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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Topic: BBC

Indian journalists should be grateful BBC lost the ‘impartiality’ battle

BBC's impartiality trait that it showed during Modi documentary went in hiding when football presenter Gary Lineker tweeted against British govt's immigration policy.

Mutiny at the BBC: Lineker row causes growing crisis at UK broadcaster

Lineker, BBC's highest-paid presenter & anchor of the football highlights show 'Match of the Day', was suspended from his role following his criticism of Britain's migration policy.

‘BJP wanted to win by force but was defeated by popular vote’: Urdu press on Delhi mayoral polls

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

‘We stand up for the BBC,’ says UK government in Parliament after I-T survey

David Rutley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the FCDO, pointed to a "deep relationship” with India which meant the UK was able to discuss a wide range of issues in a "constructive manner".

Our take on Women’s Premier League, Air India order and BBC office raids — in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

‘Undeclared Emergency’: Urdu press says I-T survey of BBC offices assault on press freedom

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

Without naming BBC, I-T dept says ‘inconsistencies’ in records of ‘international media co’

A government source said the Central Board of Direct Taxes was referring to the BBC but did not name it as an investigation was ongoing.

Pakistan’s most unkindest cut of all & no plum posting in sight for Lady Justice (Retd)

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

3 reasons why the Modi govt ordered an I-T raid on BBC — none of them makes sense

The move against BBC mirrors Indira Gandhi’s tactics during the Emergency. She learnt from her mistakes, will the BJP?

Counter ‘narratives trying to run down India story’, Dhankhar tells Information Service officers

V-P warns of 'sinister designs to set afloat a narrative by free fall of information'. Speech comes as I-T dept conducts survey at BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai.

On Camera

Social media has made news more graphic. Torture by Russian military is latest example

Before social media, depiction of violence on news was the exception—graphic visuals were either not shown on TV or in newspapers or the images were blurred. This is no longer the case.

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

BRO connects new axis to Ladakh, to be shortest route

The all-weather Nimmu-Padam-Darcha Road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil-Leh Highway.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.