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March 30, 2018

HT blanks Sibal story; Express gives its own slant

OpIndia, Hindustan Times, Kapil Sibal, Chidambaram, Smriti Irani, Human Resource Development, land scam, Indian Express, Panama Papers, Surjit S. Bhalla, Economic Advisory Council

Sibal Story: HT goes into a slumber

What’s OpIndia.com? Apparently nobody since Hindustan Times completely banned the Kapil Sibal “land scam” story which has propelled the remarkable website on to the national consciousness.



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Published on March 30, 2018 03:38

March 29, 2018

Illegal LC is now AB; as IPL looms

lcexch, Narendra Modi, BJP, Lal Chand, Bhatoro General Trading, Dawood Ibrahim, ISI, Sreesanth, IPL, Supreme Court, Shantanu Guha Ray, Atul Kumar, Telangana

An online betting shop which is dangerous to India's security

An online betting website could emerge as one of the most embarrassing threat to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s credibility and BJP’s relentless march towards Mission 2019.



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Published on March 29, 2018 20:49

March 28, 2018

No shred of evidence, yet Russia is guilty

Bible, Russians, Britain, Scots, Welsh, Irish, Dickens, Malaya, Nayasaland, Harrod’s, cricket, Russophobic, Mark Zuckerburg, Cambridge Analytica, Saddam Hussain, Boris Johnson, Putin, Hitler, Brexit, Kremlin, Skripal, Lisbon

Putin is guilty till proven unguilty

By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey



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Published on March 28, 2018 21:00

March 26, 2018

Grand Opposition Alliance? You must be joking

Indian Express, Times of India, Mayawati, SP, BSP, bypolls, Kairana, Noorpur, Ranjan Chowdhury, Mamata Banerjee, TRS, West Bengal, Editors’ Guild, Press Council of India, Rahul Gandhi, Chandrashekhar, Devi Gowda

The myth of opposition unity (file picture)

Indian Express ran a front page story on Tuesday with the screaming head



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Published on March 26, 2018 23:07

Why Mainstream Media wants to keep you “uneducated”

Presstitutes, Aadhaar, KJ Alphons, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Facebook, NaMo App, Rahul Gandhi, Cambridge Analytica

KJ Alphons arguments go unheeded

There is a good reason to believe that mainstream English newspapers in India keep masses uneducated. Most of it stems from bias. A lot has also to do because journos themselves are uneducated.



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Published on March 26, 2018 00:20

March 20, 2018

Why you must question mainstream media

Mass media, Rajdeep Sardesai, Shekhar Gupta, Sagarika Ghose, Barkha Dutt, Swara Bhaskar, Jallikattu, Bakrid, Kashmir, Triple Talaq, Rohingyas, Kashmiri Pandits, Makarand Paranjape, Madhu Kishwar, Saba Naqvi, Kumar Ketkar, Ramachandra Guha, Pavan Varma, Rajiv Malhotra, Dr Koenraad Elst, CIA, Ford Foundation, Christophe Jaffrelot

Time you hold aloft India's future

If we were to be asked whether (a) mass media doesn’t speak for common citizens; (c) is not neutral; (c) is corrupt; (d) is caste divisive; (e) is politically controlled; (f) it’s independence is a



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Published on March 20, 2018 01:08

March 3, 2018

This online betting shop need be stopped, now

lcexch, Narendra Modi, BJP, Lal Chand, Bhatoro General Trading, Dawood Ibrahim, ISI, Sreesanth, IPL, Supreme Court, Shantanu Guha Ray, Atul Kumar, Telangana

A betting shop which is dangerous to India's security

An online betting website could emerge as one of the most embarrassing threat to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s credibility and BJP’s relentless march towards Mission 2019.



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Published on March 03, 2018 19:49

February 27, 2018

Indian Cricket needs politicians and here’s why!

CoA, Supreme Court, Odd-Even scheme, British Raj, 2021 Champions Trophy, 2023 World Cup, Shashank Manohar, Law Commission, Competition Commission of India, BCCI, Neeraj Kumar, Sharad Pawar, Wankhede Stadium, Shastri, Kumble, NKP Salve, Jagmohan Dalmiya, Inderjit Singh Bindra, Madhavrao Scindia, Anurag Thakur, Gokaraju Ganga Raju, Dharamshala, Dalai Lama, HPCA

Indian cricket is a rudderless ship for now

Some solutions are worse than problems.



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Published on February 27, 2018 19:52

February 21, 2018

The art of sneering at Modi: Express

Indian Express, Narendra Modi, Ashutosh Varshney, DN Jha, Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Nehru, Panini, Kautilya, Arthashastra, Megasthenes, Alexander, Greece, Hinduism, Gana, Sangha, Arrian, Patliputra, Diodorus Siculus, Ashtadhyayi, Rig Veda, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Majrooh Sultanpuri

Why Modi and Hinduism have implacable enemies

Indian Express is breathless in rubbishing the recent utterance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Parliament that “democracy in India wasn’t the work of Pt.



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Published on February 21, 2018 01:32

February 7, 2018

How Supreme Court has ruined Indian cricket

Supreme Court, Vinod Rai, Vikaram Limaye, Diana Eduljee, Rahul Dravid, Ricky Ponting, Delhi Daredevils, Committee of Administrators, CoA, Ravi Shastri, Mark Waugh, Sunil Gavaskar, Professional Management Group, PMG, Michael Vaughan, Sanjay Bangar, Bharat Arun, R. Sridhar, Purnima Rau, James Sutherland, Ramachandara Guha, Virender Sehwag, Sourav Ganguly, Wanderers’ Test, Newlands Test

Indian cricket is now headless chicken

Indian cricket is basking under the sunshine from playing fields but the stench from its boardrooms could give a pigs’ colony a fair name.



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Published on February 07, 2018 15:21