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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicCNN News18

Topic: CNN News18

News18 debates ‘vendetta’ raids on Taapsee Pannu & Anurag Kashyap, Rahul versus RSS on Zee

Revathi Krishnan -
A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

Sudhir Chaudhary, CNN-News18 share graphic caning video, but it’s not from Karachi

Pia Krishnankutty -
Chaudhary and CNN-News18 falsely suggested video showed a Chinese engineer attacking a Pakistani driver in Karachi. Original video is from Malaysia.

Zee News, India TV, News18 India have OCD. They are still stuck on Tablighi Jamaat

Shailaja Bajpai -
Hindi news channels are not listening to the pleas of Modi and Bhagwat who urged people not to stigmatise any particular community during the Covid crisis.

On Delhi riots, TV channels finally reported news. Then the anchors swooped in

Shailaja Bajpai -
Questions such as "Was this a deliberate, calibrated attempt to 'malign the image of India' during Trump’s visit?" undercut good reporting by news channels.

ABP News forgot lessons from Mumbai terror attack in its Trump visit coverage

Shailaja Bajpai -
ABP was so impressed by the security preparations for Trump's India visit that it revealed many particulars that should perhaps have remained secured.

Not Howdy Modi, Indian TV channels were busy eating cake & saying HBD Modi

Shailaja Bajpai -
As the Modi birthday festivities wound up, Zee News found a Pakistan ‘kabootar’ with a mysterious phone number on its back.

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YourTurn

Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Stela Dey -
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Vaibhav Pant -
Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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