TV news channels assured viewers that once the cloud-seeding was completed, rain could be expected anytime. 'Jab chaho, baarish kar lo,' claimed Times Now Navbharat.
What’s clear is that TV new coverage of modern warfare is more eye-catching: boots on the ground have been replaced by flying machines, allowing news channels to play video war games.
As Indian missiles hit Pakistan, news anchors erupted with joy. From ‘Sindoor ka badla’ to ‘Rafale trailer’, this is how Indian TV covered the strikes—like a war game, not journalism.
Maybe we needed to be diverted by happy images of PM Modi enjoying the company of beautiful animals or by the Congress leader's critical comments on cricket captain Rohit Sharma’s fitness.
Yes, there is crime all around us. But when it is unfolding on the TV screen inside our homes 24x7, something’s got to give. I live in constant fear of what.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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