Polling in 5 stages in UP, Bihar and West Bengal could influence the general elections result
The staggered election schedule shows that EC has made light of the harm fake news can do to the electoral outcome
Fake News
Government backtracks on its Fake news circular after media uproar
The guidelines issued by the ministry had caused a lot of uproar among media organisations primarily because the details were sketchy
A Lie is a Lie is a Lie
I’m guessing every Indian citizen and his/her dog/cat/hamster now knows that Arnab Goswami, Editor-in-Chief of Republic TV, told a big fat lie. In case you were sleeping, here goes: a couple of years ago at a public event, Goswami related Rajdeep Sardesai’s anecdote of a rather scary confrontation with a Hindutva mob while covering the 2002 Gujarat pogrom. However, Goswami pretended that it had happened to him and held forth in his charming bombastic style while cameras were rolling.