the scheme as well as the paperwork for donors and political parties.
These could still be useful for journalists. Attaching the archival links 👇 (1/2)
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At Sudarshan hearing today, the SC called the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) "toothless" in the context of self-regulation in media.
NBA: We're not toothless. We make channels apologise.
SC: Do you watch TV or not? Why haven't you controlled what's going on on TV news?
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From 400 (Republic) to 250 (IndiaTV) to 200 (TOI) to 54 (TOI) to, now, 12 (ThePrint).
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Fact-check from the ground.
@OpIndia_com
said a temple was occupied and vandalised during
#DelhiViolence
. Its priest told us that's bogus.
Propagating fake news as Delhi burned, and the BJP IT cell promoted it further.
Report by
@Basantrajsonu
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At
@newslaundry
, we can bring out such investigative reports because unlike big media, we don't have to depend on government ads.
To help us do more, please subscribe to Newslaundry:
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@smitaprakash
Haan aap toh reporters ko Europe bhej kar credential misreport karti hai, Smita ji. Credibility phoot phoot ke nikalti hai ANI ki reports se :)
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Faridabad Police has called out
@Republic_Bharat
for broadcasting their old segments on Tablighi Jamaat as breaking.
@Republic_Bharat
पर आज ब्रेकिंग न्यूज़ के रूप में खबर चलाई गई की, इंडोनेशिया व फिलिस्तीनी मरकज जमाती फरीदाबाद पुलिस ने गिरफ्तार किए।ये12 मई को गिरफ्तार किए व 19 मई को कोर्ट से रिहा हो गये थे।कृप्या जानबूझकर पुरानी खबर को ब्रेकिंग के रूप मे चलाकर दर्शको को गुमराह ना करे।
@ABPNews
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C'mon Gaurav. Check your own work. You've spread enough misinfo and bile on television in your time to lose internet for a whole election cycle.
Who gave space to hate-mongering jawans on primetime?
When even the prime minister of Pakistan tweets fake news to spread unrest in India....no wonder it is safer to shut down internet to fight Pak's fake news hybrid war....
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I've been told that
@OpIndia_com
has written a rather abusive rebuttal to our fact-check on their temple fake news.
This ingenius extract, explaining how they got the location of the temple wrong, is all you need to read to know how powerful their comeback is.
Hahahaha 😂
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Here's Punjab CM publicly sharing his side of the interaction with the PM during a PM-CM meet last May. Why did
@narendramodi
and his party not complain about protocol then?
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STORY: There is more to 'parivar' than the Sangh parivar's takeover at the Indian Council of Historical Research. From xerox operator to director, jobs at ICHR have a nepotistic pattern: they're determined by kinship, not just ideology.
For
@newslaundry
:
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The de facto ban on the entry of journalists in Haldwani's Banbhoolpura sets a dangerous precedent.
@RSF_inter
@pushkardhami
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Over 97 pages, government report on managing media, controlling criticism uses the word 'narrative' 51 times. 'Fact' less than 10 times.
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.
@BhimArmyChief
dramatically walks up to the
@DelhiPolice
barricades and puts a candle on them.
#JusticeForHathrasVictim
@newslaundry
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This monkey stole my specs right off my face. Locals intervened and bribed him with biscuits. Returned it eventually. 🙊
#reportingdiaries
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Last week, a media advisor to Prakash Javadekar had sent contacts of farmers with "success stories" to journalists.
3 of these farmers were quoted in a story published on
@IndiaToday
the next day, and broadcast on December 7.
@newslaundry
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The UP govt says only 36 people died of covid in Meerut between April 19 and April 30.
In Meerut's largest crematorium, we found 264 entries in that period mentioning “corona”, “Covid” or “Covid 19” as the cause of death.
@newslaundry
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#ExposeFakeNews
Jamia shooting: Know the companies that brought you Republic TV’s misinformation campaign
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The amount of raw hate in Kapil Mishra's online groups is disorienting.
Also, shout-out to Shambhavi Thakur for the brilliant, evocative illustrations. Please follow her here:
@Shambanana
.
@Memeghnad
@newslaundry
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How exactly does this work? At least 2 regular Times Now panelists were on the jury.
This is like Jethalal and Patrakar Popatlal handing 'Taarak Mehta' the greatest sitcom of all times award.
India Upfront, the primetime show anchored by Times Now's Editor-in-Chief Rahul Shivshankar, bags a gold at
#ENBAAwards
for the Best Primetime Show (English).
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On Wed,
@OpIndia_com
&
@MyNation
organised an event at Constitution Club on "Khilafat 2.0". I attended it.
It was a clusterfuck of everything unconstitutional: rape denial, defence of vigilante violence & lots of Muslim-baiting.
My
@newslaundry
report:
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In Bareilly, UP govt authorities told
@newslaundry
that 0 people had died of Covid in Kyara village.
We went to the village and residents had a different view. Watch 👇🏽
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“When I sit with friends, we use expletives. Bh**ch*d, bh**d*ke, l**de ke baal – ye sab toh chalta hai. I did not know Zubair would take it to heart.”
Meet 42-year-old Jagdish Singh, who is behind the FIR against
@zoo_bear
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Yesterday, Tripura police booked two journalists,
@Samriddhi0809
and
@Jha_Swarnaa
, for criminal conspiracy, among other IPC sections. The FIR states that they "maligned VHP & Tripura government".
More on
@newslaundry
soon.
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In an internal email today,
@IndiaToday
group told staffers that rules surrounding SM violations "are applied equally and there is no question of being selective and acquiescing to any side."
The Sardesai suspension last week led to accusations of double standards at the org.
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Where Republic TV reporter is rescued during an interview on the rescue operation 😀
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So this seems to be the primetime strategy tonight: connect the Bandra incident to Muslim politicians, use words like 'saazish', claim it happened near a mosque and bring up Markaz.
Rajat Sharma shows how to dog whistle. Watch:
#NLprimetime
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A part of Indian Twitter has been flooded with 'scam' alerts – a popular RW handle is allegedly responsible for conning users by offering cheap iPhones.
@newslaundry
I spoke to those affected. Here's a deep dive into what really happened:
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