Coronavirus in India

[big_gamer007]

What is Republic TV doing? That is calling pushing the BJP agenda so thanks for calling Republic TV a NON-newz channel.

That is a comedy channel run by an anti national and traitor. Don't take it seriously.

 

[Thomaskutty]

Except Reuters (imo) every media outlet has an agenda.
No one reports anymore.

Wire, Scroll, Quint and Caravan is good, particularly for this BJP era. They are left-leaning outlets but still far better than Republic or TimesNow. Most respected news outlets worldwide are usually left-leaning anyway. That's just the sort of people that the journalism profession attracts.

 

[kaayal]

Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan situation look grim.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan situation look grim.

TN is not so bad.

Yesterday there was article which said we had 969 cases with 881 from one source.

Its just ill-luck that the stats got destroyed.

Deaths are low too. Just 11 deaths.

Madhya Pradesh is in a really bad shape tho.

43 deaths and just 562 confirmed cases.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Wire, Scroll, Quint and Caravan is good, particularly for this BJP era. They are left-leaning outlets but still far better than Republic or TimesNow. Most respected news outlets worldwide are usually left-leaning anyway. That's just the sort of people that the journalism profession attracts.

True. I for one don't get what's so bad about them.

Left leaning sure.

Inherent biases? Maybe.

But one look at the right wing sources and you can see they are a total joke most of the times.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

They will continue charging interest on outstanding amount if you opt in for 3 months moratorium. You do not have to pay a single penny till 31st May. Your CIBIL score won't be affected if you have no payment due as on March 1. On 1st June if you had an outstanding amount of 50000 before opting in, your outstanding amount will then be 53000 something for 2 months. That's for credit cards.

For EMI's it's pretty straight forward you will have to pay interest for 3 months and your EMI's will be pushed forward. You don't have to pay them together.

For ECS which they deduct from your account automatically, you can request them to defer it too.

Thanks bud. CIBIL score not affected is one advantage yeah.

 

[kaayal]

TN is not so bad.

Yesterday there was article which said we had 969 cases with 881 from one source.

Its just ill-luck that the stats got destroyed.

Deaths are low too. Just 11 deaths.

Madhya Pradesh is in a really bad shape tho.

43 deaths and just 562 confirmed cases.

I hope it’s contained early. Otherwise there will be large increase in cases in the coming days. MP is really in really bad state.

 

[JaDed]

Not sure if in India you have that trend or not, but in Pakistan a lot of the beat reporters are now doing daily youtube videos describing the events as they saw them. Some anchors also have youtube channels where they do daily "tajziya" but they seem to have carried over their biases (read as lifafas) from the main stream media.

These reporters are doing an excellent job to combat fake news so much so that mainstream media is pushing for stricter regulation on social media content.

We have something called alt media and hoax slayer that report on whatsapp forwards and fake news but youtube ones not a fan of as they have biases..

It takes me almost 5 news reports to verify one news nowadays, it’s that bad, plus I have my own bias against right wing... and even donate to them

 

[JaDed]

Wire, Scroll, Quint and Caravan is good, particularly for this BJP era. They are left-leaning outlets but still far better than Republic or TimesNow. Most respected news outlets worldwide are usually left-leaning anyway. That's just the sort of people that the journalism profession attracts.

Yes but that’s why they are losing support as well and this is why Reuters is amazing.. I donate to the wire but I know they are biased.

 

[Hornbill]

Awesome to see.

State is on the verge of bankruptcy, future looks bleak, there will be considerable increase in number of suicides in coming months.

 

[MP2011]

I hope it’s contained early. Otherwise there will be large increase in cases in the coming days. MP is really in really bad state.

Thanks to fetish of Sanghis and that dynast Scindia for power by hook or crook, MP still doesn't have full time health and home ministers. And you know how essential these 2 ministries are in these times.

 

[MP2011]

Wire, Scroll, Quint and Caravan is good, particularly for this BJP era. They are left-leaning outlets but still far better than Republic or TimesNow. Most respected news outlets worldwide are usually left-leaning anyway. That's just the sort of people that the journalism profession attracts.

This is true. These publications are far more prone to tell truth than those garbage tanks like Zee, Times NOW, Republic etc.

 

[MP2011]

Good enough to be quoted by Time, Washington Post, NY Times, BBC, CNN, etc.



You mean agendas like this?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">4 "news" channels - last 200 "debates" <br><br>Economy : 0<br>Unemployment : 0<br>Education : 0<br>Healthcare : 0<br>Environment : 0 <br>Poverty, Malnutrition : 0<br>Women's safety & equality : 0<br>Any relevant questions to the government : 0<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/boycottmodia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#boycottmodia</a> <a href="https://t.co/wdX7XnFnB0">pic.twitter.com/wdX7XnFnB0</a></p>— Official PeeingHuman (@thepeeinghuman) <a href="https://twitter.com/thepeeinghuman/status/1185440835489296384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

There's a special segment reserved for Republic TV which I saw somewhere.

This should be an eye opener for those who trust this channel.

 

[Syed1]

No wonder 95% of Indian posters on here come across as hateful losers. 'Attacking Pakistan' is consistently at the top of the list of discussion as per that tweet, and these posters are supposedly educated and well-informed ones.

 

[MP2011]

No wonder 95% of Indian posters on here come across as hateful losers. 'Attacking Pakistan' is consistently at the top of the list of discussion as per that tweet, and these posters are supposedly educated and well-informed ones.

This is true. And these guys have gall to say that they don't care about Pakistan, lol.

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

I hope it’s contained early. Otherwise there will be large increase in cases in the coming days. MP is really in really bad state.

Kamalnath government screwed MP big time, there were only 7 cases till 24 march and now there is 43 death, with incubation time of virus having so many death and positive person in 15 to 16 days goes to show government was not testing.
After Shivraj become CM he started testing big time, he started to seal hot spots
Kamalnath government was trying to hide these numbers like what Mamta is doing now and people was jumping quarantined left right and centre at that time like Morena case.MP was tradegy bound to happen
There was hardly any test were done by Kamalnath government and current government has done over 10000 test in 15 odd days.
I know people hate BJP but MP really got stoke of luck

 

[globalcitizen]

Looks like india has started to control the virus and probably next lockdown will bring down the numbers drastically . Fingers crossed

We have now realised looking at just active cases is not a good indication, on how the curve is behaving . Doing a calculation of active cases v/s tests is a good indication however

Doing some quick calculations as of today on testing to active cases;

India ~4% , 4 percent test positive and rest negative

Usa ~17%
Uk ~20%
Italy ~10%
Spain ~14%
Australia ~1%
Pakistan ~ 6%

So this needs to be actively monitored to see how the numbers change in next week

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

Looks like india has started to control the virus and probably next lockdown will bring down the numbers drastically . Fingers crossed

We have now realised looking at just active cases is not a good indication, on how the curve is behaving . Doing a calculation of active cases v/s tests is a good indication however

Doing some quick calculations as of today on testing to active cases;

India ~4% , 4 percent test positive and rest negative

Usa ~17%
Uk ~20%
Italy ~10%
Spain ~14%
Australia ~1%
Pakistan ~ 6%

So this needs to be actively monitored to see how the numbers change in next week

You can't look number at whole in India case because of population, on whole those CM who were hiding head in sand is responsible for mess like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, MP(Kamal Nath government) and Maharashtra ( with Gujarat,Telangana and Rajasthan learning from mistakes and started controlling the situation after initial wave).
TN and Delhi were unlucky and their government has been doing good work despite the number of cases.

 

[Gamechanger72]

More than 9000 people were present in markaz, Delhi .Right now 3193 of these have been found in entire country.in which 765 were found positive .only in Delhi police have
evacuated 900 people from tabligi jamaat from homes and mosque .where are the remaining 6000 more ??

 

[MenInG]

What's the latest from India?

Good morning from Delhi, where it is looking likely the nation-wide lockdown will be extended beyond Tuesday.

Here’s the news from the rest of India:

India has still not received some 500,000 rapid testing kits it ordered from China, local media reports say. Several states here are reliant on these kits to start testing

some states have already officially extended the lockdown by two more weeks as the federal government mulls over what approach would work best for a lockdown exit, reports say

concerns over soaring numbers in the western state of Maharashtra have prompted officials to consider giving an anti-malaria drug as a "preventive measure" to slum residents at high risk of contracting the infection.

in the last 24 hours, India confirmed 918 new infections and 34 deaths, taking the total number to more than 8,000

 

[IndianHero]

Many locals in my city say that these tablighi guys who returned from delhi r hiding. These ppl (who hide their travel history of delhi event) don't have much brain to understand that they will give virus to their wives, children, parents etc., if they don't report or get treated from authorities ! They are keeping their families at risk !

If things go to out of control simply sit in a room and then type 'It is modi's fault' and we have to liberals & modi haters anyway to carry on with that music !

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

Many locals in my city say that these tablighi guys who returned from delhi r hiding. These ppl (who hide their travel history of delhi event) don't have much brain to understand that they will give virus to their wives, children, parents etc., if they don't report or get treated from authorities ! They are keeping their families at risk !

If things go to out of control simply sit in a room and then type 'It is modi's fault' and we have to liberals & modi haters anyway to carry on with that music !

Well to be fair, it is to some extent Modi fault, but blame of most part should be given to concerned states also.
Take Punjab for example that CM always used to abuse current central government, passed bill against a parliament law and now he is relying on Central government for fund and every need and Punjab is devolped state, see Himachal, Ladakh, Harayana, J and K for example they all did better than Punjab.
He allowed community transmission to happen
The only state that was anti modi big time came good was Kerala ( they deserve every applause) , TN, odisa and Telengana is doing good but I am not counting them as complete anti modi.
It is not a high number of cases, it is how you deal with them Delhi is trying and Kejriwal is doing good right now.
Every anti modi government like Maharashtra, Rajasthan, MP( I know Shivraj will take a fall but Kamalnath government was attrocius) , Punjab failed big time apart from Chatteshgarh, Kerala (don't know much about Jharkhand) and one (Gujarat) pro BJP government failed ( again can't say much about UP as they have done only 12000 test,so will again wait to pass the judgement , but Up government is looking good right now).
As I said many times India is too big to pass judgement as a whole, we need to look state by state response.
Now Modi fault was as [MENTION=133135]kaayal[/MENTION] rightly pointed out that Modi government should have ordered more protective gears and testing kits in Feb instead of now, We should have gone for lockdown around 15 march.
According to me Airport should have been closed on 28 Feb and train around 8 march.

 

[globalcitizen]

You can't look number at whole in India case because of population, on whole those CM who were hiding head in sand is responsible for mess like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, MP(Kamal Nath government) and Maharashtra ( with Gujarat,Telangana and Rajasthan learning from mistakes and started controlling the situation after initial wave).
TN and Delhi were unlucky and their government has been doing good work despite the number of cases.

You are not making much sense. The figure I have given is based on testing done and reported by Indian and foreign agencies.
if a person is tested , he can come out positive or negative.. it’s just logical.

Regarding india controlling the situation, it’s purely based on these numbers. That’s why said fingers crossed next week will be crucial

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Many locals in my city say that these tablighi guys who returned from delhi r hiding. These ppl (who hide their travel history of delhi event) don't have much brain to understand that they will give virus to their wives, children, parents etc., if they don't report or get treated from authorities ! They are keeping their families at risk !

If things go to out of control simply sit in a room and then type 'It is modi's fault' and we have to liberals & modi haters anyway to carry on with that music !

Yeah we should believe you and your locals now? Anyway how are you actually interacting with your locals during this lockdown?

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

Yeah we should believe you and your locals now? Anyway how are you actually interacting with your locals during this lockdown?

Lol ,

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

You are not making much sense. The figure I have given is based on testing done and reported by Indian and foreign agencies.
if a person is tested , he can come out positive or negative.. it’s just logical.

Regarding india controlling the situation, it’s purely based on these numbers. That’s why said fingers crossed next week will be crucial

Actually I got confused with some other post, sorry.
For me numbers are low because of states like Nagaland, Assam Goa,Kerala, Chatteshgarh etc.
But if you look at big states like Punjab Maharashtra, TN, Delhi, MP, Gujrat etc it is a worry some trend.
But more or less even in big states it is less than 8 or 10 percent, so still fine

 

[Varun]

People are posting articles by The Wie, Scroll, Quint etc. So Republic is atleast better than them.

The only thing Republic is "atleast" better than is the blare of static when you flick to an incorrect radio station.

This is the part I don't get about Arnab fanchildren. If you adore him just say so, minus any smoke and mirrors. It's your lifestyle choice regardless of any online bullets me and others are sending your way in this thread.

I bet you're a fan of that other fake news peddler Smita Prakash as well.

Though i watch news18 and TimesNow.

Amish Devgan and Rahul Shivshankar? Good God. 2 more journalists who compete with Soviet Russia for propaganda and Vuvuzelas for noise.

 

[globalcitizen]

Actually I got confused with some other post, sorry.
For me numbers are low because of states like Nagaland, Assam Goa,Kerala, Chatteshgarh etc.
But if you look at big states like Punjab Maharashtra, TN, Delhi, MP, Gujrat etc it is a worry some trend.
But more or less even in big states it is less than 8 or 10 percent, so still fine

Yes you are right. I think india should ensure distribution of test kits are fairly done across states. Big states have the budget to order higher number it kits compared to smaller states or union territories

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

The only thing Republic is "atleast" better than is the blare of static when you flick to an incorrect radio station.

This is the part I don't get about Arnab fanchildren. If you adore him just say so, minus any smoke and mirrors. It's your lifestyle choice regardless of any online bullets me and others are sending your way in this thread.

I bet you're a fan of that other fake news peddler Smita Prakash as well.



Amish Devgan and Rahul Shivshankar? Good God. 2 more journalists who compete with Soviet Russia for propaganda and Vuvuzelas for noise.

He is a fan of Sudhir Chaudhary(Zee News) as well.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

PM Narendra Modi will address the nation tomorrow at 10am.

 

[King-Misbah]

PM Narendra Modi will address the nation tomorrow at 10am.

I wonder what he will anmounce tomorrow? Can he beat his latern lighting idea?

 

[Slog]

Yeah we should believe you and your locals now? Anyway how are you actually interacting with your locals during this lockdown?

Lol this was funny )

 

[IndianHero]

Yeah we should believe you and your locals now? Anyway how are you actually interacting with your locals during this lockdown?

I work in a software company in hyderabad but my home town is visakhapatnam (in AP). I came here on march 17th to attend a family function and modi kept me here since then.

In visakhapatnam the active cases are 16 there is not much police and people move freely till 11 am in the morning.

Yes when interacted with locals like shopkeepers or other hotel business guys they say that these markhaj returns are hiding from police and all.

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

I work in a software company in hyderabad but my home town is visakhapatnam (in AP). I came here on march 17th to attend a family function and modi kept me here since then.

In visakhapatnam the active cases are 16 there is not much police and people move freely till 11 am in the morning.

Yes when interacted with locals like shopkeepers or other hotel business guys they say that these markhaj returns are hiding from police and all.

See 14 days time period is more or less over, so if anybody is infected and in serious condition he will automatic go to hospital, and if they are showing no symptoms after 18 odd days then they are not infected.

 

[Itachi]

Lol this was funny )

The lockdown isn't THAT strict and varies from place to place. From morning till 2 pm, it gets little bit of relaxed here so that people can buy necessities, goto banks etc. There are plenty of options to talk to people.

 

[Varun]

PM Narendra Modi will address the nation tomorrow at 10am.

Apart from any official extension of the lockdown, it'll be the usual sing-a-song type bakwaas. I'm not tuning in.

 

[kaayal]

See 14 days time period is more or less over, so if anybody is infected and in serious condition he will automatic go to hospital, and if they are showing no symptoms after 18 odd days then they are not infected.

Yesterday there was only 2 positive cases in Kerala. Both came from abroad and the incubation period was 24 days for them. So we can’t say after 18 odd days they are not infected.

 

[Rajdeep]

Wire, Scroll, Quint and Caravan is good, particularly for this BJP era. They are left-leaning outlets but still far better than Republic or TimesNow. Most respected news outlets worldwide are usually left-leaning anyway. That's just the sort of people that the journalism profession attracts.

Well that is your opinion but its far from being true. The only reason you like Wire, Caravan etall because it speaks what you want to hear. Similarly, a right winger would have the same opinion for OpIndia, Rightlog etc. So its all subjective.

Also, curious how you concluded most respected news outlets are left aligned? How and who decided the respect?

I mean the most watched English news channels in India are Republic, Times now and India Today with NDTV distance behind.

https://bestmediainfo.com/2020/04/i...nglish-news-channel-in-megacities-in-week-13/

Fox news is the no.1 news channel in US with CNN being distant 14.

https://deadline.com/2019/12/cable-...ews-total-viewers-espn-18-49-demo-1202817561/

Most countries around the world have unanimously rejected anything to do with left liberalism - let it be selecting a left party into power or watching liberal news. Its high time we accept this fact and make peace with it.

 

[Varun]

Most countries around the world have unanimously rejected anything to do with left liberalism - let it be selecting a left party into power or watching liberal news. Its high time we accept this fact and make peace with it.

It's all cyclical. In the next phase we'll see extremely left-leaning governments with the media narrative following suit.

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

Well that is your opinion but its far from being true. The only reason you like Wire, Caravan etall because it speaks what you want to hear. Similarly, a right winger would have the same opinion for OpIndia, Rightlog etc. So its all subjective.

Also, curious how you concluded most respected news outlets are left aligned? How and who decided the respect?

I mean the most watched English news channels in India are Republic, Times now and India Today with NDTV distance behind.

https://bestmediainfo.com/2020/04/i...nglish-news-channel-in-megacities-in-week-13/

Fox news is the no.1 news channel in US with CNN being distant 14.

https://deadline.com/2019/12/cable-...ews-total-viewers-espn-18-49-demo-1202817561/

Most countries around the world have unanimously rejected anything to do with left liberalism - let it be selecting a left party into power or watching liberal news. Its high time we accept this fact and make peace with it.

I don't know about other countries but no government apart from Atal Bihari government (was capitalist to heart) all government including current one are following some sort of socialism or left liberalism because of vote bank policy

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

What are the chances that they infected others?

 

[MenInG]

Tens of thousands of Indian crew members, stranded on cargo and cruise ships across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic, are still waiting to be brought home.

"The Indian government has abandoned all of us in the sea," Anand Kumar, one of the Indian crew members on MSC Divina cruise ship anchored near the port of Miami in the United States, told Al Jazeera.

"We are willing to come back and stay in quarantine in India, but at least bring us back to our country."

Kumar said the Indian crew members had been trying to reach out to the Indian embassy in Washington, DC, and consulate in Atlanta. "But they simply say there is no update from the Indian government," he said.

#CoronavirusOutbreak | "Return of Indians stranded abroad is still a work in progress. No update on it right now. We are working on it and our envoys are in touch with them": Dammu Ravi, #COVID19 Coordinator, Ministry of External Affairs. pic.twitter.com/jP8tzM9hNW

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown on March 24 to check the spread of coronavirus, giving less than four hours notice before the order took effect.

Since the lockdown included cancellation of all international flights, the crew members could not fly home.

"Majority of the cruise lines are ready to charter the Indian crew to India, but the Indian government is not giving them permission to fly due to the lockdown," Dixon Vaz, founder of the Goan Seamen Association of India, who has been working closely with the stranded crew members, told Al Jazeera.

Deaths on the ships

At least two Indian crew members have died on their ships as they awaited evacuation.

On April 8, Glen Pereira, a 30-year-old cabin steward on the Marella Explorer 2 cruise ship currently sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, was found dead in his room.

The cruise ship, which had just its crew members on board, was sailing from the Mexican port of Puerto Progreso to an unconfirmed European port, where it was originally scheduled to dock on Sunday.

On April 6, two days before his death, Glen spoke to his cousin Collin* who worked for the same company and currently lives in the coastal Indian state of Goa.

"He sounded all right. He didn't tell me anything about feeling unwell," Collin told Al Jazeera.

Glen also spoke to his family in Goa later that evening and told them he had some pain in his throat and mild fever. But he insisted there was nothing to worry about.

That was the last time the Pereira family had heard from Glen.

Collin's friend Jackson* was part of the same cruise and later informed him that Glen was kept in an isolation ward on the ship because he had developed fever and throat infection.

"We still don't know the real cause of his death. We don't know if it's COVID-19 or something else. Glen never told us anything. He probably didn't want us to get worried. We never got to say a final goodbye," he said.

On April 5, 48-year-old Andrew Fernandes, an assistant security officer on cruise liner Costa Favolosa, died of coronavirus in Miami, Florida.

Speaking to reporters in Mumbai last week, his sister said he had been put on ventilator support after he contracted pneumonia and a lung infection and needed to be transferred to a hospital in Miami.

"But no beds were available at the time," she said.

Fear of virus outbreak on ships

Fear of being infected by the coronavirus haunts most crew members who have been kept in isolation.

Rahul Shanbagh, 24, from Goa's Margoa city, is a crew member on the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship. He has been stranded on the ship since mid-March.

The ship has 350 crew members on board, including nearly 200 Indians, and is currently docked in Civitavecchia in Italy.

"There were at least 14 cases [of coronavirus] reported on this ship, of which four were Indians. Currently, we [Indians] are the only ones left here. Everyone from all other countries has been evacuated."

Angie Fernando* is among the 242 Indian crew members on the Costa Diadema cruise ship docked in Italy's Port Piombino since the middle of March.

His sister, who did not want to reveal her name, told Al Jazeera she has been calling officials in New Delhi and the Indian embassy in Rome almost every day.

The cruise ship has reported 329 coronavirus cases so far.

"We are extremely worried about Angie. He sounds hopeless and depressed about the situation there. There are times when we just get monosyllabic replies from him," she said.

A statement released by Costa Diadema to Al Jazeera on April 10 on the status of its Indian crew said: "To date, several attempts made with different solutions have not had a positive outcome with the Indian authorities."

Another seafarer, who did not want to reveal his name, said he was stranded on a cruise ship named Norwegian Sky, currently docked in the Bahamas.

"We are mentally stressed, frightened and lonely. My room is very small with no window," he told Al Jazeera. "We just want to get home and stay close to our family."

'Still a work in progress'

On April 5, India's Shipping Minister Mansukh Lal Manadaviya assured the safe passage of the crew members back home following a meeting with the representatives of MASSA.

Al Jazeera reached out to both Manadaviya and MASSA's Captain Shiv Halbe, but received no response.

Meanwhile, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the extension of a "no sail order" on April 9 for nearly 100 cruise ships in the country's waters.

Following the CDC order, Dixon Vaz wrote a letter to the Indian prime minister, urging the government to "keep the Indian seafarers stranded in mind, and to allow a window period after April 14 when the initial lockdown period gets over, and evacuate the seafarers".

On April 10, Dammu Ravi, an official with India's Ministry of External Affairs, said the return of Indians stranded abroad is "still a work in progress".

"No update on it right now. We are working on it, and our envoys are in touch with them," he said, according to a report by the NDTV news channel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...ousands-indian-seafarers-200412093941314.html

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

While it's true people like to hear what they want to hear, there is false equivalence about left and right wing.

My brain cells don't die reading left wing sources like they do when reading right wing sources.

CNN can be crappy at times...but it can NEVER be as pathetic as Fox News.

Just watch these Fox News legends here reg Corona:

Right wing is fake news factory too.

 

[battler]

Apart from any official extension of the lockdown, it'll be the usual sing-a-song type bakwaas. I'm not tuning in.

Might resume domestic flights

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

While it's true people like to hear what they want to hear, there is false equivalence about left and right wing.

My brain cells don't die reading left wing sources like they do when reading right wing sources.

CNN can be crappy at times...but it can NEVER be as pathetic as Fox News.

Just watch these Fox News legends here reg Corona:

Right wing is fake news factory too.

Left wingers being paranoid as usual.

Right wingers hammering the "facts" here. As usual.

 

[Slog]

The lockdown isn't THAT strict and varies from place to place. From morning till 2 pm, it gets little bit of relaxed here so that people can buy necessities, goto banks etc. There are plenty of options to talk to people.

Oh ok. In any case I was laughing at the blunt interaction of the two posters rather than the veracity

 

[MenInG]

New Delhi, India - On March 28, when Kolkata-based oncologist Indranil Khan received images of doctors wearing raincoats in the COVID-19 ward of a government hospital, he shared them on Twitter.

The next day, the West Bengal state health department assured him that "immediate steps" would be taken to reject "substandard" personal protective equipment (PPE).

Within two hours of that assurance, Khan was detained by police for questioning.

"I was released the next day only after I posted on social media that the state government is working hard for doctors," the 31-year-old doctor, who was charged with causing communal disharmony and criminal intimidation, told Al Jazeera.

Khan moved a local court to contest the charges. The court observed that no government can intimidate doctors, even those who brought "disrepute" to it.

West Bengal police official Gyanwant Singh, who is authorised to speak on the matter, did not respond to Al Jazeera's calls and messages seeking clarification.

Social media posts gagged

With 1.2 million doctors, the doctor-population ratio in India is 1:1456, much lower than the World Health Organization's recommendation of 1:1000.

Yet, doctors across India have been reprimanded for highlighting the government's inefficiency in providing them adequate protective gear to fight the pandemic.

Recently, four doctors of New Delhi's Hindu Rao Hospital bore the brunt of the authorities for highlighting the lack of PPE. The doctors were threatened with dismissal.

The federal government's Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi asked the administrators of their WhatsApp groups to provide their names, phone numbers and email IDs to share the details with the police.

The hospital's medical superintendent Balvinder Singh Arora told Al Jazeera the circular "will work as a deterrent for people who spread fake news regarding PPE shortage on WhatsApp".

Despite Al Jazeera's repeated requests for data on the current stock of PPE and N-95 masks, no government official concerned with the matter responded.

In a press statement on Friday, the federal government stated that the availability of PPE with the states has "doubled" and another two million N-95 masks were provided.

Meanwhile, of the nearly 9,000 COVID-19 patients in India, at least 90 are health professionals. On Thursday, a doctor in the central Madhya Pradesh state died of COVID-19.

Doctors fear an inadequate supply of PPE makes them vulnerable to the coronavirus infection.

AIIMS doctors write to Modi

Srinivas Rajkumar T of the resident doctors’ association at New Delhi's premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), said doctors and nurses in their COVID-19 wards were asked to wear the PPE usually worn while examining HIV patients.

"PPE kits meant for examining HIV patients are not equipped to resist droplets, and the coronavirus infection gets transmitted through droplets sneezed out or coughed up by infected patients," Rajkumar T said.

But those who raised such issues on social media were being intimidated by the authorities, he said.

However, AIIMS director Randeep Guleria told Al Jazeera the health professionals posted in COVID-19 wards were getting PPE and masks that "met the international guidelines". He "advised" the staffers to discuss their problems "internally and not post them on social media".

But the AIIMS doctors still wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the "harsh backlash" they faced from authorities for demanding professional safety equipment.

There has been no response yet from Modi's office over the letter.

"There is no gag order or censorship on doctors or other health professionals by us," India's Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Harsh Vardhan, told Al Jazeera.

"But they must approach the authorities to get their grievances addressed instead of going to social media. They can even write to me," he said.

Rajan Sharma of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), a voluntary national body of doctors, added: "Doctors can come to us and not sensationalise problems."

However, geriatrician Harjit Singh Bhatti, who started a social media campaign called "DocsNeedGear", argued: "The aim is not to sensationalise problems but to make the voices heard."

Recently, doctors in Indian-administered Kashmir were also threatened with "strict action" and up to six months' jail for speaking against the government's alleged failures in a circular.

"It [the circular] was for a group of health professionals who were using social media for a blame game,” the Himalayan region's director of health services, Samir Mattoo, told Al Jazeera.

But Owais H Dar, the general secretary of Kashmir Doctors' Association, said the doctors were sharing "only the truth" because they know the "ground realities".

Political scientist Ajay Gudavarthy told Al Jazeera that by censoring doctors, the government was attempting to create "a sense of false self-image that covers up its limitations".

Epidemiologist Jayaprakash Muliyil warned the authorities that censoring information would only add more confusion to the existing chaos.

"Doctors are busy fighting the pandemic, they don't want to start a fight with the government," he told Al Jazeera.

Besides facing censorship from the government on speaking out, Indian doctors have also faced attacks and social boycotts.

Last week, two female doctors at Safdarjung Hospital were assaulted by a resident for "spreading coronavirus infection".

In the western state of Gujarat, a mobile video of a female doctor harassed by her neighbour for working with COVID-19 patients went viral on social media.

In Madhya Pradesh, health workers were attacked as they visited a neighbourhood to test some residents. Junior doctors in the southern Telangana state were labelled "dirty".

On March 27, Al Jazeera reported that many doctors and health workers across India were evicted from their rental houses over fear of contracting the infection.

"I frantically looked for alternative accommodation but nobody offered one," Shamima Yasmin, 23, a medical nurse in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, who was among those evicted from her home, told Al Jazeera.

The IMA condemned the social boycott of doctors.

But Bhatti said the medical body "did nothing" beyond the condemnation. "The doctors continue to fight their own battle - inside and outside hospitals."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...ttacks-fight-coronavirus-200410063124519.html

 

[cricketjoshila]

The only thing Republic is "atleast" better than is the blare of static when you flick to an incorrect radio station.

This is the part I don't get about Arnab fanchildren. If you adore him just say so, minus any smoke and mirrors. It's your lifestyle choice regardless of any online bullets me and others are sending your way in this thread.

I bet you're a fan of that other fake news peddler Smita Prakash as well.



Amish Devgan and Rahul Shivshankar? Good God. 2 more journalists who compete with Soviet Russia for propaganda and Vuvuzelas for noise.

Far better than Siddharth vardarajan and co. Or Zainab Sikander or Rana Ayub.

 

[cricketjoshila]

UP Kerala Odisha have done very well in controlling the covid infection.

Maharashtra is by far the worst.

Delhi Telangana TN got hit by the TJ cases.

MP and Raj are still trying to fight.

Karnataka is doing well too.

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

A total of 2,17,554 samples has been tested till today 9:00 pm, means today around 22000 test was done.

 

[MenInG]

New Delhi: Delhi registered 356 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours on Monday, the sharpest single-day spike that took the capital's tally to 1,510. Four more people have died, taking the total to 28, health officials said.

The number of containment zones in the national capital has now increased to 47 after the inclusion of new areas including Sant Nagar and Burari among others, news agency ANI reported.

The Delhi government on Monday launched a massive sanitisation drive in the city's COVID-19 containment areas, declared as red zones, and high-risk zones, identified as orange zones, to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

The administration ran a pilot disinfection drive using hi-tech Japanese spray machines at the Rajinder Nagar Assembly constituency.

The state government also announced an ambitious plan to send task forces of 5 members to every single home in the city to identify suspected COVID-19 cases.

Nearly 14,000 such teams of "Corona Foot Warriors Containment and Surveillance Force'" will be formed at the election-booth level, a Delhi government official told news agency PTI.

Each team will have five members including a booth-level officer, civil defence volunteer, police constable, sanitation and anganwadi worker, the official said.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/cor...s-total-to-1-510-2211192?pfrom=home-topscroll

 

[Dead Ball]

UP Kerala Odisha have done very well in controlling the covid infection.

Maharashtra is by far the worst.

Delhi Telangana TN got hit by the TJ cases.

MP and Raj are still trying to fight.

Karnataka is doing well too.

UP is also 60 per cent TJ cases I think.

Dharavi in Mumbai is set to be a COVID hotspot soon thanks to TJ and that's going to be really really tough, if not impossible, to handle.

No one knows what's happening in WB.

 

[Dead Ball]

While it's true people like to hear what they want to hear, there is false equivalence about left and right wing.

My brain cells don't die reading left wing sources like they do when reading right wing sources.

CNN can be crappy at times...but it can NEVER be as pathetic as Fox News.

Just watch these Fox News legends here reg Corona:

Right wing is fake news factory too.

CNN is pure left wing propaganda ** and the undisputed king of fake news.

https://youtu.be/QuURFUyrG_A

 

[cricketjoshila]

CNN is pure left wing propaganda ** and the undisputed king of fake news.

https://youtu.be/QuURFUyrG_A

The US president doesn't give two hoots to these media houses.

But couple of indians abd pakistanis want Indians to take these media houses seriously.

 

[finalfantasy7]

is it true that india had its biggest increase of both new cases at over 1200 and deaths at 27?

 

[GBK_Fan]

UP is also 60 per cent TJ cases I think.

Dharavi in Mumbai is set to be a COVID hotspot soon thanks to TJ and that's going to be really really tough, if not impossible, to handle.

No one knows what's happening in WB.

The TJ should be criminally prosecuted for infecting the people in Dharavi. They have done a criminal disservice to all the poor living there.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

CNN is pure left wing propaganda ** and the undisputed king of fake news.

https://youtu.be/QuURFUyrG_A

No fan of CNN myself.

But Fox is something else.

Also try to look at the main point being made.

You view left wing sources and right wing sources.

Both have biases.

However one would make your eyes pull out.

Take India for example.

https://www.altnews.in/

Filled with right wing fake news.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

CNN is pure left wing propaganda ** and the undisputed king of fake news.

https://youtu.be/QuURFUyrG_A

Take Corona.

What Fox News did can be called treason too.

It's THAT bad.

CNN may bootlick Biden but no way it's is topping this nonsense.

That is the problem with right wing sources. Their bias has far reaching consequences.

 

[GBK_Fan]

No fan of CNN myself.

But Fox is something else.

Also try to look at the main point being made.

You view left wing sources and right wing sources.

Both have biases.

However one would make your eyes pull out.

Take India for example.

https://www.altnews.in/

Filled with right wing fake news.

Have a look at who the founders of altnews are and where their political biases lie. Also they do not have any automated methodology for detecting and posting fake news, they instead rely on news picked up their team. So the entire process can be biased against some people.

The editor of the wire got called out for fake news twice in the last few days. Once by the up police and in the other case by the UP government launching an fir against them. Have these been covered by altnews?

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Have a look at who the founders of altnews are and where their political biases lie. Also they do not have any automated methodology for detecting and posting fake news, they instead rely on news picked up their team. So the entire process can be biased against some people.

The editor of the wire got called out for fake news twice in the last few days. Once by the up police and in the other case by the UP government launching an fir against them. Have these been covered by altnews?

Also they do not have any automated methodology for detecting and posting fake news, they instead rely on news picked up their team. So the entire process can be biased against some people.

Yeah possible.

But what they bust...they bust.

They are accredited and regularly referenced by sources all over the world.

-----

Pretty sure I have seen them bust fake news by left sources too.

https://www.altnews.in/ians-ndtv-us...munde-wept-after-electoral-loss-delete-later/

---

If there are more fake news entities busting leftist propaganda, I welcome it.

But that doesn't give right propaganda a pass.

Even without Alt News, the amount of right wing nonsense one has to suffer through is astounding.

Alt News is just quoted more now. Earlier people used to bust the right wing propaganda through other means.

 

[GBK_Fan]

Yeah possible.

But what they bust...they bust.

They are accredited and regularly referenced by sources all over the world.

-----

Pretty sure I have seen them bust fake news by left sources too.

https://www.altnews.in/ians-ndtv-us...munde-wept-after-electoral-loss-delete-later/

---

If there are more fake news entities busting leftist propaganda, I welcome it.

But that doesn't give right propaganda a pass.

Even without Alt News, the amount of right wing nonsense one has to suffer through is astounding.

Alt News is just quoted more now. Earlier people used to bust the right wing propaganda through other means.

I have no issues with them busting right wing forwards. I am simply pointing out that they suffer the same ideological biases they attempt to counter.

 

[cricketjoshila]

I have no issues with them busting right wing forwards. I am simply pointing out that they suffer the same ideological biases they attempt to counter.

If i need a fact check there are likes of AFP who do that.

Why depend on two cent websites that cropped up couple of years ago and claims attestation by an organisation that itself cropped up 5 years ago.

 

[GBK_Fan]

If i need a fact check there are likes of AFP who do that.

Why depend on two cent websites that cropped up couple of years ago and claims attestation by an organisation that itself cropped up 5 years ago.

Yes don’t really understand what the hoopla around accreditation really is. There are 20 different websites which have been accredited from India

 

[battler]

UP Kerala Odisha have done very well in controlling the covid infection.

Maharashtra is by far the worst.

Delhi Telangana TN got hit by the TJ cases.

MP and Raj are still trying to fight.

Karnataka is doing well too.

It's because Maharashtra has tested the most as well. Maharashtra has tested about 40k.whereas TN who is at 2nd p osition have only tested about 13k.TN percentage wise is worse hit

 

[MenInG]

India extends lockdown until 3 May

Mr Modi said the nationwide lockdown will be extended until 3 May.

He said the decision was taken after consultations with states.

He appealed to people to keep following the measures.

 

[JaDed]

Alt news reminds me of tehelka, I don’t blame them considering how mainstream media is pro BJP but sad to know they are biased as well.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A re-adapted <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Saptapati?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Saptapati</a> from <a href="https://twitter.com/PMOIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PMOIndia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@narendramodi</a> <br>1. Care for elders<br>2. Stay within Laxman Rekha<br>3. Use homemade masks<br>4. Follow precautions from <a href="https://twitter.com/moayush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@moayush</a> + use <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AarogyaSetu?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AarogyaSetu</a> app<br>5. Extend help to the poor<br>6. Pls don’t lay-off employees <br>7. Respect doctors & medical workers</p>— Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) <a href="https://twitter.com/nsitharaman/status/1249927003379093505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

Alt news reminds me of tehelka, I don’t blame them considering how mainstream media is pro BJP but sad to know they are biased as well.

It goes in cycle, if you remember during 2007-14 time apart of one two news site, mainstream media was big time anti BJP.
One of main reason I don't take opinion peices seriously, always read what is happening in current news section, mainly try to read newspaper which is much better.
DD news which may be government channel but always give only news, no stupid dramatic debate

 

[MenInG]

The heavy social and economic toll of India's lockdown
Soutik Biswas

India Correspondent

India’s grinding lockdown has been extended until 3 May. It has already caused economic disruption and social distress.

It has hurt the economy immensely. Joblessness has risen sharply, according to an independent assessment. India’s already sputtering economy is now expected to grow between 1.5-2.8% in 2020-21, according to the World Bank. Migrant workers, the backbone of key service industries, have either fled their shuttered workplaces or are stranded in homeless centres in cities. The thriving informal economy is in tatters.

Access to food, medicines and emergency medical care for non-Covid-19 patients has become difficult for the poor. The lockdown, says an economist, “seems to be the case of the privileged transferring their epidemic risk to the under-privileged”.

There is no doubt that lifting the lockdown at a time when India is seeing a rise in infections and trying to catch up on testing, can be risky.

At the same time, it is also abundantly clear that India will have to ease the lockdown to save the economy and livelihoods of people.

Some economic activity - farming, transportation of goods, wholesale markets, key gig economy services – has to reopen with social distancing and hygiene protocols.

How this will be implemented will depend purely on the acumen of the states.

 

[MenInG]

The heavy social and economic toll of India's lockdown
Soutik Biswas

India Correspondent

India’s grinding lockdown has been extended until 3 May. It has already caused economic disruption and social distress.

It has hurt the economy immensely. Joblessness has risen sharply, according to an independent assessment. India’s already sputtering economy is now expected to grow between 1.5-2.8% in 2020-21, according to the World Bank. Migrant workers, the backbone of key service industries, have either fled their shuttered workplaces or are stranded in homeless centres in cities. The thriving informal economy is in tatters.

Access to food, medicines and emergency medical care for non-Covid-19 patients has become difficult for the poor. The lockdown, says an economist, “seems to be the case of the privileged transferring their epidemic risk to the under-privileged”.

There is no doubt that lifting the lockdown at a time when India is seeing a rise in infections and trying to catch up on testing, can be risky.

At the same time, it is also abundantly clear that India will have to ease the lockdown to save the economy and livelihoods of people.

Some economic activity - farming, transportation of goods, wholesale markets, key gig economy services – has to reopen with social distancing and hygiene protocols.

How this will be implemented will depend purely on the acumen of the states.

 

[MenInG]

India's nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the biggest in the world, will be extended until at least May 3, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.

The three-week lockdown of the nation of 1.3 billion people, which started on March 25 midnight, was scheduled to end on Tuesday midnight.

"From the economic angle, we have paid a big price," Modi said in a nationwide address. "But the lives of the people of India are far more valuable."

Modi said some restrictions away from infection hotspots would be eased on April 20 to help poor people dependent upon daily wages.

"Till April 20, each police station, each district, each state will be monitored closely to see whether the lockdown is being followed and if that area has saved itself from the virus," he said.

"We can then decide on relaxing restrictions in those areas that are successful in this test, have successfully contained the hotspots and prevented new ones."

South Asian nations have so far been relatively unscathed by the epidemic, with more than 10,000 cases and 339 deaths in India, according to official figures.

But with some of the most crowded cities on the planet, there are fears that numbers could skyrocket and overwhelm shaky healthcare systems.

Some experts have also said India has not conducted enough tests and that the true number of infections is much higher.

Several states, including Maharashtra which has the highest number of cases, Tamil Nadu and Odisha, have already announced lockdown extensions.

But at the same time, the lockdown, with strict limits on activity, has been devastating for the economy - and for India's poor.

Millions of daily wage labourers suddenly lost their jobs, forcing hundreds of thousands to travel hundreds of kilometres back to their home villages, often on foot.

Some died on the way, while others were shunned by locals when they made it back to their villages. One viral clip showed a group of migrants being hosed down with chemicals.

Others have been stranded in cities in cramped, unsanitary conditions where the virus could spread quickly.

New Delhi alone is providing hundreds of thousands of free meals.

Farmers have complained of a lack of workers to harvest crops while snarl-ups of thousands of trucks not allowed to move because of the lockdown have hampered food transport.

Farms, still the bedrock of the Indian economy, are heading into their most important harvest time of the year, earning money to finance many villages for months.

Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das has called the coronavirus an "invisible assassin" that could wreak havoc on Asia's third-biggest economy.

The national restaurants association, which said its members employed seven million people, warned on Monday there could be "social unrest" if it did not receive financial relief.

The commerce ministry has also reportedly urged the government to consider opening more activities "with reasonable safeguards" even if the lockdown is extended.

Even before the pandemic, the Indian economy was stuttering with unemployment the highest for decades.

Some analysts have predicted growth could slump to 1.5-2 percent this year - way below the level needed to provide jobs for the millions coming into the labour market each month.

Modi's announcement came amid debates in countries around the world on how to lift restrictions while ensuring there is no renewed spike in new infections.

French President Emmanuel Macron extended a tight lockdown in France by another month, but Italy and Austria are reopening some shops and Spain is restarting construction and factory work.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned against rushing headlong into lifting restrictions, stressing that only a vaccine can fully halt the spread.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...lockdown-extended-3-modi-200414045543730.html

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

I have no issues with them busting right wing forwards. I am simply pointing out that they suffer the same ideological biases they attempt to counter.

In today's climate, there is no one in media field without personal preferences (which can also be called biases).

Alt News mainly focuses on fake news perpretrated in social media. But it also lists out fake news by right wing and left wing sources.

Maybe they do more fact check in one area than other but seems like they are busting all propaganda.

For example (this is JUST for the keyword search Aaj Tak):

---

Amit Shah asks people to boycott Aaj Tak before Delhi elections? Old video viral
https://www.altnews.in/amit-shah-as...j-tak-before-delhi-elections-old-video-viral/

Fake quote on mohalla clinics attributed to BJP MP Manoj Tiwari; Aaj Tak logo misused
https://www.altnews.in/fake-quote-o...-to-bjp-mp-manoj-tiwari-aaj-tak-logo-misused/

---

Also the opposite spectrum

“I will slap Modi” – Aaj Tak, ABP, News18 misreport Mamata Banerjee’s statement
https://www.altnews.in/i-will-slap-modi-aaj-tak-abp-news18-misreport-mamata-banerjees-statement/

Breaking Fake News: Aaj Tak and Republic TV misreport Delhi HC verdict on AAP MLAs
https://www.altnews.in/breaking-fak...ic-tv-misreport-delhi-hc-verdict-on-aap-mlas/

---

There are so many more examples.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

If i need a fact check there are likes of AFP who do that.

Why depend on two cent websites that cropped up couple of years ago and claims attestation by an organisation that itself cropped up 5 years ago.

Doesn't matter if they are a 2 cent site or not.

What matters is if they are fact checking properly.

Do list out a bunch of fact check sites you follow and I will also check it out.

Yes don’t really understand what the hoopla around accreditation really is. There are 20 different websites which have been accredited from India

Nobody cares about accredition really.

Only used it cos CJ often likes to dismiss certain sources as untrustworthy even when every famous news media in the world quotes it. It's not like their fact check claim was wrong.

 

[Ryw]

World's largest postal service turns lifesaver

Red postal vans are a familiar sight in India. They make thousands of journeys every day, criss-crossing the country's wide network of post offices in 600,000 villages.

But the postal service does much more than deliver letters and packages. It is also a bank, a pension fund, and a primary savings instrument for millions of Indians.

Now, the the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it will also be transporting medical equipment and drugs to where they are needed most, at a time when normal transport has come to a standstill.

"We thought we could help with this as we have a supply chain that is intact," Alok Ojha, the senior superintendent of the postal service in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, told the BBC.

"Many people I spoke to said this would help as it helps keep drugs in the market and prevents hoarding," he said.

 

[GBK_Fan]

In today's climate, there is no one in media field without personal preferences (which can also be called biases).

Alt News mainly focuses on fake news perpretrated in social media. But it also lists out fake news by right wing and left wing sources.

Maybe they do more fact check in one area than other but seems like they are busting all propaganda.

For example (this is JUST for the keyword search Aaj Tak):

---

Amit Shah asks people to boycott Aaj Tak before Delhi elections? Old video viral
https://www.altnews.in/amit-shah-as...j-tak-before-delhi-elections-old-video-viral/

Fake quote on mohalla clinics attributed to BJP MP Manoj Tiwari; Aaj Tak logo misused
https://www.altnews.in/fake-quote-o...-to-bjp-mp-manoj-tiwari-aaj-tak-logo-misused/

---

Also the opposite spectrum

“I will slap Modi” – Aaj Tak, ABP, News18 misreport Mamata Banerjee’s statement
https://www.altnews.in/i-will-slap-modi-aaj-tak-abp-news18-misreport-mamata-banerjees-statement/

Breaking Fake News: Aaj Tak and Republic TV misreport Delhi HC verdict on AAP MLAs
https://www.altnews.in/breaking-fak...ic-tv-misreport-delhi-hc-verdict-on-aap-mlas/

---

There are so many more examples.

Not sure if you are affiliated to Altnews in some way but you are going a bit over the top justifying and promoting them. The problem with being OK with media houses slanting their coverage left/right is that it does not take long to become a partisan fracas.

15 years back, Arnab was a nobody and Rajdeep, Barkha were the top guys. The editor of the wire was an editor at the Hindu and still very influential. If these guys had kept to news reporting and not given their own slant, we would not have Republic or Times Now being successful.

About being quoted globally, Barkha of Radia fame, regularly writes for WaPo and others. It’s all down to the connections. If you have well connected backers which the owners of Altnews have, there will be no dearth of platforms quoting you. Does not make you credible or trustworthy locally.

 

[cricketjoshila]

Alt news reminds me of tehelka, I don’t blame them considering how mainstream media is pro BJP but sad to know they are biased as well.

Alt news Wire caravan Squint Scroll Print (plays both sides), republic op india swarajya all have their biases.

News 18
Times now
India today

Try to be neutral.

Abp news tries to be neutral, while its print publications like telegraph and ananda bazar are rabidly anti bjp.

Indian express has been ok.

The hindu is going this side and that side depending on who is winning the boardroom war.

 

[cricketjoshila]

Not sure if you are affiliated to Altnews in some way but you are going a bit over the top justifying and promoting them. The problem with being OK with media houses slanting their coverage left/right is that it does not take long to become a partisan fracas.

15 years back, Arnab was a nobody and Rajdeep, Barkha were the top guys. The editor of the wire was an editor at the Hindu and still very influential. If these guys had kept to news reporting and not given their own slant, we would not have Republic or Times Now being successful.

About being quoted globally, Barkha of Radia fame, regularly writes for WaPo and others. It’s all down to the connections. If you have well connected backers which the owners of Altnews have, there will be no dearth of platforms quoting you. Does not make you credible or trustworthy locally.

Well SIF will post what fits his narrative.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Not sure if you are affiliated to Altnews in some way but you are going a bit over the top justifying and promoting them. The problem with being OK with media houses slanting their coverage left/right is that it does not take long to become a partisan fracas.

15 years back, Arnab was a nobody and Rajdeep, Barkha were the top guys. The editor of the wire was an editor at the Hindu and still very influential. If these guys had kept to news reporting and not given their own slant, we would not have Republic or Times Now being successful.

About being quoted globally, Barkha of Radia fame, regularly writes for WaPo and others. It’s all down to the connections. If you have well connected backers which the owners of Altnews have, there will be no dearth of platforms quoting you. Does not make you credible or trustworthy locally.

Not sure if you are affiliated to Altnews in some way but you are going a bit over the top justifying and promoting them.

Nah. Wish I had the time, energy and drive to be in the media. They let off people too easy.

The problem with being OK with media houses slanting their coverage left/right is that it does not take long to become a partisan fracas.

I never said I am ok with them.

I said what they fact check, they fact check correctly (it's not like they completely ignore left wing claims).

If you have sources that fact checks ALL left wing claims, I would love to hear about that.

15 years back, Arnab was a nobody and Rajdeep, Barkha were the top guys. The editor of the wire was an editor at the Hindu and still very influential. If these guys had kept to news reporting and not given their own slant, we would not have Republic or Times Now being successful.

The good old the "left gave to right" song and dance.

Irrelevant.

Btw, Arnab being a **** of the earth is due to him being a **** of the earth.

If I were championing left wing biases in the past, then you may have a point.

About being quoted globally, Barkha of Radia fame, regularly writes for WaPo and others. It’s all down to the connections. If you have well connected backers which the owners of Altnews have, there will be no dearth of platforms quoting you. Does not make you credible or trustworthy locally.

If you keep peddling lies, then it's hard to quote you.

Not like people quote NDTV at every instance.

One is accredited.
It's quoted by all sources.
It does its job.

So just cos they have left biases doesn't mean their work and all those who quote them are wrong.

Well SIF will post what fits his narrative.

Too bad that fact check claims aren't being debunked lol.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Well SIF will post what fits his narrative.

Well we can say the same about you too.

 

[BoomBoomCricket]

India's biggest Bollywood star, Shah Rukh Khan, has said he will fund 25,000 personal protective equipment (PPE) kits for health workers on the front line in the western state of Maharashtra.
The 54-year-old actor was in the news last month after he announced several initiatives to help tackle the virus in India, including providing free meals and offering his four-storey office space for treating Covid-19 patients.
One of the country's most popular and recognisable faces, Khan has appeared in more than 90 films.
India has reported 339 coronavirus-related deaths so far.