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It’s time TV news covered Manipur like it did the Anna Hazare movement or 2012 rape-murder

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.

TV news loves ‘Hindu-Muslim’; politicians are feeding the content this election season

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.

Guess who got US election results right? Thailand’s Moo Deng

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.

Bigg Boss Season 18 is fit for nobody — not even a donkey

Bigg Boss house isn't a 'house'. It's more like a prehistoric cave from another planet.

Glass shards and white powder—TV news had two mysteries on air this week

Times Now ran footage of the 9/11 attack on New York in 2001. What possible connection could it have to a small hole-in-the-wall attack in Delhi?

Nothing would have prepared Justin Trudeau for the merciless attacks by Indian TV news channels

'How stupid is this Trudeau,' said Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami. 'Blundering, short-sighted' is what Shiv Aroor called the Canadian PM on India Today.

News anchors studiously avoided PM Modi’s name on Haryana counting day—until about 10 am

Many Congress leaders would regret their words. From Pawan ‘Jalebi’ Khera to Supriya Shrinate, who told News 24 she would change her name if BJP wins more than '15-20 seats' in Haryana.

India has 2 women CMs now. Atishi and Mamata Banerjee are both victims of bad PR

Women look up to women in power as role models. But so far, Atishi’s public image is that of a woman-in-waiting rather than a woman-in-charge.

Modi is back. It took J&K, Haryana elections to make the PM break his self-imposed silence

Has the PM misplaced Modi magic or are we less enchanted? It will take many more Modi speeches to answer that but for now, there is something missing.

Rahul Gandhi is now TV’s biggest star. BJP, social media hoisted him up there

Rahul Gandhi claimed ‘defeating’ BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha election during his talks in the US. TV news added truth to it by not ignoring him.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Nvidia worth $5 trillion: What does it mean for the market?

The chipmaker at the heart of the AI revolution may be the most influential stock in Wall Street history. Nvidia has been the primary driver of the market’s gains since the start of 2023.

3D print drones on the frontline: Indian private firms offer tech to manufacture drones on battlefield

Zuppa & DBZ to collaborate to allow field units to fabricate structural components, assemble mission-ready drones, and deploy them in real time for surveillance, logistics, or tactical operations.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.