1. Gunned out of CBI top job?

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    CBI director Mohan Katre was to retire on October 31, 1987. The then Congress government had cleared the name of the number 2 in the CBI, Additional director Radhakrishnan Nair to take over as CBI director. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had okayed the appointment and the Press Information Bureau issued...
  2. Katju is being generous. I think 98% of Indians are fools

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    Trust Justice Markandey Katju to hit the nail squarely in the head. Writing in today’s Indian Express - it of the coup-that-was-not-a-coup story infamy – Justice Katju, chairman of the Press Council of India, said he was of the considered opinion that 90% of Indians were fools. He cited our...
  3. `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...
  4. 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...

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