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After US elections, Facebook and Twitter are getting ready to interfere with Indian elections: Why the centre must take note before 2024

Nupur J Sharma - 2 December, 2020

With Twitter's admitted Left-wing bias, nobody needs to wonder which side they would choose to censor and the trajectory is rather evident with the censorship of Malviya's tweet.

Media

“Fact checking” is a new name for same old propaganda journalism

Abhishek Banerjee - 2 December, 2020

Why did journalists lose all credibility? Because bit by bit, we realized that journalists were just feeding us an agenda, not reporting facts.

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Farmer protest: From celebrity protestors hijacking the ‘protest’ to AAP and Congress fighting for credit, the circus is here

Nirwa Mehta - 1 December, 2020

The farmers protests in Delhi have turned into a Shaheen Bagh redux with the same usual suspects coming together.

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Not ‘just a municipal election’, a defeat of TRS in the Hyderabad Municipal Elections will alter the political discourse of the state

S. Sudhir Kumar - 30 November, 2020

Not just top BJP leaders, top TRS leaders are also campaigning hard for the GHMC elections, making it more than just a municipal election

Economy and Finance

What they never told you when they said India was the worst performing emerging economy

Abhishek Banerjee - 30 November, 2020

India’s economy contracted by 23.9%. For comparison, Brazil’s GDP contracted by 11.9% and Russia’s GDP by 8%. So, did they really do better than India?

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With an information overdose on social media and deluge of OTT platforms, it is time to be digitally ‘Atmanirbhar’

Priyank - 30 November, 2020

Getting 'cancelled' or ostracized on social media may seem harmless, but as these technologies weave themselves tighter into our day to day lives, the impacts of such cancellations can be far-reaching.

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7 March 1990: When Khalistani terrorists killed 22 Hindus and ruined dozens of families

Anurag - 30 November, 2020

Abohar is a town in Fazilka, Punjab, near the India-Pakistan border.

Politics

France, Germany, UK and all other countries we should boycott for using water cannon and tear gas

Abhishek Banerjee - 29 November, 2020

As a newly woke nation, we also have a moral responsibility to oppose other countries that carry out atrocities such as using water cannons on protesters.

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