Business of crying for media freedom
Earlier this month, along with two other journalists, I attended a conference on Media Freedom convened by the Foreign Ministers of Canada and the United Kingdom. It was a non-official delegation and was in no way representative of the diversity of India’s media — and I don’t think anyone claimed...
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Sheila Dikshit: A requiem
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SC panel wants to kill Panna mine, NMDC seeks 16-yr life
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India in talks with Iran for Indian crew’s release
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Last trip to lasting peace
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FASTag ‘must’ from Dec; just 1 lane for others
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Centre, Assam seek NRC date extension
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Deficient rain, floods hike vegetables’ price
20 July 2019 | Rajesh Kumar
Priyanka detained on way to Sonbhadra
It’s ‘illegal arrest’: Rahul; Yogi blames previous Congress Govt for snatching tribals’ farmland Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was on Friday detained and stopped from going to Sonbhadra where 10 people were gunned down on Wednesday in a land dispute, escalating the political slugfest over the killings by village pradhan...
HDK Govt lives in Speaker’s trust
Confidence vote put off to Mon as House adjourned; CM moves SC against Guv interference Karnataka Assembly was on Friday adjourned till Monday without taking up voting on the confidence motion as the political standoff grew up into a constitutional crisis after Speaker KR Ramesh ignored the Governor’s second deadline and...
Chandrayaan-2 launch now on July 22: ISRO
India’s ambitious second mission to the Moon Chandrayaan-2 will now lift off at 2.43 pm on July 22, space agency ISRO said on Thursday, three days after the launch was aborted due to a technical snag in its GSLV-Mk-III rocket. Chandrayaan-2, which will be launched on board the most powerful GSLV-Mk-III...
Flooded out, tiger finds ‘home’
Images of a fully grown tiger “relaxing” on a bed inside a house-cum-shop in flooded Kaziranga National Park on Thursday created a buzz on social media, bringing under spotlight the plight of animals in Assam battling a deluge. The pictures of the Royal Bengal Tiger on the bed at a shop...
Ownership rights soon for residents of 1,797 illegal colonies: Kejriwal
Centre has given in-principle nod for regularisation, says Delhi CM Good news for the people residing in unathorised colonies of the national Capital as soon they will have ownership rights after the Centre has given nod to a proposal of the Delhi Government to regularise 1,797 illegal colonies. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind...
Pak must release Jadhav; India committed: Govt
Jaishankar informs Parliament about incessant efforts to bring him back After getting a verdict in its favour in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday, India on Thursday asked Pakistan to release him and reiterated its commitment to vigorously continue efforts to bring him back....
Rs 400 cr benami plot of Maya’s brother seized
I-T dept tightens noose around Anand Kumar and his wife Income-Tax Department has attached a “benami” commercial plot measuring seven acres and worth Rs 400 crore belonging to BSP chief Mayawati’s brother Anand Kumar and his wife in Noida Sector 94. The IT Department has applied Section 24(3) of the Prohibition of...
