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FSSAI REJECTS FOOD PROPOSALS: MAGGI, KELLOG’S AND 400 MORE
After it was found that well known noodles brand Maggi contained lead in excess of permissible levels, it is the turn of other well known brands. Data from FSSAI indicates that more than 400 product...
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Hartosh Singh Bal, Political Editor of The Caravan joins us as we discuss The Caravan’s recent story about an email trail involving the Essar group that leads to the President’s office. We also talk...
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FROM JAYALALITHAA TO AKHILESH YADAV: CHIEF MINISTERS MAY LOVE THEMSELVES TOO...
The Supreme Court, on May 13, decreed that only the prime minister, president and chief justice of India can feature in government advertisements. But taking India’s federal spirit a step ahead, state...
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STEALTHILY, SMOKE KILLS 1 IN 8 INDIANS
Breathing doesn’t come easy to Asgar Ali Siddique, 45, a Mumbai resident, especially if he walks fast or climbs stairs—all because at the age of 15, he and his friends started to experiment with...
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BURNT FOR REPORTING: THE STORY OF SHAHJAHANPUR AND ITS SLAIN JOURNALIST
On May 5, according to S’ statement to the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Shahjahanpur, Inspector Prakash Rai kept guard at the door as Ram Murty Verma, Uttar Pradesh’s minister for backward...
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STOPPING INDIA’S #1 KILLER IS UP TO INDIANS
One evening after dinner in 1991, Satish Karekar, then 42, a Mumbai businessman, experienced a dull pain and heaviness in the chest and lightness in the head. When the feeling persisted well into the...
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WHEN THE INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM MEDIA CHOSE TAHERA AHMAD OVER ATALI’S RIOT VICTIMS
It may come as a surprise to many but a large majority of Muslims are not Arabs, and a substantial number of Muslims live as a minority in various other countries. With about 180 millions Muslims,...
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THE GLOVES ARE OFF WITH THE SUSHMA-MODI STORY WITHIN THE NEWS MEDIA
Until not so long ago, a story done by a rival channel or newspaper would be ignored by other media houses. But not this time. Journalists are commenting on the way the Sushma Swaraj–Lalit Modi story...
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DIGITAL VERSUS TELEVISION: THE BATTLE BEGINS
The “print media” versus “electronic media” debate is passé. With the advent of digital media outfits like Scroll, Quartz India, DailyO, The Quint, The Wire and, more recently, Catch News, the...
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HALF OF THE JAN AUSHADI GENERIC DRUG STORES OF THE GOVERNMENT ARE NOT...
Generic Drugs are the lifeline to many poor patients who cannot afford the cost of the branded drugs. As a part of its mandate to promote Generic Drugs, the department of Pharmaceuticals of Government...
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HOW THE PARTHO DE CASE HAS EXPOSED MEDIA VOYEURISM AT ITS WORST
“I’m diggin’ up bones, I’m diggin’ up bones Exhuming things that’s better left alone I’m resurrecting memories of a love that’s dead and gone Yeah, tonight I’m sittin’ alone diggin’ up bones” — Randy...
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“AND THEN I SAW A FEW SOFT PORN FILMS”: FTII STUDENT ON GETTING TO KNOW...
Students at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, have been on an indefinite strike since June 12 protesting the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the new chairman. Chauhan’s claim...
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MONEY FOR RURAL INDIA FROM CENTER TRIPLES
Over the next five years, money to rural local governments (panchayats) will rise nearly three times, from Rs 63,051 crore ($13.3 billion) to Rs 200,292 crore ($31.2 billion), on the recommendations...
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ELECTION COMMISSION SUSPENDS RECOGNITION OF PA SANGMA’S NATIONAL PEOPLE’S PARTY
Political parties are supposed to submit their election expenditure statement within 75 days of the completion of a Assembly general election and within 90 days of the completion of the Lok Sabha...
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST: HELP US SPOT IT
When corporations pay, corporations are served. And when the public pays, the public is served. That’s unsurprising, fair and a market reality. We think that news should be in public interest,...
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RELIANCE JIO CHAT COMPROMISES USER SECURITY, CLAIMS A HACKERS’ COLLECTIVE
On June 12, Friday, Reliance India Limited (RIL) held its 41st Annual General Meeting (AGM), where the company’s chairman, Mukesh Ambani, announced the roadmap of its much-talked about 4G services....
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THE QUESTIONS OF PRIVACY IN NEWS
The question of privacy in news, and indeed what passes for news, is roiling the United States news scene at the moment, as Gawker, one of the original tabloidy websites, faces Hulk Hogan in court on...
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Journalist Bhupendra Chaubey joins the team and we discuss whether the television media paid enough attention to the death of a journalist in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The team, then, goes on to...
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BIOGAS PRODUCTION IN INDIA IS EQUIVALENT TO 5% OF THE TOTAL LPG CONSUMPTION
Biogas is one of the viable alternatives to the burning energy question. In 2014-15, about 20,700 lakh cubic meters of Biogas is produced in the country which is equivalent to 5% of the total LPG...
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UP’S FREE-HOUSING MESS A NATIONAL WARNING
About 4,000 free houses to be allotted to poor families across Uttar Pradesh (UP) are unfinished and slated for a completion date roughly coinciding with UP state assembly elections in 2017, an...
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