With the focus on ‘Rituals, Reverences, Rites,’ news channels barely have time for other stories. The Delhi Assembly election campaign occasionally peeks in and out.
Midway through 2024, Hindi and English news channels found their sense of balance. Once Congress lost Haryana and Maharashtra, they went back to openly supporting the Modi govt.
For TV news this week, ‘Allu Arjun vs Revanth Reddy’ was a clash of the titans of Telangana politics and Tollywood—and they were not going to miss out on any of the action.
Since the communal disturbances last month, Sambhal and its temple trouble have remained in the news. Still, the non-stop coverage of the Hanuman temple and the three idols is exceptional.
The indignation became shriller as news channels replayed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s remarks last week on ‘Babur, Bangladesh and Sambhal'.
Today’s news headlines reflect a very different Rahul Gandhi, Congress, and INDIA compared to June, when his every step and word were closely followed by the media and the public.
The heartbreaking death of babies in the Jhansi hospital was major news—for one day. Manipur doesn’t even get a headline on most days. It's all about Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections.
The on-going election season is a war of slogans. And all of them seek to consolidate the Hindu or the Muslim, the caste, class or creed vote behind a particular political party.
We saw a CNN versus Fox News contest: While everyone at CNN, barring the Republican panelists, looked as if they had just lost the election, Fox News was laughing all over.
If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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