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DEAR TIMES NOW, TAKE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
One sows and another reaps? This week, Abhinandan Sekhri gives his vishesh tippani on Times Now’s itch to take all the credit (rather loudly and aggressively) for ‘exposing’ news reports that they...
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TAMIL NADU TOPS THE LIST IN THE AMOUNT OF EDUCATIONAL LOANS TAKEN
Extending bank loans for educational purposes has been recognized as one of the priority sector lending activities by the RBI. Between 2013-14 and 2015-16, Public Sector & Private Sector banks...
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CHIKUNGUNYA IN DELHI: A PLAGUE OF ANXIETY AND BAD INFRASTRUCTURE
“It’d be better for all of you to keep your lids shut,” National Green Tribunal (NGT) Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar told the counsels of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi and its...
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TARAK BISWAS AND INDIA’S FRAGILE FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Most of us have no idea what he actually wrote, but we do know Tarak Biswas is in trouble. It’s an all too familiar story in India these days. He posted something on social media that offended...
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QUINT SAYS URI AVENGED, BUT IS THAT TRUE?
At approximately 10:30 pm on Wednesday night, The Quint published an “exclusive” report, which sent social media into a tizzy. The report by Chandan Nandy claimed that on the intervening night...
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SHARING CAUVERY: WHAT TAMIL NADU IS GETTING FROM KARNATAKA IS ACTUALLY...
In Trichy on Thursday, some 40 farmers got into a dirty part of the Cauvery river stretch to protest against the decision of the Karnataka government to defer the release of water to Tamil Nadu. “It...
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MEET THE MAN BEHIND UNOFFICIAL SUBRAMANIAM SWAMY
In December 2014, there was a scandal on the Indian internet. A miffed Subramanian Swamy of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) complained to Facebook and requested that a page of one Subramaniam Swamy be...
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THE INTERNET HELPS US TRANSLATE ‘SOCIAL CAPITAL’ TO ECONOMIC BENEFITS
Keeping up with our social networks online helps us get what we want in the short term, but could be worse for our accumulation of “social capital” in the longer term, our research shows. One...
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INDIA’S DEFENCE PREPAREDNESS IS UP AGAINST THE WALL
Almost a week after the terrorist attack on an Indian Army installation in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) killing 18 soldiers, the writing is on the wall. Or at least it would be if there was a wall. The...
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WANTED: PROFILES OF SUCCESSFUL WOMEN THAT DON’T CAUSE EYE-ROLLS
By Deepika S. Have you seen a recent book on powerful Indian women without profiles on Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, or Indra Nooyi? No? And if the thought of one more of those books makes your...
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THE PROBLEMS WITH NHRC’S REPORT ON KAIRANA
“Ab doodh ka doodh aur paani ka paani ho gaya hai (the truth has finally come out),” Member of Parliament (MP) Hukum Singh said after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) came out with its...
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A REVIEW OF #NLHAFTA FROM ANKUSH JOLLY, RAVI SINGH AND ADITYA RENGALI
Hi Newslaundry Team, First of all I want to tell you that I have subsribed to NL. I have been following NL Hafta since last 6 weeks and Abhinandan’s consistent pursuasion finally made me realise the...
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HAFTA 86: IS WAR, WITH PAKISTAN, EVEN AN OPTION?
The recent attack in Uri on a military camp left 17 soldiers dead, many injured. Considering the general emotion floating on social media how prepared are we for war? Is going to war with Pakistan...
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AMITABH BACHCHAN IN PINK, AND A FEW GOOD MEN
If there’s one thing that’s become clear with the success that Pink has enjoyed, both in terms of box office and the conversations started, it is that as audiences, we’re capable of nuance. In this...
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VOGUE BFFS: WHO KNEW BEAUTY COULD BE SO BORING?
Just because you’re beautiful and famous and rich, it doesn’t mean you’re interesting. That’s the main life lesson that was driven home by the first episode of the new talk show in town, Vogue BFFs on...
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PRACHANDA VISIT EASES INDO-NEPAL TENSION
Six weeks after being sworn in as the 39th Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ visited India from September 15-18. Traditionally, the first foreign port of call of newly elected...
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LET’S NOT BE THE IVY LEAGUE OF IDIOTS
A week after the Uri attack, India is seething with anger – any conceivable poll shows beyond doubt that people want Pakistan to pay. However, after talk of war/ surgical strikes/ water blockage/...
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WOMEN MAKE UP LESS THAN 24 PERCENT OF INDIANS ON FACEBOOK
By Maya Palit A recent study by the consultancy We Are Social made a lot of noise with its alarmist ‘finding’ that far, far fewer women than men use Facebook in India. This is in direct contrast to...
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WHAT DOES “PRE-VERIFICATION” OF NEWS BY THE ARMY MEAN?
On September 21, The Indian Express published a report, pointing out that the Indian Army and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) were talking at cross purposes about the discovery of “Pakistani...
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PASSING THE BUCK: AOL’S AFFIDAVIT TO THE NGT HAS MORE HOLES THAN THE FLOOD PLAIN
Ironically, the man to whom these profound words of wisdom are attributed heads an organisation that appears to have blatantly lied to the court. Newslaundry has evidence that “educational and...
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