Thousands falling victim to misleading promotion, often by celebs, through QR codes with the ads, ostensibly of sporting merchandise brands but redirecting to betting platforms, sources say.
'It’s raining jobs, jobs, jobs,' said an elated Rahul Kanwal on India Today’s Budget Special. But Rajdeep Sardesai was dubious: 'right intent, reality different'.
Why are PM Modi and the BJP no longer commanding the news the way they did at the beginning of the Lok Sabha campaign? Is this a deliberate pull back or has the news media changed track?
You do wonder why the BJP is making such a splash when the election tide already seems to be in its favour. If the return of Modi is imminent, why this flood of advertisements?
Draft of the Bill was first made public in 2019 & it had drawn criticism as it was seen as an attempt by Modi govt to regulate digital media, which is not subject to any registration at present.
8 newspapers published BJP ads proclaiming victory in all 47 first-phase seats the day after polling. Congress complained to EC and then took out its own ad.
On 29 May 1951, Jawaharlal Nehru defended adding 'reasonable restrictions' to Article 19, arguing that free speech must be balanced with national security and unity.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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