1. Why this sudden interest in ball badminton?

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    Source : AP News Live Telugu TV news channels, which are not known to show any interest in local sports activities, have suddenly woken up to ball badminton sport. Many viewers must have wondered why and how this sudden change of heart occurred among the sports-illiterate Telugu channels. Many people...
  2. #TweetLikeDravid

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    The twitteratti often comes up with interesting ways to keep the platform buzzing. Today was one such day when someone (I suspect it was @BoredCricket) who thought of tweeting like Rahul Dravid with the hashtag #tweetlikeDravid. Here is what TSR thought were some of the most witty #tweetlikedravid. @_fakeiplplayer :...
  3. Guilty till proven innocent

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    Last night Mumbai’s Joint commissioner of police Himanshu Roy was on CNN-IBN, to talk about the Vijay Palande-Simran Sood duo, accused of four murders. No doubt this story has been a talking point in Mumbai over the last few days, with newspapers devoting a significant share of newsprint to how...
  4. Can we have some non-IPL news please

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    The media of the “90 per cent foolish India” went ga ga over Rohit Sharma’s last ball sixer last night in the IPL match against Deccan Chargers at Visakhapatnam. I am quite sure it would have raised the hackles of Justice Markandey Katju, who without mincing words, on Monday had...
  5. `The Indian Express’ blows hot air

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    I am great fan of The Indian Express, and the fact that I was on the late Ramnath Goenka’s dime for nearly four years, is one of the reasons, though not the most critical reason. The Indian Express is a great newspaper, slightly right-of-center, the way I like it, and...
  6. Why sing this Coup song di?

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    That’s what most of India is asking today. The front page Indian Express story details the movement of two key army units from Hissar in Haryana (33rd Armoured Division) and Agra in Uttar Pradesh (50 Para Brigade) towards the national capital on the night of January 16. The story details...
  7. Sakshi’s own CAG report !

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    Source : AP News Live On a day when all newspapers make the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report on land allotments in the state as banner story, Sakshi has its counter report with a screaming headline on Chandrababu Naidu. CAG report said that most of the land...
  8. Kerala minister turns newspaper vendor

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    Finally Kerala shows its will against arbitrary strikes. Upset over the indefinite strike by newspaper agents, many government employees and regular newspaper readers have taken to distributing newspapers in their offices and neighbourhood. Even Kerala’s social welfare minister M K Muneer joined in and distributed newspapers in Kozhikode. Supporting him...
  9. Do journalists sleep with the `enemy’?

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    Sampad Mahapatra was heading back from the jungle when we spoke. The `long’ phone conversation, however had to be split into four parts, thanks to the cellphone signals that kept dropping. My former colleague in NDTV, Odisha, Sampad was returning to Bhubaneswar after one of the most adventurous and dramatic...

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