CAG reports are still coming but the old bites and stings have gone missing. The CAG is still unsparing in some cases but the BJP may not mind it at all.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
The advent of 24/7 News channels set in motion a race for oneupmanship and TRPs among them that led to ‘creating’news if there was none, or only ‘half a news’, available’. These Editors had never heard the saying “No news is Good News.” Embellishing and exaggerating, repetition of images and videos ad nauseam, and display of sensational visuals ( even File pictures and stories) became the order of the day. This further descended into utter chaos with the so called “TV Debates”, a euphemism for ‘Shout to be heard above all the others’ and ‘keep repeating your brief’ by the participants deputed to present their political party’s views. They have bettered ( or have become worse than) their counterparts elsewhere.
The advent of 24/7 News channels set in motion a race for oneupmanship and TRPs among them that led to ‘creating’news if there was none, or only ‘half a news’, available’. These Editors had never heard the saying “No news is Good News.” Embellishing and exaggerating, repetition of images and videos ad nauseam, and display of sensational visuals ( even File pictures and stories) became the order of the day. This further descended into utter chaos with the so called “TV Debates”, a euphemism for ‘Shout to be heard above all the others’ and ‘keep repeating your brief’ by the participants deputed to present their political party’s views. They have bettered ( or have become worse than) their counterparts elsewhere.