Hartosh Singh Bal
@HartoshSinghBal
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Supreme Court today . 'Sushant Singh Rajput was a talented actor and died before his full potential could be realized.'. just a thought . 'Brijgopal Harkishen Loya was an upright judge and died before his full potential could be realized.'.
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kabhi padh bhi le.
Every moment of my life is dedicated to upholding the noble values enshrined in the Constitution of India, given to us by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. It is only due to the Constitution that a person like me, born into poverty and in a backward family, is able to serve the nation. Our
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clearly this Sai Deepak character doesn’t understand what simply put means.
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a slap on the face is misbehaviour in uniform and will invite action but it is not terrorism. this constant attempt to defame a community and a state is typical of the bjp and their minions. the misuse of the power to speak by a public representative should itself invite action.
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This is to confirm that 3 of our reporters on assignment, working on stories on the anti-muslim violence in northeast delhi, were surrounded by a mob & manhandled. We'll release an official statement shortly.
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So it begins. New term, old story. Where a slap is terrorism, lynching is nationalism
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it is @smitaprakash who has to come clear on the evidence of systemic bias designed to help modi & his govt, target minorities. why should anyone go to a discussion where @ANI poses the questions, sets the term. it is @ANI in the dock.
Zubair bhai, since you talk about ANI everyday, please come to the ANI studio. We are officially inviting you to the ANI Podcast with @smitaprakash .Let's have an open debate, with no time limit and no interruptions and no edits. let the chips fall where they may.
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i think i have finally understood the law of contempt - you can't laugh at a joke until it is retired.
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why is it only owaisi who must utter this truth. if rahul or for that matter the entire spectrum of opposition leaders are afraid to utter this truth when it is needed most what good are they?.
A Owaisi:If PM agrees minorities live in fear he should know people who killed Akhlaq were sitting in front bench of electoral public meeting. If PM feels Muslims live in fear, will he stop gangs, who in name of cow are killing, beating Muslims, taking our videos & demeaning us?
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don't know about rihanna, but do know entire news channels that have sold out for far less.
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if you have to pray to get science to work, you are not a scientists, you are just someone who prays that science works.
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barkha has helped farmers just as much as she helped soldiers in kargil.
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happy tractor rally day everyone. there is very little left of the republic to celebrate.
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padmavati movie ban is the first battle the rajputs have won in a thousand years.
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let's also take note of the fact that for a while, when the sohrabuddin trial was underway, amit shah was a murder accused. one judge who sought his appearance in court was transferred for still unexplained reasons, one who did so again died mysteriously, the third acquitted him.
Amit Shah instead of running away like Chidambaram, himself went to the CBI office. He had nothing to hide unlike Chidambaram and was confident that he would be proved innocent and that's what happened. Watch this video and compare it with how Chidambaram and Cong is behaving
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If hospitals were polling booths and oxygen cylinders were evms, Modi-Shah would have it all under control.
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this man is a perfect illustration of one way in which hate is manufactured today. afraid of calling out those in power, ashamed of his own cowardice when it is pointed out, he must lash out at another - in the worst possible, vile terms. hate is a form of self-loathing.
Haha. Says a serial hate- monger, who has put so many lives in danger for his agenda. You disguising as a fact-checker is like Terrorists talking about peace. Now post that you need money to survive and ask for donation for your website, no shame in living off by fooling
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oh do shut up @ShivAroor. your group survives on platforming such people, boosting modi and then occasionally pointing out the consequences of exactly what you boost, the tweedledee/tweeledum rajdeep/rahul kanwal tamasha that you guys live on.
The show is literally about how 2023’s India SHOULDN’T have any place for Aurangzeb politics and those using such stuff to trigger passions should be ignored. I’m guessing literacy is a habit you left behind at the India Today group, Hartosh.
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.#HinduRashtra this is the most dangerous separatists movement in the country today, its advocates speak from the ramparts of the red fort and they have reached there on the back of the worst acts of terror the country has witnessed, going back to the murder of gandhi.
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In 2014 modi came to power:. khalistanis weren't even a blip. kashmir was better off in every way. northeast wasn't burning. china wasn't eating up the indian border. we weren't a society at odds with ourselves. with each modi victory, india is losing.
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we have been informed by addl DCP J. Meena that FIR 52/21 PS Alipur has been filed under sections 186, 332, 353 IPC, we'll take whatever legal recourse is necessary. We've learnt Mandeep had spent the morning trying to track down those from bjp claiming to be 'locals' at Singhu.
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the issue isn't what kind of country pakistan is or was, the issue is what kind of country have we become.
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poor javdekar, she has 35 million more followers than narinder.
why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest
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Those who renounce meat, and hold their noses when sitting near it, devour men at night: Guru Nanak. Sanghis at #JNU.
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if a death in rajasthan 2022 can elicit this, what could be said about over a thousand deaths when modi was the CM in gujarat 2002?.
Looser CM after failed to implement law and law and order in his own state blaming PM and HM for everything. If PM and HM are responsible for everything happening in his state, he should resign and sit in home.
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only an agnihotri can speak english be part of the ruling establishment and claim hindu victimization in this country. anyone else speaking english is to be discounted.
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the percentage of sikhs standing against the idea of khalistan is far higher than the percentage of hindus who have a problem with the equally despicable and far more dangerous idea of hindu rashtra. and this lot then claims to pass judgment on patriotism!.
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where in the world would this be acceptable with such matter of fact ease.
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in the modern world no state has endorsed the final solution in germany, here is the govt celebrating a man who held it up as a model for hindustan.
Remembering a great thinker, scholar, and remarkable leader #MSGolwalkar on his birth anniversary. His thoughts will remain a source of inspiration & continue to guide generations. @prahladspatel @secycultureGOI @PMOIndia @PIBCulture @pspoffice
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as #VineshPhogat questions the silence of cricketers, this piece lays out how the most prominent of them has always led by his silence on issues that matter .
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this is why they thought the ani twitter acccunt was underage.
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just a glimpse of this is enough to capture a sense of what is wrong with a media of 'twice-born' castes. the ravidassia-bhim army mobilisation is the biggest story of the day in Delhi, not chidambaram.
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There problem is they are still fighting Aurangzeb and they will never be able to go back and defeat him.
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This is a witch-hunt. It is about invoking fear in everyone, the message - innocence is irrelevant, if they so wish, you will be treated as a criminal.
#WATCH | UP: Delhi Police bring Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair to Sitapur in connection with a case registered against him here for allegedly inflaming religious sentiments through his tweet on Mahant Bajrang Muni, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati and Swami Anand Swaroop.
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the only real conclusion one can draw so far from the ridiculous ease with which television channels are reporting & speculating on the #SrideviDeathMystery is that Amit Shah has no involvement with this matter.
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what the channels show: barely 200 'singhu locals' throwing stones standing among the police. easily breaking past police who outnumbered them. most channels standing around not asking any of the 'locals' their name, where they are from. old pattern, CAA pattern emerging.
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'How Pragya Singh Thakur, Sunil Joshi and Aseemanand planned the Samjhauta Express blast.'.this was terror. those who planned it are candidates, those who support them include our PM.
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the modi second term has been lively @thecaravanindia - assault our staffers, arrest our contributors, book our editors/owners, suspend our twitter account. this we will deal with as we continue reporting, but for us to do even more each donation, each new subscription counts.
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'three reporters of the caravan were allegedly assaulted. ' says a statement by a body which allegedly may be the Editors Guild which is allegedly headed by a man allegedly named shekhar gupta.
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as i said, the glee on the rightwing of the country is visible. this is not a party bemoaning terror, it is using it.
What Israel is facing today, India suffered between 2004-14. Never forgive, never forget…
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he was afraid to enter a helicopter in light rain after the crash of CDS' copter, he was afraid of being photographed addressing rows of empty chairs, & he was scared being stuck near fellow citizens who posed no harm (while protected by enough armed men to ward off a battalion).
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if being stuck on a flyover is a threat to life then most Indians die a hundred times over each year.
Officials at Bhatinda Airport tell ANI that PM Modi on his return to Bhatinda airport told officials there,“Apne CM ko thanks kehna, ki mein Bhatinda airport tak zinda laut paaya.”
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this cop who took a bullet through his jaw for the country, he took on khalistani terror at its height, & is now telling us the current lot - pragya & those who back her such as modi, shah - are a worse danger to the republic than the terror in punjab.
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Those who renounce meat, and hold their noses when sitting near it, devour men at night: Guru Nanak.
As a vegetarian (unlike my son who has re-tweeted this thread), I am easily persuaded by the theory that meat-eating inspires aggression and an unwillingness to compromise!.
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Muslim shops in Barkot were marked out with black crosses. Soon after, much of the Muslim population fled. A Muslim resident described his reaction, “I have read Hitler’s history. That’s how he had marked out Jews. That’s how we are being identified.”.
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Do editors with some standing in the profession compromise their journalism at crucial times to serve a murderous dispensation?. No, No & Yes.
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If Modi loses in 2019, we’re back to old, unsettled politics, worries L&T director @swapan55. those lousy days when communal instigation & murder weren't taken for granted, when cows were cows, & most people had only one mother.
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govt in problem over manipur, tweet a muslim name, retract. problem in manipur quote modi on rajasthan where abvp name comes up, no muslim quieten down. problem is @smitaprakash, @ANI talk about zubair (another muslim name). that is the simple charge, don't run from it.
Yaaar, Zubair ko khud bolne de na. Chalo you want @smitaprakash to talk about her journalism na? Watch the latest @BeerBicepsGuy podcast here tera bhi mann तृप्त ho jaayega,after that you can spam for subscriptions of your magazine again.
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a defining moment of the chandrachud tenure.
PM Modi at the residence of CJI DY Chandrachud for Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
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i guess if a mythological figure can have an actual birthplace, then an actual crime can be carried out by non-existent criminals.
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the biggest challenge for hindutva oxymoron historians is to explain how Islamic invaders magically converted Buddhist sites into Hindu temples, in most cases even before they reached the subcontinent .
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what is the pertinence of ‘tribal’ in this headline? he was under treatment for a mental health issue. and why don’t we get to read ‘son of bania businessman mows down two in his 2-crore porsche’
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with the tiranga visible the right wing ecosystem has picked on the nishan sahib that has also been held aloft. they have termed the nishan sahib a khalistani flag. if that were so then every gurdwara would be khalistan, every sikh a khalistani.
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footballers are helping out. the cricketers seem too busy keeping jay shah mollified
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you think that is why @aroonpurie, that boss of yours, hired me as chief of bureau? or is that why he keeps you on @ShivAroor? is that the criteria for being employed by the group?.
Hartosh, please don't blame the India Today group for the fact that you've been in journalism for, what, three decades?, and nobody knows you or can name a piece of work by you. Park your frustrations elsewhere.
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i think it is only fair to note that we can't draw conclusions from isolated clips of an interview, seen in its entirety @RanaAyyub is right on target on the distinction between india's supine mainstream media and the many unsung reporters who are doing their job.
“Journalism in India is on a ventilator,” argues @RanaAyyub. “Why is Modi not being asked the tough questions on the front page of our newspapers?” #WorldPressFreedomDay
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attempts underway to divert investor money in mutual funds to bail out adani. even imagined values of 2G or coalgate pale into insignificance in face of such audacity. a speech every ten days won’t help, the opposition has to hit the streets.
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not since the british raj has an emperor presided over the death of so many indians with so much ease.
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bullshit, which left? the UK has inheritance tax of 40 % for inheritance above a wealth threshold. it also has an nhs, a govt run school system. bad ideas i guess. then go read about germany. such commie countries, really.
The Congress sounds more left than the left parties. Inheritance tax is a terrible idea. Also, they make it sound like those who make money are bad people. There’s nothing wrong with making money especially when you have worked hard and earned it. The Congress needs to figure.
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For how many generations will reservations continue asks Supreme Court. One answer - at 18 yrs a generation, we’ve had four generations since independence. Reservations to the Brahmin priesthood have continued for a 100 generations.
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The Navreet Singh death case, guess who is lying -. "Dr Basil Purdue, a pathologist registered with the UK Home Office who examined the video footage and postmortem, said: “To me this is one gunshot wound, possibly two, unless proved otherwise.”".
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namunas from the India Today seem obsessed. whatever issues the Sikhs had with Aurangzeb, they settled them at the time. it takes a strange kind of perverse cowardice, a mental and physical insecurity for a set of people to raise such issues now. that set is what hindutva is.
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modi should have let him open, sad to see him come after akshay.
India’s sovereignty cannot be compromised. External forces can be spectators but not participants. Indians know India and should decide for India. Let's remain united as a nation. #IndiaTogether .#IndiaAgainstPropaganda.
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the opposition is not running the country, Modi should be and he isn't. the question is not who could have done better, right now it is evident no one could have done worse.
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the problem with bad writers is that they can't tell the difference between wishing for and wishing away.
There are some liberal-tolerant types who are secretly wishing for (and even somewhat inciting) unrest and violence in Kashmir only so they can attack the government.
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he has good reason to hide his face.
India is heaven for minorities and Muslims. Their social, economic & religious rights are secure here. If someone is saying this out of a prejudiced mindset then they must look at the ground reality of this country & accept it: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on OIC's remarks
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clearly he is not getting the attention he wants. the street, the gutter, the garbage pile, he can keep sinking lower.
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'History resulted in the partition of Indian and Pakistan, but I am Milkha Singh whose childhood was spent in Pakistan and youth in India. Wherever I ran, Indian and Pakistan both ran with me.'.
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So Ram Madhav has removed india from South Asia.
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watch this for its sheer obscenity - less than 100 mts from the crash site, salvage work still on (but workers have stopped to stare at modi), there may still be bodies to be found & amidst this, a fancy tent (contrast it with how the bodies were laid out) set up for modi to pose.
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thanks to @altnews the truth seems to be quite the opposite of what this tweet claims. the assault was by the ABVP. that the country's public broadcaster is lying to propagate fake news that suits the govt goes well beyond propaganda.
Video bears witness to #JNU VC @mamidala90's statement that those opposing registration for Winter session of #JNU are behind violence to scuttle the academic process of varsity.
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cops have often told me ordering a lathi-charge against those who aren't resisting is not easy. violence in such cases is not in our nature. but this is another level. students reading in a library. it speaks of a psychotic police, a leadership operating on a dehumanising hate.
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Given the amount adani had to spend bribing officials in non-bjp states, why didn’t he have to spend any money in bjp states?.Isn’t the answer obvious.
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Is modi actually comparing Shivaji to a mercy petitioning apologist of foreign rule?
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chief of army contingent during Guj violence makes direct allegations against Modi, confirms all suspicions - I met CM at 2 am on the 1st morning. Troops sat on the airfield all through the 1st of March and we got the transport only on the 2nd of March.
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bred in studios like his.
Absolutely terrible language used by BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri in Parliament, expunged now. This is communal hate speech. It takes unqualified condemnation & action for this country not to become a ‘your hate speech Vs my hate speech’ nation.
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if this was true, every bhakt would be at shaheen bagh, they come cheap.
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i agree with you, and that is as it should be in a secular constitutional india . but where we are today is where one UP govt can parade the ram mandir as a symbol of national aspiration. the nishan sahib, at the very least, is not a symbol of desecration. or of khalistan.
@HartoshSinghBal @asadowaisi Still. Nishan sahib does not belong at top of Red Fort. .
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Ek hi baat hai.
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a simple answer, the rss/modi/bjp can't stomach the fact sikhs do not support their hindu rashtra agenda, are virulently opposed to it & have no truck with khaliistan. since they cannot be demonised like muslims they have to be shown to be misled, hence this chimera of khalistan.
@HartoshSinghBal Khalistan is not even an issue in Punjab. Never understood who is raking up this dead horse.
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the chandrachud years - too much signalling of virtue, too little intent. and that btw is a very charitable view.
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what's happening with @RanaAyyub is illustrative of a larger problem, truly independent journalism (not aligned to any party, many liberal 'thekedars' disguise their affiliations in the name of attacking the bjp) is what is most at peril, matters most, & irks this govt most.
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The cong babas, #rpnsingh or Scindia or who have you - all belong to the elite caste of rajputras- jiska raj uske putra. They were secular yesterday, ‘rashtravadi’ today and will be samajwadi tomorrow if need be.
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not our job to maintain anything that predates 2014, say for instance the constitution and most of our nuclear power plants?.
#WATCH | On portion of canopy collapsed at Delhi airport's Terminal-1, Union Minister of Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu says, ". we are taking this incident seriously. I want to clarify that the building inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi is on the other side and the
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that the marksheet was so readily made available, that too through this particular agency, indicates prior planning. old punjab village trick in a feud, pick the youngster closest to the age of 18 to carry out any act of violence.
Delhi: CBSE marksheet of the allegedly minor gunman who brandished a gun and opened fire in Jamia area, earlier today. One student was injured in the incident.
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when a PM lies to your face and you praise him saying he lied with such conviction.
PM Modi answered the question put to him on discrimination and democracy very well. You may agree or disagree with what he said but he gave his point of view without hesitation and with conviction.
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you guys ever do reporting? or do you file by never asking anyone anything?.
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facts aren't hate, and i do wish we had the slightest evidence that your ample love for him is doing the country any good.
@HartoshSinghBal,How’s your hate spewing against our PM 🥱 helping the crisis? R u asking for fresh elections in 🇮🇳?Why should States have CMs & health budget at all? It’s okay to be just a Modi-hater, pl drop the journo act.@shaziailmi
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and we must listen to those whose opinions spin on an OCI card?.
Stop making trouble Mr Owaisi. It is leaders of your genre that have prolonged this needless dispute.
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being on security duty is one of the most thankless jobs as it is, used for anything from chores to clearing traffic, impossible hours & then you have the likes of kejriwal labeling you. there is nothing aam about such charges. ghatiya is the word.
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This is the government's toolkit for 'neutralising' media narratives it doesn't like. this one really is criminal.
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