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  1. Will TV channel, newspaper revive Congress in AP?

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    / July 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    After suffering a humiliating defeat in the byelections in June where the Congress won just 2 of the 18 assembly seats that went to polls, the nine-member high-powered committee headed by Roads and Buildings minister Dharmana Prasada Rao (in pic) has recommended launching of a newspaper and a TV channel...

  2. Early morning epiphanies

    Posted by Pooja
    / June 7, 2012 / 2 Comments
    “Morning Sunshine, wake up, go get ready…the maid is here…she needs to clean the floor…get up …” *SNORE* I groaned and pulled the blanket over my head to drown out the hustle and bustle of a typical Iyer household in the outskirts of Coimbatore. But I failed. There was a...

  3. The day belonged to Jaya and Jaya

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    / May 16, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Jayalalithaa’s photograph is what readers of most national dailies, irrespective of which city they lived in, woke up to this morning. The Tamilnadu department of Information and Public Relations had booked six pages in all newspapers, estimated to have cost  25 crores to the exchequer. The ads spoke of the...

  4. To call it attack on freedom of press is baloney

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    / May 9, 2012 / 15 Comments
    So, now it is a Congress-TDP plot, is it? The claim by Jaganmohan Reddy, leader of the YSR Congress (read Jagan’s post here), that the freezing of the accounts of three of his companies that the CBI’s action is mendacious, and I am being generous about this. I would have...

  5. It is a Congress-TDP plot

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    / May 8, 2012 / 4 Comments
    Today is a black day, worse than the Emergency in India. They have made a mockery of democracy. Going purely by allegations, the CBI has frozen the bank accounts of Sakshi newspaper and TV channel. A newspaper that is number 8 in the country, with a circulation of 14.5 lakh...

  6. Kerala minister turns newspaper vendor

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    / March 28, 2012 / Leave a comment
    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...

  7. TOI turning into a Hindu?

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    / February 14, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Source : AP News Live The pushy Times of India cannot be expected to keep quiet when its cultivated image was called into question by a staid competitor like The Hindu. TOI responded to The Hindu’s brainy teasers with its ‘information is not knowledge’ campaign, which surprisingly is neither witty...

  8. Now it is TOI’s own country!

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    / February 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Times of India considers Kerala its final frontier and that was breached today with the launch of the TOI in the state. Starting this morning, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Kottayam, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Palakkad, Thrissur, Alappuzha and Kollam will wake up to the TOI. The ad also gives a typical Kerala...

  9. Mukesh Ambani is not Ratan Tata’s son

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    / January 27, 2012 / 3 Comments
    The terrible summer has clearly arrived early in Chennai. For what else can explain the sheer kolaveri taking place between the Mahavishnu of Mount Road and the Old Lady of Bori Bunder. The Hindu vs The Times of India sledging in Madras nalla Madras is more rivetting than the Agneepath Down Under. It...

  10. Hindu hits back at the TOI

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    / January 26, 2012 / 1 Comment
    It is a no-holds barred war out there between `The Times of India’ and `The Hindu’ in Chennai. TOI fired the first salvo, indirectly accusing the Hindu of producing news that puts everyone to sleep. The Mahavishnu of Mount Road has now hit back. And how ! Watch the two...

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